Archive for October, 2009

1. RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal. The Cabinet decision last month to set up a super task force, headed by Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, to take over all investigations into the PKFZ scandal is not a demonstration of political will to get to the bottom of... »

PETALING JAYA (Oct 29, 2009): MCA Youth chief and Deputy Education Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong says allegations linking a company he part owns to dealings with Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) turnkey contractor Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) are “rubbish” and “politically-motivated”. In responding to the allegations which have been posted on several blogs... »

PUTRAJAYA (Oct 28, 2009) : The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has formed a team to investigate government agencies and departments, based on the Auditor-General’s Report for 2008, which highlighted excessive spending by ministries and agencies. MACC deputy commissioner (Operations) Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed said the team is combing through information contained in the report and... »

CIVIL suits have been filed, reports to the police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission have been made and they get the whole nation talking. Today, after almost five months since the PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the shenanigans at the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) and its owners – the Port Klang Authority, nothing has materialised... »

GIVEN the simultaneous need to strengthen the government’s finances and to upgrade the economy, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s first budget as prime minister was reassuringly prudent yet refreshingly forward-looking. But will Budget 2010 persuade many entrepreneurs – local and foreign – to step up investment in this country? Or will governance issues be a bigger... »

The three MCA factions of Ong Tee Keat, Liow Tiong Lai and Chua Soi Lek have re-assembled as “1MCA” under the dictate of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s “1Malaysia” but the “mother of all scandals”, the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal is the greatest casualty as it has disappeared from the radar... »

THE priorities of some people, or the lack of them, at times, amuse me to the point of tears of frustration. You see it in politicians such as those in Puteri Umno who actually included the ban on horror movies as a resolution – yet they want to be taken seriously. PAS Youth continues to harp... »

My question on the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal for the first day of the budget session of Parliament on Monday, 19th October 2009 has been kicked off to seven weeks later to December 3 at the tail-end of the meeting, as if the PKFZ scandal is a trivial and inconsequential... »

THE Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project was mooted in 1999 to attract foreign investments and promote Malaysia’s main port. Budgeted for completion at under RM2 billion, the project’s cost has instead ballooned to end up costing over RM12 billion. R. Nadeswaran, editor of the special and investigative reporting desk at theSun, was the first... »

I had posed a question on the “mother-of-all-scandals”, the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal to the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak on the first day of the budget meeting of Parliament beginning on Monday, 19th October 2009. I have just been informed that this question had disappeared altogether from the list... »