The DAP is hosting its CNY Open House tomorrow from 11am to 2pm at our HQ at 24, Jln 20/9, Paramount Gdns, PJ. Hope to see you there!
Here’s my new office…
My humble room Dear friends, I’ve spent more than a month doing up my new office which is at Kuchai Entrepreneur’s Park in the Seputeh constituency. Before I moved to this new premise, I have to share a room with the Spring Single Mothers’ Society, but now I can have a room of my own,…
对一名死囚的获赦的感言
新年前,报载多宗自杀与杀儿案件。这些痛不欲生的个案,令我想起国内某监狱一个一直希望我探望他和拯救他出狱的囚犯。 这名囚犯因为在十多年前贩毒而被捕而被判死刑。去年,某州苏丹因庆祝诞辰而宽赦了他,但是却没告知他所谓的宽赦究竟是如何执行。他于是藉着家人来联络我,以协助他向有关方面了解情况,并协助他早日出狱。 在我多次向有关方面致函询问后,监狱当局终于在日前致函告知他,他的死刑被改为终身监禁。后来这死囚在国外的家人通过电邮告知我说他接获此消息后,感到非常悲痛,因为这意味着他将在牢房里渡过余生,他不能如愿以偿的出狱。 他家人致笔者的函件说:「从他被捕至今,十多年牢狱中,已真正的悔改,并且积极的操练自己,努力学习,盼望终有一日能补偿他过去对社会做成的伤害,并承担起对家庭的责任。这是他至今仍然能够紧持的动力。」
交警便衣执法
华人农历新年即将到来,为了达到更有效的执法和阻吓作用,交通部长宣布陆路交通局和交警将在“态度行动12“期间,安排便衣执法人员驾驶普通轿车在公路上巡逻和展开执法行动,以提高执法效率。 在这项行动中,执法人员不会截停车主,而只是抄下违规者的资料给当局。陆路交通局总监阿末穆斯达法说,如果车主认为本身是冤枉的,他可以提出证据及向执法当局上诉。 数日后,全国交警主任诺雅则宣布说,为了避免有人假冒交警,因此交警将派制服警察等上长途巴士来监督司机,确保长途巴士司机循规蹈矩和让公众人士安心,这与交通部长和陆路交通局总监之前的宣布大不相同 相比之下,诺雅的宣布是非常值得赞扬的,因为这显示交警在光明正大的监督长途巴士司机。 交通部长宣布执法人员将在佳节期间便衣执法令我脑海浮现的第一个问题便是,为何有关方面要偷偷摸摸的执法?部长大人说这将使驾车人士随时随地遵守交通规则,但是执法人员真的需要到穿便衣和驾驶普通轿车来执法吗? 这岂不是侵犯公众隐私,让驾车人士被无形的监视和追踪,这岂不是让人活在警察国里了吗?
Help me to help you
I will be on RTM 1 from 9.30pm on Feb 20 to dicuss Integrity Starts at Home. If you guys have any points that you think I should rasie, please contact me. The next session of perliament will start soon. My constituents are urged to get in touch with me through email if they want…
Raise The Coffin & Be Prosperous
In Chinese, there is a proverb that say “Be Promoted To Higher Official Position & Be Prosperous” or in Chinese: 升官发财. During the ancient days in China, many people actually bought coffins and keep in their houses before they die. When I went to visit Yap Ah Loy’s ancestral home in Huizhou, China, I was…
New Office
You might be wondering why I haven’t blogged for quite some time. It is because life has been very busy with many interesting things happening. I have moved in to my new office premise three weeks ago. I was supposed to move my office at the end of December last year but was held back…
向阿窿贷款将受惩
警察总部全国刑事调查主任尹树基日前向媒体汇报警方在打击大耳窿活动方面的进展,并说警方将建议政府修改法令,让向大耳窿借贷者也同样受到法律对付,理由是这些向大耳窿贷款者逼使逼使大耳窿用法罪手法,例如骚扰、动粗甚至谋杀,来向贷款者追讨他们借出的款项。 从理论来看,放高利贷既属非法活动,那么放高利贷者和借高利贷者都触犯了法律;一如卖淫和贩毒,卖淫者和嫖妓,贩毒者和吸毒者都会同样受到法律的对付一样。但是,警方的这建议是否合乎现实与人情,是否能真正解决大耳窿活动猖獗的问题呢? 从我所接触过的一些被大耳窿追债的个案看来,撇开一些为偿还赌债而借高利贷的个案不谈,很多借高利贷者都是低收入的市井小民,他们向大耳窿借钱的原因往往是为了解决短期的金钱需要,特别是解决生意周转的需求。这些小市民初时向大耳窿借贷的款额并不多,通常是数千到数万元,之后往往为了偿还庞大的利息而不断的再向其他大耳窿举债,导致他们拖欠的债务如雪球般的越滚越大,到无法偿还的地步,而饱受大耳窿的威胁与骚扰。