UPSR Better Results

This year the overall Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) results are better with 46,461 or 9.2% scored all As against 7.8%, five years ago, shown that teaching of Maths and Science in English was not a failure.

Congratulation to all the UPSR students.

Dr Chan hits out at opposition

Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan can't longer kept silent and vehemently attacked the opposition member for making wild allegations, unsubstantiated statements and twisting facts to mislead the people against SUPP, BN and the government on any issue during his winding-up speech at the DUN.

"We should have the political will to minimise politicking and put our hearts and minds together in bringing changes, improvement and progress to Sarawak but the opposition always put the blame and pointing fingers on SUPP on almost any issue which SUPP have alway managing to deliver and bring people of all races the development, yet they are quick to hoodwink the people to publicly claim as theirs",said Dr Chan.

He said that the people are now living in challenging times with global crisis that was bound to affect the economy and it's the time for better coperation and working harder together in bringing changes, improvement and progress for the well-being of the people, the state and country, and this is certainly unhealthy to waste of precious time in the august house just o hurl criticisms and blame SUPP.

Contribution of Reduce in Workers' EPF Stays

The government has decided to stick with the move to reduce the workers' EPF contribution from next year despsite disagreement from few union bodies such as the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC, Malaysia Airlines System Employees Union (MASEU) and Malaysian Employers Federation.

Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said that the government came to the conclusion that the majority of contributors may feel that the initiative is good since they would be getting more cash in hand in this challenging time. The employees who did not wish to reduce their statutory contribution from 11% to 8% a month would have to fill up the form in writing stating.

Another Fuel Price Cut Soon

The price of fuel may see another cut in the middle of November, announced by Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad yesterday.
The presently price of RON97 petrol is at RM2.15, RON92 petrol at RM2.05 and diesel at RM2.05 per litre at the average price of oil at US70 per barrel.

Reduction in Prices

In respond to people's outcry, the government committed to their promises that they again reduced the fourth times of the oil prices to 15 cents effected from november. Follow the lead of reducing prices, CMS Cement has taken the lead role in adjusting the price of cement in response to a nationwide call by the government and industry associations to reduce prices of construction materials to overcome the present economic challenges. Therefore the prices of the houses will be decreasing within the means of the house-buyers.

Then it's high time for the other business sectors to follow the lead role in reducing the prices within the control prices.

Najib Secures UMNO Presidency

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak won the UMNO Presidency unopposed yesterday by securing 134 nominations for thepost. He will be officially declaring as the New President of UMNO at the Party General Assembly which is to be scheduled on 24 to 28 March 2009.