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MCA ecnourages more Chinese youth to join civil service
KUALA LUMPUR, April 12, 2015:
MCA would take up a affirmative action plan to encourage more Chinese to join the civil service, said its president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.
He said better Chinese participation in the civil service was important especially now, to help the government in explaining policies and development agenda in the 11th Malaysia Plan to the grassroots.
“I will be putting forward recommendations for a more affirmative action plan to be taken, to increase the number of Chinese in the civil service,” he said when opening the 11th Malaysia Plan workshop at Wisma MCA here today.
Speaking to reporters later Liow, who is also Transport Minister, said there was less than 10% Chinese in the civil service now compared with more than 20% in the 1980s.
“We want to encourage more Chinese to join the civil sector, not just at the federal level, but at the state and local council levels as well.”
Aside from providing attractive perks, he said the sector also offered a minimum monthly salary of RM1,000 to its employees.
Some 40 representatives from the Chinese guilds and associations attended the workshop, which discussed about the MP11 with the hope to put forward recommendations by the community before its implementation.
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Liow: Investigation into chopper crash to begin tomorrow
KUALA LUMPUR, April 5, 2015:
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the investigation into the helicopter crash at Semenyih, Kajang, would start tomorrow, with the priority on locating the helicopter’s voice recorder.
He said an investigation committee had been formed to investigate the incident.
“Mereka akan pergi ke kawasan kemalangan esok, untuk mengumpul semua wreckage yang ada untuk kita lihat apa sebenarnya punca yang menyebabkan kemalangan itu.
“Paling penting adalah untuk dapatkab voice recorder untuk bantu kita dalam siasata,” he said went met at the Hospital Kuala Lumpur Forensic Unit here today.
Liow added that as of now all the bodies were currently undergoing a post-mortem.
He said in order to speed up the identification process of the bodies, three Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) teams had been formed.
“Sebelum kita nak sahkan ke semua identiti yang ada, kita mesti laksanakan pelbagai proses antaranya, mengambil cap jari, mengenalpasti dental structure dan analisis DNA mayat.
“Disebabkan itu, saya telah wujudkan tiga team DVI untuk kita laksanakannya dalam mempercepatkan proses mengenalpasti ke semua mangsa,” he said.
Liow added, in the meantime, he was uncertain when the family members could claim the bodies.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had ordered a thorough and comprehensive investigation to determine the cause of the helicopter crash.
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'No evidence that underwater locator beacon on MH370 was not functioning'
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23, 2015:
The expired battery of the underwater locator beacon (ULB) of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370 is not the reason the aircraft remains undetected.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said even though the battery expired 14 months before the incident, there was no evidence to say the ULB on the aircraft was not functioning.
He said ULBs were installed on the two black boxes in the plane, namely the solid state flight data recorder (SSFDR) and the solid state cockpit voice recorder (SSCVR).
“Only the battery of the SSFDR ULB expired in December 2012, or about 14 months before the plane went missing.
“The battery on the SSCVR ULB was replaced according to schedule and the expiry date was June 2014,” he said when winding up the debate on his ministry on the motion of thanks on the Royal Address by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong at Dewan Rakyat here today.
Liow said both SSFDR and SSCVR recorders were installed side by side on MH370 and in an accident, if one of the recorders was detected or found, there was a high possibility of finding the other recorder.
On March 8 last year, Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappeared from the radar while flying over South China Sea about one hour after departing Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.41am.
The Boeing 777-200ER jetliner was scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 6.30am on the same day.
On the Factual Information Safety Investigation on MH370 prepared by the Safety Investigation Team of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) issued on March 8, Liow said it was strictly factual and did not contain any analysis on the incident.
He said the investigation team was now making an analysis of the incident between 1.21am and 6am on the day of the incident and an analysis on that would be issued in the following report.
On MH17, which was shot down in eastern Ukraine on July 17 last year, the government is firm on seeking justice for Malaysians who died and to take the parties concerned to justice.
Liow denied that the Malaysia government only acted as an observer in the investigation of the incident as Malaysia was also directly involved with several other countries in the probe led by the Netherlands.
Flight MH17 was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.
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Transport Ministery optimistic Malindo Air will fulfill DCA conditions
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23, 2015:
The Transport Ministry is confident that Malindo Air would fulfil the conditions set by the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) to extend its air operators certificate (AOC), which is expiring on Aug 31 this year.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, said the DCA had issued a directive to the airline to undertake improvements and resolve its documentation.
“We carry out audits on Malindo Air from time to time if there are safety issues or does not follow the standard operating procedure (SOP) and regulations (set) by the DCA.
“I am confident Malindo Air will meet the requirements set by the DCA in the near future…within three months,” he told reporters at Parliament lobby here today.
He was commenting on a message being widely circulated via WhatsApp which alleged that the DCA would not extend Malindo Air’s AOC as it found 90 offences in the airline’s flight operations management, aircraft maintenance, engineering, pilots’ licences and safety.
However, DCA director-general Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman yesterday denied the allegations circulated on social media and instead said that the DCA was satisfied with several improvement efforts undertaken by the airline, which had applied to extend the AOC after its expiry on Aug 31.
Liow said the audit undertaken by the DCA on Malindo Air was a normal procedure for every airline to ensure safety of aircraft operations for passengers.
“The DCA is a department that monitors safety and airline companies’ development… needs to be strict in terms of SOP requirements,” he said.
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'DAP aware of PAS' hudud plan even before PR formed'
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23, 2015:
Veteran DAP leader Lim Kit Siang has been challenged to come clean about what he knew about PAS’ plan to implement hudud.
MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said Lim was aware of the plan even before the last general election.
He added that it was already on PAS’ agenda which DAP defended in the general election.
“From this we can see what type of party DAP is. I urge them to come clean and tell the people what it knows.”
Liow said the Gelang Patah Member of Parliament should take responsibility as to what was happening now.
Speaking to reporters at the Parliament lobby, he said DAP was playing politics with the hudud issue.
He urged them to stop doing so and take responsibility for what had happened.
Pokok Sena Member of Parliament Mahfuz Omar pointed out that the Syariah Criminal enactment had been passed in Kelantan in 1993.
He said DAP and PKR were well aware of this before they formed PR.
He said everyone in PR knew about it but the party would not force anyone to support the enactment.
The PAS information chief said each party had the right to make its own decision.
On Umno’s support for the enactment, Mahfuz said PAS did not know Umno’s stand on it and were waiting for its president Datuk Seri Najib Razak to make an announcement on it.
He added he felt Umno’s support for it was waning due to the statements made by component parties.
Mahfuz said the delay in making the announcement also showed that Umno might not support the enactment.
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DAP must stop PAS hudud enactment, says Liow
KUALA LUMPUR, March 15, 2015:
MCA today called on DAP to take all steps necessary to prevent PAS from presenting the revised hudud enactment to the Kelantan state assembly.
Speaking at his party’s 66th anniversary celebrations, MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai reminded DAP that time was running out as the deadline of March 18 was fast approaching.
He said although DAP had no members in the state assembly, it was the duty of the party, as a member of Pakatan Rakyat, to put a stop to it, while also pointing out that DAP had 37 Members of Parliament and could use this strength to stop the hudud enactment.
“DAP has been lying to the people since the last general election. It had misled the people by saying PAS was only interested in setting up a welfare state and not an Islamic state,” claimed Liow.
Liow said DAP was duty bound to protect the rights of the non-Muslim community.
“I want DAP to explain to the people as to what transpired during the Oct 20, 2011 meeting.
“PAS claims that the hudud issue had been discussed at the meeting and this was before the last election,” Liow said.
He said if this was proven to be true, then DAP had been lying to the people even before the last general election and they were also willing to do anything to obtain power.
“DAP must be held accountable for what is happening now,” Liow said, adding that his party would do everything it could to protect the Federal Constitution and the people.
“We will not be silent on this issue. We will make our voice heard.
“The Constitution protects the rights of everyone and we will stand by this,” he said, adding that MCA was against any form of extremism.
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'New look at data if MH370 is not found by end of May'
KUALA LUMPUR, March 7, 2015:
If the massive undersea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 turns up nothing by the end of May, the three countries leading the effort will re-examine data and come up with a new plan, Malaysia’s transport minister said today.
Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai told a select group of foreign reporters on the eve of the anniversary of the plane’s disappearance during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that he remained cautiously optimistic that the Boeing 777 should be in the area of the southern Indian Ocean where the search had been ongoing.
Malaysia’s government on Jan 29 formally declared the plane an accident and said all 239 people on board were presumed dead.
Liow said that Australia, Malaysia and China were due to meet next month to discuss the search efforts.
“By the end of May, if we still can’t find the plane, then we will have to go back to the drawing board,” he said in the interview.
“We rely on the expert group … to come up with the plan. I am cautiously optimistic it should be in this area.”
He said that ships looking for debris of the plane on the ocean seafloor off the coast of western Australia had so far scoured more than 40% of the 60,000 square feet area where the search had been focused on.
In the latest report he received on Friday, he said the search team identified 10 hard objects which had yet to be analyzed.
Such findings, which often include trash and cargo containers from passing ships, have been common and so far no trace of the wreckage has been located.
Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss said last week that if the plane was not found by May, one option was to expand the hunt beyond the current search zone into a wider area surrounding it.