Archive for November, 2009

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... »

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... »

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... »

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... »

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... »

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... »

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4, 2009) : The government could have saved RM645.87 million if the Transport Ministry secretary-general and Port Klang Authority had complied with the Finance Ministry’s rules in acquiring the land for the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project in 2002, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) revealed in its report Today. “The... »

At long last, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the mother of all scandals, the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ), has been tabled in Parliament, together with several tombs of documents, viz verbatim minutes of 13 PAC meetings on the subject from 11th June to 3rd September 2009, Price Waterhouse Coopers’... »

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4, 2009) : The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended that former Transport Minister Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy and Port Klang Authority (PKA) former general manager Datin Paduka O.C.Phang be investigated for criminal breach of trust over the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal. They should be investigated over... »

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4, 2009) : Following the tabling of the Public Accounts Commitee (PAC)’s report on the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal in the parliament today, Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) requested a royal commission to investigate the scandal as the authorities had failed to act against the culprits. Speaking to reporters... »