Support the women

By LOOI SUE CHERN

WOMEN voters in Bagan were told to give their support to the women candidates standing in the constituency.

Wanita MCA chief Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen said if all women voters in the constituency voted for Barisan Nasional’s Bagan parliamentary candidate Song Choy Leng and Teh Lay Cheng (Sungai Puyu state seat), the ruling coalition would have a good chance to grab the seat back from the Oppo-sition.

“If women cast their votes for Choy Leng, we will have a 70% chance to win in Bagan. The fight for Bagan is tough but winning is not impossible,” she said at the Bagan MCA headquarters yesterday.


Ng (second right) leading BN Sungai Puyu candidate Teh Lay Cheng (third right); Bagan candidate Song Choy Leng (left) and Bayan Baru candidate Ooi Siew Kim (forth right) to meet residents at Sungai Puyu.
She said Bagan should have a full-time MP serving them instead of DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

Lim who is contesting against Song would be dividing his time between Penang and Malacca, where his family lived, she said.

During a visit to Taman Oi Leng in Sungai Puyu, Dr Ng also called on the people to support incumbent Bagan Jermal assemblyman Ooi Chuan Aik, who she described as a hardworking state representative.

Dr Ng said the present government had helped the people by subsiding fuel and gas prices and abolishing school fees among others.

There, the residents handed a memorandum to Dr Ng, asking her to assist them from being evicted by the Royal Malaysian Air Force which owned the land.

Dr Ng promised that MCA would look into the matter.

“That would be Song’s first task if she is elected an MP,” Ng said.

Also present were Song, Teh, Ooi, Penang MCA Wanita chief and Bayan Baru parliamentary candidate Ooi Siew Kim, and Bagan MCA division chairman Datuk Wei Bak Hoe.

Karaoke numbers to win ’em over

BAGAN Jermal incumbent Ooi Chuan Aik has been consuming warm water and fresh vegetables to maintain his voice, so he can continue to deliver karaoke numbers to impress voters.

The 45-year-old bachelor, who has a passion for singing, said he watched his diet to be able to deliver speeches as well as hit some of the high notes when he sang songs.

“I will render songs at public events, so long as I still have the voice,” he said after delivering a Mandarin song at the Taman Mawar Rukun Tetangga Chinese New Year dance competition on Tuesday night.

Ooi sang Pa Pin Nian (Peaceful Year) to a crowd of about 1,000 people, who rewarded him with thunderous claps.


Passion for singing: Ooi belting out a number.
Also present were Barisan Nasional’s Bagan parliamentary candidate Song Choy Leng and Sungai Puyu candidate Teh Lay Cheng.

In his speech, Ooi praised the three-month-old Taman Mawar RT for successfully organising its maiden public event.

“I am happy that I could obtain a piece of land for the residents to start an RT here.

“Apart from obtaining two container units for the RT to conduct their meetings, I am in the midst of getting playground equipment to be installed here,” he said.

Ooi said he would also help them obtain two more parcels of land within the area to create mini recreational parks.

Earlier, Ooi visited 43 fishermen from Pantai Bersih at Pangsapuri Pantai Bersih, whose boats and fishing equipment were damaged in a storm last July.

He gave them fishing nets worth RM64,000, noting that the state government had earlier presented 13 of them with new boats and engines worth a total RM100,000.

就算脫落光頭髮也都在所不惜

（檳城‧北海）峇眼惹瑪州議席國陣候選人黃泉益以打趣的口吻拉票：“如果人民想看我光頭的樣子，就請投我一票。”他說，4年前中選為州議員前，他的頭髮還很濃密，如今相信是因為非常繁忙的工作，導致嚴重脫髮，不過為了替人民解決問題，就算脫落光頭髮也都在所不惜。


黃泉益前晚在北海善財童子廟舉行的晚宴上，首次以福建話致詞時，表示相信他的禿頭情況是在中選州議員後，因為用腦力過度變得更嚴重，並自嘲如果在本屆大選中選，肯定會變成光頭。
他強調，峇眼惹瑪州議席是當年他的師父石清霖打拼回來的選區，但他的經驗不如石清霖豐富，無時無刻都還向石清霖請教，以便為當地人民作出更多的貢獻。

福建話演講幽默親切
他笑說，“如果屆時我變成光禿禿，就是晚上不開燈，也會看到我發亮的光頭”，此話一出，引起全場笑聲四起。黃泉益也在現場以一名禿頭的馬青團員呂榮和為例，並指著呂氏向大家說：“以後我就會像他一樣，再也不必梳頭髮”。

黃泉益自在4年前中選以來，都是以華語及內容很格式化的致詞，不過此次相信是為了引起選民對他的注意，首次以非常通順且流利的福建話向人民講話，而且還加入其幽默的演講內容。
過後黃泉益在受詢時說，以福建話溝通是要與選民接近距離及更有親切感。


Barisan to rely on track record

BUTTERWORTH: Barisan Nasional will stand by its track record in its battle to win over Bagan from the Opposition. Former Penang MCA chairman Tan Sri Dr Sak Cheng Lum said Barisan’s contribution to the progress of Bagan and the country’s development should be enough to win voters.

“Look at Butterworth’s development over the years. Look at its infrastructure and Chinese and Tamil schools,” said the five-term former Bagan Jermal assemblyman. He said Barisan had the confidence to win over Bagan, an opposition stronghold that had been under DAP for 20 years.

“Every general election has its own challenges but we acknowledge that this general election is more challenging. There are different issues to address and different accusations from the Opposition to face.

“But Barisan will go all out,” he said when asked if he thought MCA’s three candidates

Ooi Chuan Aik (Bagan Jermal),
Teh Lay Cheng (Sungai Puyu) and
Song Choy Leng (Bagan parliamentary seat)

could triumph over their DAP rivals.

Dr Sak was speaking to the press at Taman Kerapu where he joined Ooi and Song on their house-to-house campaign at the housing areas.

Ooi, who is the incumbent Bagan Jermal assemblyman is facing DAP’s Lim Hock Seng, the former Bagan MP.

Meanwhile, newcomers Song and Teh are contesting against DAP secretary-general and former Kota Melaka MP Lim Guan Eng and incumbent Sungai Puyu assemblyman Phee Boon Poh respectively.

Dr Sak also said that Lim Guan Eng might not know what the people of Bagan needed, although he could stir their emotions.

“I hope the people will give Guan Eng a nice welcome, and also a nice send-off,” he said.

分發全新的漁網

（檳城‧北海）去年在北海清潔海濱受到大風浪侵襲的43名各族漁民，週二（26日）獲得檳州政府分發全新的漁網，由該區原任州議員黃泉益親自移交到漁民手中。

這批漁網共價值6萬4000令吉，是由檳州政府撥款購買，以減輕受影響漁民的經濟負擔，這些受惠者當天在清潔海濱民眾會堂接領了一包包全新的漁網後，也興高采烈的與黃泉益及國陣峇眼國會候選人宋彩苓合影。

黃泉益說，檳州政府已撥款了16萬4000令吉購買漁網及漁船等，援助在去年一場大風浪受影響的漁民，其中價值10萬令吉的13艘漁船及引擎，已在上個月移交給漁民。

他也承諾，倘若國陣候選持續在本屆大選取勝，他們將會更落力的協助選民謀求福利並致力提昇人民的生活素質。

Rumah Hijau folk won’t be relocated

Residents' concerns:(From left)Ooi, Barisan candidate for the Bagan paprliamentary seat, Song Choy Leng, and MIC co-ordinator for Bagan Jermal J. Ellappan having a discussion with some of the Rumah Hijau residents after the dialogue session.Ooi, who presented his pledge through a letter to the Rumah Hijau Residents Association (RA), said he would continue highlighting the matter in the state legislative assembly.


By DERRICK VINESH

THE 1,000-odd residents living in longhouses at the Rumah Hijau resettlement area in Mak Mandin, Butterworth, need not fear of being uprooted against their will.

Incumbent Bagan Jermal assemblyman Ooi Chuan Aik said the residents no longer need to be relocated to Pangsapuri Ampang Jajar –a low-cost People’s Housing Project (PPR) scheme – as proposed earlier. “As long as I am re-elected Bagan Jermal assemblyman, I will ensure Rumah Hijau residents will remain in their neighbourhood,” he said at a dialogue with the residents at the Mak Mandin Murugan temple in Butterworth on Sunday night.

In 2005, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Rashid Abdullah said that a total of 1,781 squatter families, including those in Rumah Hijau Mak Mandin, would be resettled in low-cost housing projects in the state by 2007. Abdul Rashid had said that those squatting on state land would be offered to buy some of the state’s excessive low-cost housing units or rent its PPR units.

Rumah Hijau RA secretary V. Varutharaju said he hoped the government would build low-cost terrace units in the area, adding that the residents were willing to buy them at affordable prices.
“In 1972, the residents here gave up their original squatter houses and moved into the longhouses to enable the Penang Development Corporation to develop the Mak Mandin Industrial Area project.

“Initially, the residents were supposed to temporarily stay in the longhouses for about three to five years but it has been 36 years since we moved to Rumah Hijau,” he said.

Another resident M. Manogran, 53, said the two-roomed longhouses were decaying because of white ants, adding that there was also no proper sewerage system in the area.

“Rumah Hijau is a slump-within-a-town. It is not accessible by cars and the houses are often hit by flash floods as well as drainage backflow,” he said.

The Star Feb 26,2008.

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