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  • Yayasan Rahmatan Lil Alamin Raih Lebih $240, 000 Bagi Dana Nepal

    Yayasan Rahmatan Lil Alamin Raih Lebih $240, 000 Bagi Dana Nepal

    Yayasan Rahmatan Lil Alamin (RLAF) berjaya mengumpul $241,468 untuk mangsa gempa bumi di Nepal.

    Wang sumbangan masyarakat Melayu/Islam itu dikumpul hasil satu usaha mengumpul dana khas, dengan tabung derma diletakkan di 68 masjid di sini pada 1 Mei hingga 6 Mei lalu.

    Jumlah yang terkumpul itu disampaikan kepada badan bantuan kemanusiaan, Mercy Relief.

    Pengerusi Jawatankuasa RLAF, Haji Paiman Supangat, menyampaikan cek kepada Pengurusi Mercy Relief, Encik Michael Tay, di ibu pejabat badan tersebut di Lorong 1 Toa Payoh semalam.

    Turut hadir dalam upacara penyampaian cek itu ialah ketua eksekutif Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis), Haji Abdul Razak Hassan Maricar; konsul kehormatan Nepal di Singapura, Encik Madhusudan Patel; dan anggota lembaga Mercy Relief, Dr Mukhlis Abu Bakar.

    RLAF bekerjasama dengan badan bantuan kemanusiaan Mercy Relief bagi menyalurkan bantuan itu kepada rakyat Nepal yang terjejas dengan gempa yang mengorbankan 8,000 jiwa dan mencederakan 19,000 yang lain.

    Dengan sumbangan derma daripada RLAF itu, kutipan dana Mercy Relief bagi kerja bantuan kemanusiaan ke Nepal mencapai lebih daripada $1 juta.

    Ditemui media dalam acara semalam, Encik Tay berkata beliau amat berterima kasih dengan inisiatif badan korporat dan institusi seperti RLAF bagi membantu mangsa gempa bumi di Nepal.

    “Mercy Relief berbesar hati dan rasa terharu kerana begitu banyak pertubuhan tampil memberikan bantuan dalam masa yang sukar ini.

    “RLAF dan Persatuan Soka Singapura adalah antara pertubuhan utama yang menyumbang kepada mangsa gempa di Nepal,” kata Encik Tay sambil menambah bahawa Mercy Relief akan meneruskan usaha mengumpul dana hingga akhir Jun ini.

    Sementara itu, anggota lembaga pengamanah RLAF, Encik Zainul Abidin Ibrahim, berkata sambutan terhadap usaha mengumpul dana itu menunjukkan masyarakat Melayu/Islam Singapura bersedia membantu masyarakat lain yang menghadapi krisis.

    “Alhamdulillah kita dapat mengumpulkan jumlah yang agak besar bagi projek ini. Ini juga menunjukkan masyarakat Melayu/Islam Singapura bersedia membantu masyarakat lain dan ini satu sifat yang kita inginkan dalam masyarakat kita,” ujarnya.

    Dalam pada itu, Mercy Relief telah membantu lebih 27,000 mangsa yang terjejas di Nepal, termasuk di kawasan pergunungan yang sukar menerima bekalan asas seperti makanan dan perubatan.

    Dengan dana yang dikumpulkan, Mercy Relief juga akan membantu membina rumah peralihan sebelum musim monsun di Nepal.

    Dr Mukhlis menjelaskan rumah sementara itu boleh dimanfaatkan mangsa buat jangka masa pendek.

    “Yang penting sekarang ini adalah membina perumahan bukan buat jangka masa panjang, tetapi membolehkan mereka mempunyai tempat berteduh sebelum perumahan yang lebih kekal dibina,” katanya.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • Han Hui Hui: Malaysia Better Than Singapore, More Tolerant of Dissent

    Han Hui Hui: Malaysia Better Than Singapore, More Tolerant of Dissent

    GEORGE TOWN, May 28 ― Malaysia is more tolerable of dissent compared to Singapore although Putrajaya barred entry to Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution activist Joshua Wong, Singaporean activist Han Hui Hui has said.

    The 23-year-old, who is in Malaysia to give a series of talks on youth activism in remembrance of the bloody Tiananmen Square 1989 crackdown in China, said Singapore would not allow foreign speakers in for such talks.

    “So speaking as a Singaporean, I feel Malaysia is still much better than Singapore because in Singapore, we are not allowed to invite foreigners to speak in the country unless they are going to praise the PAP government,” Han toldMalay Mail Online in an interview.

    The youth activist pointed out that despite the deportation of Wong, who had planned to give the talks along with her in Malaysia, she was allowed to come here even though her event was not pro-government.

    “In Singapore, even if you want to invite a Singaporean to speak, they want to know who it is before allowing the event,” Han said.

    She said it was wrong and against human rights for Malaysia to expel Wong, but acknowledged the geopolitical ramifications surrounding the pro-democracy student leader’s presence here.

    “It simply means China is a big power here and we can’t deny that,” she said.

    Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar has described Wong as an “undesirable” person and said the activist was expelled Tuesday over concerns that the 18-year-old could risk Malaysia-China ties.

    Wong is widely regarded as the impetus behind the 2014 mass protests in Hong Kong to demand the right to directly elect the head of the semi-autonomous administrative region. He was named amongTIME Magazine’s “Most Influential Teens of 2014”.

    Han shared her experiences in organising “events”, albeit protests, in Singapore during her talk at the “Uprising of Youth and New Social Activism in Singapore and Hong Kong Forum” here Tuesday night.

    “I wouldn’t call what I held in Singapore ‘protests’ but ‘events’ because we have not had any protests in the past 50 years and it is illegal,” she said.

    Several street demonstrations have been organised in Malaysia, however, although the police have cracked down on mass rallies like the Bersih protests for free and fair elections. But some other rallies have been allowed to go on peacefully.

    Han has been organising protests since 2013 over issues like the Singapore government’s alleged mishandling of the Central Provident Fund (CPF), which is the country’s retirement scheme, the education system and rising unemployment.

    She, along with five others, was arrested in September last year for organising an illegal protest over the CPF issue and charged with causing a public nuisance.

    Han told Malay Mail Online that her talks in Penang, Ipoh, Johor and Kuala Lumpur this week aimed to encourage millennials, or those born in the 1990s, to get involved in activism.

    “We can’t be allowing those born in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s to continue to plan policies. They can’t plan out an education system that will fit the times. Ultimately, it is the people who had went (sic) through the system now and will know whether it is good or bad,” she said.

     

    Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com

  • Wakaf: Hajjah Fatimah Mosque

    Wakaf: Hajjah Fatimah Mosque

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    Philanthropist #2: Hajjah Fatimah
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    Gazetted as a National Monument in 1973, Masjid Hajjah Fatimah is one of the mosques named after a woman. This is in recognition of the generosity of this wealthy tradeswoman, who contributed much to help the poor and needy in Singapore. She also generously built several houses around the area for the poor to reside.

    Consistent with the spirit of perpetual giving in wakaf, she wanted her charitable acts to continue even after she had passed. Thus, Hajjah Fatimah made a bequest that upon her death, the income from the leased houses was to be used for the maintenance of the mosque. Hajjah Fatimah’s grave lies in a private enclosure within the mosque’s compound, together with her daughter, Raja Siti Kraeng Chanda Pulih and son-in-law, Syed Ahmad Bin Abdulrahman Alsagoff.

     

    Source: MUIS

  • Legenda-Legenda Rock Malaysia Luah Rasa Bengang Search Digelar Kumpulan Hantu

    Legenda-Legenda Rock Malaysia Luah Rasa Bengang Search Digelar Kumpulan Hantu

    PETALING JAYA: Penyanyi-penyanyi rock membidas seorang pakar motivasi dikenali sebagai Muhammad Lukman Al Hakim Muhammad kerana menyelar kumpulan Search sebagai “hantu” yang dijemput mengadakan persembahan pada Festival Belia Putrajaya pada 24 Mei lalu.

    Vokalis kumpulan Wings, Awie berkata, kenyataan pemuda itu seolah-olah datangnya daripada seseorang yang tidak berakal tanpa memikirkan kesan akibat perbuatannya itu.

    Malah kata Awie, Muhammad Lukman langsung tidak menghormati vokalis Search, Amy sebagai seorang yang lebih tua daripadanya ketika membuat kenyataan tersebut.

    “Pada saya ketika dia membuat kenyataan itu dia tidak sempat berfikir perkataan digunakan dan langsung tidak menghormati Amy sebagai orang yang lebih tua daripadanya.

    Awie menganggap kenyataan lelaki itu sebagai dangkal.

    “Amy sudah berusia 57 tahun dan adakah dia sedar pengalaman Amy mungkin lebih banyak daripadanya?

    “Jangan hanya kerana dia menggelar dirinya pakar motivasi dia berhak mengeluarkan kenyataan dangkal seperti itu sehingga terlupa tentang perkara baik dilakukan Search atau penyanyi rock lain,” ujarnya.

    Jelas Awie atau nama sebenarnya Mohd Azhar Othman, 47, biarpun kenyataan itu tidak ditujukan kepada penyanyi rock lain tetapi sebagai ‘orang lama’ dalam industri muzik dia mengakui turut terasa.

    “Amy saya sudah anggap sebagai abang dan saya lebih mengenali siapa beliau. Bak kata pepatah ‘cubit paha kiri, paha kanan terasa’ dan sudah tentu saya juga terasa. Saya bersetuju apabila Amy enggan melayan pemuda itu untuk berjumpanya,” ujar Awie.

    Kenyataan dikeluarkan Muhammad Lukman menerusi laman Facebooknya.

    Muhammad Lukman yang juga Ketua Pemuda Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA) mengeluarkan kata-kata cemuhan terhadap Search menerusi status di laman Facebook miliknya baru-baru ini.

    Dalam status berkenaan, dia menulis: “Setelah bertahun-tahun negara sambut hari belia negara, belia-belia kita menjadi teruk kerana hantu-hantu macam ini yang menjadi pengisinya”.

    Ia turut disertakan dengan gambar kumpulan Search yang mengadakan persembahan menerusi program itu.

    Bagaimanapun, dia bertindak memadam status berkenaan selepas mendapat kritikan pedas daripada peminat dan mahu berjumpa dengan Amy untuk menohon maaf.

    Amy menujukan lirik lagu sebagai balasan kepada kenyataan lelaki berkenaan.

    Amy dalam satu kenyataan memberitahu belum bersedia untuk bertemu pemuda itu namun telah memuat naik bait lirik lagunya, Meniti Titian Usang untuk menegur tindakan Muhammad Lukman itu.

    Dalam pada itu, bekas penyanyi kumpulan Gersang, Man Bai pula memberitahu, Muhammad Lukman sebagai pakar motivasi sepatutnya lebih tahu bagaimana untuk menegur tanpa menggunakan perkataan kasar.

    Man Bai memberitahu Muhammad Lukman cuba mencari publisiti murahan.

    Kata Man Bai, dia faham tujuan individu tersebut yang ingin memotivasikan golongan belia namun tersalah langkah dan menjerat dirinya sendiri.

    “Saya boleh faham mengapa dia berkata demikian tetapi salahnya adalah penggunaan ayat digunakan adalah kasar.

    “Ada cara lain hendak motivasi dan nasihat golongan belia dan apa bezanya dia dengan ‘hantu’ yang didakwanya itu dengan ayat sedemikian?,” katanya.

    Tambahnya lagi, tindakan Muhammad Lukman  itu jelas mengambil kesempatan untuk mendapat perhatian umum dan ia berjaya.

    Man Bai berkata, Muhammad Lukman seharusnya berasa bertuah apabila Amy enggan berjumpa dengannya dan memilih mengambil tindakan berdiam diri berhubung isu berkenaan.

    Aweera turut berasa ‘panas’ dengan kenyataan tersebut.

    “Saya rasa dia pun sedar kenyataannya itu menjerat dirinya sendiri dan Amy boleh mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadapnya tetapi beliau ambil pendekatan berdiam diri dan enggan bertemu lelaki itu,” katanya.

    Sementara itu, bagi penyanyi Aweera, 24,  biarpun dia adalah penyanyi rock generasi baharu namun dia tetap terkesan dengan kenyataan dibuat Muhammad Lukman terhadap Search.

    “Saya sendiri ‘panas’ kerana apa yang dikatakannya langsung tidak masuk akal tanpa mengetahui dan mengenali Search itu sendiri.

    “Alhamdulillah saya berpeluang mengenali Amy dan memandang tinggi kepada keperibadiannya yang sentiasa rendah diri dan tenang,” katanya.

    Selain menjadi penyanyi rock, Amy juga aktif dengan kerja-kerja amal dan mempunyai sekolah untuk pelajar tahfiz.

     

    Source: www.mstar.com.my

  • 20-Strong Squad Named In Young Lions SEA Games Squad

    20-Strong Squad Named In Young Lions SEA Games Squad

    Young Lions Head Coach Aide Iskandar and his team on Wednesday (May 27) unveiled its 20-member football squad for the upcoming 28th SEA Games in Singapore.

    “Congratulations to the players who have made the final 20,” he said. “However, they are aware that this is just the beginning of the final lap of their SEA Games journey, and that they have to remain focused and disciplined.”

    Goalkeepers: Syazwan Buhari (CYL), Rudy Khairullah (CYL)

    Defenders: Shakir Hamzah (CYL), Al-Qaasimy Rahman (CYL), Sheikh Abdul Hadi (CYL), Fadli Kamis (CYL), Amirul Adli (CYL), Ho Wai Loon (BK)

    Midfielders: Faris Ramli (LNS), Safirul Sulaiman (CYL), Stanely Ng (HU), Anumanthan Mohan Kumar (CYL), Adam Swandi (CYL), Suria Prakash (CYL), Pravin Guanasagaran (CYL)

    Forwards: Shahfiq Ghani (CYL), Sahil Suhaimi (LNS), Shamil Sharif (CYL), Irfan Fandi (CYL), Amy Recha Pristifana (CYL)

    In the recent 2015 Malaysia FA Cup final, LionsXII players Faris Ramli and Sahil Suhaimi both slotted the ball into the net, contributing to Singapore’s first historic win in the competition.

    The Young Lions squad was formed after an assessment of all 29 shortlisted players’ performances during the final phase of preparations, which included a centralised training stint at the Singapore Sports School, a week-long training tour of Japan, and the two friendly internationals against Laos Under-23 and Timor Leste U-23.

    The nine players who did not make the cut are goalkeeper Fashah Iskandar, defenders Taufiq Muqminin, Zakir Samsudin and Nurullah Hussein, midfielders Shameer Aziq, Muhaimin Suhaimi, Christopher Van Huizen and Afiq Noor, and striker Iqbal Hussain.

    In a news release from the Football Association of Singapore, Aide said it was tough deciding who to exclude from the squad.

    “It was a very close call for the nine players who were dropped because competition for their positions was very tight,” he said.

    Aide also thanked all of the players for the hard work, effort and commitment they had put into training.

    “As a former player, I know how disappointing the news can be. I want to reassure them that it does not mean that their playing careers are over just because they did not make it to the SEA Games squad,” the former national skipper and defender added.

    “They are still young, and have long playing careers ahead of them. In fact, some are still eligible for the next one or two editions of the SEA Games. All these players are also still part of the Young Lions family. We have invited them and their families to watch all our matches, and to cheer on their teammates.”

    The Young Lions are grouped with the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia and Cambodia in the SEA Games. They will face the Philippines in their first match on Jun 1 at the Jalan Besar Stadium.

    “We had a good final preparation phase which really helped to raise the fitness levels of the players, and the boys are now working hard to reach their peak. The team spirit is very good and the players are focused and raring to go for their opening group match against the Philippines,” said Aide.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

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