Monday, August 16, 2010

沙防范罪案基金会 与湖警方举行交流

沙防范罪案基金会 与湖警方举行交流

(斗湖十四日讯)有鉴于近日斗湖市内罪案频仍,除了掠抢偷窃案件外,更发生严重的破门掠劫案件,造成人心惶惶,大马防范罪案基金会沙巴分会因而特为此与斗湖警方举行交流会,并透过双造的紧密合作与建议,达致共识为遏止罪案携手为共同拼治安踏出第一步。

沙巴防范罪案基金会主席拿督陈沛武日前专程就有关事项抵访斗湖,并与该会副主席拿督彭恩良、理事拿督余伦福局绅设交流晚宴款待斗湖警方高级警官,以共同为斗湖市民的治安作出防范之努力,出席警官包括斗湖警区主任依布拉欣助理总监、副主任英兰警监、刑事调查主任沙则士副警监、政治部主任沙烈副警监、行政主任丹雅助理警监、肃毒组主任张明广助理警监、支援主任薛助理警监等警官及李再有。

曾任吉隆坡总警长的拿督陈沛武在交流会上,也以其丰富及见解独到的经验建议于警方,并分享其过去在警界服务时屡破罪案的手法。这名在七十年代时曾任斗湖警察局长的资深退休警官,亦在会上提供许多宝贵意见予斗湖警方参考,依布拉欣助理总监对于防范罪案基金会所反映地方上罪案的实情及市民心声表示欢迎,并允诺加速处理及全面打击罪案事件。

而向来非常关注刑事罪案之发生的前斗湖国会议员拿督余伦福,较早前所印制之防范罪案手册,也在交流会上受到警方的高度赞扬,并希望更加广泛加以流通,让市民都能从中受惠。

15th August 2010

Relook directors' training proposal

 NEWS WITHOUT BORDERS :: Local News
'Relook directors' training proposal'
by Kong See Hoh



Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai
KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 15, 2010): MCA vice-president and Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai has urged the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) to relook its proposal to make it mandatory for directors of non-listed companies to attend its training course in view of the negative response from the private sector.

Lim, who is also MCA national SME bureau chief, said in a statement the proposal is intended to raise the quality of the directors but there are a lot of technical problems which need to be overcome before it can be implemented.

“We need to study (the proposal) before its full implementation,” Nanyang Siang Pau quoted him as saying.

Lim pointed out that many company directors belong to the league of businessmen who started from scratch, and whose hands-on experience can match anything one can learn from the books.

“To businessmen, (attending) courses which do not produce results are deemed an act of taking a step backwards. Furthermore, many companies have professional secretaries, accountants and even legal consultants (to ensure everything is in order)," he said.

Lim felt that instead of making it compulsory for company directors to attend the training course, the government can consider organising seminars or interaction sessions on government policies regularly to better inform the people concerned on the latest developments, such as SME loan applications.

“The government should implement policies which the people want, based the 'people first' concept," he said.

The CCM has proposed that the government make it mandatory for private company directors to attend its corporate director training programme to better understand their responsibilities and duties. They are to pay for the one-and-a-half-day course out of their own pockets.

Once it is made compulsory, it will affect some 1,620,000 directors from about 810,000 non-listed companies in Malaysia.

The proposal drew flak from the private sector and many had regarded it as redundant.
Former Tawau MP Geoffrey Yee said the training course proposal “is impractical and unnecessary”. He said if it is implemented, company directors will be forced to take time off from their busy schedule to attend the course. Furthermore, they have to pay out of their own pockets.

Yee, who is now in the plantation industry and a company director himself, suggested that the government come up with a multi-lingual booklet on management which company directors can read up on their own free time.

Yee called up Nanyang to express his views as a Sabahan businessman after reading the daily’s report on the proposal.

He said should the government insist on implementing the proposal, it should provide the course free of charge as company directors, too, are paying income taxes every year.

MCA Youth SME development bureau chief Andy Chiew also voiced the bureau’s objection to the proposal. He said in a statement that CCM organised a similar training course three years ago but did not go down well with the industry.

He said it would be commendable for company directors to be able to learn what it takes to run a company in just one-and-a-half days. But the reality is that they do not, he said.

He said the last time around, the course was not properly organised and failed to raise the knowledge of the participants.

Apart from causing inconvenience to the private sector, it was a waste of resources, he said.



Source: The Sun

Friday, August 13, 2010

余伦福:应提供免费课程

余伦福:应提供免费课程 
2010/08/12 7:07:17 PM 
●南洋商报
(八打灵再也12日讯)沙巴斗湖区前国会议员拿督余伦福认为,马来西亚公司委员会有意规定私人有限公司董事自费参加管理课程是一项不实际,也不必要的建议。

他认为,建议若付诸实行,董事将被逼在百忙中抽空参加课程,而且还得自掏腰包。

他反建议政府印刷各媒介语的管理小册子,让董事可在空余时间翻阅小册子,了解当中内容。

余伦福曾是沙巴团结党1990年代执政时期的国会议员,目前是沙巴著名种植业者兼董事。

他今早在吉隆坡公干,看到《南洋商报》的封面头条后,有感而发,特地致电本报,针对公司委员会的建议,发表身为沙巴商人的意见。

他指出,董事也是纳税人,每年都有缴税,即使政府要落实此建议,也应该给予免费的课程。

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

湖四邑公會雙喜慶聯歡晩會本月廿二日盛大舉行

湖四邑公會雙喜慶聯歡晩會本月廿二日盛大舉行
【本報斗湖八日訊】斗湖四邑公會會長甄運來呼籲會員們踴躍參與即將於本月廿二日(星期日)下午六時卅分,假夜來香花園餐廳盛辦之「創會三十三年周年慶典曁孝親敬老聯歡晩會」曁「第十九屆(2010-2011)理事會、靑年團及婦女組宣誓就職典禮」。

會長甄運來表示,當晩的就職典禮很榮幸邀請到該會永久名譽主席拿督余倫福局紳擔任此屆理事會就職監誓嘉賓,最難得的是,該會也獲得全州四邑聯合會總會長拿督黃小娟的應允,擔任此屆靑年團及婦女組的監誓嘉賓;在得到兩位重量級人物的參與,勢必為當晩的活動增添不少的光彩。

此外,甄會長感到欣慰說,在是屆的理事會陣容當中,出現了四位全新臉孔的加入,他們分別是受委為副秘書的馮鈺雲、公關陳子和、副公關簡梅珍及靑年團團長戚宇瀚。由此可見,該會得到新血的注入來推動會務,也顯現出壯大的現象。

其披露,該會新屆理事會在今年的四月份進行復選後,原本計劃在六月份舉行宣誓就職典禮,可是由於該會會慶日期落在八月份的關系,因此該會最終決定隆重其事,同步於八月廿二日舉行會慶和就職典禮。

鑒此,主席呼籲該會鄉親會員屆時能夠踴躍出席參與,共慶年度的會慶盛典之外,同時也見證新屆理事會、靑年團及婦女組的誕生。

此外,籌委會主任陳奕杏表示歡迎凡是於一九四八年出生,年屆六十歲或以上的會員,報名參加會慶當晩同步舉辦的孝親敬老會;不過,參加者必須繳清年捐及福利金。

陳奕杏披露,在敬老會中獲選最高壽星公和壽星婆者,將各獲得金牌一面;凡是有份報名的會員也將每人獲頒發紅包,惟所有的報名者必須親自出席領取獎項,否則當棄權論。

所有有意報名參加敬老會的會員,促請在八月十二日(星期四)前,把塡妥的報名表格交回該會會所,逾期恕不受理。

當晩的活動是憑票入場,每桌入場餐券價格為三百三十令吉。會員們受促擁有購票共襄盛舉,並在即日起聯絡下列負責人士:梁月霞(778566;0168387718)、甄淑勤(0128189992)及黃超希(770471;0128181955)。
Overseas Chinese Daily News 9th August 2010