Wednesday, August 31, 2022
PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang Racist comments: non-Muslims and non-bumiputra are the causes of corruption in the country
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Fish oil for better health; Importance of sleep
FISH oil is made up of fat and oil cells extracted from fish tissue. The fat and oil are condensed into liquid or capsule form for consumption. Fishes that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids such as mackerel, tuna, herring and anchovies are used for this purpose. Fish oil is known to be an effective way to help reduce the risk of heart-related conditions.
According to Health benefits and potential risks related to consumption of fish or fish oil published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, the consumption of omega-3rich fish oil has the potential to reduce the risk of several cardiovascular ailments, including coronary heart disease, mild forms of hypertension, certain cardiac arrhythmias.
This is likely because fish oil has been linked to more sustainable levels of both cholesterol and blood pressure when used as a dietary supplement.
Cholesterol
Most people assume that having high cholesterol is an inherently bad thing. However, there is a distinction between ‘good’ low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and ‘bad’ high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.
HDL is typically considered good for your body given its ability to absorb cholesterol and carry it back to the liver before being flushed out. Fish oil is a nutrient that is suggested to increase HDL cholesterol levels as stated in An Improvement of Cardiovascular Risk Factors by Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine Research.
Adding fish oils to one’s diet is a great way to keep one’s heart healthy.
Blood pressure
According to Blood pressure response to fish oil supplementation: metaregression analysis of randomized trials by Journal of Hypertension, a high intake of fish oil helps with lowering blood pressure. It also finds this antihypertensive effect to be particularly present among older and hypertensive subjects.
This is important as blood pressure is what helps transport our blood, alongside oxygen and nutrients, across the circulatory system. It plays a crucial role in ensuring our body’s everyday functions continue to work properly.
When high blood pressure (otherwise known as hypertension) is left unmanaged, it can lead to several health complications that include an increased risk of potential heart attack, stroke, kidney diseases and more. - Star2
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
NAJIB'S FINAL APPEALS - GROUNDS OF JUDGMENT, Attack On Judge Nazlan Backfires, Federal Court Destroys All Delay Tactic*
*Prisoner-in-Waiting Najib In Deep Shit – Attack On Judge Nazlan Backfires, Federal Court Destroys All Delay Tactic*
In April, Goldman Sach’s banker Roger Ng was found guilty by a New York jury, leaving him to face up to 30 years in prison. The U.S. court, which took only eight weeks to deliver the verdict, has certainly piled pressure on the Malaysian judicial system, which needed almost 2 years to convict Najib in the trial of SRC International (a subsidiary of 1MDB).
Worse, the trial of Roger Ng has directly implicated Najib Razak, his stepson Riza Aziz and partner-in-crime Jho Low. In the trial, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has testified in the U.S. court that not only Jho Low had stolen US$1.42 billion (RM6 billion), Najib Razak similarly stole US$756 million (RM3.2 billion) while his stepson, Riza Aziz, pocketed US$238 million (RM1 billion).
The U.S. Jurors were also shown how 1MDB money was stolen to fund a US$23 million pink diamond necklace for Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor. On July 21, the High Court rejected an application by Queen’s Counsel Jonathan Laidlaw to represent Najib in the final appeal, arguing that there are sufficient local attorneys who are more than capable of handling the former PM’s case.
It didn’t help that former Attorney General Apandi Ali, who was appointed by Najib to clear him of all wrongdoings, has admitted on July 16 that he was involved in brokering a deal between fugitive Jho Low and the Malaysian government as early as May this year. Exactly how could the Federal Court free Najib with overwhelming evidence stacked against him?
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Malaysia’s top court upholds ex-PM Najib Razak’s conviction and 12-year jail sentence in graft case
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, speaks to supporters outside at Court of Appeal in Putrajaya, Malaysia Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Photo: VC
Najib sent to Kajang Prison to serve his 12-year jail term
Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has begun to serve his 12-year jail term at the Kajang Prison in Selangor after losing his final appeal in the Federal Court in his graft case involving RM42mil from SRC International Sdn Bhd’s funds. Read more at https://bit.ly/3KlGCte
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Malaysia’s ex-PM Najib loses final appeal
Top court upholds former leader’s 12-year jail sentence in 1MDB scandal
By AFP
Malaysia's highest court on Tuesday upheld former prime minister Najib Razak's 12-year jail sentence for corruption in the 1MDB financial scandal, a decision analysts said could slam the door to a political comeback. Chief Justice Maimun Tuan Mat also issued a warrant of committal, which a lawyer said means Najib is going immediately to jail. The 69-year-old former prime minister looked somber and dejected, surrounded by his wife Rosmah and two children as the verdict was read. "We find the appeal devoid of any merits. We find the conviction and sentence to be safe," Maimun said on behalf of a five-judge panel of the Federal Court. "It is our unanimous view that the evidence led during the trial points overwhelmingly to guilt on all seven charges." Maimun said that "it would have been a travesty of justice of the highest order if any reasonable tribunal, faced with such evidence staring it in the face, were to find that the appellant is not guilty of the seven charges preferred against him." Sankara Nair, a lawyer who is not involved in the case, told AFP that "with the court issuing a warrant of committal, Najib will be sent to prison immediately." The Federal Court decision was handed down after the tribunal threw out a last-minute move by Najib's lawyers to recuse the chief justice from hearing the case, alleging bias on her part. The final ruling on the jail sentence also came four years after his long-ruling party's shock election defeat in 2018, during which allegations he and his friends embezzled billions of dollars from state fund 1MDB were key campaign issues. A lower court in July 2020 found Najib guilty of abuse of power, money laundering and criminal breach of trust over the transfer of 42 million ringgit ($10.1 million) from SRC International, a former unit of state fund 1MDB, to his personal bank account. An appellate court in December 2021 denied his appeal, prompting him to go to the Federal Court for a final recourse. Some analysts said the decision will likely derail any plans by Najib for a political comeback. "If Najib is found guilty, he will be barred from standing in the next election. Obviously, his political career is gone," James Chin, a professor of Asian studies at the University of Tasmania, told AFP before the verdict was announced. "Under Malaysian law, Najib cannot stand for this election and the next election," he said, referring to speculation that polls may be held in 2022. Elections are not due until September 2023. Najib and his ruling party were voted out in 2018 following allegations of their involvement in a multibillion dollar financial scandal at 1MDB. He and his associates were accused of stealing billions of dollars from the country's investment vehicle and spending it on everything from high-end real estate to pricey art.
Despite the lower court sentence, Najib had not been sent to prison while the appeals process played out.
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Forces face farce, the controversy surrounding the purchase of six littoral combat ships (LCS)
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Forces face farce, the controversy surrounding the purchase of six littoral combat ships (LCS)
THE current controversy surrounding the purchase of six littoral combat ships (LCS), which is burning RM11bil of taxpayers’ hard-earned money, isn’t the first discrepancy and alleged corruption, incompetence and mismanagement involving the Defence Ministry (Mindef). In the name of national interest, details relating to procurement are often shrouded in secrecy, with information branded classified. Last week, the government announced that it plans to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the LCS issue, which has now been presented to the Cabinet. It’s certainly a good follow-up to the detailed findings by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the de-classification of a report which highlighted the poor financial management and cash flow issues ailing Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS), the company embroiled in the LCS fiasco. Hopefully, the setting up of the RCI will expose Mindef’s shortcomings and reveal it to the public while establishing a proper procurement process. The RCI shouldn’t be another panel with a glorified name which delays its deliberation and has its report collecting dust at the end of it. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has already stepped in, and Malaysians want to see the case expedited with the Attorney General hauling up the culprits responsible for the inflated costs. This could include powerful political personalities who directed those implicated in the PAC report. The sad reality is that the LCS issue is yet another shameful blot on Mindef’s long and never-ending series of scandals over the last 40 years. Before we pore over its “chequered” history of the past decades, fresh in my mind is the 2019 news reports of the non-delivery of six helicopters worth RM300mil that were ordered in 2015. Bernama had reported that a Mindef representative filed a complaint at MACC, saying the McDonnell Douglas MD530G lightweight combat helicopters were to be handed to Malaysia in 2017 and 2018. It reported, quoting sources, that approval for the November 2015 purchase of the helicopters was not done according to procedures, with the government’s interests not properly protected. The source told Bernama that the Malaysian government had paid up RM112.65mil for the acquisition, or 35% of the total cost. We haven’t heard from MACC since 2019, when it said it was investigating 14 controversial land swap deals involving Mindef. The list of dodgy procurement deals is long. It includes the 1981 purchase of 26 units of the British Alvis Scorpion tanks. According to Consumer Association of Penang president, Mohideen Abdul Kader, the tank’s recommended Rolls-Royce gasoline engines were replaced with slower diesel ones, and the guns with heavier ones. He said the modifications made the tanks heavier and slower, a sitting duck in any military encounter, and eventually in 2018, they were scrapped. “The 186 SIBMAS armoured personnel carriers purchased by Malaysia in 1983 were found to lack combat effectiveness. “Malaysia bought 18 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MKM Air Superiority Fighters, taking delivery of three in 2007 and the rest in 2009. He said the deal, worth RM3.2bil, was made through a Russian state company whose local agent was paid 12% of the purchase price, amounting to RM380mil. Mohideen said by 2018, most of them had become unserviceable, with only four of the 18 fighter jets still able to fly. The rest were under repair and the ministry eventually fired the contractor, apparently for failing to maintain the jets in airworthy condition. “In 2002, the ministry negotiated through a Kuala Lumpur-based local company Perimekar Sdn Bhd to buy two Scorpene submarines and a used Agosta submarine produced by the French government at the price of RM4.5bil.” Mohideen said a whopping commission of RM510mil was paid, 11% of the purchase price of the submarines. He also claimed that in 2004, the PSC-Naval Dockyard was contracted to deliver six patrol boats to the Malaysian Navy, but only two were delivered in 2006, neither of which were fully operational. He said by 2007, the original cost of RM5.35bil ballooned to RM6.7bil, a 26% increase. Mohideen said the auditor general reported that the ministry had paid RM4.26bil, although only RM2.87bil worth of work had been completed, implying an overpayment of 48%. He said the Cabinet also waived late penalties of RM214mil. A comprehensive list can’t be contained within this space because, sadly, it’s never-ending. To take consolation, similar malpractices are reported all over the world. Dr Zia Ul Haque Shamsi’s report on July 19, 2021, described India as having the most corruption scandals when it comes to buying arms and equipment. He said India was plagued with scandals of military transactions despite stringent and painstaking bureaucratic processes for the approvals of defence procurements. It will only be a matter of time before similar specialist writers on defence use Malaysia as a case study, especially when our approval process can hardly be described as rigorous. As lawyer Mohideen rightly said, “the incestuous relationship between politically connected local agents of foreign arms manufacturers and the ministry must be ended.” Enough is enough. It’s time we clean up our act and stop the country being looted through Mindef.
This entry was posted in On the Beat on August 21, 2022 by wcw.
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Wong Chun Wai
Wong Chun Wai began his career as a journalist in Penang, and has served The Star for over 35 years in various capacities and roles. He is now group editorial and corporate affairs adviser to the group, after having served as group managing director/chief executive officer. On The Beat made its debut on Feb 23 1997 and Chun Wai has penned the column weekly without a break, except for the occasional press holiday when the paper was not published. In May 2011, a compilation of selected articles of On The Beat was published as a book and launched in conjunction with his 50th birthday. Chun Wai also comments on current issues in The Star.