Sibu Election Results

Official results from The Star 10:07:44 pm : DAP wins

Malaysiakini 10:09 pm:

10.09pm: All top DAP leaders are waiting at Wisma Sanyan, where the postal ballots were counted.

Lim Guan Eng tells Malaysiakini that he is worried “something suspicious could be going on” and he hopes that the Election Commission officials can release the Form 15, a document which certifies the final result of the postal ballots.

Should it be true that BN has won the postal votes by a margin of 2,300, then DAP will be declared the winner of the Sibu by-election with a tissue-thin majority of 300 votes.

It is confirmed that Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin has returned to Kuala Lumpur.

There is no movement at the main tally centre in Dewan Suarah in Sibu. The official tally still indicates that 16 boxes, including the postal votes, are yet to be sent to be included in the final result.

9.50pm: DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang questions the hold-up in the Election Commission's announcement of the 2,571 postal ballots.

"The postal ballot counting started at 5.30pm and finished at 8.30pm."

He asks why there is more than an hour delay in the announcement of results.

"Up to some trick?" he wonders aloud.

JR: No doubt Najib doing his worst to prevent a DAP victory

Post Mortem: Malaysians disgusted by Najib's bribes and the Election Commission's underhand tactics to secure a BN win in face of a potential DAP trashing

"If this was India, Najib would be shown the prison for telling the voters that he will sign the cheque only on Monday once they have voted BN. The late Indira Gandhi was jailed for using the government helicopter for election (campaign) trips."
- Ramachandran Muniandy

Joceline Tan: Will Najib take the blame for BN's loss? (Apparently the tide turned to Pakatan AFTER his visit!)

Will Sibu Teach BN a lesson?

Or are East Malaysians easily bribed?

After decades of neglect by the BN government will Sibu show that East Malaysians can be easily bribed with (no less than) a few million ringgit or will they stand up and show the BN government that they the people are actually the boss.

Will they allow BN to continue with their years of nepotism, racism and hypocrisy or can they just forget about the past and enjoy the money while it last?



Will they show BN the door or will they show acceptance to people like Ibrahim Ali, Abdul Taib and Khir Toyo (all very healthy products of BN).

We the people in the peninsula hope they are indeed wise enough and not let BN continue to hold all of us in ransom while they enjoy the spoils of the nation.

VOTE WISELY!

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Money flowing in from the coming election

Results: Get Live Tweets from Jeff Ooi as other websites will be clogged

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No shortage of UMNO buffoons in this country

Another UMNO MP using racist remarks to gain popularity

Racism reared its ugly head at the Penang legislative assembly sitting when opposition leader Datuk Azhar Ibrahim (BN-Penaga) threatened a repeat of the May 13 riots and accused Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng of being anti-Malay and anti-Muslim.

Azhar said if the Malays were unhappy with the state government's administration, May 13 could recur, adding if the state government had lost confidence in the police, the army should take over and invoke martial law.

He also mentioned "tiga line" which is a Malay triad organisation in a veiled threat against the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state government, insinuating that the triad group would not hesitate to wage war against the state government.

His actions resulted in an emergency motion being moved to refer him to the Rights and Privileges Committee and the state government also lodged a police report against Azhar for his utterances.

At one point, Azhar even slammed the table repeatedly while debating with Lim on the chief minister's motion of thanks to Tuan Yang Dipertua Negri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas' speech.

When Lim asked why he was slamming the table, Azhar said: "you are lucky I am not hitting you".

JR: I guess when you run out of issues you can always act like a gangster in UMNO. Typical UMNO racist mentality! We are so GLAD Penang is not ruled by UMNO!!


CM Lim Guan Eng proven right on labour shortage issues

Penang City Council MPPP records first budget surplus after many years of deficits under BN

MACC to probe Prime Minister for vote buying?

MACC to show they do not fear ruling government

A day after Najib gave a RM3 million check to voters in Hulu Selangor, MACC chief Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed said: "I am not interpreting the law. Whoever complains about it, we will investigate. If any parties complain, it is our job under the law to look into it. If there is an element of corruption, we will investigate."

Recently however, MACC has shown that it was not even capable of charging the small fish and fries as more of their cases were thrown out by the court. So to charge the PM? Good luck!



JR: What's the difference between giving money before or after you entice someone to do something for you? If this is not corruption, what is??

Niamah: Is RM3 million a carrot or a bribe?

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Bicycle Tours Around Georgetown

Metrobike provides guided cycling tours in heritage Penang

WANT to explore George Town’s Unesco World Heritage enclave but not keen on driving or walking?

Consider the option of pedalling through the streets of the inner city at a slow pace to fully take in the sights and sounds.

If you don’t have a bicycle, fret not. A company — The Metro Bike — is offering bicycles for rent at a reasonable price.

The eco-friendly bicycle tour company, which started such a service on March 1, has branches located along Komtar Walk and the Tanjung City Marina in Weld Quay. Just look out for the row of bicycles outside its offices.

Its marketing director Ken Khor said the idea came from a group of friends after seeing many tourists walking around to see the inner city.







Location of bicycles for hire | Tours available

Changing goalposts to prevent voters from voting

Voting stations changed by EC as BN gets desperate to win Hulu Selangor

PKR wants the Election Commission (EC) to explain its contradictory statements on the changing of voting stations of over 14,000 voters in Hulu Selangor, or resign en bloc.

PKR election direction chief Fuziah Salleh made this call on Tuesday, April 20, in reference to the voters in Hulu Selangor whose voting stations had been changed without their knowledge.

Fuziah said that since no re-delineation of the constituency had taken place since 2001, the electorate cannot be reassigned to different voting stations.

"EC officials have been making conflicting statements," she told reporters at the parliament lobby. "The EC chairman said they needed to change the polling stations to reduce overcrowding in some stations, as the EC had to take the comfort of voters into account."

Nightmare for BN and MIC to find a suitable candidate

Samy Vellu forced by UMNO to relinquish his post and his deputy's candidacy

Latest: Desperate Najib starts throwing (our) money at voters in Hulu Selangor



Mkini Forum: Will Hulu Selangor voters be bought by BN or are they smarter than BN?

Najib on the aftermath: "It's called problem solving, not vote buying"

BN Politicians unwilling to declare themselves as Malaysians first

Our citizens are proud to declare themselves Malaysians but NOT our politicians

After more than 50 years of independence we are still Malay, Chinese, Indians and Others...



Koh Tsu Koon chicken out from declaring himself a Malaysian

DPM Muhyiddin: I am a Malay, not a Malaysian

PM Najib: It's OK to be Malay and not a Malaysian

Najib's reputation is now in shreds

"Social contract" in our Constitution has been hijacked!

Latest: Najib's army's RM6.5 billion food bill!

1Malay first before 1Malaysia

Malaysian DPM acknowledges that 1Malaysia is not for him

The Star yesterday reported that DPM Muhyiddin has responded to DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang’s challenge for him to resign if he refused to admit that he is a Malaysian first and a Malay second as proof that he was in full support of the 1Malaysia concept.


I can't believe this joker played right into LKS hand!!

“I will not bow to his demand. He can repeat it a thousand times. I am a Malay first but I want to say that being a Malay does not mean that you are not a Malaysian,” he told reporters in Parliament yesterday.

“How can I say I am a 1Malaysian first and a Malay second. All Malays will shun me and say it’s not proper as Indians will also say they are Indian first,” he said.

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Malaysians saddened by DPM's racist statement.

Najib agrees not everyone (including his deputy) believes in him

Lim Guan Eng: Muhyiddin has just shown us 1Malaysia is just a big BN farce

We need leaders who put the nation first instead of their race

There goes our RM2.7mil Najib used to spent on building his 1Malaysia

Report: Majority of BN's assemblymen do not support Najib's 1Malaysia

Latest: UMNO to resume hostilities with Gerakan in Penang

The Malays Have Only Themselves To Blame

Almost all of the RM54 billion shares allocated to Bumis are gone - Najib

Bernama has reported that:-
Of the RM54 billion in shares allocated, only RM2 billion worth of shares were left in the hands of Bumiputeras, Najib said. He said the total Bumiputera equity was only 19.4 percent, far from the targeted 30 percent 19 years ago.

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Lim Guan Eng - The government should investigate where the RM52 billion went



Mahathir: Perkasa must continue to fight for more free money for the Malays

Perkasa: Increase Bumi quota to 90:10 (in Malay)


Zorro - Perkosa should go hunt for the missing RM52 billion

Gerakan: Mahathir & Perkasa both racists and disgusting

Aliran: The Malays have only UMNO to blame

Latest: Najib's highly anticipated New Economic Model (NEM) dissapoints many with his lack of information, strategy and innovation

JR: The RM54 billion loss will be quietly covered up by the Malaysian government, thank you for noticing.

Malaysia's High Speed Broadband A Big Letdown

The Star: After all the hype it looks like Malaysians will be cheated again

After the excitement of Telekom Malaysia unveiling UniFi, its high-speed broadband service that offers Internet speeds of up to 20 megabits per second (Mbps), the bubble burst for many consumers here.

Some are disappointed over what they feel are expensive charges for the packages for home users: RM149 for 5Mbps, RM199 for 10Mbps, and RM249 for 20Mbps

In Singapore, a 100Mbps service – which is 5 times the speed of a 20Mbps connection – only costs about RM200.

But the real disappointment is the realisation that the UniFi packages have a cap on the amount of data that can be downloaded.

The consumers bristled when they learned that the 5Mbps service is capped at 60GB of data per month. The 10Mbps service is capped at 90GB while the 20Mbps service has a 120GB cap.

They were even more disappointed to learn that the data download caps are calculated on a daily basis.

Consumers were further horrified to learn that if they exceeded their daily download limit, their high-speed broadband connections would be throttled down to about 10% of the purchased speed.


How come with HSBB in place Streamyx is still crawling??

Telekom Malaysia CEO Datuk Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa said at a press conference to announce the UniFi pricing yesterday that the measures were part of its Fair Usage Policy.

“This policy is a standard industry practice to ensure that all subscribers get to enjoy the same web surfing quality,” he said.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak launched the much hyped UniFi at the Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday night but it now looks more like a scam for Malaysians already weary about TM's monopoly and their inability to meet even the lowest customer satisfaction requirements for their so-called "broadband".

TM in firefighting mode (so what else is new??)

Broadband only for the rich in Malaysia

You can feed a whole family for a week with what you pay for broadband in Malaysia

Broadband price comparison with Singapore. As usual we get less for more in Najibland

China Press punished but Utusan goes scot-free!

Only in 1Malaysia, one can be punished for reporting ACCURATE news!

'The oft-repeated double standards and arrogance exhibited by the Umno regime in dealing with non-Umno parties is demonstrated here again.' - Malaysiakini.com reports

2-week suspension for China Press top editor

Comments from Malaysiakini readers:-

Lim Chong Leong: What is so inaccurate about the report that the inspector-general of police had tendered his resignation. He probably did, and that is why the need for an early reshuffle.

The whole issue is that China Press got the news early before Hishammuddin Hussein made his announcement and that upset him. The Home Ministry does not care about China Press. When the truth is reported, journalists often get punished. See what happened to the Ahmad Ismail episode?

Doc: I don't see why the editor-in-chief Teoh Yong Khoon needs to be suspended. Firstly, his newspaper reported fairly accurate news on the IGP's resignation/termination. Only in Malaysia can the media be penalised for printing accurate news.

Then again what about those seditious and false articles which has be spun from Utusan Malaysia? Not even a slap on the wrist was afforded for their editors for the rubbish that they produced.

Let's face it, the suspension of the editor by the management of China Press is a 'face saving' measure so that the home minister does not look like a bungling imbecile.

Not confused: What really is the problem with this incompetent and racist government? The story was true for heaven's sake - the press just got wind of it and spoiled the "dramatic" announcement planned by Hishammuddin.

Of course, China Press had to take some disciplinary action, or face the possibility of the home minister revoking their licence. This whole incident is an exercise in stupidity of the highest order. The only positive outcome is that the BN have just lost another batch of voters at the next GE (general election).

Ric: Hishammuddin is the one who should apologise and suspended. Anyway, I'm glad he acted the way he did. It will definitely help to swing more Chinese votes towards Pakatan Rakyat.

Kementerian Luar Negeri: As an Umno loyalist, I totally disagree with the suspension of editor-in-chief of China Press. He did not commit any crime. He was just reporting something which is true before the KDN (Home Ministry) made its announcement. Next time, KDN should be a step ahead than the media.

Alexander Yuan: This is a joke. If Teoh gets suspended two weeks for publishing an 'inaccurate report', what about those racist columnists of Berita Harian and Utusan Malaysia (aka Awang Selamat and Ridhuan Tee Abdullah)?

What they 'publish' almost every single day is 100 times worse than this. Why no action against them? Are you doing your job, Home Minister, or you just 'close one eye' when it comes to Utusan and Berita Harian?

Jbss: The oft-repeated double standards and arrogance exhibited by the Umno regime in dealing with non-Umno parties is demonstrated here again. This a classic example of the regime's bullying tactics against a non-Umno media publisher just to save Hishammuddin face.

RR: If the BN government is really fair and sincere on the IGP issue, then it should advise Utusan and Berita Harian to take similar action on the writers for writing sensitive issues affecting the non-Malays on many occasions. What is wrong for one should be wrong for the others as well.

Geronimo: To China Press - if you feel intimidated by Umno, it's better you close shop. To all those who support freedom of the press, boycott the newspaper. This is truly a blatant act of double standard where Utusan is having a free rein on publishing seditious comments and not have to "pay" for it.

Nil: China Press' explanation has been accepted and no action will be taken... so why the need for the suspension as demanded by the Home Ministry? I just hope there will be a promotion after the suspension.

Cala: What is the message from China Press' miss-step? We now have two sets of law. The lenient one is for the ruling elites and their cohorts, while the harsh one is meant for the rest of us as we are deemed less cooperative in many ways, and given a chance, bent to teach the executive a lesson or two on what is right and what is wrong. This is rule by men.

Gk: This news comes as no surprise to me at all. Everything can be arranged behind closed door to save somebody's face. Editor Teoh is just a sacrificial lamb for this face-saving exercise. With their kind of 'tuan' mentality, it is not difficult to imagine what had actually happened.

I think we are used to these 'face saving' measures. Their faces are more precious than their dignities. They like to 'look good' but in actual fact, how good are they? GE13 will have the answer, rakyat are not fools.

Amaso: China Press, maybe the management should consider selling a controlling stake to BN component parties, then you will be safe like Utusan Malaysia.

China Press says sorry for telling the truth

Najib Using Police to Harass Penang's CM

Failing to entice more PKR assemblymen to jump over to BN, Najib is now using the police to harass Penang's Chief Minister

The police have recorded statements from Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and three other state assemblymen for allegedly organising an illegal assembly and making seditious statements.

Police arrived at Lim’s office in Komtar at noon on Thursday to take the statements from him and PKR assemblymen S. Raveen Tharan (Batu Uban), Sim Tze Tzin (Pantai Jerejak) and Jason Ong (Kebun Bunga).

Seri Delima assemblyman R.S.N. Rayer, who is the group’s legal counsel, was present during the 40-minute questioning.

When the officers arrived, some 20 of the politicians’ personal assistants and staff held up banners with the words “stop harassing Pakatan Rakyat leaders.”



Rayer said the police were investigating 12 reports lodged against 10 Pakatan leaders.

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