Akhirnya, BOLEH!

Chong Wei ditemui pemberita di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) sekembalinya daripada Hungary selepas mengadakan satu perlawanan pertunjukkan dengan pemain Denmark, Kenneth Jonassen.

Kemunculan pertama kali itu adalah selepas dia memenangi Terbuka Switzerland mengalahkan Lin Dan, 21-16, 21-16, mengakhiri kemarau kejayaan dalam lima pertemuan dengan pemain itu sebelum ini.

Sering kali kalah ketika berhadapan dengan Lin Dan, Datuk Lee Chong Wei semalam menafikan dia takut mahupun gerun apabila berhadapan dengan rentak cemerlang pemain dari China itu. Menurut Chong Wei, dia tidak takut kepada Lin Dan sebenarnya, tatapi dia mahu menang lagi pada pertandingan yang akan datang.

RM60bil Stimulus Package Is Not “a silver bullet”

On views by several analysts that the second stimulus package only totalled RM15bil in direct government spending – as the remainder were in other forms such as government-guaranteed bank loans – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said: “We have to look into consumption as well as investment”.He said the package would achieve its desired impact because it was making available additional monies for private companies to invest, which was key to create economic activities and subsequently prevent recession.
“To undertake investment you create more economic activities and this will make sure employment is maintained.
“One of the key elements in the recovery process is making sure the banking sector is functional and credit is available for the industries.
“If you don’t, recession will be deeper,” he said.
Najib said the three funds – guaranteed funds, equity investments and private finance initiatives – would generate more economic activities.
He said this to reporters after witnessing the signing of agreements which saw Pengurusan Aset Air Berhad, a company under the Minister of Finance Inc., taking over water assets in Johor.
On the RM8.4bil projects under the 9th Malaysia Plan to be accelerated, he said they were mostly infrastructure projects, such as those under the Education Ministry.
On concerns the full effects of the second stimulus package might come too late only in the fourth quarter of the year, Najib said some projects could take off immediately, citing those under the Education Ministry.
He said the ministry had RM2bil worth of projects already tendered out, and with the allocation under the package, the projects could now kick off.
He said the Government would try to implement programmes under the RM60bil allocation this year, but it also depended on the take up from the industries, particularly for the three guaranteed funds.
To a question, he said Budget 2010 would still be tabled around October this year। “There will be one more government budget,” he said।
(THe Star- Thursday March 2009)

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Najib: Jangan Buat Spekulasi

KUALA LUMPUR 11 March/Utusan - Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak meminta semua pihak supaya tidak membuat spekulasi berhubung tarikh penyerahan kuasa oleh Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi kepadanya।