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KUALA LUMPUR: Pengerusi Badan Bertindak Interlok Kebangsaan (Niat), Haji Thasleem Mohamed Ibrahim mendakwa Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin telah membohongi rakyat Malaysia berhubung isu buku kontroversi, Interlok edisi murid. “Muhyiddin di dalam sesi Parlimen pada 24 Mac menyatakan bahawa Jemaah Menteri bersetuju agar Interlok terus diguna pakai tetapi tiada seorang pun yang menjelaskan pendirian mereka.” “Seterusnya Muhyiddin berkata keputusan penggunaan Interlok berterusan adalah muktamad namun akhbar Sinar Harian melaporkan Muhyiddin sebagai berkata bahawa Interlok hanya akan digunakan selepas pindaan dilaksanakan.” Thasleem turut berkata bahawa Niat tidak akan teragak-agak untuk mengheret Muhyiddin untuk membuktikan penipuan yang dibuat pemimpin kedua tertinggi negara itu. Justeru itu, Thasleem mencabar Muhyiddin menjalankan pungutan suara untuk memperoleh pandangan rakyat Malaysia kerana pandangan yang diterima beliau dari peringkat aka...

Makkal Osai bertarikh 31 Mac 2011 – KAMUS DEWAN BAHASA DAN PUSTAKA MENGANDUNGI PERKATAAN YANG MENYINGGUNG PERASAAN KAUM INDIA Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia (KPM) ingin mengucapkan terima kasih dan merujuk kepada Laporan Akhbar MAKKAL OSAI bertarikh 31 Mac 2011 – Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka mengandungi perkataan yang menyinggung perasaan kaum India. Pendekatan dan prosedur menyusun kamus bahasa Melayu sama dengan pendekatan dan prosedur yang diamalkan oleh ahli leksikografi bangsa-bangsa lain yang merakamkan perkataan yang digunakan oleh pengguna sesuatu bahasa.   Kamus Dewan terbitan Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka disusun berasaskan perkataan-perkataan yang digunakan oleh pengguna bahasa Melayu, termasuklah perkataan-perkataan yang bersumberkan bahasa-bahasa lain seperti bahasa sukuan atau etnik, bahasa Inggeris, China, Sanskrit, Tamil, Belanda, Arab dan sebagainya. Sehubungan dengan perkataan-perkataan dalam bahasa Mela...

The Malay Mail, Frankie D'Cruz, Monday, April 11th, 2011 A CLASSIFIED advertisement for the rental of a high-end condominium in Kuala Lumpur appallingly asserts NO INDIANS — throwing up a regrettable case of selective bias. It was the first time in local English media that I had come across a downright racist advertisement that steered prospective Indian tenants away. It was not meant for Indian nationals — it applied to any Indian, including me. I may be accused of overstepping racial lines but the advertisement in a national daily by a Malaysian Chinese lady working and living in Sydney, Australia, takes Indian bashing here to new depths of shame. The advertisement by the owner, a radiologist, for rental of her apartment suite at Bistari condominium near the PWTC and The Mall explicitly states “No Indians”, something so bold and blunt unseen in the housing ads of newspapers. Her problem with Indians: curry! She would not have her tenant cooking up a ...

Teluk Intan member of parliament M Manogaran was today arrested along with the head of the Malaysian Tamil Students Progressive Associations (MATSAP), MS Arjunan, while demonstrating against the controversial Interlok novel. Manogaran ( second from right ), who is from the DAP , and Arjunan ( far right ) had arrived with a small crowd of activists earlier this morning at the Batu Caves temple complex in Gombak. Kuala Lumpur. They were demonstrating against the Education Ministry's decision to make Interlok a compulsory reading material for form five students taking the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) exams, this year onwards. Police moved in and arrested Manogaran and Arjunan around noon, when the former addressed those gathered and urged the Indian community to unite against the introduction of the literature component in the Bahasa Malaysia subject. Both Manogaran and Arjunan were taken to the Gombak district police headquarters. They were released at about 2.40pm after...

The name on the identity card (MyKad) reads Ravichandran a/l Muniandy*. For the 17 years of his life, this gangly teenager has lived as a Hindu, and yet his MyKad states that he is a Muslim. But at least he has a MyKad - received three years after he first applied for it, and only because his father, Muniandy, had made a scene at the National Registration Department (NRD) in Putrajaya. "We applied when he was 13, but even then the registration officer there tried to reject the application, saying that his mother's name is Malay so my son's name must be changed to a Malay name too. I refused, so they told me to go to Putrajaya," Muniandy said. The second application was lodged with the boy's name, Ravichandran a/l Muniandy, as per his birth certificate, but nothing came out of it, and the boy was forced to sit his PMR with only the application slip. "We went to the (NRD) branch several times and were told the card never arrived, so I went to Putr...

It would have been a heart-warming view - a vernacular and a national school co-existing in the same compound. But that is where the feel-good story ends. Sekolah Kebangsaan Tok Pawang and Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil Sg Tok Pawang share the same compound, but it's a different story with the canteen. SJK(T) pupils have been denied access to the canteen. This was decided by SK Tok Pawang teachers after frequent quarrels between the pupils of the two schools. The SJK(T) PIBG then organised a makeshift canteen for the 170 Tamil school students at a corridor behind the building. Students of both schools also do not share classrooms. Twenty-three years ago the students of the Tamil school were accommodated at SK Tok Pawang after they had to abandon their own building due to pollution caused by the nearby Lee Rubber building. The Tamil school received a new lease of life when the Kedah state government allocated 5.5 acres of land to build a new school on April 3 this year. Menteri Be...

ARKIB : 09/12/2009 Oleh Zaini Hassan (yang berada di kota raya Hyderabad, India dari 29 November-4 Disember menghadiri Forum Editor-Editor Sedunia) BERADA di kota raya tua India, Hyderabad selama seminggu minggu lalu amat memberi kesedaran kepada diri ini. Setiap inci persegi tanah di kota-kotanya dihuni oleh ratusan insan. Setiap kilometer persegi dihuni oleh ratusan ribu insan dan setiap bandar raya di negara keramat itu dihuni oleh jutaan manusia. Dan India ialah tanah bagi 1.2 bilion umat manusia. Angkanya bertambah setiap saat. Berada di India bererti kita berada dalam satu realiti kemanusiaan yang sebenar. India ialah tanah bagi manusia ramai. Jurang hidupnya adalah antara langit dan bumi. Yang papa terlalu papa, yang kaya terlalu kaya. Yang kaya, tidak pandang ke bawah, yang bawah tetap di bawah. Kasta, darjat atau keturunan masih diamalkan secara tebal di seluruh India. Ia semacam satu agama. Kasta atas tidak boleh bersatu kasta rendah. Jalan rayanya...

Dear Friends, The Divine Life Society, Malaysia proudly presents Meditation & Yoga as Therapy under the guidance of His Holiness Swami Yogaswarupanandaji Maharaj, a renowned Yoga Exponent from Rishikesh, Himalayas, India. This is a two day event where participants will be able to experience the Techniques on Meditation, Stress Control, Breathing and Detoxification shown by Swamiji himself. Specific Yoga Asanas and lectures will be a part of this event. About His Holiness Swami Yogaswarupanandaji Maharaj Swamiji is an experience Practitioner, Teacher and Propagator of Yoga for last 36 years. He has conducted similar programmes in many countries in the East and the West. Swamiji is also the International Vice President of Divine Life Society , India and Trustee of Swami Sivananda Charitable Hospital , Pattamadai, India . It is a true blessing to have his presence with us. Event Details: Commences on : 14th November 2009 (Saturday) at 10:00 am C...

The last few words, very touching .... and ..... If I am the dad I would be looking at him from the skies ... And laugh at this .....

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PUTRAJAYA: State education directors have been told to approve requests from schools for an extra day off on Oct 20 to celebrate Deepavali. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the ministry has received many such requests from parents and schools. “The decision was made to enable parents to make plans for their families to travel earlier and avoid traffic jams,” he said, after inspecting students sitting for the first day of the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) at SMK Presint 8 (1) yesterday. Deepavali will be celebrated next Saturday. Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said schools could opt to take either occasional holidays ( cuti peristiwa ) which need not be replaced, or replacement holidays. “Schools taking the replacement holiday need to hold their classes on Oct 31,” he added. Education director-general Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom said schools had already replaced the Monday holiday for Oct 19 last month. “They will be getting a four-day holiday if t...

HUMAN RIGHTS PARTY (HRP) NO.6, Jalan Abdullah, Off Jalan Bangsar , 59000 Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia Tel: 03-2282 5241 Fax: 03-2282 5245 Website: www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com 24 th September 2009 YAB. Dato Seri Najib Razak Prime Minister of Malaysia , Block Utama Bangunan Perdana Putra, Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan, Fax : 03-8888 3444 62502 Putrajaya. E-Mail : najib@pmo..gov.my Y.B Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin Minister of Education Malaysia , Pejabat Menteri Pelajaran, Aras 10, Block E8, Complex Kerajaan Parcal E, Fax : 03-8889 5846 62604 Putrajaya. E-Mail : khairulam@moe.gov...

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***************** Before dispersing, several protesters spat and stomped on the cow's head. The cow is considered sacred among Hindus. Addressing the crowd, Section 23 action committee deputy chair Ibrahim Sabri said: "If there is blood, you (the state government) will be responsible if you are adamant about building the temple." "This is a warning. Relocate the temple to Section 22. This cow is a present to the state government. This is a gift from us," he added. The protesters also carried several banners which among others read 'Take Beer' (mocking PAS' rallying cry of 'Takbir') and 'Illegal temples are very small, but once relocated, they are as big as Putrajaya'. The crowd gathered for about 15 minutes at the main entrance of the state secretariat building under the watch of more than a dozen police personnel. seals: "under the watch of more than a dozen police personnel." ?? So police gave protection???? **********...

University Malaya vice chancellor Ghauth Jasmon confirmed the Indian Studies Department (ISD) will be now known as the Indian and South Asian Studies Department. The announcement was in stark contrast to assurances by Ghauth just days ago that the department will be preserved in its original form and its name maintained . "We will maintain the programmes but the name change is to give the department wider scope," said Ghauth ( right ). The ISD was established in 1956 under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in University Malaya. A controversy arose when department head S Kumaran, who retired, was replaced with Mohd Raduan Ariff, the first man not of Indian origin to head the department. Subsequently there was another uproar in the community when word leaked out that ISD is to be replaced with a South Asian Studies Department. Programmes to go on Current Arts and Social Sciences Faculty dean, Redzuan Othman, said there would be no change in the programmes as there are man...

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