KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5, 2009) : The DAP questioned the 2010 Budget allocation of RM394 million to compensate toll concessionaires for not raising toll rates and urged the government to renegotiate the contracts or take over the tolled highways instead. Speaking to reporters in a press conference, Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong pointed... »
Archive for November 5th, 2009
PAC report on PKFZ scandal revealed ongoing high-level conspiracy to suppress pertinent information about Ministerial and top governmental abuses of power and malpractices
The Public Accounts Committee Report on the Port Klang Free Zone scandal does not reveal enough although it had revealed inadvertently what it had not intended to reveal – the ongoing high-level conspiracy to suppress pertinent information about Ministerial and top government abuses of power and malpractices landing the country with a RM12.5 “mother... »
We can’t be faulted for telling it as it is!
ON Sept 8, Terence Fernandez and I wrote a story on former Transport Minister Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy’s involvement in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) for publication the next day. That evening, our dinner with friends from Melbourne had to be cut short. Terence was on the line saying that attempts were... »
Kit Siang accuses govt of suppressing info on PKFZ fiasco
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5, 2009) : Revelations in the Public Accounts Committee report on the Port Klang Free Zone scandal yesterday prompted an accusation from veteran parliamentarian Lim Kit Siang that the government is attempting to “suppress pertinent information” about ministerial and governmental abuses of power and malpractices. The Ipoh Timur MP said the... »
PKR: Declassify all Cabinet documents on PKFZ
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 05, 2009) : Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) today called the government to declassify all the Cabinet documents relating to the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ). “It is not enough to just set up a special task force if the task force and even the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) cannot look into... »
Tee Keat: Govt walking the talk on PKFZ
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5, 2009): The government is walking the talk with the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) recommending that individuals allegedly involved in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal be investigated for criminal breach of trust, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat. Speaking to reporters after visiting the RapidKL LRT service... »