Datuk Amar Abang Johari (third right) handing over a mock house key to one of the tenants of PPR Bandaria
Park Flats, as (from left) Abdul Karim, Datuk Talib Zulpilip, Datuk Francis Harden and Datuk Naroden Majais
look on.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Abd Karim: DAP ‘go rural’ most welcomed
SIBU: DAP’s mission to go rural may well be an eye opener for them so that they can appreciate that Sarawak is almost the size of Peninsula and to implement development projects is certainly no walk in the park.
PBB supreme council member Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said the opposition’s move to go to the rural areas was most welcomed so that they could see for themselves the real thing.
He was responding to DAP’s three broad strategies to break BN stronghold in the state, one of which was that they had identified 20 rural seats as special focus in the next state election.
Outgoing state DAP chairman, Wong Ho Leng, who proposed the strategies during the 16th DAP Sarawak Ordinary Convention, said the party should implement the strategies to do well in the 11th state election.
Abdul Karim, who is Assistant Minister of Youth Development and Asajaya assemblyman, said: “Malaysia is a democratic country, and all registered political parties have the rights to strategise themselves to win over the people.
“We welcome them to the rural areas and hopefully, this could open their eyes and see that Sarawak is a big state and to develop it is not easy after all.”
He said that the party (DAP) was able to prove its strength by winning many urban seats in the last state and general elections.
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Support and much praise for ban on ‘smoke’ candies
SIBU: The government must stop the sale of food products that could influence consumers to develop an unhealthy lifestyle.
Assistant Youth Minister Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, who said this yesterday, added: “Any product that promotes an unhealthy lifestyle should be checked”.
He was asked to comment on the sale of ‘smoke’ candies which look like cigarettes front-paged by The Borneo Post yesterday.
The Food Safety and Quality Unit of Health Ministry had raised the alarm over these candies which are made in China and had issued a stern warning to traders to remove them from the shelves.
Felician Teo, a councillor from Maradong, lauded the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) swift move to clamp down on the sale of these ‘smoke’ candies.
Teo, in supporting the stringent measure, said yesterday nipping the threat posed by the candies in the bud was the right move as kids buying these cadies could be influenced to take up smoking when they grew up.
“MOH is right to act swiftly to ban the so called smoke candies from hitting the streets. Such pre-emptive actions must be lauded as these so called candies can cause young kids to pick up smoking habit later in life.
Monday, 3 June 2013
Sports good ‘unity tool’ for nation — Abdul Karim
SIBU: Sport is seen as a good activity to reunite the people who were deeply caught up in politics in the recent general election.
PBB supreme council member Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah beleived this was because sport went beyond party, racial and religious lines.
“Yes, I am all for this. It is good to promote sports as a ‘unity tool’ to unite the nation that had undergone a general election.
“The election had somewhat created some division and uneasiness among some sectors of the society and now is time for reconciliation.
“Among others, sports is one of the good tools for reconciliation,” Abdul Karim, who is Assistant Minister of Youth Development and Asajaya assemblyman, said yesterday.
He was asked to comment on Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin’s statement that sport must continue to serve as a unity agent in Malaysia besides helping to strengthen the 1Malaysia spirit.
Muhyiddin, who was reported to have said this at the presentation of Malaysia University Sports Council (Masum) Awards 2012 last Saturday in Shah Alam, added this was vital for the country to continue enjoy peace and prosperity.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Karim: DAP leaders have ability to look into the future, just like their boss Anwar
“Maybe DAP and PR leaders are able to foresee and read the future."
- Tuan Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah
SIBU: Jepak assemblyman Datuk Talib Zulpilip yesterday said DAP Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming’s statement at DAP’s Malaysia Dream forum in Kuching that PR would win more votes than BN in the next state election does not amuse him.
Ong was reported to have said that the opposition was now targeting young rural voters as part of its early preparation for the state poll.
“I do not know MP Ong, and they can have their dream. What is unbelievable at times is their patronising attitude. These ‘outside politicians’.
They take the attitude that we need their presence,” Talib, who is Assistant Minister of Tourism, said.
Meanwhile, PBB supreme council member Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, opined that it was a little too early for DAP or PR to make such a prediction.
“Maybe DAP and PR leaders are able to foresee and read the future.
“I know their big boss Anwar (Ibrahim) can do that because during the last 13th General Election, he declared that PR had won the election during a press conference with foreign journalists at 5pm on polling day when the Election Commission was just about to start counting and tallying votes nationwide,” he said.
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