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SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATE: The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question

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The UN Security Council
The UN Security Council

The debate on The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question at the United Nations Security Council on 14th October 2009.

The synopsis of the speech of His Excellency Dr Riad Al-Malki, Minister for the Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority:

” He said that there is no real progress been made towards addressing the major issues of concern, foremost among them the ongoing Israeli colonization campaign in the West Bank, especially in and around East Jerusalem, and the raging humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip as a concern of the Israeli military aggression and the continued for realising a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. “

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Speech at the UN on International Trade Law

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STATEMENT BY
THE HONOURABLE MR WEE CHOO KEONG,
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AND REPRESENTATIVE OF MALAYSIA

ON AGENDA ITEM 79:
REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION
ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW

ON THE WORK OF ITS 42ND SESSION AT THE 6TH COMMITTEE,
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NEW YORK, USA
13 OCTOBER 2009

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Mr. Chairman,

On behalf of the Malaysia’s delegation, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and all other members of the Bureau on your election and to also thank the Mr Soo-Guen Oh, the Chairman of United Nations Commission On International Trade Law, for his report.

Mr Chairman,

My delegation would like to express its full support to the work of United Nations Commission On International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to seek further progress as regards the harmonization and unification of international trade law. As a member of a very highly regarded and important Commission, Malaysia would like to take the opportunity to contribute to the development of international trade law by, inter alia, promoting ways and means of ensuring a uniform application of international trade laws.

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The 25th Anniversary Dinner of Malaysia Association of America

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Group picture of MAA leaders and us. L-R: Mr Steve Chai (property developer), Datuk Stanley Cheah (chain restaurant owner), H E Datuk Seri Jamaludin Jarjis, Mr K S Bong, YB Zulkifly Nordin, Datuk Hamidon Ali (the UN Permanent Rep/Ambassador), YB Datuk Richard Riot Jaem On 9th October 2009, we were invited to attend a dinner … Read more

Speech at the UN

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Statement by THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WEE CHOO KEONG, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT OF MALAYSIA on Agenda Item 104: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and Agenda Item 105: International Drug Control of the Third Committee of the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly New York, 8 October 2009 *For the unabridged version of my Statement … Read more

Questions for Parliamentary Session starting 19 Oct 2009

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Soalan-soalan untuk Sessi Parlimen mulai pada 19 Oktober 2009

Soalan-soalan untuk jawapan lisan
– Questions for oral answers –

1. YB Tuan Wee Choo Keong [WANGSA MAJU] minta Menteri Kementerian Sains, Teknologu dan Innovasi menyatakan tindakan-tindakan yang telah dan akan diambil terhadap Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd atau lembaga pengarahnya yang mengelirukan kementerian untuk berurus dengan XLW Inc daripada Amerika Syarikat yang tidak wujud, dan telah membayar RM2,264,800 daripada jumlah peruntukan RM5.36 juta gran Tecnofund untuk penyelidikan biofeed.

YB Tuan Wee Choo Keong [WANGSA MAJU] asks Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation to state what actions have been taken or will be taken against Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd or its directors for misleading the Ministry into believing that it was tied up with a company known as XLW Inc from USA, which was non-existent, to grant the Technofund for research into bio-feed totaling RM5.36 million and out of which RM RM2,264,800-00 had been paid to-date?

2. YB Tuan Wee Choo Keong [WANGSA MAJU] minta Menteri Pelancongan menyatakan sebab pembatalan tender pertama pembinaan pavilion Malaysia di Expo Dunia 2010 di Shanghai, di mana Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd (Venturepharm), yang diperbadankan pada Ogos 2005, tidak berserta dan mengapakah dalam tender kedua, Venturepharm yang tidak berpengalaman berkenaan diberikan kontrak bernilai RM20 juta dengan kemungkinan pertambahan (variation order) RM10 juta walaupun terdapat peserta lain yang lebih berpengalaman?

YB Tuan Wee Choo Keong [WANGSA MAJU] asks the Minister of Tourism to state why, and on what basis, was the first tender for the project to build the Malaysian Pavilion in Shanghai World Expo 2010, which Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd (Venturepharm), incorporated in August 2005, did not take part, was cancelled? And when the project was subsequently re-tendered why, and on what basis, was Venturepharm, which had no previous experience in the building industry, was selected against other experienced companies to build the same pavilion costing RM20 million with a possible variation order of RM10 million?

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Malaysia's pavilion potentially invites another backlash by promoting Indonesian heritage in its design!

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I reproduce below a comment by a reader of this blog called Choon who may be spot on with his observation … “Recently, there was an Indonesian Student protest reported in the Star where rotten eggs were thrown at our embassy just because Discovery Channel used an Indonesian Bali dance to represent Malaysia. The Minister … Read more

DBKL's outright insensitivity to the wishes of the residents of Danau Kota!

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On 29 July 2009 several residents in the Danau Kota area and I presented a Petition signed by more than 500 residents protesting against the Danau Kota Uptown Pasar Malam. The biggest gripe of the residents here is that it operates daily from 10.00 pm to 4.00 am and the miseries the Pasar Malam had brought about.

Datuk Bandar KL and DBKL, to be utterly honest, shouldn’t pasar malams be strictly a once-a-week affair and be confined to the sanely hours of 5.00 pm to 11.00 pm?

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