Anwar Is Not The Person in the Tape

A scene in the infamous video.

By Jin En

Kuala Lumpur: The video first surfaced when a private screening was held at Carcosa Seri Negara hotel on March 21. Some parties hinted on the person in the 1-minute-47-second clip is a“prominent Malay opposition leader”. Following the rumours, Anwar denied being the man featured in the video and accused BN of creating the video with the motive of further humiliating and defaming him.

Three men have came forward claiming themselves to be “Datuk T”— former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, businessman Datuk Sharzyl Eskay Abdullah and Umno stalwart Datuk Shuib Lazim

Later, a snippet of the video was discovered to have been posted online on video streaming site, YouTube, and is being posted on pro-Umno blogs. It was later deleted for violating YouTube’s policy on nudity or sexual content.

Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail
is convinced that the man
in the video is not the
de facto opposition leader.

On 5^th of April, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail broke her silence by saying the “actor” in the video is not her husband Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. 

“It is clear that the body and physique of the actor is different than the body and physique of Anwar.” She told reporters saying the man in the video does not resemble her husband after watching the video with her family.

According to a poll by Malaysian Insider found out that 51 per cent of those surveyed did not believe Anwar was the man in the video and with 39 per cent saying the video was contrived by Barisan National.

Similarly, current MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek was forced to resign as health minister after admitting to being the man in a sex tape that caused a chaos in 2007.

Save the Earth, Save Yourself

Pray: All the attendants close their eyes and pray for
one minute for the victims of Tsunami in Japan.

By Kim Yun



Kampar: 489 students gathered at the sport complex in University Tunku Abdul Rahman at 6pm on 25^th March to participate in the UTAR Earth Hour 2011 event. The event was organised by Community Service Society to show and make effort to contribute in saving the world.

The event started with a countdown to earth hour then followed by a speech by the president of the Community Service Society, Chai Wai Kit (21) who is also a Public Relations major.



“We are here today not to just have fun and watch performances. At the same time, we are contributing and helping to save the earth. The main objective of this event is to raise students’ awareness of climate change and to educate students on the threat of global warming,” said Chai.

“We, as students, should play our role in reducing the consumption of energy in order to save the earth. Whenever lights and fans are not in use, we should switch it off,” he added.


Each attendant was charged RM2 as an entrance fee. Attendants are given a door gift which includes a candle and card. The activities prepared by the club consisted of band performance, poppy dance and drum performance. An exclusive video made by UTAR student of earth hour was also shown. All these activities were conducted under the candle light from the audience.

Door gift given by the society.



Attendants light up the candle 
thatgiven by society.

Attendees were required to write their messages to the earth on a piece of paper. All the messages were tied together with a kongming lantern and was flown up to the sky as a form of praying. The sky lantern was then tied with a thread and being pulled down towards the end of the activity.

                 The members releasing the sky lantern which has messages from the attendees tied along to express their blessing for Tsunami Victims in Japan.

Yong Yih Huey

Jennifer Yong Yih Huey (24), one of the attendees of this event said that she felt shocked to see all the performances were conducted under the dim candle light. “However, I was touched by their effort spent in saving the usage of electricity and also for doing a good job in matching the theme of earth hour with the candle light idea,” she added. 

“I love the section of making the number 60. All of us cooperated well in that and I believe with this kind of spirit, UTAR students played their role very well in reducing the harm of global warming,” she commented.

Yong Pui Chee (24), another participant of the event said that the event was very meaningful and the effort of the organizer certainly paid off. 

“It has raised my concern about the seriousness of climate change drastically. I believe this earth hour event had the same impact on other attendants too,” she comprehended.

Xyn Hui Xin (21), the vice president of the club sent her gratitude to all the participants and urged everyone to switch off the lights on the official earth hour, 26^th March, 8.30pm to 10.30pm.

“The event was held successfully. I hope all the students received the message and will make an effort in reducing the usage of energy from this moment onwards. The effort should not be made only during earth hour but everyday in order to save our mother earth,” she emphasized.



All the participants held candles in their hand and created

 the number ‘60’ symbolising the logo of earth hour 

(picture adapted from J-on).



 



Job Wanted



Students visiting booths, filling in application forms and

 submitting their resumes to their preferred companies.

By Kim Yun

Kampar: Students in their last semester can now have a glimpse into their future by obtaining information on a wide variety of possible career paths by participating in UTAR career fair 2011.

The two-day fair was held at the heritage hall in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. It started from 9am to 5pm and features 80 exhibitors including The Star, Public bank, Hong Leong bank, Popular, Maybank, A’ Famosa Hotel Resort Sdn Bhd, Hai-O Raya Bhd, Great Eastern Lions Sdn Bhd, Miwaki Sdn Bhd, Prudential Assurance Bhd, Taylor, Hewlett- Packard Multimedia Sdn Bhd and many other well-known companies.

“Every company takes turn to give a free career talk to students in order to offer them a better understanding about the company and working field. Many of us have also set up recruitment counters in order to prepare for interview section once we found the potential job seekers,” said Tan Teck Lun, the application developer of The Star newspaper.

Moreover, early birds stand an opportunity to get limited free gifts from the companies.  Prizes include notebooks, pad locks, pens, recycle bags and so on.

The Department of Alumni Relations and Placement (DARP) officer, Kong Pui Ling commented that career fair provides a lot of information and job opportunities for fresh graduates. She also added saying companies offer value-added services such as internship program and counselling.

“We received a lot of positive feedbacks from the students.  We will try our best to organize it again and improve this in the coming semester,” she added.

A Business Administration student, Liew Kok Weong, who is in his last semester said he hope he could get a job through the career fair before he graduates.

“There is a lot of information here which I did not know about. It has been an interesting experience learning all these new information. I have my formal wear on today and is determined to get interviewed and reach for my dream job. As graduation is approaching, I am getting stressed up in getting a job!” he exclaimed.

Another Finance and Economy student, See Xue Wei has prepared 10 sets of resume and decided to hand it in to companies that offer job prospects related to her field of study and interests.

“Career fairs which are held in education institutions is a good idea as exhibitors here are looking for fresh graduates. It is beneficial to us because we do not have to compete with other experienced employees outside. Thus we must grab the chances of being employed now,” she explained.