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[rene leow @reneleow]

@malindoair Hi Batik Air, my family has had to postpone/cancel our flights to n fro Japan becos my wife's Dad is critically ill n she is primary caregiver. We tried getting a refund but have been told no but we believe you're not getting the full info. Need advice pls.

[Allison @Allisonww_]

Malaysia’s eco-tourism boom offers brands a unique chance to promote #sustainabletravel. But how can they communicate authenticity without greenwashing?
Check out Jeremy Seow’s latest blog on crafting impactful #EcoTourism messages: https://t.co/iVO5OtzLUf

[Liyana Marzuki @liyana_marzuki]

KOYAK

Saya dalam ramai2 MB, MB yang saya sangsi sekali ialah MB Kedah. Don’t get me wrong. Bukan sebab parti. MB Terengganu elok je saya puji.

Baru2 ini, Sanusi menempelak Kerajaan. Katanya cepat koyak sebab ambil tindakan ke atas pengkritik.

Satu saya belajar dari banyak politician2 kita. Benda yang dia suka sangat ulang orang lain buat, kalau kita kaji, sebenarnya dia mengata diri sendiri.

Sanusi ni classic case yang saya nak bagi.

Dia mengata orang lain cepat koyak. Tapi, rekod tunjukkan dialah MB paling hati tisu dengan pengkritik.

Ingat dulu, dia beli Raptor masa PKP. Siap test drive masa orang tengah berkurung. Wanita yang kantoikan dia teruk dibuli. Dia dan pegawai dia sama naik.

Ada kes, orang tua ditahan polis jam 3 pagi di bawa ke Kedah kerana “hina” Sanusi. Ramai orang ditahan polis kerana Sanusi tidak boleh diusik. Termasuk Ketua Umno Sungai Petani, seorang wanita yang hanya tulis jumlah kematian akibat Covid di Kedah. Tu pun Nusi sapu jua.

Seorang MB yang beberapa kali pernah dibuang sekolah. Bernasib baik dijulang pula akhirnya. Setengah orang angkat dia sebagai hero.

Pada saya, itu simbolik betapa toksiknya dunia politik kita. Budak nakal dan mulut cepoi sentiasa, dipuja2 untuk jadi pemimpin nombor 1 negara.

Apa lah nak jadi dengan Malaysia?

Salam hormat,
Liyana Marzuki

[Zaid Ibrahim @zaidibrahim]

The Durian Farmers

Raub is the epicentre of the Musang King phenomenon. Thanks to the farmers there, Musang King has brought Malaysia to the forefront of the durian industry. But a tragedy looms. Many of them were evicted from the state lands on which the plantations stood

One hundred eighty-six farmers took their plight to court, seeking a judicial review of the decision of the Pahang govt evicting them from a large acreage of durian plantations ( some 2,176 hectares) around Raub.

I had the hunch they would fail. Sure enough, the farmers failed to get the reprieve and instead were ordered to pay a hefty cost of 600,000

From the newspaper report, it appears that the Pahang govt intended to lease the plantations to a company called Royal Pahang Durian Resources. That’s why they needed to evict the farmers who were regarded as trespassers

Why does the outcome sadden me? Firstly, will the supply of the best durian in the world, Musang King, be affected by this decision? Do I need to opt for the Thai Monthon after this?

Second, the award of the cost of 600,000 was way too high, even accepting that the Pahang government and Royal Resources had a battery of more than ten lawyers ( govt and private) taking on the farmers

Third, I am always interested in the laws relating to equitable interest in land. I can’t imagine the Durian farmers in Raub not having any interest whatsoever in the land in question, having planted the durian for so many years. But my knowledge of equity or licences coupled with equity on land is basic

Anyway, this type of dispute, where it involves a link to the Royals, is not suitable to be litigated in an ordinary court of law. It should be in the Special Court. The perception is that the farmers' interests will be better served in a Special court

Sure, it involves the State's govt action against the farmers. On that basis alone, it looks like an ordinary case. So, it’s ok to bring up the matter in the ordinary court.

But that’s not the whole story. The outcome of the case directly affects the interest of the Royals if, indeed, Royal Durian Resources belongs to the Istana. That’s why this case is not an ordinary case to be heard before a regular judge in an ordinary court

There is some privacy in the Special Court, and if needed, rules can be made to make the proceedings more conducive to the parties

The reason we set up the Special Court is not to expose the Royals to the details of the case involving them. Such as Commercial disputes that might be embarrassing to them. Their station in life has to be respected. At the same time, the commercial and legitimate interests of the ordinary man must also be protected.

It also gives the private litigants the comfort of being given a fair trial, even when they are taking on the Royals of the state in which they belong

The Judge of the Special Court would be a very senior one who is probably not too anxious about promotion to a higher level, where such elevation would require the support of the Royals

In fact, the Special Court idea is one of the many brilliant ideas of Tun Dr Mahathir. With the Royals actively in business, the recurrence of disputes must be expected. The use of the Special Court should be encouraged to fairly settle disputes in a more conducive environment, such as the Durian farmers in Pahang

What say you, the Law Reform Minister?

[Malay Mail @malaymail]

Dear Malay Mail readers,

We are heartbroken.
After more than 10 years of using our Malay Mail handle on Instagram, we've lost access to our account

To Instagram Support, we ask:
Where were you when we needed you the most?
Is it because we didn't pay for our verification (ps: we were verified organically 🙃)

@instagram @mosseri @InstagramComms @MetaNewsroom

[Chacko Vadaketh @ChackoVadaketh]

Malaysia Boleh! - our movies at No 1 - Abang Adik, No 2 - Snow in Midsummer No 8 - Tiger Stripes and also in the list - Mop, Maryam & Coastguard Malaysia.
Bravo all! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

https://t.co/P89dVS7t1q

[Google Malaysia @GoogleMsia]

⚠️ If you're logged into a “Public” network, criminals may find a loophole to intercept your data!

Do not use public Wi-fi or chargers while doing any financial transaction to prevent cyber threats from happening to you.

#SaferWithGoogle

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Revisiting John Pilger’s 2016 Warnings About US Warmongering Against Russia And China

In March of 2016 the renowned Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger published an article titled “A world war has begun. Break the silence.” which urgently warned of the US empire’s aggressive escalations against Russia and China. Re-reading parts of it in 2023 is like watching someone placing flags next to recently planted seeds that would eventually grow into the towering problems our world now faces.

It’s like listening to a time traveler warning people from the past about a grave mistake they were about to make. Pilger points to US provocations in Ukraine, NATO militarism, and the encirclement of China and warns of the surging risk of nuclear war, noting that nuclear warhead spending “rose higher under Obama than under any American president.”

“In the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two — led by the United States — is taking place along Russia’s western frontier,” Pilger wrote. “Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia.”

“Ukraine — once part of the Soviet Union — has become a CIA theme park,” wrote Pilger. “Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian speaking minority.”

“In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — next door to Russia — the US military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons,” Pilger said. “This extreme provocation of the world’s second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.”

“What makes the prospect of nuclear war even more dangerous is a parallel campaign against China,” Pilger continued. “The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear-armed bombers. This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the Marianas and the Marshalls and Guam, to the Philippines, Thailand, Okinawa, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India. America has hung a noose around the neck of China. This is not news. Silence by media; war by media.”

Pilger highlighted the way his home country Australia was being roped into Washington’s war preparations against China, a trend which has since grown much worse as the drums of war grow louder.

“In 2015, in high secrecy, the US and Australia staged the biggest single air-sea military exercise in recent history, known as Talisman Sabre,” he wrote. “Its aim was to rehearse an Air-Sea Battle Plan, blocking sea lanes, such as the Straits of Malacca and the Lombok Straits, that cut off China’s access to oil, gas and other vital raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.”

Pilger wrote all this while preparing to release his excellent film “The Coming War on China”, which would come out later that year. In it, he shows how the US has been surrounding China with war machinery in a way that would be considered an act of war if it was happening near American shorelines, and drives home the seriousness of the prospect of nuclear conflict.

Everything Pilger warned about turned out to be everything he said it was. A war in Ukraine has erupted from the spark of the US-backed coup in 2014 and Russia’s fear of an increasingly expansionist and militaristic NATO, while the US military encirclement of China has been rapidly increasing as hostilities between the two superpowers accelerate toward a breaking point, facilitated in no small part by the continent-sized military base known as Australia. What were only background stories in 2016 now dominate the headlines of today.

I bring this up because I think it’s useful to show that we’ve been on this track toward global conflict between major powers for years, and it’s been unfolding in ways that some saw coming from miles away. Much of Pilger’s work could be called prophetic, but Pilger is no prophet — he’s just a journalist with an ear to the ground who’s been critically scrutinizing the behavior of the empire for decades. He was able to accurately mark the trajectory our world has been on earlier than most, and it has continued along that same trajectory with frightening speed ever since.

If you can see the trajectory that an object is on, you can determine where you need to stand in order to obstruct its path. The fact that we’ve been on a linear trajectory toward global conflict between nuclear-armed states all these years shows that opposing that trajectory is of existential importance for every living organism on this planet. And yet the media still want us focused on celebrity gossip and party politics and Donald Trump.

World war is still closing in on us. We still need to break the silence and oppose it. Our rulers have been steering us in this direction for a long time now, and they’re not going to turn away until we make them.

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

Despite conflicts that may divide us, it's in the pursuit of peace, justice & equality that we discover our common ground.

Respect for everyone's rights is the tried & true way to overcome crisis & ensure a better future for all.

The time for human rights is now. #HumanRights75

[Google Malaysia @GoogleMsia]

Tahun demi tahun, rakyat Malaysia menggunakan Search untuk mencari maklumat, memenuhi rasa ingin tahu dan mengikuti perkara yang menjadi sohor kini di seluruh dunia.

👇Ikuti bebenang di bawah untuk ketahui senarai terma Year in Search 2023 bagi Malaysia!

[Siti Kasim @sitikasim]

ISLAMICITY INDEX 2022 - Most Islamic countries in governance. Malaysia no 43.
“I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but no Islam.” (Mohammad Abduh)

https://t.co/c4WKG8vQ9T

[Fakta Bukan Auta @FaktaBukanAuta]

Tahukah anda kalau orang tanya negeri mana yg sumbang padi yg terbanyak dalam Malaysia ni?

Majoriti jawab Kedah.

Sebab Kedah kan Jelapang Padi.

Tak betul tu sebenarnya.

Selangor yg sumbang paling banyak padi.

Lokasi tepatnya - Sekinchan.

Kat Sekinchan, padi 5 musim untuk 2 tahun.

Negeri lain, 4 musim saja 2 tahun.

Yg bestnya lg kat Sekinchan, satu hektar sawah hasilkan 12 tan padi.

Di Kedah & tempat lain macam Kerian, Perak, 4-6 tan/hektar je.

So @MSabuOfficial sbg Menteri Pertanian & Keterjaminan Makanan apa dia buat?

Dia mohon dana RM3 bilion dari PMX utk bawa projek "Ala Sekinchan" ke seluruh negara.

Dana lulus!

Dana ni utk buat saliran, teknologi pertanian, jentera moden, & bagi benih padi Sekinchan kat pesawah negeri lain.

Alhamdulillah kelmarin Bang Mat umum untuk projek rintis "Ala Sekinchan" di Kg Lat 1000, di Perlis,

tanam bulan Mei, bulan Ogos dapat hasil 10.45 tan/hektar.

Suatu rekod & sejarah baru hasil padi di Perlis.

⛔ Before 4-6 tan/hektar
✅ Now 10.45 tan/hektar

Syukur Ya Allah.

[Google Malaysia @GoogleMsia]

Meet Bard, an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI to accelerate your ideas and fuel your curiosity. It’s available in Malaysia 🇲🇾, in English, starting today. Sign up ➡️https://t.co/zQFENLyXCc

[rene leow @reneleow]

@HezeriSamsuri me too

[Google Malaysia @GoogleMsia]

Take mobile gaming from your phone📱to your PC 🖥. Google Play Games beta is now available for download on PCs in Malaysia🇲🇾. Click here ➡️ https://t.co/gAzbXkIrpW

#GooglePlay #GooglePlayGames #GooglePlayGamesBeta #GooglePlayGamesonPC

[🌺 fiqah @fiqahdarisabah]

Siti Nafirah. Rusiah. Natasha. Calvina.

Four incredibly brave young women from Kota Belud❣️💪🏻

These young women sued their English teacher for extreme absenteeism. The teacher failed to enter class and deliver English lessons for up to seven months. (1/7)

[Yayasan Hasanah @YayasanHasanah]

Teachers, you are powerful voices in the lives of our nation's next generation. Thank you for your dedication to the profession and for your sacrifices, both seen and unseen.

Happy Teachers' Day! #teachersday

[Google Malaysia @GoogleMsia]

Our #CreatorOnTheRise this week, @SabahFCofficial⚽️, takes us on their team's journey as they share behind-the-scenes looks, off-season activities, and training sessions - even while they were by the sea🌊.

Check them out right from your Explore tab on YouTube today!

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Francis continues his catechesis cycle on the figure of St Joseph, describing him as one who cares for others. #GeneralAudience
https://t.co/X097kOJt0d