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Ong Tee Keat, the Malaysian Transport Minister and MCA president, revealed that several forces had ganged up to try and stop him from making public the PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report on the Port Klang Free Zone project. He said the forces included people involved in the case, politico-business forces connected to these people, and certain quarters within the ruling coalition. Ong insisted on the audit due to the huge sums of money involved and not wanting future generations to inherit the massive debt. However, releasing the report had cost the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition and MCA dearly in the previous election. Ong said if pursuing the truth and seeking a solution for the project was contrary to BN
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Ong Tee Keat, the Malaysian Transport Minister and MCA president, revealed that several forces had ganged up to try and stop him from making public the PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report on the Port Klang Free Zone project. He said the forces included people involved in the case, politico-business forces connected to these people, and certain quarters within the ruling coalition. Ong insisted on the audit due to the huge sums of money involved and not wanting future generations to inherit the massive debt. However, releasing the report had cost the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition and MCA dearly in the previous election. Ong said if pursuing the truth and seeking a solution for the project was contrary to BN
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Ong Tee Keat, the Malaysian Transport Minister and MCA president, revealed that several forces had ganged up to try and stop him from making public the PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report on the Port Klang Free Zone project. He said the forces included people involved in the case, politico-business forces connected to these people, and certain quarters within the ruling coalition. Ong insisted on the audit due to the huge sums of money involved and not wanting future generations to inherit the massive debt. However, releasing the report had cost the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition and MCA dearly in the previous election. Ong said if pursuing the truth and seeking a solution for the project was contrary to BN
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ganging up on me TRANSPORT Minister pursuing the case Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat are worse than those reveals that several forces Press Digest directly involved in had ganged up to try, by all by Kong See Hoh it; and to project the means, to stop him from newsdesk@thesundaily.com moral value that cre- making public the Price- ating a false sense of waterhouseCoopers (PwC) ers from the underworld” peace and harmony audit report on Port Klang that, “If you vanish from this is far more important than Free Zone (PKFZ). world one day, you know seeking the truth. Ong said In an interview with what had happened”. some people had also con- Sin Chew Daily yesterday, Ong stressed he had in- veyed the message that what he said the forces included sisted that PwC be commis- he was doing was on his own people involved in the case, sioned to carry out an audit accord, without the blessings politico-business forces with on PKFZ simply because of of either BN or the cabinet, connection to these people the huge sum involved and and so not condoned within and certain quarters within also because he did not want the BN government. the ruling coalition. “our children to inherit the “All that I have done was “The means they have massive debt”. done according to proce- used to stop me from mak- He admitted the PKFZ dures. I’m doing this not to ing the report public include case cost Barisan Nasional please the powers that be, threats on my personal safety (BN) and MCA dearly in the and I don’t depend on any and applying internal pres- general election on March 8 external force to consolidate sure,” he said. last year. my leadership. Relating his experience “Since there’s no way it “I believe the truth must in handling the PKFZ case can be erased from the mem- be told and a solution be since becoming transport ories of the public by evading sought to remove the gloom minister last year, Ong, who the issue, why not conduct a hanging over PKFZ.” is MCA president, said he thorough investigation and The MCA chief said if came under siege from po- let the truth be told?” what he had done was wrong, litico-business forces trying Ong said the PKFZ issue and had left the country in to block him from making had struck the political nerve trouble, or brought shame the report public, as well as of MCA, and politico-busi- to the BN, he was ready to from a Chinese-based oppo- ness forces took the chance make way for someone more sition party which resorted to infiltrate the party, and capable. to spreading rumours and even vowed to bring him “If what I’m doing is con- smear against him after the down at all costs. trary to the political culture report was made public. He said that these forces of BN or MCA, I can go any He said someone had were trying to convey the time, and will not have any warned him through “broth- message that the people regret,” he said.
‘Internet lover should share blame’
THE man police picked up girl, had told him she was on nude images. for questioning over a report single when they met in the He explained he emailed by his “internet lover” that internet chatroom in 2006. the picture to her after she he had circulated raunchy He admitted having ended the relationship to re- pictures of her in cyberspace posted pictures of her in sexy mind her of the promises that admitted he made some poses on some websites but she made, but had no idea mistakes but said she should not nude pictures as claimed how the pictures were later share the blame for what by her. circulated in the internet. happened. He also said he emailed Wheelchair-bound Phang Phang Jian Hua, 36, who her some nude pictures of her also said Ah Yen had used has been released on police which he grabbed on screen harsh words on him includ- bail, claimed the Chinese when she bared herself in ing calling him a eunuch woman from Guangzhou, front of the webcam. after quitting on him because identified only as 33-year- He denied her claim that according to her, he wasn’t old Ah Yen, a widow and he had doctored the pictures able to satisfy her physically mother of a seven-year-old by superimposing her face and materialistically.
of her husband Tongpor, who Police also seized lodge
is at large. paraphernalia, including But police major general wands, compasses and a briefs Kittikhun Khunchum said an investigation revealed that the skull. – dpa
couple had exported opium- Quake off Papua
laced hats to their relatives in the US on several previous New Guinea Opium-laced occasions. – dpa PORT MORESBY: A 6.1- tribal hats magnitude earthquake struck Freemasons held off the coast of Papua New BANGKOK: Thai police have Guinea’s remote New Ireland arrested a Hmong hill tribe over sorcery area yesterday, seismologists woman on charges of embroi- AUCKLAND: A New Zealand said, but there were no im- dering opium into handicraft man spent a “wretched” mediate reports of casualties for export to the US, a media night in a Fiji jail after po- or damage. report said Thursday. lice raided his Freemasons The epicentre of the strong Police on Wednesday meeting when frightened quake, which hit at 6.10am arrested Payia Saesong, 46, residents suspected witch- (2010 GMT Wednesday), was who was caught in the act of craft, the New Zealand located 103km south-south- embroidering 710gm of opium Herald reported yesterday. west of the town of Kavieng, into six tribal hats in her home The man, who did not New Ireland, the US Geological in Nan province, 300km north- wish to be identified, Survey said. It took place at a west of Bangkok, The Nation blamed “dopey village shallow depth of 19km. newspaper reported. people” for the raid on the There was no tsunami Payia, a member of the island of Denerau in which warning issued. Hmong ethnic minority group, 14 members of the Freema- Papua New Guinea sits told police it was the first time sons Lodge of Lautoka were on the so-called Pacific “Ring she had sewed opium into the herded into police cars and of Fire”, where continental handicraft on the instructions jailed for the night. plates meet. – AFP