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PM: Govt and Indian community must work together to build trust
23 PSM members charged for having rally leaflets
Health Minister: Total of 63 hospitals now open to housemen

PM: Govt and Indian community must work together to build trust

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:58 AM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government and the Indian community must work together to build trust in order to deliver a brighter future for the Indian community, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on Monday.

He said one of the three areas they could work collectively together included documenting the history of Indians in Malaysia.

"These include Indians who had sacrificed much for nation building, Indians who, despite all the odds, had made real advances and Indians who propagated their heritage and made it flourish," he said.

Najib also said that another collective effort could be expanding the appreciation for Tamil and other Indian languages as well as bringing together the best and the brightest of the community to work with him to chart a bright future for Malaysian Indian community.

Among the transformational initiatives that the Government had embarked on was executing policy and delivering resources specifically towards improving the lives of the Malaysian Indian community, he said during the launch of the Temple of Fine Arts new RM20mil building on Monday.

The Government was also actively engaging the community at various levels and through multiple unconventional channels, he said.

"Whether via federal ministries, agencies, special task forces or Indian NGOs, we are entirely committed to increasing the pace of delivery, as we know there is much left to do," he said.

Najib said Malaysians needed to be clear that the things they did today be gear towards addressing legacy issues and overcoming contemporary challenges.

"When we talk about the future, we must build a vision of it that centres on a sense of hope, or faith in better times to come. In other words, what we need is nambikai (trust)," he said.

In a press conference, Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam said the Government had given the Temple of Fine Arts RM3mil for the new building while RM7mil was raised among the community and another RM10mil raised from a bank loan.

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23 PSM members charged for having rally leaflets

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:27 AM PDT

Published: Monday July 4, 2011 MYT 7:27:00 PM

GEORGE TOWN: A total of 23 Parti Sosialis Malaysia members were charged at a Sessions Court in Butterworth on Monday under the Societies Act 1966 for possessing 600 leaflets on the proposed illegal Bersih 2.0 July 9 rally.

They were also charged under the Internal Security Act 1960 for carrying subversive documents.

All of them were released on a total of RM8,000 bail each.

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Health Minister: Total of 63 hospitals now open to housemen

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:51 AM PDT

KAJANG: More hospitals are being made available to universities so that nearly 10,000 medical students can be trained compared to 6,500 housemen now, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.

The ministry has added 22 district government hospitals, bringing the total number of hospitals hosting housemen to 63, he said.

"The chosen hospitals will be able to give better service with the addition of more staff and, in return, provide new facilities to train medical students.

"Housemen need to practise their specialties at district level as there is a lack of specialists in district hospitals," he said after witnessing the signing of three Memoranda of Agreement between the ministry and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar), here, Monday.

The agreements signed would allow UTAR students studying nursing, physiotherapy, biomedical science, biochemistry and microbiology to be placed at one of 13 hospitals or eight health clinics in the country.

Meanwhile, Liow said the Traditional and Complementary Medicine (TCM) bill would not be postponed as all the relevant parties, including Traditional Chinese Medicine associations and practitioners, had been consulted on the Act.

Once the bill is passed, the industry would be registered under a council and regulated the same way doctors are monitored by the medical board.

"Treatment will better regulated and practitioners can be held liable if they do not give proper treatment to their patients," said Liow, adding that the act would also cut down on fly-by-night TCM practitioners.

Ayurvedic and Traditional Malay medicine practitioners would also be regulated under the new act.

Liow said the objective was not only to regulate and enforce the industry, but to allow the ministry to officially fund research for evidence-based TCM.

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Isnin, 4 Julai 2011