Dimanakah Kita (UiTM) Bermula : Part 2

Kita bermula dengan pengorbanan orang-orang terdahulu yang telah lama meninggalkan kita.

Penganugerahan Darjah Kebesaran kepada Naib Canselor UiTM

Warga Universiti Teknologi MARA mengucapkan setinggi-tinggi tahniah kepada YBHG. Dato' Sri Prof. Ir Dr Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar FASc, Naib Canselor UiTM atas penganugerahan Darjah Kebesaran Sultan Ahmad Shah Pahang Yang Amat Dimulia - Peringkat Pertama Sri Sultan Ahmad Shah Pahang (SSAP) (Yang Membawa Gelaran Dato' Sri)

(Sumber - http://www.uitm.edu.my/index.php/bm/berita-semasa/760-penganugerahan-darjah-kebesaran-kepada-naib-canselor-uitm)

Dr M: Ada GLC gagal matlamat asal

24 Oktober 2012

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad

KUALA LUMPUR - Terdapat pengurusan syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) telah tersasar daripada matlamat asal penubuhannya iaitu untuk memperkukuh ekonomi Bumiputera, kata bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamed.
  
Beliau berkata sebagai contoh, Khazanah Nasional Bhd ditubuhkan berikutan keupayaan Bumiputera, terutama orang Melayu, lemah dari segi ekonomi dan pemilikan ekuiti.
  
"Oleh itu kita tubuhkan badan yang dikuasai oleh kerajaan (Khazanah) supaya mereka memegang saham-saham ini sementara kita memperkaya Bumiputera, dan kemudian kita agihkan kepada mereka (Bumiputera)," katanya kepada pemberita pada Kongres Ekonomi Melayu 2012 (KEM2012) di sini hari ini.
  
Beliau berkata demikian ketika mengulas peranan GLC dalam memperkukuh ekonomi Bumiputera.
  
Dr Mahathir yang juga Penasihat Petronas, berkata ada GLC yang telah terpisah daripada ikatan asal mereka sebagai pemegang amanah Bumiputera dan orang Melayu, malah tindakan mereka juga bertentangan dengan dasar penubuhannya.
  
"Sekarang dasar dah bertukar. Mereka jadi peniaga utama dan kadang-kadang diagihkan kepada bukan Bumiputera, orang asing dan sebagainya.
  
Malah, katanya kadangkala GLC turut berlumba-lumba dengan syarikat kerdil Melayu yang sama sekali tidak mampu menandingi keupayaan GLC.
  
Dr Mahathir turut menyeru orang Melayu agar bersatu-padu dalam memperjuangkan hak kesamarataan dalam pembahagian hasil kekayaan negara.
  
"(Kita) tak rampas hak orang lain, kita nak bahagian kita sahaja.
  
"Kita merupakan penduduk majoriti 60 peratus, tapi kita hanya minta 30 peratus (pemilikan ekuiti), ambillah yang lain bagi mereka," katanya.
  
Beliau turut menyarankan kerajaan memberi pertimbangan terhadap permasalahan yang dihadapi oleh peniaga Bumiputera.
  
Antaranya, peningkatan mendadak sewa di kompleks-kompleks perniagaan termasuk kompleks yang dimiliki oleh kerajaan secara tidak langsung.
  
Kenaikan ini kata beliau telah memaksa peniaga Bumiputera keluar dari kompleks-kompleks ini kerana tidak mampu membuat keuntungan.
  
KEM2012 yang dianjurkan oleh Yayasan Kajian dan Pembangunan Dewan Perniagaan Melayu Malaysia (DPMM), berjaya mengumpulkan lebih 500 peserta untuk membincangkan hala tuju serta menjaga kelangsungan ekonomi orang Melayu.
  
Kongres dua hari itu yang berakhir hari ini, meluluskan 18 resolusi bagi mengukuhkan ekonomi orang Melayu selain pelancaran Tabung Usahawan dan Pelaburan Bumiputera Bhd sebagai skim pelaburan kolektif daripada ahli, usahawan Bumiputera serta individu, kerajaan dan agensi. - Bernama

Dimanakah Kita Bermula - UiTM dihatiku

Mahasiswa dan mahasiswi Dewan Latehan RIDA 1956/57. Bermula dengan 25 pelajar kini UiTM mempunyai 200,000 orang mahasiswa di seluruh negara.

Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center

If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age — a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture factories. Now it’s the home of a Google data center.

Engineering prowess famously catapulted the 14-year-old search giant into its place as one of the world’s most successful, influential, and frighteningly powerful companies. Its constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information. Its equally complex ad-auction platform is a perpetual money-minting machine. But other, less well-known engineering and strategic breakthroughs are arguably just as crucial to Google’s success: its ability to build, organize, and operate a huge network of servers and fiber-optic cables with an efficiency and speed that rocks physics on its heels. Google has spread its infrastructure across a global archipelago of massive buildings—a dozen or so information palaces in locales as diverse as Council Bluffs, Iowa; St. Ghislain, Belgium; and soon Hong Kong and Singapore—where an unspecified but huge number of machines process and deliver the continuing chronicle of human experience.

This is what makes Google Google: its physical network, its thousands of fiber miles, and those many thousands of servers that, in aggregate, add up to the mother of all clouds. This multibillion-dollar infrastructure allows the company to index 20 billion web pages a day. To handle more than 3 billion daily search queries. To conduct millions of ad auctions in real time. To offer free email storage to 425 million Gmail users. To zip millions of YouTube videos to users every day. To deliver search results before the user has finished typing the query. In the near future, when Google releases the wearable computing platform called Glass, this infrastructure will power its visual search results.

The problem for would-be bards attempting to sing of these data centers has been that, because Google sees its network as the ultimate competitive advantage, only critical employees have been permitted even a peek inside, a prohibition that has most certainly included bards. Until now.

A central cooling plant in Google’s Douglas County, Georgia, data center.

Photo: Google/Connie Zhou

Here I am, in a huge white building in Lenoir, standing near a reinforced door with a party of Googlers, ready to become that rarest of species: an outsider who has been inside one of the company’s data centers and seen the legendary server floor, referred to simply as “the floor.” My visit is the latest evidence that Google is relaxing its black-box policy. My hosts include Joe Kava, who’s in charge of building and maintaining Google’s data centers, and his colleague Vitaly Gudanets, who populates the facilities with computers and makes sure they run smoothly.

A sign outside the floor dictates that no one can enter without hearing protection, either salmon-colored earplugs that dispensers spit out like trail mix or panda-bear earmuffs like the ones worn by airline ground crews. (The noise is a high-pitched thrum from fans that control airflow.) We grab the plugs. Kava holds his hand up to a security scanner and opens the heavy door. Then we slip into a thunderdome of data …

Urs Hölzle had never stepped into a data center before he was hired by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. A hirsute, soft-spoken Swiss, Hölzle was on leave as a computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara in February 1999 when his new employers took him to the Exodus server facility in Santa Clara. Exodus was a colocation site, or colo, where multiple companies rent floor space. Google’s “cage” sat next to servers from eBay and other blue-chip Internet companies. But the search company’s array was the most densely packed and chaotic. Brin and Page were looking to upgrade the system, which often took a full 3.5 seconds to deliver search results and tended to crash on Mondays. They brought Hözle on to help drive the effort.

It wouldn’t be easy. Exodus was “a huge mess,” Hölzle later recalled. And the cramped hodgepodge would soon be strained even more. Google was not only processing millions of queries every week but also stepping up the frequency with which it indexed the web, gathering every bit of online information and putting it into a searchable format. AdWords—the service that invited advertisers to bid for placement alongside search results relevant to their wares—involved computation-heavy processes that were just as demanding as search. Page had also become obsessed with speed, with delivering search results so quickly that it gave the illusion of mind reading, a trick that required even more servers and connections. And the faster Google delivered results, the more popular it became, creating an even greater burden. Meanwhile, the company was adding other applications, including a mail service that would require instant access to many petabytes of storage. Worse yet, the tech downturn that left many data centers underpopulated in the late ’90s was ending, and Google’s future leasing deals would become much more costly.

(More information read http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/)

10 Must-Have Mobile Apps for Entrepreneurs

Save time and get more done--all with just a smartphone. Here are ten tools you'll need.

1. MobileDay

I use conference lines frequently when I'm working with people from all areas of the globe. These calls typically all have their own conference number and conference code. When calling from my cell, it's a huge annoyance to have to search my email on my phone and keep track of all the dial-in codes. The MobileDay app works with any conference call service by looking through your calendar, reminding you of the call, and with one click calling the conference line and dial any necessary codes for you.

2. Google Wallet

This app saves you the time of digging out your wallet and searching for the credit card you want to use. Instead, if your phone is enabled with near field communication, all you need to do once you've registered your cards is open the app, pick the card you want to use, tap the back of your phone to an NFC checkout register, and be on your way. All your information is securely stored on Google's servers, which you can remotely disable if you lose your phone.

3. WriteThat.Name

One of the biggest hassles I run into is when I need to quickly call someone who's not yet saved in my phone contacts. I then have to search through my emails to find the phone number. This is way too time consuming. Although not an app, WriteThat.Name improves mobile productivity by automatically scanning the signatures of people that email you, extracting their information, and merging it with your contacts in both your email and phone. If they haven't emailed you before, WriteThat.Name adds them as a contact or if they already exist, it updates their information for you. Also, it's important to me that my contacts don't just live on my phone. With WriteThat.Name, they are stored in the cloud, so they're safe even if something happens to your phone.

4. Slice

The Slice mobile app keeps track of everything you buy online. When your inbox is flooded with numerous emails everyday, it's hard to keep up with all your online purchase receipts. All you have to do is tell Slice the email addresses you use for these purchases and the app will keep track of all your orders for you.

5. Hipmunk

I do a lot of traveling. Hipmunk speeds up the process of planning those trips, whether my schedule is flexible or very precise. The site has data from nearly every airline and hotel. It's similar to Kayak but it's smarter. Hipmunk displays results in a visual timeline or map. You can see departure times or hotel locations with one quick glance. The simple visual makes the results seem more relevant to my needs, which saves me the time of sorting through options that won't work.

6. SignEasy

Who has the time to mess with using a scanner these days? With SignEasy, you no longer have to print and send documents that just need a signature. This app lets you sign documents using your phone, which not only saves you time, but lets you get the document back to where it needs to go in a much more timely manner.

7. Google Maps for Android

This app is probably my favorite, and it's one I use every single day--even when I know how to get to where I'm going. It's much better than Google Maps for your computer, and it also trumps the iPhone's version of this app (sorry, Apple fans!). Tell this app where you're headed, and it gives you different routes and tells you how long each will take based on the current traffic conditions.

You can even use it when you're taking public transportation. For example, I was recently in New York and used it all the time to figure out the quickest way to get somewhere on the subway. It knows that sometimes taking two or three different trains may get you to your destination faster than staying on the same one, and it's sure to give you that option. Also when in an unfamiliar city, it's nice to know the fastest route so you don't seem like a tourist to the cab driver who's looking to rack up your fee.

8. Google Drive

Google Drive is an alternative to Dropbox. It's a place to store all your files, but much more handy and secure than a hard drive because it's in the cloud. I can access my files from my phone, my computer, or even from my friend's phone or computer. I never have to worry about losing important documents I'm working on because everything is automatically saved as I write, and can easily be shared with the rest of my team.

9. Venmo

Venmo offers the fastest way to give or receive money from someone. Say you and your friends are splitting the check for dinner or for cab fare and one of you is footing the bill to get it taken care of faster. When using Venmo it will help speed up the IOU process. You don't have to figure out all the details then and there, but as soon as you do, Venmo will automatically alert your friends when you've transferred money to them. It doesn't matter what the increment--it's all free. It's also significantly faster and easier to use than PayPal, and all you need to pay or receive money from someone is a name, number, or email address.

10. Glympse

Glympse is a mobile app that lets you quickly share where you are with others. Glympse syncs with your calendar. With one click, you can send your meeting attendees a text or email that will open up a Google map with your location, rate of travel, and estimated time of arrival. The best part is, the people who need to know where you are don't need to have the app, or even have a phone, in order to access the information. And you have the option to stop sharing this information once you get to your location. Anymore, if you want to be efficient and productive, you must work on the go. These are my go-to apps. What do you use?

(Read more information at http://www.inc.com)

Huawei's relationship with BT under investigation by MPs

Huawei has denied any links with cybercrime and calls the allegations 'monstrous and market-distorting'. Photograph: Reuters

The longstanding commercial relationship between BT and Huawei is being investigated by parliament's intelligence and security committee, its chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind has confirmed to the Guardian.

In a move that could cause disruption to major broadband and mobile phone infrastructure projects in the UK should security fears be raised about Huawei's equipment, the committee is "reviewing the whole presence of Huawei in regard to our critical national infrastructure and whether that should give rise for concern".

The committee has been taking evidence in private for some months from members of the security services, and is considering whether to make some of its findings and recommendations public. A report will be sent to David Cameron before Christmas.

"In the background are allegations that Huawei has links to the People's Liberation Army in China, and that any Chinese company is ultimately subject to the Chinese government," said Rifkind.

Huawei is a supplier to BT, which gave the Chinese company its first big contract in western Europe in 2005, using its equipment to modernise its copper broadband service. Huawei is now a big supplier to BT's national rollout of fibre-optic broadband, one of the largest infrastructure projects under way in the UK. Its equipment has also been used to build the 4G network being launched at the end of this month by EE, the owner of Orange and T-Mobile, and other clients include TalkTalk, Vodafone and BSkyB.

"We are looking into the relationship that has developed between Huawei and British Telecom and the implications for the UK," said Rifkind. "We wanted to look at the historical background to that contract, to what extent there were security concerns at the time, whether and to what extend the British government were involved in these decisions, and whether there have been any causes for concern that have arisen since Huawei became involved in our telecoms infrastructure."

A spokesman for Huawei said of the intelligence and security committee's inquiry, for which the firm has not so far been asked to give evidence: "We have been operating in the UK since 2001 under UK scrutiny and procedures. We have regular contact with the government and welcome all discussions and questions."

Two years ago, the company established a centre in Banbury where its equipment for BT and other companies can be tested and monitored, in co-operation with security services staff. A BT spokesman said: "Huawei is one of our major suppliers. This has in no way affected our ability to ensure the security of our networks."

A negative report card from British politicians would be embarrassing for Cameron, who met Huawei's founder Ren in Downing Street only last month. It could also disrupt the roll out of fibre and 4G mobile internet in the UK.

"If the UK takes the same stance as the US, and I would be surprised if they did, there will be all kinds of consequences," said Bengt Nordström, chief executive of telecoms consultancy Northstream. "It would mean that you need to agree on terms for de-commissioning, find a replacement vendor, tear out the old equipment, install the new. It's a complicated costly exercise that will delay whatever plans they have. There is an impact for the major infrastructure projects in the UK."

The Shenzhen-based company has been blacklisted in Australia, where it was barred from supplying the country's new national fibre network, and the US House of Representatives' intelligence select committee this week called for Huawei and its Chinese rival ZTE to be excluded from doing business in the US on the grounds that their equipment could be used by the state or other interests in China for cyber-espionage.

The Canadian government is indicating that it too might exclude the company from involvement in government communications projects because of potential security risks. In Brussels, the European trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, was gathering evidence for an inquiry into both companies on the grounds that state support may allow them to sell equipment at a loss, but that was put on ice after European competitors declined to file formal complaints. A source has told the Guardian this was for fear of reprisals from China.

At the centre of the concerns is that Huawei's networks are not secure and could be open to espionage. The US has voiced concerns that China could use equipment made by the company – whose founder, Ren, was once a technician in the People's Liberation Army – to spy on communications and threaten vital systems through computerised links.

The chairman of the US House of Representatives' intelligence committee, Mike Rogers, himself a former FBI agent, said: "My argument is that if this helps the Chinese government get out of the business of cyber-espionage, then that is great."

Huawei denies all links with spying and cybercrime, and calls the allegations "a monstrous, market-distorting, trade-distorting policy precedent that could be used in other markets against American companies".

While its US presence is limited, Huawei has used the UK as a launchpad for rapid expansion in Europe, where its rise has contributed to the fall of a number of western rivals.

One of the first casualties was the venerable British firm Marconi, which lost its largest client when BT chose Huawei - and a handful of other suppliers - for its 21st century network copper broadband upgrade. Within a year, the telecoms and defence firm, once a bellwether of the UK economy, had been broken up and sold.

A similar fate has befallen American vendors Nortel and Motorola, and a once bustling sector is braced for further retrenchment, with both France's Alcatel-Lucent and Finland's Nokia Siemens Networks having experienced financial turbulence.

Unlike the state controlled oil, energy and banking groups that dominate the list of China's largest companies, Huawei is one of a select few, like the internet group Alibaba, to have a brand that is familiar to Western consumers.

Stan Abrams, a Beijing-based corporate lawyer, lecturer and commentator, says "reciprocity" has been a feature of Chinese trade policy, and there could be repercussions for Western companies hoping to do business in China after Huawei's public humiliation at the hands of the US legislature.

(More information read http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/10/huawei-international-blacklisting)

UIAM, UiTM johan Pertandingan Debat Piala Perdana Menteri raih hadiah RM25,000

KUALA LUMPUR 10 Okt. - Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) muncul johan Pertandingan Debat Akhir Debat Piala Perdana Menteri Antara Institusi Pengajian Tinggi (IPT) 2012 bagi kategori Bahasa Melayu setelah mengalahkan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) di Universiti Malaya (UM) hari ini.

Kemenangan pada pertandingan anjuran Yayasan Gerakan Kesederhanaan Global (GMM) dan MyHarapan dengan kerjasama Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi itu membolehkan UIAM meraih wang tunai bernilai RM25,000 manakala naib johan menerima RM15,000.

Hadiah disampaikan oleh Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yang turut diiringi Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif GMM, Khalek Awang.

Pada pertandingan tersebut, UIAM dan UKM mendebatkan usul Dewan ini percaya bahawa tukul dan perisai kekerasan adalah perlu untuk melindungi kesederhanaan.

UKM yang berperanan sebagai kerajaan diwakili Najjah Izzati Suleman selaku Perdana Menteri dibantu oleh Muhammad Affendy Masni (Timbalan Perdana Menteri) dan Sonia Hii.

UIAM pula bertindak sebagai pembangkang dengan dibarisi Fawza Sabila Fauzi (ketua), Abdul Muiz Mustafa dan Muhamad Khairulanam Zulkeply.

Najjah Izzati bersama rakan-rakannya mendefinisikan tukul dan besi kekerasan sebagai undang-undang yang diperlukan untuk menentang ekstremisme dan melindungi kesederhanaan.

Sementara itu, Fawza Sabila dan rakan-rakannya mendefinisikan perkara itu sebagai medium kekerasan yang tidak diperlukan di negara mengamalkan kesederhanaan.

Bagi kategori Bahasa Inggeris, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) muncul johan mengalahkan UIAM.

Mendebatkan usul To achieve peace, this House believes that oppressed minorities should moderate their demand, even when it means foregoing some rights and principle (Untuk mencapai keamanan, Dewan percaya minoriti yang tertindas harus menyederhanakan permintaan mereka walaupun perkara itu berkaitan dengan persoalan hak dan prinsip), UiTM berperanan sebagai pembangkang manakala UIAM bertindak sebagai kerajaan.

UiTM dibarisi Noor Atiqah Mohd. Zaki, Mohd. Syafiq Ahmed Bazari dan Maizura Mokhsein sementara UIAM pula diketuai Mubarrat Wassey bergandingan dengan Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman dan Arinah Najwa Ahmad Said.

Pendebat terbaik kategori Bahasa Melayu dan Bahasa Inggeris masing-masing menjadi milik Abdul Muiz Mustafa (UIA) dan Maizura Mokhsein (UiTM).

Artikel Penuh: http://www.utusan.com.my

(Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd edged out Silicon Valley icon Hewlett-Packard Co to become the world's No. 1 PC maker in the third quarter, according to new data released by research house Gartner on Wednesday.

Lenovo's laptop PCs are displayed at an electronic shop in Tokyo September 5, 2012.

Credit: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon

By Poornima Gupta

SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:20pm EDT

A rival to Gartner, IDC, still ranks HP in the lead -- but by less than half a percentage point -- in terms of PC shipments worldwide. But both studies reinforce HP's struggles against rivals as new CEO Meg Whitman tries to overhaul the stalled 73-year-old company.

Worldwide shipments of personal computers fell over 8 percent last quarter, according to both research firms, which blamed myriad factors including retailers and vendors ridding themselves of older inventory ahead of the launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, the growing popularity of mobile gadgets like tablets, and a slowing economy.

PC demand growth has crumbled over the past year as more consumers flock to ultra-portable and increasingly powerful tablets and smartphones for basic computing.

Both sets of data show that Lenovo, Acer and other Asian PC makers are taking share away from U.S. competitors HP and Dell, which held on to the No. 3 spot in the quarter.

Lenovo's rise highlights the advance of China's technology firms on the world stage in recent years thanks to a combination of aggressive pricing, overseas acquisitions and taking advantage of a fast-growing home market.

The Chinese firm, which vaulted into the PC market by buying IBM's personal computer division in 2005, took the top spot for the first time by growing its market share to 15.7 percent, shipping an estimated 13.77 million units during the quarter, up nearly 10 percent from a year ago, Gartner said.

HP's global PC share stood at 15.5 percent after shipping 13.55 million units, down 16.4 percent from a year ago, Gartner said, adding that this is the first time HP has given up the top PC vendor position since 2006.

IDC had HP at the No. 1 spot with 15.9 percent market share and Lenovo coming a close second with 15.7 percent share.

HP responded to Gartner's study by saying IDC's was more expansive.

"While there are a variety of PC share reports in the market, some don't measure the market in its entirety," HP said in a statement. "The IDC analysis includes the very important workstation segment, and therefore is more comprehensive."

Shares of HP on Wednesday closed 1.32 percent lower at $14.18, after touching $14.02, its lowest level since October 2002.

Analysts say PC makers have been sideswiped by still-sluggish growth in consumer and corporate spending across the globe, even in once-reliably hot markets like China, Lenovo's home turf. The industry is now grappling with uncertainty out to 2013, partly because of a proliferation of computing devices from tablets of all sizes to smartphones.

"PCs are going through a severe slump," said Jay Chou, senior research analyst, IDC's Worldwide PC Tracker.

"A weak global economy as well as questions about PC market saturation and delayed replacement cycles are certainly a factor, but the hard question of what is the 'it' product for PCs remain unanswered."

(Reporting By Poornima Gupta; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

(More information read http://www.reuters.com)

Dr M: Dr Ling is honest, incapable of cheating government

Mahathir told the court that as far as he knew, Dr Ling is an honest person. — Picture by Choo Choy May

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad told the High Court today he believed Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik was not capable of cheating the government, in a sterling defence of the character of his friend and former colleague who is facing trial for deceiving the government over the cost of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project.

The former prime minister told the court that “as far as I know he (Dr Ling) is an honest person”.

Yesterday, Dr Mahathir had told the court that neither he nor any minister had lodged any criminal complaint about the Cabinet being deceived into approving the purchase of land for the PKFZ project.

He also testified that a policeman told him that if investigators had taken his police statement first, Dr Ling would not even have been charged with any crime.

Questioned by defence counsel Wong Kian Kheong today, Dr Mahathir repeatedly pointed out that no minister under his charge had ever complained about the proposed price of RM25 per square feet for the PKFZ land.

Asked if he Dr Ling “misled, deceived or cheated” him in relation to the PKFZ land cost, Dr Mahathir replied: “Personally I don’t think so.”

Wong: How long have you known the accused?

Dr M: I have known him since he was in MCA before he became minister.

Wong: Can you describe the accused? Is he an honest or dishonest man?

Dr M: I know that he did his job as Transport Minister, especially with regards to the development of Port Klang.

At this point the judge interjected and tells Dr Mahathir that he did not answer the question.

Wong: Is Dr Ling an honest or dishonest man? Is he capable of cheating the government?

Dr M: He is not capable of cheating the government.

At this point, lead prosecutor Datuk Tun Majid Tun Hamzah objects to jeers from Dr Ling’s family and friends seated in the gallery.

“How can the ex-PM know if the accused is capable of cheating the government? Only he (Dr Ling) would know,” said Tun Majid while pointing to Dr Ling.

Wong then asked Dr Mahathir to repeat in his own words if the he thought the accused was an honest man.

Dr M: As far as I know, he is an honest person.

Dr Ling, who served as transport minister for 17 years from January 1986 to May 2003, is charged with deceiving the Cabinet into approving the purchase of 404.5-hectares of land for the PKFZ project, which had resulted in wrongful losses for the government.

The project, initially estimated at RM1.1 billion after it was mooted by Dr Ling in 1997, more than quadrupled in cost to RM4.6 billion by 2007.

A position review by top accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) revealed in 2009 that the total cost including interests from debt repayments could reach RM12.5 billion.

Since December 2009, six individuals have been charged in court including ex-MCA president Dr Ling, and his successor as transport minister, former MCA deputy chief Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy. Both are accused of lying to the Cabinet.

(Read more @ http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/dr-m-dr-ling-is-honest-incapable-of-cheating-government/)

Huawei and ZTE pose security threat, warns US panel

Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE pose a security threat to the US, a congressional panel has warned after its probe into the two companies.

The two firms should be barred from any mergers and acquisitions in the US, the panel has recommended in its report set to be released later on Monday.

It said the firms had failed to allay fears about their association with the Chinese government and military.

The two are among the world's biggest makers of telecom networking equipment.

"China has the means, opportunity and motive to use telecommunications companies for malicious purposes," the committee said in its report.

"Based on available classified and unclassified information, Huawei and ZTE cannot be trusted to be free of foreign state influence and thus pose a security threat to the United States and to our systems."

Both Huawei and ZTE have previously denied the allegations.

(More information read http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19867399)

Dr Rozmey Digantung Keahlian MMC 2 Tahun

KUALA LUMPUR: Majlis Perubatan Malaysia (MMC) mengantung keanggotaan pengeluar formula menurunkan berat badan Datuk Dr Che Rozmey Che Din selama dua tahun selepas mendapati beliau melanggar Kod Etika Profesional di bawah Akta Perubatan 1971.

Presiden MMC Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman, yang juga Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, berkata inkuiri pada 16 Januari lepas mendapati Dr Rozmey bersalah atas pertuduhan terlibat dalam penjualan bahan didakwa mampu menurunkan berat badan, membungkus serta menyimpan bahan berkenaan, yang melanggar Seksyen 3.4 kod itu.

Dr Rozmey juga didapati bersalah mengiklan diri sendiri, sama ada secara langsung atau tidak langsung, bagi tujuan mempromosi kelebihan sendiri serta membabitkan diri dengan perusahaan komersial yang melanggar Bahagian 4.1 dan 3.4 Kod Etika Profesional.

Dr Rozmey tidak menggunakan haknya untuk merayu ke Mahkamah Tinggi seperti yang diperuntuk oleh Akta Perubatan 1971, dan hukuman itu berkuat kuasa dari 14 Mac 2012 hingga 14 Mac 2014, kata Dr Hasan dalam satu kenyataan pada Selasa.

Beliau berkata pengamal perubatan lain yang didapati bersalah mengabaikan tanggungjawab profesional ialah Dr Balayegaran MS (digantung setahun), Dr Chow Chong Chek (diberi amaran), Dr Ng Ah See (diberi amaran), Dr Roland Masing (digantung enam bulan), Dr N.M. Ananda Murthy (diberi amaran), Dr Chew Yoong Fong (diberi amaran) dan Dr Rajendra a/l Nadason (digantung dua tahun). BERNAMA

Kempen Penjimatan Penggunaan Tenaga Elektrik di UiTM

UiTM telah membelanjakan hampir RM 24.6 juta untuk membayar bil elektrik UiTM kampus Shah Alam bagi tahun 2011. Ini bermakna, purata perbelanjaan sebulan bagi bil elektrik ialah sebanyak RM 2.05 juta sebulan untuk tahun 2011. 

Bagi separuh tahun 2012 pula, UiTM telah membelanjakan sebanyak RM 13.7 juta untuk bil elektrik (Januari 2012 - Jun 2012). Purata perbelanjaan sebulan bagi tahun 2012 telah meningkat berbanding tahun 2011 iaitu RM 2.28 juta sebulan. 

Sehubungan dengan itu,semua warga UiTM diseru agar menggunakan tenaga elektrik dengan berhemah dan berjimat cermat. 

Amalkan mematikan suis-suis lampu, penyaman udara, komputer, laptop, printer, mesin faks, mesin fotostat, mesin pemanas air, tv, radio dan lain-lain peralatan elektrik bila sudah tidak digunakan atau tiada pengguna. 

UiTM juga menetapkan suhu semua bilik dan ruang di UiTM kepada 24 darjah celsius untuk menjimatkan penggunaan tenaga elektrik.

" AMALKAN PENJIMATAN, BERSAMA KITA MENGUBAHNYA "