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Ananda Krishnan’s No. 2 Wanted By Indonesia

iipohbee — Sat, 05 May 2012 00:20:27 +0800

Ananda Krishnan’s No. 2 Wanted in Indonesia to Face Fraud Charges

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Indonesian police are looking to arrest Ralph Marshall, the right hand man of Malaysian multi-billionaire T. Ananda Krishnan, over fraud and money laundering charges, the republic's media have reported.

Indonesian news outlets said that Marshall, who is group CEO of Astro All Asia Networks, is now officially on the Wanted Persons List (Daftar Pencarian Orang) and police chiefs across the country have been directed to arrest him.

This comes after Marshall was put under probe last October by India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for charges related to criminal conspiracy over a deal involving Maxis and Indian telco Aircel.

BeritaSatu reported on April 22 that the Indonesian Police put Marshall on the Wanted Persons List after it was established that he was a suspect in a case of criminal forgery while he was involved with Astro's Indonesian venture.

Marshall had earlier been accused of forging documents that resulted in some US$90 million (RM270 million) in losses to Astro's then partner in Indonesia PT Ayunda Prima Mitra.

The attorney for PT Ayunda Prima Mitra, Eko Purwanto was quoted by BeritaSatu as saying that the Wanted Persons letter contained instructions for police chiefs across the nation to arrest Marshall and bring him in for questioning.

Abimanyu Kameshwara, another lawyer for First Media subsidiary Ayunda Prima Mitra, said Marshall was accused of misusing operational funds from Astro Nusantara worth US$90 million.

First Media is part of the Lippo Group, with which the Jakarta Globe is affiliated.

A pay television company partly owned by Ayunda, Direct Vision, partnered with Astro All Asia Networks from 2006 to 2008 to provide satellite television service for Indonesians under the Astro Nusantara trademark.

Astro Nusantara ceased operations in October 2008 due to a commercial dispute between Astro All Asia and Lippo Group, according to the Jakarta Globe.

Another report in Republika Online on April 25 quoted Astro's lawyer as saying that Marshall would not surrender himself to Indonesian authorities.

Astro's attorney, Hafzan Taher, said the allegations against Marshall were groundless and “misleading,” according to a report in the Jakarta Globe.

“Ralph Marshall never had an operational function in Direct Vision nor did he ever have responsibility in the company,” Hafzan’s law firm, Soemadipradja & Taher, said in a statement.

"If he goes to Indonesia, it would be the same as handing his neck over for a hanging," said Hafzan. "This is an unfortunate situation as Ralph Marshall is the CEO of a large concern."

Hafzan had also earlier demanded a clarification from the police over the naming of Marshall as a suspect as he claimed that the police had dropped the case in 2010 due to a lack of evidence.

According to Media Indonesia, Marshall is being suspected of forging documents that made it appear as if Direct Vision was in debt to Astro Nusantara to the extent that it incurred losses to PT Ayunda Prima Mitra to the tune of US$90 million.

Closer to home, Indian police arrived in Malaysia late last month in a bid to gain access to information related to Maxis’s controversial acquisition of India's Aircel that allegedly involved RM351 million in kickbacks to former Indian Telecommunications Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother.

The CBI had filed the graft case on October 10 last year against Ananda, who controls Maxis, Marshall, who is a non-executive director at Maxis, and the Marans.

“The agency wants to know details of some financial transactions... besides recording the statement of a non-executive director of the company who has been named... by CBI in October last year,” The Times of India reported, referring to Marshall.

Both Dayanidhi and Maxis have denied any wrongdoing, with the latter insisting its RM2.5 billion purchase of the Aircel stake from Sivasankaran was on a willing-buyer, willing seller basis.

http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/newsco...e-fraud-charges

http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/highlights/...-turn-ugly.html

This is Ananda Krishnan's 2nd Man named Ralph Marshall. He sits as one of the top directors in Maxis and acting management.

Name is Ralph Marshall.At first glimpse you'll think it's whiteman's name but his picture:

Anaconda uses his 2nd man to deal with his India telco contracts and many international ventures.

Different Types Of Beer For Everyone

iipohbee — Fri, 04 May 2012 23:01:24 +0800

1 - DogBeer With Steak Flavour - Beer For Anjing

2 - Milk Beer

3 - Kids Beer

4 - Tomato Bibere - Tomato Beer

5 - Weasel Shit Beer(Kopi Luwak Beer)

6 - Pizza Beer

7 - Oyster Beer aka Siham Beer

Reporting Racial Profiling at US Airports

iipohbee — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:05:26 +0800

Yahoo Singapore: Racial profiling at US airports? Here's an app for that

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Travelers who suspect they are victims of profiling by security screeners at US airports can now lodge a complaint in minutes, thanks to a smartphone application released on Monday.

The Sikh Coalition, supported by African American, Latino and Muslim civil rights groups, said its FlyRights app can be used by anyone who feels their rights were violated at the security barrier.

"For too long, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has kept a long leash on its screeners, telling them not to profile, but taking no effective measures to stop it," said its director of programs Amardeep Singh.

"Until that happens, we call on the public to hold the TSA accountable by downloading the FlyRights app and filing reports when appropriate."

According to Department of Homeland Security data, only 11 official complaints of improper TSA screening were filed in the first half of 2011 through a bureaucratic process most travelers know nothing about.

The Sikh Coalition, which speaks for the 500,000-strong Sikh American community, expects that figure to grow "exponentially" once FlyRights -- a free download for iPhone and Android -- is widely distributed.

With their turbans and beards, both expressions of their faith, Sikh Americans often found themselves mistaken for Arabs in the emotional aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Many Muslim Americans, including women who wear the hijab, say they too have been singled out for additional TSA searches for no apparent reason other than the way they look and dress.

"It is known that profiling is not an effective means of law enforcement," said Gadeir Abbas of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

"When we profile, we not only stigmatize the minority community, but we also do our concerns about safety a disservice."

In a sign of the app's potential scope, Singh said the very first person to use it Monday alleged she encountered gender discrimination on her way to an early-morning flight.

Building on the TSA's own complaint process, FlyRights users can specify whether they have been wrongly treated by a TSA security officer on the basis of race, religion, gender, ethnicity, nationality or disability.

It goes on to ask for flight and incident details, before the user hits a blue button and sends the complaint directly to the civil rights offices of both the TSA and Homeland Security. The Sikh Coalition gets an optional copy.

The app's key advantage, he said, is that travelers can fire off a complaint within minutes of an incident -- rather than several hours later, once they find a computer at their destination.

In an email to AFP, the TSA -- which screens two million passengers a day at more than 450 airports -- denied it uses profiling. It also appeared to dispute the need for the app, saying travellers should complain directly to it.

"TSA does not profile passengers on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion," TSA spokesman Kawika Riley said.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/racial-profiling-...-164109458.html

Some people still think that they can FREELY roam the world and every man's land belongs to ALL.
They don't know that as long as they are in some foreign land, it's possible that US Authorities can send anyone to Guatamala without trials and is not required to inform any of your close relatives.

Only Commonwealth countries talk about "equal rights" and by this freedom many criminals are taking FULL ADVANTAGE of it.

Smoking Is Main Cause of Lung Cancer Conspiracy

iipohbee — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:58:22 +0800

The History of the Conspiracy Against Tobacco

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The federal government is fighting the tobacco epidemic on several fronts. In November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it will spend about $600 million over five years on a campaign to educate the public about the dangers of tobacco." It is due to be released on March 8.

That is, $600 million to LIE to the public about the phony dangers of tobacco. The cost of this hate campaign could nearly have paid the health costs of all poor people who lacked insurance! Also expect to hear the Big Lie that smokers are an economic burden to society, which is based on falsely pretending that costs paid by smokers were paid by society, that diseases caused by infection are caused by smoking, and that non-smokers' costs don't exist at all (e.g., the CDC's SAMMEC).

And LGBTs appear to have their own private invitation to a pre-release party on March 6, with their own participant passcode. Note that there are no government agencies dedicated to persecuting gays and making life as miserable as possible for them. Nor are they victimized by studies based on questionnaires, that falsely blame their lifestyle for diseases caused by infection. It's exactly the opposite of how smokers are treated by the government. And their powerful friends at Harvard get millions of dollars of our taxes for research on AIDS. Also note that this website, "The Network for LGBT Health Equity," is a CDC-funded front group. It's similar to other CDC-created front groups designed to prey on minority groups.

Surgeon General Commits Flagrant Scientific Fraud!

Throughout this entire malicious, fraudulent, and corrupt report, there is no mention whatsoever of the role of infection in the diseases it blames on smoking. Smokers and passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to these infections, for socioeconomic reasons. And the anti-smokers' studies are based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires, so they're cynically DESIGNED to falsely blame tobacco for diseases that are really caused by infection. See the index to this report, where there is no mention of human papillomavirus, Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis viruses B or C, Helicobacter pylori, the pathogens which cause chorioamnionitis, or any other infectious agent whose effects they simultaneously ignore and exploit. (A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease. The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease).

It proves that the Surgeon General is a corrupt charlatan employed by crooked politicians, not a scientist.

For the government to commit fraud to deprive us of our liberty is automatically a violation of our right to the equal protection of the laws, no different from purposely throwing innocent people in prison. And spreading lies about phony "smoking dangers" is an act of TERRORISM, no different from calling in a phony bomb threat.

The Surgeon General Lies! SG falsely blames smoking for p16 methylation caused by viruses

The Surgeon General Lies That Smoking Causes Heart Disease

http://www.smokershistory.com/

Did you know those images advertised by the Health Industry potraying the side effects of smoking? They were actually acute baterial/virus infections that falsely linked to smoking.

It's again a crony game. In Japan why smoking is encouraged as <you know who> hold shares inside Japan Tobacco?
The opposite is true for US where the FDA spents billions over the years to discourage smoking?

Who is true?
It is said that the Japanese cigarettes have high quality active charcoal filters that absorb carcinogen. They have very low tar content and is quite safe to health. Methold based cigarettes are mild and do not have bad odour.

You can read up more here if you're interested:

http://www.smokershistory.com/
http://www.smokingaloud.com/

Why does our Government keep increasing tobacco and beer prices to discourage good quality imports at the same time indirectly encourage the smuggling of poor quality cigarettes which are more harmful?

Guide For Yellow Lolcats

iipohbee — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:24:55 +0800

Frog Sitting Up Like a Bawse

iipohbee — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:11:06 +0800

This frog sits up like a boss on the bench:

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Maybe he's from Naruto's world

Change of Taste For KFC Mash Potato In Malaysia

iipohbee — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:44:56 +0800

Anyone here had noticed the change of KFC's mash potato sauce over the past 2 years?

I still remember the tasty sauce I had with it some 20 years back. It was ummmp so good many years back when it wasn't only blunt black pepper. It had extra ingredients such as thyme, garlic or whatver(Colonel's Secret 11 herbs n spices).

It seems they already skimmed down the herbs formula to save cost.

Bo Gua Gua Luxurious Lifestyle (Son of Bo Xilai)

iipohbee — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:03:32 +0800

Scandalous Party Lifestyle

Pissing in the gates of Oxford.

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China's leaders are facing their biggest political crisis for years as they struggle to quell rumours of an attempted coup in Beijing amid splits in the ruling elite.

Officials have cracked down on internet reports of soldiers in the streets and gunfire in the leaders’ secure compound near the Forbidden City.

It now appears that the playboy lifestyle of Mr Bo’s 24-year-old Harrow and Oxford-educated son Bo Guagua may have contributed to his downfall by stirring up resentment in China.

Bo Guagua, the most high-profile of a group of sons and daughters of Chinese leaders labelled the ‘princelings’ because of their hereditary wealth and hedonistic lifestyles, has a reputation for lavish spending.

While studying philosophy, politics and economics at Balliol College, Oxford, he was reportedly ‘rusticated’ – or suspended – for failing to study hard enough.

He was described in one student magazine article as ‘terminally spending’ and was said to have a ‘strained relationship with books’.

According to contemporaries, he once organised a Silk Road Ball at Oxford, which included a kung fu display by Shaolin temple monks from China. And he impressed fellow students by arranging for movie star Jackie Chan to deliver a lecture, and even sang on stage with him.

And last week, the word Ferrari was banned from internet search engines across China amid rumours that the son of a senior Communist Party official had been killed in a high-speed car crash in the capital.

Two female passengers were said to have been seriously injured when the Ferrari 458 split in two after crashing into a bridge at 4am last Sunday.

Beijing police refused to confirm the incident or the identity of the people involved.

2nd Source:

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However, the Telegraph reports that his time at the college was not without controversy. He gained a reputation for "throwing champagne and shisha parties in college rooms," driving a Ferrari, and making flashy displays of wealth. Unfortunately he failed to impress his tutors (who “speak quite openly about their disdain for him”), and was eventually suspended for a year.

It appears that a visit from the Chinese ambassador may have convinced Balliol College to give him another chance. The school refused to give him a recommendation for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, however — but he was accepted anyway.

During his time at college he reportedly dated Lale Can, a Turkish student with whom he helped organize a party where British hip hop DJ Tim Westwood played, though he has also been linked to Chen Xiaodan, the daughter of the governor of the China Development Bank, and one of John Huntsman's daughters.

The WSJ reported this week that the younger Bo is thought to be in his Cambridge, Ma. apartment, "which is in a seven-story apartment building, which has a fitness room, sun deck and doorman." The Harvard Crimson has picked up the story, though Bo Guagua has not commented so far.

While there's an element of titillation in learning about the life of the playboy son, for the Chinese these stories speak of something more important, too — the possible corruption of Bo Xilai. The Times of London reports that even a senior politician like him would only earn around £300 ($478) a month. Harrow's school fees alone are £7,345 ($11,704) a term.

Source:
The Daily Mail UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-21...ijing-coup.html
Business Insider
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-0...-uk-top-schools

Are you guys proud to enter Oxford, now? Drive a Ferrari, throwing rave parties and upclose posing with girls.
Is there even a Malaysian version of this story?

Softbank Telecom JP Otousan The Dawg CM

iipohbee — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:29:57 +0800

Softbank New Commercial in Japan.

Daughter kiss the dawg and the dawg start scratching...

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Mazda Axela or Proton P3-21A

iipohbee — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:36:04 +0800

Mazda Axela or Mazda 3 with SkyActiv Technology

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Revised STPM Economy Subject Results

iipohbee — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:02:15 +0800

ACS students are happy they finally received the right revised STPM results

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SMK Methodist (ACS) Sitiawan student Ng Thien Yeong can finally apply to study law after receiving his revised Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) results.

Thien Yeong, 20, was among a group of 30 students from the school who cried foul over their Economy Paper 1 results, in which most of them had obtained either a D or F.

“I’m glad the Malaysian Examinations Council (MPM) took swift action by sending out the revised results to our school and informing every student about it through SMS.

“I obtained an A for the paper according to the revised results and this has improved my Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) tremendously.

“I believe the rest did well also and their hard work was reflected in the revised results,” he said.

It was reported on Monday that the group of students were shocked to receive news that they had done badly in their Economy Paper 1 despite their good performance in the school exams.

The group had demanded that MPM guarantee swift action as any delay would jeopardise their university applications.

“I’m glad the issue has been resolved but it still puzzles me as to why the problem occurred in the first place.

“Was it a technical error?” Thien Yong asked, adding that there were no reasons given by MPM.

That's Malaysian Education. After revising, now it went from an 'F' to an 'A'

How will people ever going to trust our standards from now? Suka-suka only give results. Even if you get 5As should you be proud?

STPM Topic Removed?

iipohbee — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:29:24 +0800

I can't believe my topic was removed for no reason instead of moving it to some other serious talk section.

Can a mod or staff give some good reason?

Israel JONAH Submarine Cable System

iipohbee — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:34:34 +0800

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JONAH Submarine Cable System can support more than 5.0 Terabits per second (Tbps) of data capacity between Tel Aviv and Bari, Italy, which enables the simultaneous download of 70,000 MP3 files in one minute and the streaming of 11,000 HDTV channels concurrently, addressing the growing demands of the highly dynamic Israeli telecom market, which shows one of the highest household broadband and mobile penetration rates in the world.

JONAH high-speed submarine cable system currently operates at 40G and can support 100G transmission in future, increasing the ultimate capacity of the cable to over 7.0 Tbps. The round trip delay from Tel Aviv to Bezeq International's European PoPs is less than 60 milliseconds.

The system integrates Alcatel-Lucent OALC-5 cable, optimized with coherent submarine fiber (CSF), repeaters and the 1620 Light Manager (LM) submarine line terminal which is designed to accommodate 10G/40G/100G wavelengths in the same platform, enabling seamless capacity upgrade on flexible grid for channel spacing without traffic interruption.

JONAH Submarine Cable System's advanced technology offers Bezeq International access to huge bandwidth at more affordable rates, while empowering Bezeq International ability to deliver new applications.

http://www.bezeqint.net/PageEng.aspx?cc=01050107

This is Israel's first step of their NGN project to provide enough capacity to its 5 million+ population. It'll cut down latency to major Europe destination at around 60ms max and provide more than enough bandwidth even for 100M subscribers.

You can consider this as the world's highest speed submarine cable with the lowest user density.It could even handle the traffic if every citizen gets a 10Gbps dedicated connection at home.
How about that?

Israel's last mile will employ the latest FTTH technologies as well as the latest variant of VDSL2 that uses a mix of line bonding/vectoring technologies.

Can Malaysia cut down US server latency to around 50ms?

P1 To Start Offering Services on HSBB End of Mar12

iipohbee — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:28:05 +0800

P1 to offer fibre optic broadband next month

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KUALA LUMPUR: Wireless broadband services provider Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd (P1) yesterday revealed it will launch its fibre optic cable-powered high-speed broadband service next month as part of its new expansion phase known as “P1 2.0 Evolution Plan”.

As part of the plan, P1 is also preparing to upgrade its network from the existing WiMAX technology to 4G TD-LTE (time division long-term evolution).

P1 CEO Michael Lai said the fibre-optic network will be initially rolled out in the Klang Valley while the TD-LTE upgrades will only come in 2013 and beyond.

To recap, P1 had signed an agreement with Telekom Malaysia Bhd ™ to use the latter’s high-speed broadband (HSBB) network for the provision of transmission and access services.

The deal grants P1 access to all 1.3 million homes connected to the HSBB network nationwide.

“Our existing base stations are prepared for the transition to TD-LTE. It will only take a 30-minute software update to switch a base-station to TD-LTE,” said Lai, who expects P1 to start providing overlapping TD-LTE 4G services as early as 2013 and possibly a full transition as soon as 2015.

http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/in-the-fina...next-month.html

Lai Lai Lai..Mai Datang KE P1 HSBB.

Why Engineering Is No Longer In Demand?

iipohbee — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:41:11 +0800

To those who studies Engineering.Do you know why this field is no longer in demand?

Give some good reasons why employers should pay Malaysians more when they can pay these people 1/2 of what you get?
Also why they should pay 10X more to Australian, EU and US engineers when these people can get the job completed?
That's right! 10X more when these people are willing to work more hours and put their lifes on the job.

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[youtubewide]AMnTBBfR04M[/youtubewide]

At the rate of what our local universities produce it is no difference from the video shown above.

New WIMAX Provider With Unlimited Package

iipohbee — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:33:16 +0800

New WIMAX provider in Bangladesh.
www.banglalionwimax.com/

Banglalion WIMAX 4G
Fast mobile internet. Get the LION.

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This one got old Angelina Jolie with dentures too...

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So is Angelina Jolie Bangladeshi's idol queen? hahaha.

Long Humveee in Ipoh

iipohbee — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:12:17 +0800

Taken from Ipoh FB Page:

Long Humveee in Ipoh

iipohbee — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:11:49 +0800

EDITTED and closed

Which Country Has the Most Valuable Passport?

iipohbee — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:13:17 +0800

Which country has the most valuable passport on this planet that is accepted almost anywhere worldwide without needing even needing visas?

Anyone knows?

New ISP for Singapore NGNBN - MyRepublic

iipohbee — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:15:44 +0800

Singapore's latest RSP(ISP) addition to their NGNBN Fibre network.
http://www.myrepublic.com.sg/

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Only 3 Simple No-Contract packages available with same speeds:- Symmetrical 100mbps
**For Singapore citizens and PR, the first 100,000 customers to PURE will benefit from a “no contract” term

SGD$59 for Pure Package
SGD$69 For Gamer Package
SGD$89 For Tutor Package

If opt for 24mths contract, 1st 6 mths:

Pure: SGD$9.90/mth
Gamer: SGD$12.90/mth

Normal rates thereafter.

Supplied Equipment:
ONU:
Nucleus Connect Huawei EchoLife HG863 ONU

Home Gateway:

EnGenius ESR9850 300mbps Wireless router

How's that for pricing?

P2P Policies and Speed Suggestions

Every ISP rate-limits/throttles P2P traffic. What is your policy?
This is a very practical question and a reality which all ISPs including MyRepublic must face. At MyRepublic, we understand that our subscribers expect their fair-share. We engineered our network so that you won’t have a bad experience watching online video just because your neighbour is downloading big files over Bittorrent. This has been done in a very granular way so that each of our subscribers has equal share, so that they can still enjoy a good and consistent experience with heavy downloads at any time, including during peak hours. At the same time, any direct user experience impacting applications (e.g. games, VoIP, video, etc.) always get higher priority than other bandwidth hungry applications (e.g. Bittorrent, FTP, etc).

Why don’t you have any plan lower than 100Mbps?

At MyRepublic, we do not believe in offering a variety of access speed plans. Our studies have found that the bandwidth usage pattern of consumer-subscribers is very sporadic and temporary. In simple terms, a user may utilize 100Mbps bandwidth for ten minutes and then less than 1Mbps for the rest of the day. We believe passionately that every subscriber deserves to have on tap the highest speed bandwidth available to them, to utilize it anytime they want for any application they want. We believe that having a reliable, full-time ultra-high speed pipe will empower consumers by giving them the confidence to replace traditional services with those from the cloud.