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Klang Valley Used Car Center

Maknusia — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:51:24 +0800

Hello /K

more 10 years ago when I was looking for my car, my pakcik brought me to couple of places around klang valley, where there were consolidated used car center.

Now I cant even remember where they were! dah lama da

Currently I'm looking to buy a used car for my niece who is about to graduate.

If you could help me list out those under one roof where multiple used car dealers sits.

Previously the world autoworld, auto city was exclusive for these kind of one center, but nowadays it seems, even a single dealer is using the name, sigh! susah nak cari.

One that I found was Sungai Besi Auto World

T Kasih

JPJ L Driving license expiry

Maknusia — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:54:20 +0800

Dear ALL, one of my niece, signed up for driving after SPM, and that was 2 years ago, and then covid happened, and all her classes been cancelled and postponed.

Finally she had completed her class 2 weeks ago and then she had her test today but she had failed in one of her test and need to redo.

Tapi problemnya, her driving L license is expiring on June 30th, and was told cannot be renewed and the driving school says she has to restart the whole process of written test and clocking class hours before sitting for the final driving test. Memang depa nak buat duit kan.

Have you encountered similar issue and any remedy to it.

I have asked her to go to JPJ to appeal on the license expiry tomorrow, but not sure if they even care to give an extension so that she can re-set for the exam.

other than that any suggestions?! TKasih!

MSU vs APU vs LKW

Maknusia — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:43:28 +0800

Hello Folks, need some help in throwing some light here.

Im helping my niece to choose a suitable school for her studies after SPM. She had visited couple of universities but due to lock-down couldnt further visit them last 2 months. She had shortlisted 3 Unis.

She is gonna study on IT

MSU
- total fees is around 65k
- nearer to home (less than 10km)

APU
- total around 110k
- gets about 30% discount
- top Uni for IT courses
- distance around 20km

LKW
- total around 100k
- gets 100% scholarship
- foreign student centric
- but heard couple of social issues

Appreciate if you could advise based on your experience or have known someone who had studied above. Tkasih!

Msia Corruption Goes International

Maknusia — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:57:02 +0800

Buat malu aje lah Yet our official can sit and but takpe aje!

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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 — US multinational Tyco has agreed to pay US$26 million (RM80 million) to settle charges by the US government that it engaged in corrupt practices in more than a dozen countries in Asia and the Middle East, including Malaysia.

According to documents from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Tyco is alleged to have bribed officials, including an employee of a Malaysian government-controlled entity, in order to win lucrative contracts.

The SEC said in a media statement yesterday that the global manufacturer allegedly perpetuated schemes that typically involved payments of fake “commissions” or the use of third-party agents to funnel money improperly to obtain the contracts.

It also said that Tyco, whose place of incorporation was shifted to Switzerland in 2008, agreed to pay more than US$26 million to settle the SEC’s charges.

Other countries that Tyco was alleged to have engaged in bribery include China, India, Thailand, Croatia, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, the UAE, Mauritania, Congo, Niger, Madagascar, Turkey, Poland and Egypt.

The SEC’s charges against Tyco claim that the latter made payments to approximately 26 employees of customers in Malaysia, including an employee of a government-controlled entity.

It also claimed that Tyco’s Malaysian subsidiary inaccurately described these expenses as “commissions” and failed to maintain policies sufficient to prohibit such payments, resulting in Tyco’ s books and records being misstated.

Tyco is a leading provider of electronic security products and services, fire protection and detection products and services, and valves and controls.

A Tyco spokesman was quoted by UK’s Financial Times yesterday as saying: “We’re committed to maintaining our rigorous compliance programmes across all of our business activities.”

Malaysia, which is attempting to stamp out corruption, has made international news over several other cases related to graft by multinationals in the country including one involving Australian banknote company Securency and French telecommunications giant Alcatel.

The headlines could reinforce perception that Malaysia has a reputation where bribes are paid to public officials.

Corruption was identified by the World Economic Forum this year as one of the top five problems facing businesses in Malaysia.

Malaysia also slipped four spots to 60th in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index last year.

The Najib administration has made corruption one of the National Key Result Areas of its Government Transformation Programme to reform the government and make it more efficient and transparent.

Alcatel admitted in 2010 that it had bribed Malaysian government officials some time between 2004 and 2006 to win a US$85 million contract.

Earlier this month, it was reported that Australian central bank officials were told in 2007 that Securency had engineered a scheme to hide a RM492,000 payment to a Malaysian arms dealer in order to secure contracts from the Abdullah administration despite an earlier denial.

The arms dealer — Abdul Kayum Syed Ahmad — was charged here last year with two counts of giving RM50,000 bribes in 2004 and 2005 to former Bank Negara assistant governor Datuk Mohamad Daud Dol Moin in order to procure a contract to print the RM5 polymer bank notes by Reserve Bank subsidiary Note Printing Australia Ltd.

Abdul Kayum has pleaded not guilty.

Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has also denied allegations that the Australian banknote firms attempted to bribe him for a RM100 million Malaysian currency contract during his tenure as prime minister.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysi...ther-countries/