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- Tour the Philippines with the ambassador
- Ambiga: I don't have a Facebook page
- Obama to attend GES in KL on Oct 11
| Tour the Philippines with the ambassador Posted: KUALA LUMPUR: Fancy a five-day holiday in metro Manila and nearby provinces – with none less than the Philippine Ambassador to Malaysia as your tour guide? Here's your chance to join J. Eduardo Malaya as he introduces his personal favourite locations during the embassy's inaugural "Ambassador's Tour to the Philippines" event from Nov 21 to 25. Among the locations lined up are the Rizal National Monument and Park, Fort Santiago, Manila Cathedral and Casa Manila in the historic walled city of Intramuros. Malaya said the tour was his unique way to encourage Malaysians to visit the Philippines. "Through this tour, we are hoping participants will tell friends and family about their experience," he said at the embassy here. Asked which location in the tour was his personal favourite, the envoy was quick to pick Villa Escudero. "My most wonderful memory there was as a child at a waterfall there, where lunch is served on tables set over a flowing stream. "I would love participants to experience the wonders of the place for themselves," he said. The package tour is jointly organised by the embassy and the Philippine Department of Tourism, and is priced at RM2,500 per person including round-trip airfare, accommodation, meals, basic tours, travel insurance, 15kg luggage allowance, airport taxes and transfers. Those interested can contact the embassy at 03-2148 4233 (ext 106) or Borneo Tours at 03-5631 2988. On the unrest in the Philippine coastal city of Zamboanga, Malaya said this was unlikely to threaten security in Sabah. |
| Ambiga: I don't have a Facebook page Posted: PETALING JAYA: Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan has distanced herself from a popular Facebook page that was allegedly posting statements in her name. Expressing her shock, the Bersih co-chairman cautioned Netizens not to believe posts by pages that have her name on them as she is never on Facebook. The page on the social networking site called "I Like Ambiga Sreenevasan" has 13,224 likes and has been active since 2011. There is a summary of the Bersih co-chairman's achievements in the page's profile and a house address, which Ambiga says could be the headquarters for Bersih 2.0 and EMPOWER. At first glance, the page looks like a fan page but posts on it are written as if they came from Ambiga or official sources. Among the posts are "I've done all I could, I will be there always for the people!" which was posted in the run-up to the Bersih 3.0 rally and "Please do not post/comment hatred or racial influence material on my wall. All sick comments will be banned forever!" More recently, the page administrator posted "We have received thousands of suggestions and requests to host another massive rally on clean & fair elections. What do you have to say?" in April, and "Guys please stay home for now!" a day before the May 5 general election. Ambiga told The Star that she only found out about the page after being notified by someone in a meeting last week. "I am not on Facebook because I have some issues with its security, but I am on Twitter." However, she said that she did not believe there was an intention for the page to mislead anyone as it seemed to have reproduced information from the Bersih website. Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission chairman Datuk Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi said the authorities would look into the page. |
| Obama to attend GES in KL on Oct 11 Posted: PETALING JAYA: President Barack Obama will visit Malaysia for the 4th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) scheduled in Kuala Lumpur from Oct 11 to 12. The US president is also scheduled to meet Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak during his historic visit here, the first by a US president in 47 years. President Lyndon B. Johnson visited Malaysia in 1966. According to a White House statement issued yesterday, Obama will deliver a keynote address at the GES which is the leading US Government-supported forum for promoting economic growth through entrepreneurship. Obama launched the GES in Washington DC in 2010 to connect entrepreneurs, banks, venture capitalists, investors and others to catalyse partnerships, encourage growth and strengthen ties. The president is also visiting Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines as part of an ongoing mission to promote the US security engagement as well as economic and political ties in the Asia-Pacific region. Obama will also attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Economic Leaders meeting in Bali before heading to Brunei to attend the US-Asean Summit and the East Asia Summit. On the margins of the Apec meeting, Obama will host a meeting of Leaders of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries, the statement added. During the Asean and EAS meetings, Obama will discuss US co-operation in the Asia Pacific region in the areas of energy, maritime security and investment as well as development and trade promotion. |
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