Thursday, 7 January 2016
Abdul Karim: Check vaping in schools, colleges
January 7, 2016
SIBU: The Education Ministry is urged to put a check on vaping before it reaches a critical level.
In giving this reminder, Assistant Minister of Social Development (Youth) Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said he was reacting to the Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation’s (MCPF) call for the ministry to expedite the issuance of a circular to all schools and educational institutions on the guidelines to prohibit vaping.
Its vice-chairman, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye, reportedly said the use of vape in schools and educational institutions should be disallowed in view of the long-term disastrous effects on the students’ health.
Lee was also reported to support fully the ministry’s decision to ban vaping among students and teachers in schools and other educational institutions.
Abdul Karim, who is Asajaya assemblyman, said: “I fully agree that the Education Ministry must prohibit vaping in all schools and educational institutions.”
Apart from the findings that vaping had a long term disastrous effect on health, it also did not help in students and teachers economically, he added.
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Galeri: Press Conference on Sejiwa Senada
January 5, 2016
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| Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg and other carnival committee members during the press conference. -TheBorneoPost |
Sunday, 3 January 2016
‘Better for BN if Chinese united under one party’
SIBU: There is a higher chance for Barisan Nasional (BN) to wrest back the urban seats in the next state election if the Chinese remained united under one party.
Assistant Minister of Public Utilities (Electricity and Telecommunications) Datuk Dr Stephen Rundi, who is state BN secretary-general, was asked if the coming polls would see urban seats returning to BN as well as the swing of support from the Chinese community to the coalition, given the soaring popularity of Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem.
“There is swing to BN, definitely but if the Chinese are united under one party, the chances of winning would be better,” Dr Rundi, who is Kemena assemblyman, told thesundaypost.
In the 2011 state election, BN won 55 of 71 seats.
PBB secured all 35 seats it contested in, while SUPP only managed six out of 19; PRS eight out of nine; and SPDP six out of eight. Assistant Minister of Youth Development Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, who is Asajaya assemblyman, personally hoped to see the urban seats returning to BN in the next state election.
He said urban seats to be contested by PBB such as Satok, Nangka and Jepak would definitely be going to BN but those eyed by SUPP, or maybe united People’s Party (UPP) would present a tough fight for the candidates.
“We do hope that the soaring popularity, openness and transparency of the chief minister in his short stint so far, he could bring more urban voters to lean towards BN.
No place in S’wak for Opposition of ‘noise-makers’
The Barisan Nasional (BN) is not saying that Sarawak does not need an Opposition which can act as a check-and-balance but it’s against one which “simply makes noise”.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Barisan Nasional (BN) Sarawak has taken the position that the state does not need an Opposition which “simply makes noise”. “We are not saying that Sarawak does not need an Opposition which can act as a check-and-balance,” said Nangka Assemblyman Annuar Rapaee. “What we are saying is that we don’t need an Opposition which simply makes noise.”
Annuar along with Assistant Minister of Youth Development Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah and Assistant Minister of Public Utilities Stephen Rundi were expressing the hope in the local media that the urban seats would return to the ruling coalition but acknowledged that the Chinese, in that case, would have to unite under one political party in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) Sarawak.
“There’s a better chance of BN taking back the urban seats if the Chinese were united under one political party,” said Stephen who is also BN Sarawak Secretary-General.
He noted that Chinese “had begun swinging back to BN given Chief Minister Adenan Satem’s popularity” but thinks the trend wasn’t pronounced enough. “The Chinese must unite under one political party in the BN for the coalition to win back the urban seats.”
Abdul Karim, who is also Asajaya Assemblyman and a PPB Supreme Council member, expects his party to retain its urban seats such as Satok, Nangka and Jepak but concedes the ostensibly multiracial but Chinese-led and dominated Sarawak United People’s Party (Supp) will have a tough fight in other urban seats against the DAP. “We hope that Adenan, given his popularity, because of his emphasis on openness and transparency, can play a big role in wooing back urban voters.”
“The Chief Minister is a leader for all communities. It’s not often that we get a leader like this.”
In 2011, the last state election, BN won 55 of the 71 seats contested. The number of seats has since increased by 11 to 82.
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