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David Cameron Challenges Najib Razak On Corruption

David Cameron has confronted Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister, over the deepening corruption scandal that threatens to bring down his government.

Allegations that $700 million (£450 million) in state development funds ended up in Mr Najib’s personal bank accounts overshadowed a visit by the Prime Minister designed to build trade ties.

During a long, one-to-one meeting, Mr Cameron on Thursday urged Mr Najib to clean up his government.

In a pointed move, he then met with civil society leaders, including journalists, the G25 group of campaigners and lawyers, who are campaigning for greater democracy and a free press.

Mr Cameron also challenged Mr Najib over the treatment of Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition leader in jail on sodomy charges.

Sir Kim Darroch, Mr Cameron’s national security adviser, met with Mr Anwar’s daughter who is playing a leading role in the opposition movement.

They discussed building a free press and her father’s treatment.

The encounters followed demands from some opposition figures that Mr Cameron cancel the visit, during which he courted investors to fund the so-called Northern Powerhouse infrastructure projects in Britain.

The Prime Minister said: “It is right to go ahead with the visit, but nothing should be off the table. We should talk about these issues including the specific ones now,” he said.

“We always have discussions with civil society figures, anti-corruption campaigners, opposition leaders and all the rest and that will happen on this visit too.

^{David Cameron meets Najib Razak (centre right) at his offices in Kuala Lumpur (PA)}

“I don’t think it helps not traveling to a country and turning away. It is better to go and talk about these things.”

UK officials stressed the visit was to build relationships between “peoples”, not leaders.

After the one-to-one meeting, Mr Cameron is understood to have repeated the message to a wider gathering of Malaysian government figures in front of Mr Najib.

In an address in Singapore on Tuesday, Mr Cameron denounced corruption as the “enemy of progress” that held back growth and fuelled al-Qaeda and migration.

“We have a strong relationship and that enables us to talk difficult issues. I want to raise some of the issues I raised in my speech earlier in the week, such as ethics in business and fighting corruption,” he is understood to have said.

“We should be working together for an open society and open economy.”

Mr Najib is facing growing calls to resign over the allegations, which he denies. He this week fired attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail, who was investigating the scandal, and Muhyiddin Yassin, who had criticised him over the affair.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

July 31, 2015
Grabcar Driver Disputes Girl’s Version Of Story

The cabby who allegedly dropped a female passenger off in the middle of Geylang at 4am has responded with his side of the story.

In a Facebook post that has now gone viral, the passenger Adeline A. Lok said the cabby had shouted insults and vulgarities at her after demanding that she get off his cab.

This was allegedly over a dispute about an SG50 promotion that reportedly entitled passengers to a $5 fare discount if a booking was made via the Grab Taxi app. Passengers had to key in a promotional code while making their booking.

The cabby, Mr Tong, clarified that while he knows of the ongoing promotion, he was advised to only give the $5 discount to passengers who had received a notification saying that the promotional code keyed in is valid. The cabby said if the code was valid, he would also have been notified of it via SMS.

However, Mr Tong said that even though the female passenger alleged that she had keyed in a code, she could not show proof that she was entitled to the $5 discount.

Also, he did not receive any SMS notification about this.

He explained he had four cases in the last week where he could not claim the $5 discount back. Hence, he had to bear the $20 discount he had given out and was more careful about the promotion this week.

In a phone conversation with Stomp, he said:

“The passenger kept demanding she get the discount and said she will only pay me $7, instead of the usual fee of about $12.

“I then gave her an alternative. I told her I will drop her off at the next exit if she still refuses to pay me the full fare and I will not take a single cent from her.

“She then shouted vulgarities at me. I was naturally provoked and I scolded her out of anger.

“I know I shouldn’t have done that on hindsight, but she was being very rude.

“The next exit, as I was travelling on the Ubi KPE, was Sims Avenue and that is where I stopped her so that she could get another vehicle.

“It is not at the red light district area but it is the stretch where there is a row of durian stalls and coffee shops. Now, these shops were not closed and the place was brightly lit up.

“I told her to get off my cab and said I will not charge her, but she instead kept saying that she will call the police.

“She also said she will sit in my cab until the police arrived.

“At this juncture, I also called the police and they arrive within 15 minutes.

“When I explained the situation to them, the passenger realised she could not do anything because she did not have proof that she was entitled to the discount in the first place.

“Now, she is trying to “shame” me on the Internet. I did not even realise that she had taken my picture.

“I feel the situation is unfair as I was merely being cautious about the discount as I did not want to bear the cost of it again. I also told her I will not charge her for the journey and dropped her off at a place where she could have easily gotten on another cab.”

Source: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg

July 31, 2015
Sarawak Report: Attorney-General Fired Preparing Arrest Warrant For Najib Razak

Sarawak Report has acquired documents, now verified, which explain exactly why Abdul Gani Patail was dramatically fired on Monday.

The Attorney General was on the brink of bringing charges for corruption against the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

We have acquired the secret draft charge sheet documents, which Gani Patail was in the process of drafting.

They include a charge sheet for corrupt practices under Section 17 (a) of the MACC Act, allowing for punishment of a sentence of up to 20 years in prison under Section 24 of the Act.

In an unprecedented situation the person being charged was none other than the Prime Minister “Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Bin Tun Abdul Razak” along with a company director, Dato’ Shamus Anuar Bin Sulaiman.

The explosive information hits Malaysia in the middle of a highly controversial visit by the British Prime Minister, who had been widely warned against making such a visit in the midst of Malaysia’ biggest political scandal in decades.

The documents, which were being worked in their final draft stages by the Attorney General, were sent to Sarawak Report following the sacking of Gani Patail and have now been verified by other senior parties.

In English the first of two draft warrants spell out the charges being brought by Malaysia’s most senior law officer (who was unconstitutionally dismissed by the Prime Minister the day after these drafts were printed).

The warrant cites that the Prime Minister and Shamsul Anuar and “another person still at large Nik Ariff Bin Faisla Kamil” on 26th of December 2014 at the AmIslamic Bank, Bangunan Ambank Group in Kuala Lumpur, as an agent of the Malaysian Government, namely the Prime Minister of Malaysia and special advisor of SRC International, did secretly obtain a sum of money amounting to RM27 million that was paid through the company Gandingan Mentari and Ihsan Perdana to “your account at AmPrivate Banking -1MY no 211201101880″ with the principal aim of obtaining a loan from Kumpulan Wang Persaraan pension fund.

“As such you have committed an offence under Section 17(1) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Act of 2009, under which you can be punished according to Section 24 of the Act, to be read with Section 34″.

The punishment cited at the base of the document is imprisonment of not more than 20 years and a fine not less than five times of the value of the bribe taken or RM10,000, whichever is higher.

Raiding Malaysia’s public pension fund KWAP!

The crime referred to has already been widely reported following exposes by Sarawak Report and the Wall Street Journal at the start of this month.

We produced documents from the task force investigation into 1MDB, which showed that its former subsidiary SRC International (whose CEO is Nik Kamil) had made a number of payments into the Prime Minister’s personal accounts totalling millions of ringgit over a period from last December to this February.

The payments went through the companies Gandingan Menteri Sdn Bhd, of whom the Director was Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil (also wanted for questioning) and Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd, whose Director Shamus Anuar is also cited in the warrant.

Criminal Breach of Trust

A second, alternative draft charge was being worked on by the Attorney General, which Sarawak Report has also obtained.

The second charge relates to the same act on the same day, but refers more specifically to the Prime Minister’s position of trust with regard to the company SRC. In English it reads:

“Secret

The first draft of the charge (alternative)

That you on 26.12.2014 in AmIslamic Bank Berhad, AmBank Group Building, No. 55 Jalan Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory as an agent, as Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Malaysia and Special Adviser (Emeritus Advisor) Company SRC International Sdn Bhd which in that capacity, is entrusted with the control of the fund company, has criminal breach of trust funds, namely dishonestly disposing of SRC International Sdn Bhd Company amounted RM27 juta to your account AmPrivate Banking-1MY no. 2112022011880 via coupling Mentari Sdn Bhd Corporate and Company Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd. Therefore you committed the offense and punishable taken of Section 409 of the Penal Code, read together with section 34 of the Penal Code

Penalties:
Sabit errors can be jailed for a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 20 years and with whipping, and a fine.

Headquarters Complaint No. AU / Rpt No. 252/2015

Sacked!

A close insider has now confirmed to Sarawak Report that Patail had arrived at his office on Monday morning expecting to finalise the extremely sensitive charges he was preparing against the Prime Minister, resulting from the investigations of the multi-agency task force into 1MDB.

“He was finalising it. He went to his office and found he could not go in. Ali Bin Hamsa, the Chief Secretary to the Government, was waiting and he told him [the Attorney General, Abdul Gani Patail] that he was dismissed. He could not even get his papers.”

Within hours of this secret drama at the heart of government, as all Malaysia knows, the Prime Minister had moved to effect what has been described as an attempted coup d’etat.

The head of Special Branch was removed, the Deputy Prime Minister was dumped and four members of the investigating Parliamentary Accounts Committee were elevated without choice to positions in Cabinet and its work was declared suspended.

Other known cabinet critics of the the 1MDB scandal have also been unceremoniously dismissed by the Prime Minister.

It has been also been announced that tomorrow’s meeting of the UMNO Supreme Council, representing the key leadership of the ruling party, has also been cancelled by the Prime Minister.

Now all Malaysia knows why the Prime Minister has moved to sack the countries top legal officers and top politicians.

In an irony of perfect timing the Prime Minister is now seeking to use the visit of Britain’s David Cameron as an endorsement of his unconstitutional move to hijack the State of Malaysia.

Source:www.sarawakreport.org

July 31, 2015
Customer Gets Shouted At And Throwned Out by Crazed Grabcar Driver

So I booked this GRABCAR SFY7104K about 4am this morning to go home because my gf told me there’s some SG50 promo. For those of you who’ve used this, you would know it shows a green check and “Enjoy $5 off your ride” once you enter the code. Well, I waited, what was supposed to be “5min” but kept changing and extending, because this Winson Tong Kar San took God knows what kinda route from Kallang to Ubi.

After boarding the cab for about 5min, or when we found ourselves in KPE, this a*hole started a conversation with me asking if I’d gotten the sms for the promo. I told him as a matter-of-fact-ly I didn’t. Then he said “oh then I would have to charge you full fare” and I said he couldn’t because it showed on my app that I’ve entered the code. He goes on saying that this was “instructed by his company” and “will give me a CHOICE – either i pay full fare or he drops me off”, raising his voice at me this whole time. I replied, “in the middle of KPE?? and after me waiting so long for you? couldn’t you have asked me this the moment I boarded? what kind of choice is this?”.

So, in midst of us arguing over this, he got us out of KPE AND STOPPED BY THE SIDE OF GEYLANG, telling me to get off. I refused and said I would call the police if he dropped me off there (Note: for those of you who don’t know the gravity of the matter, Geylang is NOT the place for a girl to be by the side of the road esp at those hours). He just continued shouting at me so I dialled for the police. I believe the person who picked my call up recorded his shouts in the background as I was making this report. At this point, he gets off his car SHOUTING PROFANITIES and walked to my passenger door, flinging it open. I was pretty sure if I wasn’t on the phone with the Police, he would have dragged me out (body language is a big tell).

While waiting for the Police to arrive, he went on hurling more insults and threats in both English and Hokkien such as calling me names (obscenities and not), insinuating I didn’t have money to pay and claiming he isn’t scared of me and would “play” with me because he’s got time. Also, he let slipped that HE’D SEEN THE PROMO CODE WAS ENTERED. Most of these I recorded on my phone.

Lo and behold, when the Police came, this a*hole cuts in front of me, acted all meek and good citizen, claiming to them he’d told me nicely to get off because I COULDN’T PROVE I’D THE PROMO SMS but I refused. Thankfully I’d recorded how and what he was yelling at me and not look like a total bitch, trying to turn the tables. To be honest, I was actually amused at how different he acted in mere seconds and regretted not video-ing the WHOLE incident. To top it off, he actually thanked the Police profusely when the matter was “concluded” at that spot. *rolls eyes* Talk about “bullying the weak”, or trying to.

I’ve been calling GrabTaxi’s hotline wanting to lodge a complaint about this guy’s attitude and how he’s repeatedly COMPROMISED MY SAFETY. Guess what? Nobody ever picks up the call. This is no wonder why this a*hole isn’t worried about being rude to his passengers. I’d written a “very bad” experience review for him and an email was sent to me claiming a customer service officer will get in touch with me, but, nope.

IMO, if GrabTaxi cannot handle the volume it’s generating with a promo IN LINE WITH SG’S BIG CELEBRATION, jamming its systems and causing such technical glitches which result in the inconveniences to both its passengers and drivers, then don’t even try.

Adeline A. Lok
A.S.S. Reader

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

July 31, 2015
Why Are There Jobs In Singapore Reserved For Pinoys Only?

Dear All Singapore Stuff,

I came across this job advertisement for a job in Singapore that says only Filipinos or Indonesians may apply. Are these jobs that Singaporeans cannot do? The company is IOTA group, a Swiss International Technical assistance company.

Here’s the link to the job advertisement:http://www.rigzone.com/jobs/postings/857163/Commissioning_profiles.asp

The advertisement reproduced in full:

IOTA GROUP RECRUITMENT PROGRAM – SINGAPORE

IOTA GROUP , a Swiss International Technical assistance company, has been selected by a world class leading oil and gas company for the commissioning of a yard in SINGAPORE. We are searching for Supervisors and Technicians : piping, instrumentation, electrical, Mechanical, Rotating Machines engineers, Process and DCS (no inspector profiles). The first mobilizations are planned in September 2015. The duration of the commissioning has been estimated for 12 months renewable.

Place of work :
Singapore : resident status and rotation 4×4 (the applicant must already hold the necessary authorization to stay and work in Singapore).

Job purpose :
The job holder is responsible to assist his discipline supervisor in his technical duties and accountability to superintendent. He ensures that the implementation of the Yard work carried out by Contractor is performed in compliance with the project specifications and safety requirements.

Minimum qualification / Experience for Supervisors :
Engineering D3 or equivalent Graduate from recognized University in related engineering discipline.

Mini experience required :
Above 15 years of experience as supervisor in oil and Gas industry or Petrochemical industry, and 10 years in similar position Good knowledge of commissioning sequence of an onshore and offshore project, ability to control and challenge progress schedule.

Fluent in English is mandatory

Only Filipino and Indonesian candidates Thank you to send us your full application by completing and returning the Personal data sheet in attachment with your curriculum vitae ONLY in word form

Jacob
A.S.S. Contributor

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

July 31, 2015