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It doesn’t pay to be a nice guy, pundit tells PM Posted by: superadmin - 01-08-2022, 09:43 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been known as the ‘nice guy’ since he entered politics but as prime minister, he needs to be firm to prevent the country from going into shambles, says an academic. Former Universiti Teknologi Malaysia lecturer Azmi Hassan said Ismail is at his weakest politically as he faces an uphill task in dealing with different camps in Umno, Bersatu and PAS. “As there are different camps in Umno, he is unable to garner 100% support. Due to the dynamics within Bersatu and PAS, he is also unable to gain their full support,” he said. Even the move to secure a political understanding with PH in September has not worked well for Ismail as there are calls for its review. “The MoU does not add value to Ismail. All political parties know he is a nice guy and they are trying to see how it benefits them,” he said. - More -   MACC chief going after whistleblower he’s meant to protect Posted by: superadmin - 01-08-2022, 09:22 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Salvage Malaysia: MACC encouraged whistleblowers to report cases so that it can investigate if there are grounds of corruption. But now, when it comes to the agency’s own chief, it wants to sue a whistleblower for RM10 million. Do you know what are the values the MACC stands for? I’m sorry but I think MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki has gone off the deep end.  Assuming that Azam can really prove that he is innocent, he should say that notwithstanding the alleged slander thrown at him by the whistleblower, he would still encourage whistleblowers to report cases to MACC for investigations. And that he would boldly confront this dark episode by laying out all documentary evidence that the money came from his brother in the purchase of shares under his name, etc. If you have done that, I will salute you, Azam, because you would have protected the sanctity of MACC. However, you are now behaving just like some of those arrested by MACC for corruption - using intimidation. You should not stoop to such levels. Dr Raman Letchumanan: Isn't it funny - this whistleblower may get witness protection by MACC officials against the MACC head. The PM should realise Azam is becoming a liability and may tarnish whatever credibility his Keluarga Malaysia government has. Act fast and do damage control. Don't react like he did in the Selangor floods. To the whistleblower, Lalitha Kunaratnam, I salute you for exposing this story of Azam purchasing a huge number of shares in his name. In fact, when I first read this news when it was published in October, I knew it was a big scoop like no other. I also suspected no other media would dare carry this story then. It remained hidden until political economy professor Edmund Terence Gomez broke it with his resignation from the MACC advisory panel. Actually, what you exposed is all in the public domain, especially the records in the Companies Commission. You didn't make any accusations or inference, just stated the facts. The online news portal that reported this story got DDOS attacked (cyberattack) and shut down. I am sure you must have also come under heavy pressure and threat to withdraw the story and apologise. Yet, you seemed to hold on. You are a brave woman. All right-thinking Malaysians will be on your side. We will support you in whatever way we can. It is extremely rare to find such a brave person nowadays. You are doing national service, even though the authorities may not like it for obvious reasons. Azam is in panic mode and feels threatened. Otherwise, how could the head of MACC issue such a demand to a relatively unknown person? He claimed he is innocent and above board. So why the need for this legal action? - More -   Clinically Dead Woman Gets Told The Meaning of Life During Near Death Experience NDE Posted by: superadmin - 01-07-2022, 07:23 PM - Forum: Interesting Videos - No Replies   Is The US Giving Up Taiwan? Posted by: superadmin - 01-07-2022, 06:11 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies   How A.I. is set to evolve in 2022, according to the experts Posted by: superadmin - 01-07-2022, 03:47 PM - Forum: AI - Artificial Intelligence - No Replies AI can excel at specific narrow tasks such as playing chess but it struggles to do more than one thing well. While AI still has a long way to go before anything like human-level intelligence is achieved, it hasn’t stopped the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon investing billions of dollars. Machines are getting smarter and smarter every year, but artificial intelligence is yet to live up to the hype that’s been generated by some of the world’s largest technology companies. AI can excel at specific narrow tasks such as playing chess but it struggles to do more than one thing well. A seven-year-old has far broader intelligence than any of today’s AI systems, for example. “AI algorithms are good at approaching individual tasks, or tasks that include a small degree of variability,” Edward Grefenstette, a research scientist at Meta AI, formerly Facebook AI Research, told CNBC. - More -   More than 1,000 Japanese tourists apply for trip to Xinjiang Posted by: superadmin - 01-07-2022, 03:40 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies More than 1,000 Japanese tourists apply for trip to Xinjiang organized by China's Consulate-General in Osaka In less than a month, 1,028 Japanese tourists have applied for a trip to Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region after the pandemic, showing a great enthusiasm for Xinjiang in Japan regardless that some right-wing Japanese politicians tried to smear the activity to dissuade Japanese people from applying. The Chinese Consulate-General in Osaka issued a notice on December 2, 2021, to invite people from Japan to travel to Xinjiang after the end of the COVID-19 outbreak. The invitation sparked wide attention in Japanese media. Xinjiang is a good place, but in recent years, slanders and lies about Xinjiang have emerged one after another causing great misunderstanding and harming the image of Xinjiang and China, Xue Jian, Chinese Consul General in Osaka, told the Global Times on Wednesday. By inviting the Japanese people for a trip to Xinjiang, Xue said, the activity wants to enhance mutual understanding and welcome more and more people to travel to the region.  - More -   Chinese expert eases fears over new variant detected in France Posted by: superadmin - 01-07-2022, 03:27 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies Chinese expert eases fears over new variant detected in France; WHO says it's monitoring Although a new variant of COVID-19, known as B.1.640.2 or the "IHU variant," which has been detected in France with 46 mutations and 37 deletions, raised some concerns over its transmission capacity as well as its potential threat, a Chinese expert believes that there is no need to panic while the World Health Organization told the Global Times that the variant is being monitored with little circulation. In a preprint which has not been peer-reviewed published on medRxiv on December 29, 2021, researchers from IHU Méditerranée Infection in France said that a new variant was first detected from a patient who returned from Cameroon. The new variant has infected 12 people in southeastern France, according to the research.  The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) discussed the available information about the B.1.640.2 variant,including the preprint data,and its circulation in France and globally, and has decided to keep this as a "variant under monitoring,"  WHO said in a statement sent to the Global Times on Thursday. - More -   Biden condemns Trump’s ‘web of lies’ a year on from deadly Capitol assault Posted by: superadmin - 01-07-2022, 03:02 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Joe Biden on Thursday forcefully denounced Donald Trump for spreading a “web of lies” about the legitimacy of the 2020 election in a desperate attempt to cling to power, accusing the former president and his allies of holding a “dagger at the throat of American democracy”. The US president condemned his predecessor’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election as a “failed” pursuit, but one that continues to imperil American democracy one year after the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol, when a violent mob of Trump loyalists breached the Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of Biden’s presidential election victory. In a speech from the Capitol marking the first anniversary of the deadly assault, Biden was unsparing in his assessment of the harm caused by the “defeated former president” whose “bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or constitution”. “For the first time in our history, the president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob reached the Capitol,” Biden said, never mentioning Trump by name. “But they failed.” - More -   Pakatan leadership want MACC chief and anti-corruption board chairman investigated Posted by: superadmin - 01-07-2022, 02:55 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Pakatan leadership want MACC chief and anti-corruption board chairman investigated immediately KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — The Pakatan Harapan (PH) Presidential Council is calling for the formation of an independent body to investigate possible elements of corruption and abuse of power by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Tan Sri Azam Baki and Anti-Corruption Advisory Board (LPPR) chairman Tan Sri Abu Zahar Ujang. They said Azam’s explanation that millions of publicly-listed shares were bought in his name by his brother was unacceptable as it raised the issue of conflict of interest and breach of law. “This breach of law can be tied to Section 25(4) of the Securities Industry (Central Depositories) Act 1991, which comes with an RM3 million fine or a jail term of up to 10 years if found guilty. “There is also the issue of where the money to buy these shares came from,” they said in a statement today. - More -   ‘Who said logging caused the floods?’ Posted by: superadmin - 01-07-2022, 11:44 AM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies ALOR STAR – Logging activities alone did not contribute to the massive floods that inundated up to nine states recently, said Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor. Instead, the outspoken politician blamed unusual rainfall for triggering the floods that affected three districts in Kedah in August. Responding to claims that logging needs to be stopped in view of the floods, which overwhelmed Perak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Negri Sembilan, Melaka, Johor, Pahang, Terengganu, and Kelantan, Sanusi questioned why Selangor and Kuala Lumpur suffered from flooding while both do not conduct logging activities. Sanusi had earlier attended the signing of agreements between Kedah-linked companies with Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) at Wisma Darul Aman here. He said local residents have been misled by claims that logging activities are behind the floods that hit Yan and Merbok in August. He stressed that unusual rainfall was the cause of the devastating water-column phenomenon at Gunung Jerai. “The impact washed away many low-lying homes. “The rainfall on that fateful day was equal to one-and-a-half month’s worth of rainfall on an average in the same districts,” he added. Sanusi conceded perhaps logging may have been a minor cause of the floods because there are not enough trees to impede the flow of water during heavy rain. - More - Pages (1288): « Previous 1 … 879 880 881 882 883 … 1288 Next » Jump to page: