Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd

28 October 2010 Questions Time: “Tourist” Minister spent RM3.25 million for her 16 overseas trips!

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Update 28-10-2010 @ 23:50: This is what the Auditor General Reports 2009 had stated about the Homestay Programe: Objektif program Homestay tidak akan DICAPAI sepenuhnya jika kelemahan dalam perancangan, pelaksanaan dan pemantauan program ini tidak diatasi dengan segera, Oleh itu adalah disyorkan supaya Kementerian Pelancogan (Kementerian) dan Agensi pelaksana melaksanakan perkara-perkara berikut: 1. Kementerian perlu … Read more

The Auditor General Reports for 2009 were very critical of many Ministries

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Laporan Ketua Audit Negara 2009 signed by Yg Bhg Tan Sri Dato' Setia Haji Ambrin bin Buang, Ketua Audit Negara

The Auditor General Reports for 2009 was finally tabled in Parliament in the afternoon of 25-10-2010 (Monday). There are many damning reports against several Ministries including Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture.

In the said Report there are 250 recommendations for year 2009 that have been forwarded to the various Ministries, Government Departments and GLCs for corrective actions and to avoid repetitions of weaknesses. The Auditor General Office shall monitor the situations and ensure that actions be taken by parties concerned with regards to the said Reports and it shall provide the outcomes in the Reports for 2010.

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Jawapan YB Menteri Pelancongan mengenai dengan skandal yang terlibat dengan Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd dan Grace Chen Oyan Yun Shai.

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Pada 5hb November 2009, semasa perbahasan Bajet 2010, saya telah menyeru Menteri Pelancongan, YB Dato’ Ng Yen Yen untuk memberi jawapan kepada soalan-solan seperti berikut: Venturepharm Asia Bhd dan Madam Chen Oyan Yun Shai bukanlah menipu MOSTI sahaja ia juga ada terlibat dengan Kementerian Pelancongan. Saya menyeru Menteri Perlancongan untuk memberi penjelasan: Memandangkan pembantu peribadi … Read more

Speech for Budget 2010

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Teks Ucapan Debat Bajet oleh YB Wee Choo Keong, Ahli Palimen Wangsa Maju, pada 5 hb November 2009. Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Saya berdiri untuk mengambil bahagian dalam debat Bajet 2010. Saya menyokong slogan

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