Aset-aset komersil PKNS akan dipindah milik

Aset-aset komersil Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS), akan dipindah milik kepada anak syarikat milik penuhnya, Private Real Estate Company (PREC), bagi meningkatkan lagi tahap kecekapan pengurusan aset supaya lebih berkesan.

PKNS dalam satu kenyataan hari ini menyatakan aset-aset komersil itu ialah Kompleks PKNS, Shah Alam; Kompleks PKNS, Bangi; SACC Mall, Shah Alam; Wisma Yakin, Kuala Lumpur dan Menara PKNS, Petaling Jaya.

"Salah satu inisiatif korporat yang dilaksanakan oleh PKNS ialah menerusi pelaburan dan pengurusan hartanah secara lebih efektif dan efisyen.

"Sejak tahun 2008, sebanyak 82 peratus daripada para peniaga yang menyewa ruang niaga di aset-aset milik PKNS terdiri daripada usahawan Melayu dan Bumiputera," kata PKNS.

Ia berkata kerja-kerja penambahbaikan kemudahan di dalam bangunan seperti tandas, eskalator, lif, papan tanda, tempat letak kereta dan lain-lain yang telah dijalankan sejak Oktober 2011, dijangka siap pada Mac 2013.

PREC akan menaik taraf bangunan secara berterusan bagi meningkatkan nilai aset-aset tersebut.

Kiosk-kiosk perniagaan baharu juga akan turut diwujudkan untuk disewakan kepada peniaga Melayu dan Bumiputera, khususnya.

PREC dengan kerjasama Bahagian Pembangunan Usahawan PKNS juga akan menambah ruang-ruang tapak niaga di aset-aset ini bagi usahawan Melayu dan Bumiputera menjual produk keluaran masing-masing.

Sejak tahun 2008, lebih daripada 6,000 usahawan Bumiputera memperoleh manfaat menerusi program pembangunan usahawan PKNS.

'Banyak MP Pakatan cuma tunjuk muka dalam parlimen'

Sekalipun Pakatan Rakyat menambah suara Melayu dalam parlimen, tidak semua mereka yang mampu berhujah dalam perbahasan dalam Dewan Rakyat, kata Pengerusi Perhubungan Umno Kelantan Datuk Seri Mustapha Mohamed.

"Memang banyak orang Melayu dalam Pakatan ini berbanding kami (Umno) tetapi kebanyakannya mereka ini, hanya tunjuk muka.

"Mereka diakui mempunyai banyak pemimpin Melayu, namun banyak sahaja pun tidak guna kalau tidak bersuara," katanya..

Beliau yang juga ahli majlis tertinggi Umno turut menafikan kekurangan ahli parlimen dari parti itu selepas pilihan raya umum ke-12 tidak menunjukkan parti itu kurang lantang dalam menyuarakan hak orang Melayu di Parlimen.

Menurutnya yang juga menteri perdagangan antarabangsa dan industri, Umno adalah parti utama yang sering membela nasib orang Melayu sejak dahulu lagi.

Mustapha yang juga ahli parlimen Jeli mengulas dakwaan Timbalan Presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu bahawa kemenangan Pakatan pada pilihan raya umum lalu adalah bukti kemampuan menambah suara orang Melayu dalam Parlimen berbanding BN.

Akhbar itu turut melaporkan pakar Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Dr Azmi Hassan sebagai berkata kemenangan calon Melayu dalam Pakatan tidak boleh dinilai daripada aspek kualiti kerana kebanyakan calon pembangkang didakwa hanya "bidan terjun".

"Bagi saya ini hanya permainan statistik, bukan keupayaan sebenar calon Pakatan... Saya melihat, pemilihan calon Melayu dalam Pakatan juga agak tempang hingga menyebabkan kredibiliti Pakatan terjejas.

"Kualiti ahli parlimen Melayu dalam Pakatan amat rendah kerana mereka tidak boleh memimpin, apa lagi untuk memperjuangkan hak-hak orang Melayu," katany.

G.O.P. Turns Fire on Obama Pillar, the Auto Bailout

 
TOLEDO, Ohio — The ad from Mitt Romney showed up on televisions here early Saturday morning without the usual public announcement that both campaigns typically use to herald their latest commercials:  Chrysler a bailout recipient, is going to begin producing Jeeps in China, an announcer says, leaving the misleading impression that the move would come at the expense of jobs here.

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And so began the latest, and perhaps most important, attempt by Mitt Romney to wrest Ohio into his column. His effort to do so is now intently focused, at times including statements that stretch or ignore the facts, on knocking down what is perhaps the most important component of President Obama`s appeal to blue-collar voters in Ohio and across the industrial Midwest: the success of the president’s 2009 auto bailout.  

Mr. Obama’s relatively strong standing in most polls in Ohio so far has been attributed by members of both parties to the recovery of the auto industry, which has helped the economy here outperform the national economy. At the same time, the industry’s performance and the president’s claim to credit for it appear to have helped Mr. Obama among the white working-class voters Mr. Romney needs.

With the race under most expected circumstances coming down to Ohio, and Ohio potentially coming down to perceptions of how the candidates view the auto industry, Mr. Romney has spent the last few days aggressively trying to undercut Mr. Obama’s auto bailout narrative.

In the past few days his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, has accused Mr. Obama of allowing the bailout to bypass nonunion workers at Delphi, a big auto parts maker with operations in Ohio; Mr. Romney has characterized Mr. Obama’s bailout plan as based on his approach; and Mr. Romney incorrectly told a rally in Defiance, Ohio, late last week outright that Jeep was considering moving its production to China. (Jeep is discussing increasing production in China for sales within China; it is not moving jobs out of Ohio or the United States, or building cars in China for export to the United States.)

It is a high-risk strategy: Jeep’s corporate parent, Chrysler, had already released a scathing statement calling suggestions that Jeep was moving American jobs to China “fantasies” and “extravagant”; news media outlets here and nationally have called the Romney campaign’s statements — initially based on a poorly worded quotation from Chrysler in a news article that was misinterpreted by blogs — misleading.

Mr. Obama’s campaign, seeking to maintain what it sees as its advantage in Ohio, responded on Monday by releasing a commercial calling Mr. Romney’s ad false and reiterating that Mr. Romney had opposed the bailout on the terms supported by Mr. Obama. And on Sunday it dispatched the investment banker who helped develop the bailout, Steven Rattner, here to discuss Jeep’s plans and the auto rescue with local news organizations.

Democrats are hoping that Mr. Romney’s latest move will draw a backlash in a city so dependent on Jeep, which has announced plans to add 1,100 jobs to an assembly plant here that is currently being refitted for the next iteration of what is now called the Jeep Liberty.

Bruce Baumhower, the president of the United Auto Workers local that oversees the major Jeep plant here, said Mr. Romney’s initial comments on moving production to China drew a rash of calls from members concerned about their jobs. When he informed them Chrysler was, in fact, is expanding its Jeep operation here, he said in an interview, “The response has been, ‘That’s pretty pitiful.’ ”

The fight over the auto bailout shows the enduring power of the issue but also its complexities in a campaign that is about both the strength of the economy and the size and role of government.

The auto bailout was one of the first major moves of Mr. Obama’s presidency, and gave Mr. Romney an early chance in opposing it to prove his conservative credentials.

Mr. Romney has portrayed himself as an automobile maven. As he frequently says in his stump speeches, his father was credited with keeping American Motors in business during the 1950s and early 1960s. (The company, it happens, owned Jeep from 1970 to 1987.)

Just as the incoming Obama administration was beginning to contemplate a bailout, Mr. Romney wrote an Op-Ed article in the The New York Times — given the title by the newspaper “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.’’ In the piece Mr. Romney wrote that in the event of a bailout, “You can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.”

The plan the administration settled on first helped Fiat buy Chrysler and then put both Chrysler and General Motors into managed bankruptcies as part of a program that brought total government assistance for Detroit to almost $80 billion between the Obama and Bush administrations. Coming as the Tea Party  was beginning to form, it seemed like risky politics for Democrats being accused of taking big government to an extreme.

At the third and last debate last week in Boca Raton, Fla., Mr. Romney emphasized his position that “these companies need to go through a managed bankruptcy, and in that process they can get government help and government guarantees.”

Mr. Romney has stepped up his offense on the issue since.

So it was that he told those at the exuberant rally on Thursday in Defiance, “I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China.”

Mr. Romney was apparently referring to a Bloomberg News article that said Jeep would return to manufacturing in China that had been misinterpreted by several conservative blogs to mean Jeep was shifting its production to China; the company made clear in a statement that Chrysler was only resuming production in China for Chinese consumers, which it had done for years before halting in 2009 before its sale to Fiat.

Mr. Romney’s ad treads carefully, with an announcer saying Mr. Obama “sold Jeep to the Italians, who are going to build Jeeps in China” and the screen flashing, “Plans to return Jeep output to China.”

Calling it “blatant attempt to create a false impression,” former Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio, a Democrat, demanded Mr. Romney take it down on Monday. Stuart Stevens, a senior Romney adviser, disputed that the ad is misleading.

“Right now every Jeep built is built in America by an American and sold to the world,” he said. “Now instead of adding jobs in Toledo, they will be making Jeeps in China by the Chinese and selling them in China.”

Jeep began a joint manufacturing venture in China in 1984 and today makes some vehicles in Egypt and Venezuela. While it does produce cars for Chinese export here now, it has discussed returning some production to China since last year.

Data Show Weakening in Euro Zone Economy

Sovereing debt cricis and unrelenting pressure for government austerity.

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The data comes in a week when euro zone finance ministers are due to confer by telephone about further aid to the faltering Greek economy, and heads of the major global economic agencies are holding meetings with the leaders of France and Germany.

Spain’s gross domestic product contracted by 0.3 percent in the third quarter from the second quarter, the National Statistics Institute reported from Madrid.

The Spanish economy has now contracted for four consecutive quarters. A collapse real estate prices after the 2008 financial crisis and austerity measures to balance the public sector budget have inflicted severe pain on the country, driving unemployment to 25 percent.

In Nuremberg, the Federal Labor Agency said the number of Germans without jobs rose in 20,000 after seasonal adjustment, leaving the unemployment rate at 6.9 percent, unchanged from September.

“The weaker economic development is making itself noticeable in the labor market,” Frank-Jürgen Weise, director of the German Federal Employment Agency, told a press conference in Nuremberg. But he added that “overall, the labor market is showing itself to be robust and in fine condition.”

Eckart Tuchtfeld, an economist with Commerzbank in Frankfurt, noted that, perhaps more worryingly, the number of employed fell in September for the first time since early 2010.

“The ‘labor market miracle’ many observers had proclaimed is likely to continue taking a breather for now, in view of the poor economy,” Mr. Tuchtfeld wrote. “Only in the second half of 2013 do we expect the trend to point up again.”

The Spanish and German gloom were underscored by a repor from the European Commission which said in Brussels that its index of business and consumer sentiment fell 0.7 point to 84.5 this month from a revised 85.2 points in September.

An index value below 100 shows more respondents are pessimistic than optimistic.

“Marked decreases” in sentiment in the euro zone’s industrial and construction sectors outweighed improvement in retail, though service sector and consumer confidence were stable, the commission, said, though it noted a hopeful sign in that the rate of decline in the indexes was slowing.

Sentiment in the 27-nation European Union was “broadly stable,” the commission said.

The decline in sentiment shows the 17-nation euro zone began the fourth quarter “on a very weak note,” Jennifer McKeown, an economist in London with Capital Economics, wrote in a note. She said the sentiment data were “consistent with annual contractions in euro-zone G.D.P. of around 2.5 percent. That implies very steep quarterly falls in G.D.P. in the next few quarters.”

She also predicted the euro zone economy would shrink by about 2.5 percent next year.

More than three years after Greece’s disclosure that it had been fudging its government finance statistics, touching off a run on the sovereign debt of several euro zone governments, the region’s crisis has become a grinding, chronic affair.

Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks in Berlin on Tuesday with the leaders of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization.

The leaders were arriving in Berlin from Paris, where they held talks with the French president, François Hollande.

The meeting comes ahead of the latest report on Greece’s financial situation by the so-called troika of international lenders: the I.M.F., the European Central Bank and the European Commission. Germany has made the troika report a precondition for making any decisions on further assistance to Athens.

Nevertheless, discussion over how Germany might best help Greece to cover its growing financing gap has gathered speed in recent days. While the idea that Greece might need more time to pay back its debts remains open for debate among German lawmakers, both the chancellor and her finance minister have rejected the idea of a taking a loss on official loans to Greece.

Ms. Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told reporters on Monday that a write-off of Greece’s public sector debts was “out of the question.” He cited German law as stipulating that loans can only be granted to countries that are not considered in threat of default, meaning that such a write-down “would certainly not be in Greece’s interests.”

Bank of Japan Announces Fresh Economic Stimulus

TOKYO — The Japanese central bank announced fresh measures on Tuesday to ease monetary policy, stepping up its bid to fend off recession in the world’s third-largest economy after the United States and China.

The Bank of Japan, under pressure from the government to act more decisively to halt the economy’s slide, said in a statement that it would add ¥11 trillion, or $138.5 billion, to an asset-buying program that has become its main monetary policy tool.

The bank will also set up a new loan program to supply banks with cheap long-term funds, a bid to pump more money into the Japanese economy to encourage growth. As expected, the bank decided to keep its benchmark interest rate at a range of 0 percent to 0.1 percent.

The Bank of Japan’s governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, said that the easing measures would stay in place until Japan achieved an inflation level of at least 1 percent.

The measures come as Japan confronts economic data that suggest its fragile recovery is threatened. The economy grew at a healthy clip earlier this year, helped by the huge reconstruction effort that followed the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. But a slowdown in exports and industrial output, brought about by the global slowdown and a continued territorial spat with China, a major trading partner, is threatening to hobble that growth.

The dispute, which intensified in September, has led to boycotts of Japanese brands among Chinese consumers, forcing Japanese exporters to scale back their sales forecasts in an important market.

Meanwhile, Japanese industrial output fell by 4.1 percent in September from August, and by 8.1 percent from a year earlier, data released Tuesday showed. Exports have also shown signs of a slowdown, and price data show the economy remains mired in deflation, a damaging drop in prices, wages and profit that hampers economic activity.

Reflecting those risks, the central bank cut its own economic and price forecasts, saying it was unlikely to meet a goal of reaching 1 percent inflation by the fiscal year ending March 2014. That probably will not happen until the following year, the bank said.

“Japan’s economy is expected to level off more or less for the time being. Thereafter, however, as domestic demand remains resilient on the whole and overseas economies gradually emerge from the deceleration phase, the economy is expected to return to a moderate recovery path,” the bank said in its semiannual economic outlook, also released Tuesday.

And in a rare joint statement, the government and the Bank of Japan said they shared the goal of beating deflation. The central bank will “regularly” report its outlook on prices to the cabinet, while the government will introduce its own measures to fight deflation, the statement said.

Mr. Shirakawa said that for now, he saw increased risks for a marked slowdown in the global economy. The biggest change since the bank’s policy meeting in September, he said, was that “overseas economies seemed to be slowing down further.” That was “a big starting point” of the bank’s policy discussions, he said.

It is still unclear how far the bank will go to reverse Japan’s decade-long deflationary malaise, made worse by the country’s shrinking population. Central bankers have said that monetary policy is not enough to ease the economic problems and that the government needs to do more to facilitate growth.

Even as the central bank has flooded the economy with money, bank lending has hardly risen because companies do not feel confident enough in the weak economy to fund big investments.

The government has also thrown money at the economy, approving ¥422.6 billion in emergency spending just last week. But its ability to spend its way to economic growth is limited by a public debt burden already twice the size of its economy. Gridlock in Parliament is also blocking a bill that would allow the government to fund an almost ¥40 trillion deficit, threatening public services.

Markets were unimpressed with the central bank’s moves Tuesday, with the Nikkei 225-share index in Tokyo closing down nearly 1 percent shortly after the bank’s announcement, and the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong off 0.4 percent. The yen strengthened, hitting a one-week high of 79.25 to the dollar, bringing more pain to Japanese exporters.

“Monetary fireworks displays are not in Bank of Japan governor Shirakawa’s nature,” Nicholas Smith, Japan strategist at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, said in a note to clients after the bank’s decision. The bank will continue to face pressure from the government to step up its actions, and Mr. Shirakawa may be replaced when his current term ends in April, Mr. Smith said. “And if there is one thing that all major political parties can agree on, it is that the monetary future must be expansionary,” he said.

La Liga: Real Madrid benam Mallorca 5-0

 

REAL Madrid pula meraihkan pesta gol apabila membenam Mallorca 5-0 dalam saingan La Liga, perlawanan kesembilan, yang berlangsung di Stadium Iberostar Estadi, Palma de Mallorca.

Stadium yang dibanjiri kira-kira 17,500 penonton sememangnya mendapat sorakkan meriah, namun ternyata penonton tuan rumah hampa setelah Mallorca tewas di tempat sendiri.

Gol pertama Madrid seawal minit kelapan disumbangkan oleh Gonzalo Gerardo, disusuli gol kedua minit-22 oleh Cristiano Ronaldo.

Pada separuh masa kedua, Madrid menambah tiga gol iaitu minit ke-70, 73 dan masa kecederaan.

Berikut keputusan saingan La Liga yang berlangsung awal pagi tadi (waktu Malaysia).

Real Zaragoza (2) mln Sevilla (1)

Levante (3) mln Granada (1)

Athletic club (1) mln Getafe (2)

Atletico Madrid (3) mln Osasuna (1)

Mallorca (0) mln Real Madrid (5)


Jadual La Liga
Selasa 30 Oktober

Real Valladolid mln Real Sociedad
4.30 pagi

MU menang 3-2, rapatkan jurang mata

 





 

MANCHESTER United (MU) merapatkan jurang mata saingan mengejar takhta Liga Perdana Inggeris (EPL) apabila berjaya menewaskan pendahulu liga Chelsea 3-2 di Stamford Bridge semalam.
Selepas menyempurnakan sembilan perlawanan, Chelsea masih di depan dengan 22 mata manakala MU menambah mata kepada 21. Manchester City, juara musim lalu, yang tewas kelmarin juga mengumpulkan 21 mata.
MU mendahului Chelsea, yang bermain dengan sembilan pemain selepas dua dibuang padang, ekoran gol sendiri daripada David Luiz pada minit keempat. Gol tambahan MU disumbangkan oleh Robin van Persie pada minit 12.
Ketinggalan dua gol itu tidak mematahkan semangat Chelsea yang memperoleh jaringan pada minit ke-44 dan 53 menerusi Juan Mata dan Ramires.
Javier Hernandez menghasilkan mata penuh kepada MU pada minit ke-75.
Keputusan perlawanan semalam:
Everton 2 - 2 Liverpool
Newcastle 2 - 1 West Brom
Southampton 1 - 2 Tottenham
Chelsea 2 - 3 Man Utd

Perlumbaan bas jadi kegilaan penonton hujung minggu

 
 
 


PERLUMBAAN bas. Mungkin kedengaran pelik, tetapi itu antara satu acara sukan yang menjadi kegilaan sebahagian peminat sukan pemotoran yang tinggal di bahagian timur Amerika Syarikat (AS).

Kebiasaannya pelumba menjadikan bas sekolah yang telah diubahsuai sebagai jentera perlumbaan.
Uniknya, litar perlumbaan mereka tidaklah litar tetap atau seperti yang anda bayangkan. Dan yang pasti bukan seperti Litar Antarabangsa Sepang.

Tetapi litar perlumbaan bas lebih menarik, bukan sahaja berlumba dalam litar bulatan tetapi ada juga yang diadakan di litar berbentuk angka lapan.

Sukan ini sangat terkenal di AS bahkan, setiap kali ia diadakan, sudah pasti kehadiran penyokong tidak pernah mengecewakan.

Sentiasa ada pengikut yang setia dan tidak pernah melepaskan peluang menyaksikan kehebatan pemandu yang lagaknya tidak ubah seperti Michael Schumacher.

 Aspek keselamatan tetap diutamakan

SEPERTI sukan permotoran lain, perlumbaan bas tidak terkecuali daripada peraturan ketat terutama melibatkan soal keselamatan pelumba.

Mereka wajib mengenakan topi keledar, pakaian yang sesuai, tali keselamatan pula tidak boleh dibuka, sekiranya tidak lengkap, pelumba boleh disingkir dan penyertaan secara automatik terbatal.

Bahkan jika perlu, mereka akan digantung terus daripada menyertainya pada masa akan datang. Kerana itu juga, had kelajuan sebuah bas ditetapkan tidak melebihi 60 kilometer sejam.

Walaupun dengan kelajuan seperti itu, kemalangan pasti sukar dielak. Tetapi itu satu kelebihan untuk mereka yang mencari kejuaraan.

Dalam erti kata lain, kemalangan yang berlaku akan mengurangkan jumlah kenderaan di atas litar dan akhirnya siapa yang tinggal, maka pelumba dialah yang akan dinobatkan juara.

Namun, perlu diingat, hanya mereka yang benar-benar berpengalaman dan mengetahui selok-belok perlumbaan sahaja dibenarkan beraksi.

Adakah akan ada di tempat kita sukan jenis ini.

Ferguson praise for fast-starting Manchester United

Scot praises speed with which United took lead at Chelsea and gives credit to nine-man Blues

Javier Hernandez wheels away after scoring Manchester United's winner against Chelsea

Sir Alex Ferguson admitted Manchester United enjoyed a slice of good fortune in beating Chelsea but hailed his side's second-half display as they recovered from squandering a two-goal lead to achieve a long-awaited win at Stamford Bridge.

"I couldn't wait for half-time, then they got the second goal and, from that moment, we had to start performing properly and we did that"
Sir Alex Ferguson

The visitors were pegged back by Chelsea when Juan Mata and Ramires cancelled out David Luiz's own goal and Robin van Persie's seventh Barclays Premier League goal of the season.
But United rallied, after the dismissals of Branislav Ivanovic and Fernando Torres, to seal their first League win at Chelsea since 2002 thanks to Javier Hernandez's 75th-minute effort.
"It's 10 years since we won here [in the League]," said Ferguson. "It's very difficult to come here and get all the decisions as it's a very difficult place. The crowd played a part, they were terrific and right behind their team, and we buckled in the minutes before and after half-time.
"We gathered ourselves well and got back into the game. We started the game so well. We were absolutely brilliant but then, 10 minutes from half-time, we lost our way a bit.
"I couldn't wait for half-time, to be honest, then they got the second goal and, from that moment, we had to start performing properly and we did that."
"You have to give credit to Chelsea. They never gave in and you saw David Luiz running around like a whirling dervish, that's his desire to get back into the game.
"They gambled - it failed obviously - but they showed great desire to try and win the game."

Di Matteo lauds Chelsea character

Despite Chelsea conceding two goals after just 12 minutes, manager Roberto Di Matteo rued the early stages of the match, after his side fell was full of praise for the "character" they showed to bounce back and restore parity before ultimately coming up short.

"We've got that kind of personality in our dressing room, that we never give up"
Roberto Di Matteo

"Today was a poor start," he said. "We were slow but the first goal was lucky. We had a tough week with three intense games and a long trip to Ukraine. After those first 20 minutes we got into our rhythm and started to play the way we can and the way we want to play.
"We showed great character and responded well to get back into the game and equalise, then had a good number of chances as well. I was confident we could go on and win the game."
Di Matteo added that it was Chelsea's tenacity that got them back in the match and praised United goalkeeper David De Gea for making two crucial saves in an open match.
"We've got that kind of personality in our dressing room, that we never give up," he said. "There were two good teams on the pitch and we looked very strong and caused them a lot of problems. De Gea made a couple of fantastic saves and I was confident we could win the game, they looked vulnerable.”
Chelsea have to face United again on Wednesday in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup, but with Arsenal bound for Old Trafford on Saturday, the Italian admitted that squad rotation might have to be employed in midweek.
"We have to regroup first of all," he said. "We will have a few players missing after we played with nine men and in a week when we had a long trip to Ukraine. I have to see how the players are tomorrow and think about what kind of team I put out on Wednesday.
“We know we have a good and strong team. We just have to ride this moment where we miss a few players, play in three days and get our energy back.
"Today we looked like a team that wanted to win and were very strong out on the pitch. I am sure in the long run this is a team with a lot of qualities.
"Even though we might find moments and situations like this we can come out of it once we get everybody back. We're a good team."
REPORT: Chelsea 2-3 Manchester United

'Pengkhianat Umno biasanya pegang jawatan penting'

 

Pemimpin akar umbi Umno hari ini menggesa jawatankuasa khas parti Melayu itu bertindak tegas, termasuk menyingkirkan segera ahli yang khianat, tidak seperti sebelum ini yang mengambil masa terlalu lama.

Ketua Umno Cheras Datuk Syed Ali Alhabshee berkata, sebelum ini hukuman untuk kes pelanggaran etika atau khianat mengambil masa sehingga menimbulkan kecewa di kalangan rakyat.

"Saya berharap jawatankuasa berkenaan akan lebih tegas mengambil tindakan terhadap mana-mana pihak yang berlaku khianat dan mensabotaj calon-calon BN pada pilihan raya umum ke-13 akan datang," tegasnya seperti dilaporkan dalam blog Umno Cheras.

Syed Ali juga berkata, mana-mana ahli Umno yang mengkhianati dasar perjuangan parti sememangnya wajar disingkirkan tidak kira di peringkat mana.

Beliau bagaimanapun tidak menafikan kebanyakan yang "bertukar menjadi pengkhianat" terdiri daripada pemegang jawatan penting dalam parti.

"Lazimnya yang mensabotaj parti dan pengkhianat adalah mereka yang memegang jawatan penting dalam Umno, kerana kecewa tidak dapat sesuatu yang dihajati mereka mula memburuk-burukkan parti dan pemimpin tertinggi," tegasnya.

'Dirasuk kepentingan peribadi'

Tambah Syed Ali lagi, jarang berlaku ahli-ahli parti di peringkat akar umbi yang khianat, sebaliknya membabitkan pemimpin termasuk yang pernah berada dalam kabinet.

"Saya percaya ahli-ahli Umno peringkat akar umbi tetap setia kepada parti, mereka ikhlas berjuang untuk parti," tegasnya sambil menyifatkan keadaan itu seperti "dirasuk kepentingan peribadi".

Syed Ali juga melihat penubuhan jawatankuasa khas bagi mengambil tindakan ahli ahli yang khianat mampu mengukuhkan keyakinan rakyat terhadap masa depan Umno.

Presiden Umno Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengumumkan penubuhan jawatankuasa itu setelah dipersetujui Majlis Tertinggi (MT) di PWTC baru-baru ini.

Ia akan diketuai oleh Pengerusi Lembaga Disiplin Umno Tan Sri Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen Tengku Ismail dan beberapa wakli MT yang tiada berkepentingan.

Bolasepak Malaysia. Khabar angin?

Bintang skuad Piala Dunia Jepun, Marcus Tulio Tanaka dikatakan hampir pasti menyertai pasukan liga M musim depan.

Robbie Fowler khabarnya semakin hampir menyertai T-Team..

Kehadiran 2 nama besar ini meningkatkan lagi populariti Liga M di Asia.

FAM sedang berusaha bersama AFC untuk membentuk badan bebas agar memantapkan Liga Malaysia dan perubahan liga akan disaksikan dalam saingan Liga Malaysia 2015 atau 2016..

FAM juga dalam perancangan untuk naikkan gred liga dari D ke B atau A menjelang 2015.

Mahali muka baharu Selangor musim depan

 

Terdahulu, beberapa pemain dilapor bakal menyarung jersi Selangor, antaranya pemain sayap N.Sembilan, S. Kunanlan dan kapten skuad Harimau Muda A, Mahali Jasuli yg sah menyertai Gergasi Merah musim depan.

Selain itu, penjaga gol T'ganu Mohd.Sharbinee dan pertahanan Terengganu Shukor Jusoh juga dilapor telah bersetuju menyertai Selangor..

Selangor juga bakal menyenaraikan penyerang import baru slepas pemain Croatia, Bosko Balaban memilih utk tidak menyambung kontrak bersama FAS.

Mahali berkata, dia memilih utk menyertai Gergasi Merah musim depan kerana pernah mewakili skuad Bawah 19 tahun Selangor.

Bolasepak Malaysia

Harga tiket Piala AFF
 
Malaysia vs Singapore (RM30)
Malaysia vs Laos (RM30)
Malaysia vs Indonesia (RM30)
Separuh Akhir (jika Malaysia layak) = RM40

Final (jika Malaysia layak) = RM50
Total (jika Malaysia ke final) = RM180.00

Persoalannya tindakan FAM bijak ataupun tidak harga tiket untuk final jika malaysia layak?

Bolasepak Malaysia

Bagi memantapkan Liga Malaysia dan perubahan liga akan disaksikan dalam saingan Liga Malaysia 2015 atau 2016, FAM sedang berusaha bersama AFC untuk membentuk badan bebas bagi merangka perancangan kearah tersebut. Perancangan ini diharap akan dapat membantu FAM meningkatkan mutu dan kualiti Liga Malaysia agar berada sama aras dengan liga-liga gred A di Asia. Ini juga kerana FAM mahu memastikan pasukan dalam Liga Malaysia diberi kuota pada kejohanan AFC Champions League pada masa akan datang.

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Electrical engineering

 

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. This field first became an identifiable occupation in the latter half of the nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph, the telephone, and electric power distribution and use. It now covers a wide range of subfields including electronics, digital computers, power engineering, telecommunications, control systems, RF engineering, and signal processing.
Electrical engineering may include electronic engineering. Where a distinction is made, usually outside of the United States, electrical engineering is considered to deal with the problems associated with systems such as electric power transmission and electrical machines, whereas electronic engineering deals with the study of electronic systems including computers, communication systems, integrated circuits, and radar. ^[1]
From a different point-of-view, electrical engineers are usually concerned with using electricity to transmit electric power, while electronic engineers are concerned with using electricity to process information. The subdisciplines can overlap, for example, in the growth of power electronics, and the study of behavior of large electrical grids under the control of digital computers and electronics.

Exchange Rate

25/10/2012
	SELLING TT/OD	BUYING TT	BUYING OD
Units of Malaysian ringgit per unit of foreign currency:
1 US DOLLAR	3.0930	3.0130	3.0030
1 AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR	3.2020	3.1220	3.1060
1 BRUNEI DOLLAR	2.5310	2.4680	2.4600
1 CANADIAN DOLLAR	3.1050	3.9120	3.4470
1 EURO	4.0100	3.9120	3.8920
1 NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR	2.5530	2.4630	2.4470
1 PAPUA N GUINEA KINA	1.6710	1.3460	1.3300
1 SINGAPORE DOLLAR	2.5305	2.4680	2.4600
1 STERLING POUND	4.9440	4.8470	4.8270
1 SWISS FRANC	3.3090	3.2400	3.2250
100 ARAB EMIRATES DIRHAM	85.2300	81.0100	80.8100
100 BANGLADESH TAKA	3.8550	3.6420	3.4420
100 CHINESE RENMINBI	49.6000	47.8000	N/A
100 DANISH KRONE	55.2500	50.9600	50.7600
100 HONGKONG DOLLAR	40.3900	38.3900	38.1900
100 INDIAN RUPEE	5.8260	5.5400	5.3400
100 INDONESIAN RUPIAH	0.0327	0.0309	0.0259
100 JAPANESE YEN	3.8680	3.7790	3.7690
100 NEW TAIWAN DOLLAR	N/A	N/A	N/A
100 NORWEGIAN KRONE	55.2800	50.9400	50.7400
100 PAKISTAN RUPEE	3.2900	3.0900	2.8900
100 PHILIPPINE PESO	7.5500	7.1700	6.9700
100 QATAR RIYAL	85.9500	81.7600	81.5600
100 SAUDI RIVAL	83.5300	79.2900	79.0900
100 SOUTH AFRICAN RAND	36.2900	33.3900	33.1900
100 SRI LANKA RUPEE	2.4400	2.2500	2.0500
100 SWEDISH KRONA	47.7400	43.5900	43.3900
100 THAI BAHT	10.7400	9.1300	8.7300

Stoner wins his final MotoGP race in Australia

PHILLIP ISLAND: Casey Stoner won his sixth successive Australian Grand Prix in his final home MotoGP race before retiring, while Jorge Lorenzo clinched the world championship with a second-place finish Sunday at Phillip Island.

Dani Pedrosa, the only rider who could have caught fellow Spaniard Lorenzo for the 2012 series title, crashed out of the 27-lap race while leading on the second lap, sliding out of control in a corner.  

Lorenzo, who also won the world title in 2010, held a 23-point championship lead going into Sunday’s race and needed only three points to clinch the title. Britain’s Cal Crutchlow was third Sunday on the 4.445-kilometer (2.76-mile) circuit.  

Starting from pole, Honda rider Stoner was beaten off the start line by both Lorenzo and Pedrosa, with Pedrosa taking the lead from his fellow Spaniard late on the opening lap. But Pedrosa slid out of control while taking a corner less than a minute later. He returned to the pits, and retired from the race.  

For Stoner, who will retire at the age of 27 at the end of the season, it was a remarkable result in front of a record Phillip Island MotoGP attendance of more than 53,000.  

Once he inherited the lead from the fallen Pedrosa, Stoner built his lead on every lap — Lorenzo perhaps content to do what he needed to in order to wrap up the title. Stoner eventually beat Lorenzo by more than nine seconds.  

Stoner had been dominant all weekend at Phillip Island, having timed a second quicker than his rivals for most of the practice and qualifying sessions.  

Pol Espargaro of Spain won the Moto2 race, with Australian Anthony West second and new world champion Marc Marquez of Spain third. Marquez’s finish gave him 299 points, 33 ahead of Espargaro with just one race remaining in Valencia, Spain in two weeks and 25 points awarded for a win.  

Sandro Cortese of Germany took the Moto3 race with Portugal’s Miguel Oliveira second and 17-year-old local rider Arthur Sissis of Australia third, the Australian’s first podium finish.  

Cortese, who clinched the 2012 series title at the most-recent race in Malaysia , led most of the race on his KTM after starting from pole position. Oliveira made a late-race pass on Cortese, but the German recovered to re-take the lead on the second-last lap.

Abim bantah TV3 tayang ‘My Name Is Khan’

 KUALA LUMPUR: Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) membantah sekeras-kerasnya penayangan filem ‘My Name Is Khan’ di TV3 pada Hari Raya Aidil Adha yang kedua.

Naib Presiden Abim, Ahmad Saparudin Yusup berkata, filem yang membawa mesej yang mengelirukan jelas tidak wajar ditayangkan oleh sebuah stesen televisyen utama Malaysia.

Berikut ialah kenyataan penuh beliau mengenai perkara itu.

Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) membantah sekeras-kerasnya penayangan filem ‘My Name Is Khan’ di TV3 pada Hari Raya Aidil Adha yang kedua. Filem yang membawa mesej yang mengelirukan jelas tidak wajar ditayangkan oleh sebuah stesen televisyen utama Malaysia.

Watak utamanya dibawa oleh Shah Rukh Khan (Datuk) jelas menjengkelkan. Aksi beliau dalam cerita itu membayangkan tahap kefahaman pengarah, penulis skrip, dan pelakon mengenai Islam begitu memalukan.

Sebagai contoh, adegan hero yang berkahwin dengan heroin (dalam filem ini) yang beragama Hindu jelas bertentangan dengan ajaran Islam. Menerima dan mencampur aduk cara penyembahan agama lain dengan Islam sebagai agama adalah sama jelas bercanggah dengan prinsip Islam.

Selain dari itu memberi zakat kepada mereka yang tidak beragama Islam juga adalah mengelirukan. Zakat hanya dibenarkan untuk asnaf yang tertentu dan tidak boleh diberikan sesuka hati.

Penerbit filem ini jelas cuba menjawab persoalan ‘Islamophobia’ yang melanda Barat, tanpa memahami ajaran Islam dengan mendalam serta menghayati pokok pangkal permasalahan ini mengheret wajah Islam ke dalam kancah yang memalukan. Ia secara jelas membawa mesej ‘Islam Liberal’.

Faham Islam Liberal ini pekat dengan rasa apologetik dan menenggelamkan sumber asas dan mengenepikan pandangan ulama muktabar. Begitu juga dengan nilai yang cuba disejajarkan dengan selera Barat yang menyisih intipati ajaran Islam itu sendiri.

Selain dari faham Islam Liberal itu, menyamakan kebaikan di sisi Islam dan agama lain adalah satu daripada teras aliran ‘pluralisme agama’. Mesej ini juga terkandung dalam filem ini.

Segala faham ini perlu diperhatikan secara dekat kerana ia boleh memesongkan fikiran umat Islam dan juga bukan islam dalam memahami ajaran Islam yang sewajarnya.
Faktor penayangan yang dibuat tatkala umat Islam menyambut hari Idil Adha juga menimbulkan persoalan ke mana hilangnya keprihatinan dan tanggungjawab pihak media dalam bahan siaran mereka.

Oleh itu Abim mendesak agar penayangan filem ini dihentikan pada masa akan datang. Abim juga mengingatkan kepada stesyen penyiaran di negara ini agar lebih peka dan sensetif terhadap bahan kandungan dan masa penyiaran bagi mengelakkan kontroversi di dalam masyarakat. Abim juga menggesa agar pengedaran CD filem ini dihalang serta merta.

Tsunami warning for Hawaii following Canadian earthquake

WASHINGTON: An earthquake off the west coast of Canada has triggered a tsunami that is headed toward the US state of Hawaii, The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center announced early Sunday.
"A tsunami has been generated that could cause damage along the coastline of all islands in the state of Hawaii," the center warned.

USGS: Major earthquake hits islands off west coast of Canada

VANCOUVER (Canada): A Tsunami warning was issued for Hawaii following Canadian earthquake, official.
A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Queen Charlotte Islands off the west coast of Canada late Saturday, US government researchers said.
The epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 8:04 pm (0304 GMT Sunday) was located 139km (86 miles) south of the town of Masset, the US Geological Survey said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no "destructive widespread tsunami threat" at this time.
However, the regional West Coast-Alaska Tsunami Warning Center issued a regional warning for coasts located near the epicenter of the earthquake.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
"A 7.7 is a big, hefty earthquake. It's not something you can ignore," Gerard Fryer, senior geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center told n CNN International.
He explained that the latest tremor had occurred partly under an island, but mostly under shallow water.
"I think we have to be thankful it happened where it did," Fryer said. "If that were a heavily populated area, it would have caused significant damage."
"It definitely would have done significant damage if it had been under a city," the geophysicist added.
The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that the quake was felt in Haida Gwaii Island and across a swathe of north and central British Columbia including Prince Rupert, Quesnel and Houston, with no immediate reports of damage.
The US Coast Guard in Alaska was trying to warn everyone with a boat on the water to prepare for a potential tsunami, the report said.
The Canadian paper also quoted Lieutenant Bernard Auth of the Juneau Command Center as saying that the US Coast Guard was also working with local authorities to alert people in coastal towns to take precautions.
The earthquake reading was based on the open-ended Moment Magnitude scale used by US seismologists, which measures the area of the fault that ruptured and the total energy released.