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MAP_OF_AREAS_AFFECTED "> PENANG, 21/12/2010: Orang ramai di negeri Pulau Pinang dinasihatkan hari ini untuk membuat persiapan bagi menyimpan air yang mencukupi untuk kegunaan pada 28 Disember 2010. Ketua Menteri Y.A.B Lim Guan Eng mengingatkan orang ramai untuk bersedia menghadapi gangguan bekalan air berkala kerana Perbadanan Bekalan Air Pulau Pinang (PBAPP) perlu menjalankan kerja-kerja penting untuk penaiktarafan dan penyelenggaraan di beberapa loji rawatan air dan paip agihan di negeri Pulau Pinang. Beliau berkata kebanyakan kawasan di Negeri Pulau Pinang akan mengalami gangguan selama 12 jam, dari jam 7.00 pagi sehingga 7.00 malam. Gertak Sanggul & Teluk Kumbar mungkin mengalami gangguan selama 24 jam (dari jam 7.00 pagi 28.12.2010 hingga 7.00 pagi 29.12.2010) kerana kawasan-kawasan ini terletak di hujung rangkaian paip agihan. Kawasan-kawasan yang berdekatan dengan loji rawatan air yang sedia ada seperti Air Itam, Balik Pulau, Batu Ferringhi, Penang...

Suspected faulty electrical wiring may have caused two families to lose their homes in a fire that broke out yesterday afternoon at Sungai Nibong Tengah, near the Shell station at Sunshine Square in Bayan Baru. No casualties were reported. "The fire was put under control within 20 minutes. The cause of the fire is still under investigation," said Arifuddin Atis, the chief fireman. Arifuddin also confirmed that the Jalan Tengah fire station received a call from the public at 2:29 p.m., and that the fire engines arrived at the scene in less than five minutes. “..I saw smoke coming out of his house and immediately dialled 999,” said Mohd Rashid Hasnon, representing the state assemblyman for Pantai Jerejak, Sim Tze Tzin. Sim presented RM1500 each to the two families today. "The financial aid is from my allocation, Tabung TYT and Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat," he added. “I have also initiated the volunteer fire-brigade with Arifuddin today,” commented Sim, indicating a n...

Penang Gerakan chief Datuk Dr Teng Hock Nan today slammed Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng for his outburst against non-governmental organizations (NGOs) over the plastic bag ruling, saying Lim’s remarks were “unbecoming, petty and unwarranted.” Dr Teng said Lim’s comments also contained elements of threat against NGOs and his unwillingness to accept differing views. “It also reflects his dictatorial style of administration. He approves the ruling of plastic bag ban and must accept responsibility. Don’t pass the buck to the NGOs, if things are not going his way,” said Dr Teng in a statement. Dr Teng said an NGO’S role is to provide views and options on the subjects they were set up and not to go around helping the government to implement policies. On the use of plastic bags, Dr Teng said he agreed that there should not be an over-use but any action to ban the usage completely, especially when it could cause inconveniences, loss of income and affect the state’s economy, must be properly stud...

Be realistic and stop playing politic Penang Gerakan does not support nor condone the plans of the Malaysian Historical Society (Kedah) to seek the return of Penang to Kedah. Penang is a State of its own within the Federation of Malaysia. The society’s plans are not realistic and may open a “Pandora Box”. It may also give rise to other claims including Thailand claim over several states in Malaysia. The society’s action is neither realistic nor accepted by Malaysian especially Penangites. It is also alarming that the Pakatan Rakyat state government in Kedah have actually admitted writing the letter to the Federal Government. The question now is whether Penang chief minister knew about it and whether he also supported it. It would not be surprising that Lim Guan Eng would now claim that he has no knowledge about the letter and act like a “hero” rejecting the society call. Let’s watch another plot unfold. Baljit Singh Legal and Human Rights Bureau Chief Penang Gerakan

Kenyataan Ketua Cabang Bayan Baru YB Sim Tze Tzin berkenaan kenyataan Zahrain. 1hb December 2010 Parti Keadilan Rakyat Cabang Bayan Baru berasa kesal ke atas kenyataan Dato Seri Zahrain yang mendesak pingat Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Dato Seri Dr Wan Azizah ditarik balik. KEADILAN Bayan Baru berpendapat bahawa ini adalah politik murahan Zahrain yang sekarang ini menjadi pencacai UMNO dan Barisan Nasional. Beliaulah pengkhianat besar dalam sejarah politik Malaysia. Beliau mengkhianati mandat rakyat yang diberikan kepada beliau sebagai ahli Parlimen KEADILAN dengan melompat keluar parti. Beliau mengkhianati prinsip perjuangan KEADILAN yang memperjuangkan politik pelbagai kaum dan keadilan untuk semua. Beliau mengkhianati rakyat kerana tidak lagi bekerja untuk kawasan Bayan Baru tetapi lebih ghairah mengikut Dato Seri Najib ke Amerika Syarikat. Beliau mengkhianati pingat “Dato Seri” yang dianugerahkan oleh kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat yang berprinsipkan politik pelbagai kaum. Kalau ingin dipe...

Presiden Wan Azizah Binti Wan Ismail (19,543) Naib Presiden Nurul Izzah Anwar (13,211) Tian Chua (11,744) Fuziah Salleh (8,927) Mansor B. Hj Othman (8,576) Ahli Majlis Pimpinan Elizabeth Wong (10,897) Badrul Amin (9,672) Hee Loy Sian (8,473) Khalid Jaafar (7,889) Johari Abdul (7,719) Abd Rahman Yusof (7,719) Haniza Talha (7,588) Fariz Musa (7,511) Zakaria Abdul Hamid (7,170) Roland Chia Ming Shen (7,095) Siti Aishah (6,876) Ismail Yusop (6,332) Latheefa Koya (6,242) Kesavan Subramaniam(6,139) Shuhaimi Haji Shafiei (6,095) M.R. Summugam (5,964) Yusmadi Yusoff (5,810) S. Manikumar (5,789) Mustafa Kamal Yusoff (5,745) Christina Liew (5,707)

Disgruntled members from the PKR Bayan Baru division are crying foul over the election results which revealed a resounding victory and a clear mandate for Sim Tze Tzin, the current state assemblyman for Pantai Jerejak. Sim garnered 499 votes and a landslide majority of 234 votes. M.Ngnana Sagaran who lost to Sim was clearly disappointed by the results but nevertheless exhibited good sportsmanship in the spirit of healthy competition and as a PKR team member. Both posed for pictures for the press after the announcement of the results last Saturday. However, less than 24 hours after the election and citing bias within the Election Committee, Operations Manager for Team Rakyat, Anuar Ismail announced that their team does not accept the results and the whole election process. He felt that the election process had been compromised. “We do not accept the results and the whole process; and will lodge a police report over this”, Anuar conveyed, stressing his dissatisfaction over the results. “...

The might of one lawyer pitting against another lawyer might seem gargantuan to the public; although it is but child’s play to both Lim Boo Chang and Raveentharan, both PKR nominees for the head of division in the Bukit Gelugor constituency. To date, Lim has sent Raveentharan four different notices claiming defamation in retaliation to police reports made with regards to an incident which occurred early Saturday morning, on the 2nd day of Raya at Sungai Dua, Penang. Guang Ming, a Chinese daily is also recipient to a notice of demand for allegedly publishing defamatory statements about Lim. While Lim resorted to legal means, Raveetharan sought police intervention. 2nd day of Raya Escalating tension and provocation by some Malay youths led to a gang fight which resulted in bodily injuries, four burnt motorcycles and the destruction of a recently erected hut that cost about 14K. According to Mahindren A/L Muniandy, the Raya open house was organized by some Indian Muslim youths at the JKKK...

Zahrain Mohd. Hashim may have quit Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) but his influence still runs deep and wide within the party. As an Independent Member of Parliament for Bayan Baru, he allegedly has a vested interest in the ongoing PKR party elections especially in the Bayan Baru and Bukit Gelugor divisions. Jurinah bt. Hassan, a contestant from Bukit Gelugor was allegedly asked to withdraw from contesting in the PKR election, and subsequently to resign from PKR altogether. She was branded as a traitor to Zahrain by Ismail Ali, personal assistant of Zahrain. The Bayan Baru division election is touted to be the second most important division election after Permatang Pauh. During the 2008 General Elections, PKR Bayan Baru had won all three state seats and one parliamentary seat it contested. Jurinah the traitor? Jurinah, or Kak Inah, is also the chairperson of Single Mother’s Association of Daerah Timur Laut, Penang. According to her, she had bumped into Jamil Mohd. Nor and his wife Fauz...

Hamas senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh recently praised Malaysian delegations that had made trips to Gaza in order to provide medical and utility relief. Haniyeh thanked the delegation and also Malaysians who have donated without any prejudice to help the beleaguered state’s plight. Two different delegations had left Malaysia for the Gaza strip during this Ramadan month, with the first of them making a safe return on August 20. The delegation of 44 people was dubbed ‘Ramadan March for Freedom’, and was headed by PKR Central Committee representative Ustaz Badrulamin, in co-organization with Majlis Perundingan Pertubuhan Islam Malaysia (MAPPIM). The second delegation of 67 people, sponsored by the Putera 1Malaysia club, arrived in Gaza on August 12, where they had also met Haniyeh, who is one of the two disputed Prime Ministers for Palestine. While the Freedom March delegation went to deliver donations offered to Gaza by Malaysians and also to survey the aid of further developments...