June 28, 2023
<\/div>\r\n\r\n Putrajaya wants Air Kelantan Sdn Bhd to settle its management and governance issues before more funds are given to resolve the state\u2019s water supply problem. (Photo credit: Bernama)<\/em>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHe cited insufficient allocation from the federal government as the main reason Kelantan has issues with clean water supply.\r\n\r\nA week later, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi announced<\/a><\/span> a RM1 bil allocation for Kelantan to solve its water woes.\r\n\r\nLater, on June 18, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim himself topped up another RM500 mil<\/a><\/span> to make the fund allocation total RM1.5 bil.\r\n\r\nIn all fairness, the Kelantan state government should first prove itself to be a good steward of public funds before it starts to ask for more. A good steward is first faithful to the little that it has. After all, water is a state matter.\r\n\r\nThis is Anwar\u2019s Madani government which seeks to fix the problems for the people of not only Kelantan but also the water woes in the states of Sabah and Kedah, yet the polemics coming out of PAS which controls both Kelantan and Kedah are anything but constructive.\r\n\r\nIn a recent report, former Kelantan lawmaker Datuk Husam Musa disputed<\/a><\/span> Nik Amar\u2019s claim that after Umno lost the general election in 1990, it cancelled a RM600 mil Kelantan water supply project. Nik Amar had blamed the Kelantan water woes on UMNO.\r\n\r\n Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim with Menteri Besar Kelantan Datuk Ahmad Yakob<\/em>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHowever, Husam who is also chairman of non-governmental organisation Save Kelantan said the then finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin had handed a cheque of RM600 mil to the menteri besar to fix the people\u2019s water woes.\r\n\r\nFor this reason, Anwar too is apparently irked<\/a> <\/span>by the state that Kelantan is in. His view is that he wants Kelantan to solve its water problems urgently instead of waiting another 60 or\u00a0 100 years.\r\n\r\n\"Over 60 years of independence, endless political issues are only burdening the people,\" he lamented, citing the reason why he had a meeting with Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob during a Madani Raya Open House in Kelantan recently.\r\n\r\nKelantanese, therefore, should lay down the hatchets and work together with the Madani government to re-build the nation and revive its economy instead of playing on the polemics of race, religion and royalty.\r\n\r\nWhat Anwar wants is a solution. \"That is why I am urging (for a solution). The stand taken by the unity government is that we will find the funds, find a solution,\" he was quoted saying. \"However, it has to be done through appropriate methods and with full cooperation from the state government.\"\r\n\r\nKelantanese cannot help but remember Boney M\u2019s popular song, By the rivers of Babylon<\/em> when they now sit down and weep over the rivers of Kelantan which have been turned muddy due to unsustainable logging in the state. \u2013 June 28, 2023","post_title":"Time for Kelantanese to make some honest reflection","post_excerpt":"When Jenny Ngiam and her family visited Kelantan recently, they were happy to get a room at Grand Riverview Hotel just beside Kelantan River.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"time-for-kelantanese-to-make-some-honest-reflection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-28 18:08:04","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-28 10:08:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/focusmalaysia.my\/?p=141619","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":141611,"post_author":"21","post_date":"2023-06-28 17:21:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-28 09:21:46","post_content":"
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\r\n\r\nBURSA Malaysia pared earlier gains but still ended marginally higher on Wednesday, in tandem with the improving sentiment in regional peers after a rally on Wall St overnight on a solid set of US economic data.\r\n\r\nAt 5pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) edged up 1.63 points, or 0.12% to 1,388.37 from 1,386.74 at Tuesday\u2019s (June 27) close.\r\n\r\nThe key index opened 0.93 of-a-point\u00a0firmer at 1,387.67\u00a0this morning\u00a0- the lowest for the day - before rising\u00a0as high\u00a0as\u00a01,394.56 during mid-session.\r\n\r\nThe broader market was also positive as\u00a0gainers\u00a0outpaced\u00a0decliners 395 to 388, while 416 counters were unchanged, 1,123 untraded and 84 others suspended.\r\n\r\nTurnover expanded to 2.82 billion units worth RM1.49 bil versus 2.59 billion units worth RM1.51 bil on Tuesday. \u2013 June 28, 2023\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","post_title":"Bursa Malaysia ends marginally higher as sentiment improves on Wednesday","post_excerpt":"Bursa Malaysia pared earlier gains but still ended marginally higher\u00a0on Wednesday, in tandem with the improving sentiment in regional peers after a rally on Wall St overnight on a solid set of US economic data.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bursa-malaysia-ends-marginally-higher-as-sentiment-improves-on-wednesday","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-28 17:21:46","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-28 09:21:46","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/focusmalaysia.my\/?p=141611","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":141610,"post_author":"35","post_date":"2023-06-28 17:01:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-28 09:01:59","post_content":"KEDAH Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor has lambasted DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng as being \"childish\" and not proficient in his understanding of the Malay language for accusing him of inciting \"violence\" among Perikatan Nasional (PN) supporters by likening Penang to \"Constantinople\".\r\n\r\nIn his defence, Sanusi, who is the national PN election director claimed that he referred to Penang as Constantinople merely as a metaphor or figure of speech.\r\n\r\n\"Constantinople no longer exists. What we have today is Istanbul. I don't even understand his justification (that Constantinople is a war-like term),\" he told the media after returning official vehicles of the state executive councillors to state secretary Datuk Seri Norizan Khazali following the dissolution of the Kedah state assembly effective today.\r\n\r\n\"Despite living in Malaysia for decades, he doesn\u2019t even understand Malay \u2026 Guan Eng is funny like a child. Whatever everyone else is doing is a threat to him. I think this is an issue with the DAP leadership. Whatever done by others is wrong or harmful to the country.\"\r\n\r\nGuan Eng who is also the Bagan MP had earlier hit out at Sanusi for likening Penang to Constantinople and PN\u2019s supporters to the Ottoman ruler, Sultan Muhammad al-Fateh who is dubbed Mehmed the Conqueror, when addressing the need to re-claim Penang.\r\n
<\/div>\r\n\r\n Artist impression of the ancient city of Constantinople (Photo credit: The Collector)<\/em>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nOn June 25, Malay daily Harian Metro<\/em> quoted Sanusi telling his supporters that Penang must be reclaimed the way Muhammad al-Fateh conquered Constantinople from the Byzantine Empire.\r\n\r\nSanusi used this analogy on Saturday night (Jun 24) during his speech at the Kedah Berselawat<\/em> assembly to highlight the need for Penang to be reclaimed to \"restore Kedah\u2019s glory\" so that Kedahans will no longer be oppressed and looked down upon.\r\n\r\nNot satisfied, the Jeneri state assemblyman took another pot shot at Guan Eng by recalling the time when the former Penang chief minister metaphorise himself as Caliph Umar Abd Aziz.\r\n\r\nAt that time, Sanusi noted that nobody said the matter was wrong even though the caliph was a Muslim.\r\n\r\n\"Caliph Umar Abd Aziz was the grandson of Saidina Umar Al-Khatab who was known to be very fierce. Why did he (Guan Eng) use that metaphor? He is not a Muslim while Umar Abd Aziz was a Muslim Caliph. But nobody said anything. Instead, they deemed that as fun and supported him,\" added Sanusi. \u2013 June 28, 2023\r\n
<\/div>","post_title":"Sanusi to Guan Eng: Grow up and stop assuming that everyone is a threat","post_excerpt":"Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor has lambasted DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng as being \u201cchildish\u201d and not proficient in his understanding of the Malay language for accusing him of inciting \u201cviolence\u201d among Perikatan Nasional (PN) supporters by likening Penang to \u201cConstantinople\u201d.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sanusi-to-guan-eng-grow-up-and-stop-assuming-that-everyone-is-a-threat","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-28 17:16:46","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-28 09:16:46","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/focusmalaysia.my\/?p=141610","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":141605,"post_author":"110","post_date":"2023-06-28 15:53:52","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-28 07:53:52","post_content":"
\r\n\r\nFORMER premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will meet with Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin soon to discuss the Malay Proclamation.\r\n\r\n\"I would like to meet him to explain the purpose of the Malay Proclamation. The proclamation is not in support of any particular body but the support of the Malays as a whole,\" said Dr Mahathir at a press conference after returning from his 13-day trip abroad to Europe and Turkiye on Wednesday (June 28).\r\n\r\nThe former Langkawi MP was responding to a news report quoting Muhyiddin saying he hoped to meet Dr Mahathir before Hari Raya Haji to discuss the Malay Proclamation.\r\n\r\nMuhyiddin, who is also a former prime minister stated that Bersatu shared similar goals with the Malay Proclamation in uniting the Malay community in the country.\r\n\r\nDr Mahathir penned the 12-point Malay Proclamation and has been instrumental in promoting it.\r\n\r\nMoreover, several notable individuals including PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang, Bersatu deputy president Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu and Bersatu information chief Datuk Razali Idris signed the Malay Proclamation in their personal capacities.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, earlier on June 2,\u00a0Dr Mahathir was reportedly questioned by Bukit Aman for activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy related to the Malay Proclamation campaign.\r\n\r\nAccording to news portal\u00a0The Star, <\/em>the investigations were for allegedly insulting the royal institution.\r\n\r\nFurthermore, Dr Mahathir had previously clarified that the Malay Proclamation was not anti-Malay.\r\n\r\nSimultaneously, Dr Mahathir questioned Malaysian United Democratic Alliance's (Muda) decision to go it alone as a \"third force\" in the state elections.\r\n\r\n\"If you go solo and stand in the election in a few seats, what can you do with a few seats. Parties that contest in the polls would field sufficient candidates who can win and for the government,\" he added.\r\n\r\nMuda president Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman stated that the Muda campaign would be primarily conducted online, with limited ground canvassing.\r\n\r\nThe youth-based party had applied to join Pakatan Harapan in September 2022 but did not receive any response. \u2013 June 28, 2023\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nMain photo credit:\u00a0<\/strong>Reuters<\/em>","post_title":"Tun M looking forward to meet Muhyiddin to discuss Malay Proclamation agenda","post_excerpt":"Former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will meet with Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin soon to discuss the Malay Proclamation.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"tun-m-looking-forward-to-meet-muhyiddin-to-discuss-malay-proclamation-agenda","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-28 15:53:52","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-28 07:53:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/focusmalaysia.my\/?p=141605","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":141580,"post_author":"110","post_date":"2023-06-28 14:15:07","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-28 06:15:07","post_content":"
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\r\n\r\nA PERIKATAN Nasional (PN) MP has urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to stop making condescending remarks about women, which can foster normalisation among most men.\r\n\r\nKepala Batas lawmaker Siti Mastura Muhammad said the Tambun MP should portray a respectable character to the people regardless of age and background.\r\n\r\n\"The normalisation has already taken place in social media comment sections (with people) defending the prime minister and continuing indecent jokes towards women,\" she penned in a Facebook post.\r\n\r\nLast Saturday (June 24), Anwar attended a town hall meeting in Nilai when he responded to a question from a Form Six student by praising her for being articulate and joked that if he had been younger, he would have asked for her phone number.\r\n\r\nThe Pakatan Harapan chairperson's words sparked criticism from various quarters, with some calling them \"sexist and demeaning\" to women, according to news portal Malaysiakini.<\/em>\r\n\r\nBersatu legal and constitution bureau deputy chairperson Sasha Lyna Abdul Latif and Muda deputy president Amira Aisya Abdul Aziz have both demanded that Anwar apologise for his remarks.\r\n\r\nAccording to\u00a0Siti Mastura, both men and women should feel safe when voicing their concerns to the prime minister.\r\n\r\n\"Anwar seems to have gone too far with his reformist character after becoming prime minister. (You have) power (but) don\u2019t forget boundaries of morals and ethics,\" she added. \u2013 June 28, 2023\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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