tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233474282024-03-13T09:30:18.171+08:00XELA City™ 杰赉城™ ぇらの市- Alex - " Xela "http://www.blogger.com/profile/08477872551771531090noreply@blogger.comBlogger282125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23347428.post-8416817673189292322012-10-31T03:21:00.001+08:002012-10-31T03:37:18.581+08:00Titanic: Blood and Steel Episode 3: Good Man Down<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Titanic: Blood and Steel is a 12 episodes drama series
that had been produced by De Angelis Group with $30 million budget. The drama
series had been premièred in Denmark and Germany on April 15, 2012, in Italy on
April 22, 2012, and by CBC on September 19, 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">In the “episode 3: Good Man Down”, there was a
scene in which union conducted peaceful march to demand fair pays.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">During the day, workers had been gathered
peacefully and planed to walk to their destination. But the army locked down
the street and stop workers on the street. the union leader shouted to the army
that it was a peaceful march and they have the righ</span>ts and freedom to do
so! The army responded by shooting down innocent men without much explanation
and warning given. Yet, the peaceful march had been turned violent.<br />
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The media at the time had been controlled by those who were in power and rich. They
sabotage the march as a march with motive and organised by the Catholic to
de-stable the society as a whole.<br />
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Those who were in power and rich during that time are Protestant. They had
successfully to create hatred within general public by dividing them with their
religions. Sabotages the peaceful march and wronged the peaceful march which
demand fair pay for every workers (Including both Catholic and Protestant
workers). Yet told the society with their controlled media that the peaceful
march was organised by Catholic just for the motive to de-stable the society or
even wish to take the power out of Protestant hand.<br />
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Sadly the society believed. And the fighting remains within the Catholic and
Protestant lower level workers for nothing, but only hates. Their pays
remain at unfair rate. And those who are in power and rich were stayed
comfortable, as what they need to do is just to keep dividing the society with their
differences in religions.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Well,
that happened more than 100 years ago within the Ireland society... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">As
for now? Look at our society and think about it.. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Are we demonstrating the
history of Northern Ireland society more than a century ago? :)))))</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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- Alex - " Xela "http://www.blogger.com/profile/08477872551771531090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23347428.post-27712345848142587712012-10-02T17:52:00.000+08:002012-10-02T18:00:42.994+08:00Malaysia slips in global rankings of Internet Freedom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2<sup style="line-height: 14px;">nd</sup> October KUALA LUMPUR— </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia’s internet freedom has worsened in a study of 47 countries in the latest </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia’s state of internet freedom was assessed as “partly free” and had slipped two notches. In the report released last week, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malaysia was identified as one of the countries at risk of further decline due to new restrictive laws such as recent amendments to the Evidence Act, and the prevalence of acts such as several cyber attacks of prominent news websites and opposition-linked sites, and the arrest of bloggers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The annual study conducted by US-based Freedom House, evaluates each country based on barriers to access, limits on content, and violations of user rights, and traces trends from January 2011 to May 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The report cited the recent amendments to the Evidence Act 1950 namely Section 114A which holds intermediaries liable for seditious content as a very troubling development. It also cited the use of other laws used by authorities to launch investigations and conduct arbitrary arrests against bloggers and internet users, although these had lessened in 2011. However, it noted the rise of disproportionate awards for defamation suits filed against bloggers such as the RM400,000 damages awarded to the Minister of Information, Communications, and Culture Rais Yatim. It noted that bloggers critical against the government have also been subject to legal harassment, intimidation, fines and detention.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It also highlighted the new Security Offences (Special Measures) Act which allows for the interception of communications without a judicial order in security-related offences, and a broadly-worded amendment to the Penal Code criminalising any activity “detrimental to parliamentary democracy” which can be used to criminalise politically-sensitive speech. Furthermore, poor privacy protections exacerbate vulnerabilities of internet users in the context of this restrictive landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It also noted the increase in the use of “cybertroopers” deployed by both government and opposition parties to produce either favourable content for themselves or harmful content towards opponents. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In other areas, Malaysia’s lack of high-quality infrastructure and the severe digital divide among urban/rural population was cited as a major barrier to access.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">However, with an active blogosphere and increasing numbers of active netizens, the report acknowledged that the internet in Malaysia still remains “a relatively unconstrained space for free expression” despite creeping infringements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Responding to the findings, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Centre for Independent Journalism’s Executive Office Masjaliza Hamzah said, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The report’s analysis confirms our own fears of increasing government clampdown for speech online, as evidenced by the Section 114A amendment. These moves are an effort to tame the internet which is considered too permissible towards airing unfavourable views of the ruling government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Unfortunately, the government doesn’t understand that these moves to prohibit and proscribe is equally damaging for them, and moreover, is detrimental towards harnessing the power of the internet so crucial for economic and social development,” she added. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Overall, the report concluded that attacks against bloggers, increasing surveillance, manipulation of content and restrictive laws regulating speech on the internet were on the rise. On the upside, civil society and citizen push-back against these moves saw some victories such as in Pakistan, Turkey and the US.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Get the full country report here: <a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2012/malaysia#_ftn10" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2012/malaysia#_ftn10</span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>"Arab Spring"</b> or<b><i> </i>"Arab Revolution"</b> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As refer to <b><i>Wikipedia</i></b>, <b><i>"the main
factors that encouraged Arabian to risk their lives to protest were including dictatorship,
human rights violations, government corruption, economic decline, unemployment,
extreme poverty, etc." </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Is it NST
trying to characterizing Malaysia with Arabian countries and describe the local
political environment with the above stated factors? I think at this point, not only the NGOs, but
BN government should demand explanation from NST as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>The National Endowment for Democracy's (NED) Funding</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The NST’s
article further stated several NGOs, namely <b>BERSIH</b>, <b>Merdeka Center for Opinion
Research</b>, <b>Lawyers for Liberty</b>, <b>Liberal Bantar Sdn Bhd</b>, and <b>International
Republican Institute</b> began to receive funds from <b>National Endowment for Democracy
(NED)</b>, yet claimed <b>NED</b> to have <b><i>“played a significant role in attempting to destabilize
legitimate governments and replace them with client proxies”.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">According
to the <b>NED</b>’s website, <b>National Endowment for Democracy (NED)</b> is a private,
nonprofit foundation that contributing annually to more than 1000 grants of abroad
(non-U.S.) NGOs projects in more than 90 countries for democratic goals. <b>NED</b>’s
own funding is largely by the <b>U.S Congress</b>, which intended to support abroad
(non-U.S.) groups to work for freedom and human rights, often in obscurity and
isolation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In order to
support the claim that <b>NED</b> is an organization that "<b><i>played significant role in
attempting to destabilizing legitimate governments</i></b>", NST should report the way
how <b>NED</b> had played such role, and in what
NGOs or projects were able to "<i><b>destabilize legitimate governments</b></i>" in more than
90 countries. Since that <b>NED</b> had contributed to the projects in nearly half of
the globe’s total nations, it will be better for NST to show a list of nations,
in which the so-called “<b><i>client proxies</i></b>” had been successfully created by <b>NED, </b>to replace their original<b> "<i>legitimate governments</i>"</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>The SUARAM's Funding </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Besides, the
NST’s article were also came with a detailed chart that listed <b>SUARAM’</b>s foreign
funders, with on top <b><i>National Endowment for Democracy (United States)
[RM1,642,450 : 2005-2011]</i></b>, followed by <b><i>Open Society Institute (United States)
[RM774,000 : 2008-2011]</i></b>, <b><i>Southeast Asia Centre for e-Media (Kuala Lumpur)
[RM34,000 : 2010-2011]</i></b>, and <b><i>German Embassy [RM21,400 :2010]</i></b>. Yet, trying to
convince that <b>SUARAM</b> has been heavily funded by foreigners, and possibly the hidden motive might not be simply to support human rights activities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>The German Embassy's Position</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Kathrin
Heidl</b>, who is the <b>Head of the Cultural and Press Department from the Embassy of
the Federal Republic of Germany</b>, had stressed the <b>Germen Embassy</b>’s position on
this matter: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">“Over many
years the <b>German Embassy</b> has supported a large number of projects in all parts
of Malaysia, working mostly with Malaysian civil society organizations. These ventures include small scale development,
livelihood, educational and cultural, as well as human rights projects. They
are mostly targeted at disadvantaged and vulnerable communities. Since the
<b>Embassy does not provide institutional funding</b>, all projects are supported on
an individual based.”</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">Since that
<b>German Embassy</b> does not provide <b>Institutional Funding</b>, why NST listed <b>German
Embassy</b> in that way? Why NST did not list out in which projects within <b>SUARAM</b>
had been funded by <b>German Embassy</b>? Is it
because of NST does not know that <b>German Embassy</b> does contributing to nearly
all parts of Malaysia? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>German
Embassy</b> is not just an ordinary organization, but it is an icon of the <b>Federal
Republic of Germany</b>. By listed <b>German Embassy</b> as one of the many possible
foreign entities to the so called “Plot” had definitely upsetting the
reputation of <b>German Embassy</b>, as well as hurting Germans’ feeling. NST should apologies
to<b> German Embassy</b> in timely manner, as the report might because an issue to agitate
the Malaysia-Germany’s Relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><br /></b></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><b>The Open Society Foundation's Respond</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> <b>Kritika Bansal</b>, from the <b>Open Society Foundations’
office of communications</b> had also responded:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">“The Open
Society Foundations work with local communities in more than 100 countries to
support justice and fundamental rights, access to public health, and education.
We are proud of our grant-making in Malaysia, as we are of our work in Africa,
Haiti, Europe, and across the globe to encourage the promise of vibrant and
tolerant democracies, where governments are accountable to their citizens. <b>We
rely on local civil society organizations to advise us on the best ways</b> to
remedy poverty, improve education, encourage a free press, and promote other
pressing open society issues. <b>The foundations host an open call for grant
proposals from Southeast Asia twice a year and we encourage groups to apply</b>.”</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">As
mentioned by <b>Kritika Bansal</b>, the foundation relies on local civil society organizations
to advise them on the best ways to promote open society issues, and the
foundations host open call for grant proposals twice a year for Southeast Asia.
In other words, the foundation does not involve directly to the local NGOs’
activities, and passive funding procedure has been applied. The foundation only
initiating call for grant proposals, and it is open to local NGOs to apply. So,
does NST actually obtained any grant proposal from the stated NGOs, which did listed activities to destabilize current government? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In addition, if NST feel that is it not
appropriate to accept grant from a foundation setup by maverick currency
speculator <b>George Soros</b>, yet I would like to suggest NST to follow-up reporting
an article titled “ <i><b>Dr.M asked for Soros’ help in peace project</b></i>” published in
<b>MalaysiaKini.com</b> on <b>26<sup>th</sup> September 2012</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">According to
a research done by university of Alberta, your index finger and ring finger do
have some hidden messages that are really matter to your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If your
<b>index finger is longer than</b> your <b>ring finger</b>:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You are probably able to gain higher
academic achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US"><b>Men</b> who are
with <b>ring finger longer than index finger</b>:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You are probably with stronger ability
for fertility<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You are probably with stronger
ability to attack<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You are probably with stronger
ability in <o:p></o:p></span>mathematics</blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US"><b>Women</b> who
are with<b> index finger longer than ring finger </b>:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You are probably with stronger
ability for fertility<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You are probably more sensitive<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You are probably with more modest
attitude<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You are probably with higher risk to
be the victim of breast cancer<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let look at
what is it about on this <b>Gay</b> and <b>Lesbian</b> or <b>LGBT’s Guidelines</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>MALAYSIA LGBT's Guidelines / Points of Awareness </b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: purple;">Symptoms of
GAY</span></b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Attracted
to Men</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Have
a Muscular body</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Like
to show their body by wearing V-neck and Sleeveless clothes</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Prefer
Tight and Light-colored clothes</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Like
to bring Big Handbags, similar to those used by women, when hanging out.</span></span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Symptoms of
LESBIAN</span></b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: magenta;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Attracted
to Women</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: magenta;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Besides
their female companions, they will distance themselves from other women</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: magenta;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Like
to hang out, have meals and sleep in the company of women</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: magenta;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Have
no affection for men</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span lang="EN-US">According
to Malaysian Chinese press <b>Sin Chew Daily</b>, the <b>Lesbian</b>, <b>Gay, Bisexual </b>and <b>Transsexual
(LGBT)’s Guidelines</b> were distributed to all the attendants at a forum in Penang,
which was organized by <b>Yayasan Guru Malaysia Berhad (YGMB)</b> and <b>Putrajaya
Consultative Council of Parents and Teachers Associations</b>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Personally,
I have no ideas about what are the 'Scientific Statics' or ‘Psychologically Measurements’
that really support the above stated symptoms. But I do have lot of questions to ask the person
or the team that concluded the above stated symptoms of <b>Gay</b> and <b>Lesbian</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When you
say a male is attracted to other males or a female is attracted to other
females, I would just simply refer to the celebrities’ life in any
region on this globe. If a male celebrity posing no attraction to other males or if
a female celebrity has no ability to attract other females, yet they are not really
successful in their career. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">When you talk
about muscular body, erm… I think all of the gym centers and popular body
builders would definitely reject this assumption. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And a
V-neck shirt is just common for anyone to try with, unless you are still living
in 18<sup>th</sup> century, who is totally outdated when come to the term of ‘Style’.
As for Sleeveless cloths, it fit many of
us who just can’t stand with the hot sunny day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As for
female that like to hangout, have meals or sleep in the company of other
females, I bet you will be surprised with the huge figures of number, if you really have them all recorded. So, are they all having the <b>lesbian</b>’s behaviors? I will just give
you a big smile, if you are giving me a ‘Yes’ to this question. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">What else could
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<span lang="EN-US">Erm.. I
think those who produce these, do not really help in dealing with the <b>LGBT</b>’s
issue, but only give a huge smile to you and me! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Look! How happily
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Multimedia University ( MMU ) Malaysia is organising Graduate Entrepreneurship Program for all newly graduates. All newly graduates are welcome to participate into the program, as the way to control your own future.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">According to Greenpeace, right now there's a dangerous shadow looming over the pristine Arctic. The main cause for such incident is due to oil companies and politicians are plotting to carve up the icy North, extending their national territories and searching for drill sites. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Greenpeace mentioned their concern in which the Arctic ice is melting, uncovering oil reserves laid bare because of climate change. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">The very companies causing climate change and the melting of the Arctic ice are set to profit from it, even as they destroy precious habitats and endanger wildlife in the process. It’s a vicious circle. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">And it's not just oil drillers. Industrial fishing fleets are moving into the melting waters threatening the local communities who have fished there sustainably for thousands of years. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">More than 1.5 million supporters had been signed up for the campaign (as on 28 August 2012), in which a target of 2 million signup of supporters had been set by Greenpeace. </span><br />
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Greenpeace have banded together with the anti-coal communities within the country of the Philippines, to demand a safer and healthier environment, as well as to urge the country's government to reverse all coal projects immediately.<br />
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According to wikipedia,<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">environmental impact of the coal industry</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> includes the consideration of issues such as </span>land use<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, </span>waste management<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, and </span>water<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> and </span>air pollution<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> caused by the </span>coal mining<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, processing and the use of its products. In addition to atmospheric pollution, coal burning produces hundreds of millions of tons of solid waste products annually, including</span>fly ash<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, </span>bottom ash<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, and </span>flue-gas desulfurization<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> sludge, that contain </span>mercury<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">,</span>uranium<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, </span>thorium<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, </span>arsenic<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, and other </span>heavy metals<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">.</span></blockquote>
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- Alex - " Xela "http://www.blogger.com/profile/08477872551771531090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23347428.post-49097070649848126992012-08-16T04:47:00.000+08:002012-08-21T04:50:02.022+08:00Help Conquer Cancer live webcast! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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- Alex - " Xela "http://www.blogger.com/profile/08477872551771531090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23347428.post-58603549205495757602012-08-16T04:10:00.000+08:002012-08-21T04:26:03.308+08:00No Summer Break for UFPJ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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August is Nuclear Free Future month. UFPJ is leading the charge to remind the world about the continuing threat posed by nuclear weapons and the environmental and proliferation risks posed by the global addiction to nuclear power. Check out the Nuclear Free Future site <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=StGM/TWb/VatdyH4xczDz6tHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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After nearly 12 years of the U.S. waging war in Afghanistan, members of Congress recently spent just an hour talking about the future of the U.S. Occupation there. <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HPOFd8Wai55Wp3KDU9F786tHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Check out this analysis</a> by Rusti Eisenberg, UFPJ Legislative Working Group co-convener about this failure of congressional leadership.<br />
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UFPJ is also involved in the planning of the marches at both the DNC and the RNC. Please visit their sites, <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sqHJR/e7F6EfyR7AwvTzYatHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Coalition to March on the RNC</a> and <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=I6gaY/fz33BrrZgFSm7IeqtHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">March on Wall Street South</a>. More information is coming soon.<br />
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Thank you for your continued support of United For Peace and Justice and the cause of peace. The path to peace is long and hard, but it is the only just road to walk. Let us continue to clear a way for us all tread as we seek a just and peaceful world.<br />
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Expanding upon the traditional August 6th and 9th Hiroshima - Nagasaki commemorations, United for Peace and Justice has declared August “Nuclear-Free Future Month.” Through commemorations and nonviolent protests at nuclear facilities, and public events, film showings, and exhibits throughout the month, the purpose of Nuclear-Free Future Month is to raise public awareness about the continuing threat posed by nuclear weapons and the environmental and proliferation risks posed by the global addiction to nuclear power.</div>
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The main vehicle for coordinating activities and disseminating information is the new Nuclear-Free Future Month web site at<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=k9SRCYrhrh9O7iE03OwUaqtHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">www.nuclearfreefuture.org</a>. There you will find a Call to Action, event listings, action ideas and resources. Your group is encouraged to endorse Nuclear-Free Future Month and to post your August events on the interactive calendar. You are also welcome to submit items for the site’s resource page by clicking on the “Contact” button.<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=q40mlOZ6oi1c505uvqA9fatHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"> Read more…</a></div>
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Bradley Manning is the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking thousands of State Department cables and the video “Collateral Murder,” which shows a U.S. Apache helicopter gunning down 11 unarmed civilians, including children. The leaked information exposes war crimes and human rights abuses that admittedly do make the United States look less than honorable, but in order to hold criminals accountable, you have to expose the crime.<br />
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Hundreds of drones descended on Las Vegas this week, with their makers trying to overcome the stigma of the word "drone," are showing off their role in the nation’s system of mass surveillance and data warehousing on law-abiding persons and citizens, also demonstrating the need for a new rights campaign that launched this week.<br />
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The US-based tear gas manufacturers Defense Technology, NonLethal Technologies and Combined Systems Incorporated have produced gas used in: Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Palestine, Montreal, Greece and Oakland. By making the links between these stories we hope to bring those that profit off of tear gas further into the public consciousness and, along with that, the inspiring movements the gas is used to squelch. This is part of a broader campaign to end the US’s role in the business of tear gas in solidarity with global nonviolent uprisings and those facing US-backed repression everywhere, including here at home.<br />
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Get more info at <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7K3Li6dYQ7XgM6SuLkkPp6tHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://facingteargas.tumblr.com/ </a>and<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bSaOE/gRN3tkucywDQQruKtHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">www.warresisters.org/facingteargas</a> and please submit your tear gas story to<a href="mailto:facingteargas@warresisters.org" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;"> facingteargas@warresisters.org</a>.<br />
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The 2013 NDAA passed the House in May, but is now stalled in the Senate. It’s unclear when, or even if, the bill will get a vote in the Senate. It’s also unclear if Senate leadership will allow any amendments that could fix the indefinite detention provisions of last year’s NDAA. So, the best bet right now is to urge your Representative and Senators to support free-standing bills that will amend the NDAA to protect us from military detention without charge or trial. Senator Mark Udall has introduced S. 2175, and Representative Garamendi has introduced H.R. 5936. These bills repeal the mandatory military detention requirement and ban indefinite detention and military commissions from the United States. Read more, and send an email to your members of Congress<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EkPBgdBvIWoqGM/1tdRfc6tHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"> here </a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Keep Space for Peace Week: October 6-13 will be the annual week of local protests around the world to oppose the nuclearization and militarization of space. Special emphasis this year will be how military satellite technology is used to direct all drone flights. Space satellites are the triggers that enable the Pentagon to fight wars on the ground. See the space week poster and more information at </span>www.space4peace.org<br />
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TSpeech by Michael Eisenscher, National Coordinator, U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) at the August 5, 2012 commemoration of the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, held across the street from Lawrence-Livermore Nuclear Labs in Livermore, CA. <span style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C/rNElIfYtjlDiRXNfrpU6tHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Read More</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; line-height: 26px;">Crazy: Congress Spends Just 1 Hour Debating Another Year of Disastrous War in Afghanistan</span></h2>
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These were the words of Senator George McGovern, uttered on September 1, 1970. Together with Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, McGovern had introduced an amendment to a military procurement bill that would have required all US troops to be out of Vietnam by a fixed date. By that time, it was clear that the war had been lost and that the White House was needlessly dragging out the withdrawal period in order to delay an embarrassing defeat. Meanwhile Americans and Asians were dying every day and the country of Cambodia had been dragged into the maelstrom.</div>
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Philadelphia City Council, by a vote of 15-2, passed June 21 a resolution "calling on the U.S. Congress to bring all U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, to take the funds saved by that action and by significantly cutting the Pentagon budget, and to use that money to fund education, public and private sector family-sustaining job creation, special protections for military sector workers, environmental and infrastructure restoration, care for veterans and their families, and human services that our cities and states so desperately need."! <span style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wGB9mABfl3%2BddrJuYorieatHnwEeU3Du" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Read More</a></span></div>
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- Alex - " Xela "http://www.blogger.com/profile/08477872551771531090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23347428.post-1538365872176933142012-08-15T02:55:00.000+08:002012-08-21T05:22:11.990+08:00Why we need to Stop 114A<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nowadays, fake social media accounts are everywhere in the Internet. It is so easy for anyone to create a fake account, or to pretend as somebody else. In this example, the victim has been named as ‘Mr. TakTau’.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">3 Simple Steps to be ‘Mr. TakTau’ in Facebook</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 1 : Create a Facebook Account</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 2 : Print Screen on the photo of ‘Mr. TakTau’. This could be done easily by viewing the real Mr. TakTau’s Facebook account, or simply googling it in the Internet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 3: Copy the Bio info of ‘Mr. TakTau’ and fill it up to the newly created ‘Mr. TakTau’ Fake Facebook account.</span></div>
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Now you could post anything as you like by using the ‘Mr. TakTau’ Fake Facebook account. Since that the Facebook account is with the name of ‘Mr. TakTau’ and the photo of ‘Mr. TakTau’. <i>It is somehow indicated that those voices posted in the Facebook are from ‘Mr. TakTau’. </i><br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">“Presumption of fact in publication</span></i><i><span style="color: red;">114A. (1) A person whose name, photograph or pseudonym </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">appears on any publication depicting himself as the owner, </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">host, administrator, editor or sub-editor, or who in any </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">manner facilitates to publish or re-publish the publication is </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">presumed to have published or re-published the contents of </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">the publication unless the contrary is proved.</span></i></blockquote>
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According to the <b>Section 114A (1)</b> as stated above, the Real Mr. TakTau is now liable for any legal risk derived from anonymous person, who had used ‘Mr. TakTau’ name and his photo, as well as pretending him. It is now the responsibility for Mr. TakTau to proof that the fake Facebook account is not belongs to him, but somebody else.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: red;">As a general public like you and me, do we have enough resources to proof ourselves as innocent? Do we have the sufficient knowledges in Internet security, as well as with the sufficient technology to proof ourselves? </span></i></b><br />
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The above example is one of so many possibilities in which show that <b>Section 114A</b> will definitely burden innocent people. It is so clear that the amendment of the Evidence Acts had been done so illogically and ridiculous. And until the amendment had been revoked, we are all guilty!<br />
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The new amendments section 114A of the Evidence Act 1950 are shown below: <br />
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<i><b>New Section 114A</b></i></blockquote>
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<i><b>3. The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 114
the following section:<br />“Presumption of fact in publication 114A.</b></i><br />
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<i><b> (1) A person whose name, photograph or pseudonym
appears on any publication depicting himself as the owner,
host, administrator, editor or sub-editor, or who in any
manner facilitates to publish or re-publish the publication is
presumed to have published or re-published the contents of
the publication unless the contrary is proved.</b></i> </blockquote>
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<i><b> (2) A person who is registered with a network service
provider as a subscriber of a network service on which any
publication originates from is presumed to be the person who
published or re-published the publication unless the contrary
is proved.</b></i> </blockquote>
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<i><b> (3) Any person who has in his custody or control any
computer on which any publication originates from is
presumed to have published or re-published the content of
the publication unless the contrary is proved.</b></i> </blockquote>
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<i><b> (4) For the purpose of this section—<br /> (a) “network service” and “network service provider”
have the meaning assigned to them in section 6 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998
[Act 588]; and<br /> (b) “publication” means a statement or a representation,
whether in written, printed, pictorial, film, graphical,
acoustic or other form displayed on the screen of a
computer.”.</b></i></blockquote>
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<i>Source: <a href="http://www.parlimen.gov.my/files/billindex/pdf/2012/DR162012E.pdf">http://www.parlimen.gov.my/files/billindex/pdf/2012/DR162012E.pdf</a> </i></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">Pizza is
always less tasty after several hours, but it is very common that we are unable
to finish up the whole pizza at once, especially when we are alone.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So, what would you do if you are in a hotel
room, in where that you are hardly to see a microwave? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, we
could always utilize the hotel style microwave! Find yourself with Hair-dryer and
iron, and that’s it! Additionally, it is much better if you could get yourself
with Aluminium Foil as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Look! I get
myself with 2 Aegis of the Immortal at once in DOTA map V. 6.74C !<br />
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As all
players know, Roshan will always claim back the Aegis of the Immortal. So, theoretically
only 1 Aegis will be available at all time no matter how many time you have successfully
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<span lang="EN-US">However, as you can see from the print screen, I
got two Aegis of the Immortal… hehe! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is not
hack!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is not
editing job!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pretty simple!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What you
have to do is to remember, do not take the Aegis of the Immortal, after you
have the Roshan killed for the first time. Yet, wait for Roshan to re-born!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That’s it! Hehe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Generally, corruption can be defined as giving or obtaining advantages through means which are illegitimate, immoral, and inconsistent with one’s duty or the rights of others (BusinessDictionary.com). Corruption often results from patronage, and will bring influences in a country’s FDI inflows in the negative way. According to Bradhan (1997), since foreign investors have to pay extra costs in the form of bribes in order to get licenses or government permits to conduct investment, corruption raises the cost of investment. And such additional costs decrease the expected profitability of investment and so corruption is generally viewed as a tax on profits (Ali Al-Sadig, 2009). In other words, corruption can contributes to a much greater cost of doing business for a foreign investor. Hence, the willingness and intentions from foreign investors to place investment into Malaysia will be reduced, and affect the country’s FDI directly.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides, corruption can greatly creates deep impact on a country’s economy, development and society as well. The act of abuse of authorized power for private gain is ruining to a country, since the decisions making are not acquired for public benefit in general, and will bring lesser contribution to the society. More seriously, corruption can falsifies a country’s public policy, damages country’s good governance, tends to misallocate resources and subsequently hurts the poorer citizens. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">From the perspective of negative influences of level of corruption on a country’s FDI inflows, the basic concept of corruption is that it represents a cost because it increases the variability connected with investment opportunity, which in turn increase the cost of capital and hinder rates of return for an investment. According to Dunning (1993) and Moosa (2002), from the microeconomics perception, political stability and risk are generally considered by foreign investors in deciding whether to invest or not in a particular location and one of the sources of political risk is corruption (Aw T.Y & Tang T.C,2010). According to Smarzynska and Wei (2002), there are several theoretical justifications depicted that corruption makes local bureaucracy less transparent and hence acts as a tax on foreign investors; corruption affects the decision to make on a local partner; corruption increases the value of using a local partner to cut through the bureaucratic maze; and corruption decreases the effective protection of investor intangible assets and lower the probability that disputes between foreign and domestic partners will be adjudicated fairly (Aw T.Y & Tang T.C,2010). Hence, a country with high level of corruption is less able to attract FDI than other country with low level corruption, since the foreign investors prefer to invest in countries with lower political risk.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, some may perceive there is a positive relationship between corruption and FDI inflows (Ali Al-Sadiq, 2009). Since they consider corruption as an opportunity, and therefore an MNC’s manager can make use of such blind side in a host country’s institutional environment to benefit from it. According to Bardhan (1997), in the presence of a rigid regulation and an inefficient bureaucracy, corruption may increase bureaucratic efficiency by speeding up the process of decision making (Ali Al-Sadiq, 2009). Nevertheless this viewpoint has been overruled empirically.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">There are several measurements of corruption available, and one of the popular measurements is PRS index. The PRS index measures corruption within the political system that threatens foreign investments by distorting the economic and financial environment, reducing the efficiency of government and business by enabling people to assume positions of power through patronage rather than ability, and introducing inherent insatiability into political process (Hafiz, A. & Kanhaya, G.,2006). The corruption index is a scale measurement with a range from 0 to 6, where the 0 represents most corrupted and 6 represent least corrupted. The table below shows the comparison of PRS index of Malaysia with others South-East Asia Countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As at shown in the table above, Malaysia’s PRS Index had been reduced from 5.0 (1984) to 3.0 (2000), which indicated that the corruption’s problems are getting more seriously. Although in the recent years, several bureaucratic corruption scandals in Malaysia had been revealed gradually, but perhaps the revealing are mostly not totally completed with a final judgments. In year 2007, Malaysia economy is perceived by foreign businessmen to be more corrupted comparing with the year 2006, according to a survey carried out by Hong Kong based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) (The Star, March 2007). This survey results were released on 13<sup>th</sup> March 2007, which polled 1476 expatriate business executives in 13 countries and territories across the region in January and February of 2007 (The Star, March 2007). This corruption perception index is somehow important for the foreign investors to make their investment’s decisions. According to PERC managing director Robert Broadfoot, perception in corruption is a key factor to investors, because they are normally make their investment decisions based on perception toward a country, but not the reality (The Star, March 2007). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides, there is with investigation shown that Malaysia’s corruption ranking had fallen down to 56, from 47 in year 2008 (MySinchew.com, November 2009). Among all South-East Asia Countries, Malaysia is one of the only two countries which with fallen ranking, together with Thailand. However, Thailand had dropped only 4 places, but Malaysia had dropped 9 places in the same ranking result. Although Malaysia’s government had placed much efforts in fighting corruptions, such as introduced Anti-corruption slogans and granted higher authorities to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, as well as listing Anti-corruption as one of the federal government’s Key Performance Indicator (KPI) (MySinChew.com, November 2009), but the result of combating corruption is not as good as expected.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of the possible factors that contributed to such scenario is due to the lack of political commitment. More and more cases are left unsettled, while those cases brought to court ended up in loss (MySinChew.com, November 2009). In the other hand, the Anti-corruption slogan without any encouraging results of combating corruption, might creates negative impression to foreign investors, as the slogan was addressed as for political deception to win the votes only. Yet, they might further assume that political risks in Malaysia is relatively high, which will stop them to invest into Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to Johnanson and Vahhe,(1997,1990)(as cited in With regard to cultural differences might affect FDI mode of entry of the Literature Review) believed that the greater the cultural differences are, the more FDI will lead to taking on a joint venture enter the host country market. The information exchanges become more difficult, as social and cultural difference could create uncertainty to the managers of transnational corporations, who tend to underestimate the value of oversea investments. Cultural differences between large MNC in national investment, access to local knowledge is very difficult, so preferred mode of operation in the joint venture (Anderson and Coughlan, 1987). Cultural differences that make managers of transnational corporations do not trust the host country partners; they would prefer to take a higher control entry mode, in order to fully according to their own wishes (Bivens and Lovell, 1966). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to Pan Zhen and Lu Wang, (1990,2000)(as cited in With regard to cultural differences might affect FDI mode of entry of the Literature Review) analysis of investment in the country’s cultures, investments and cultural differences between countries and China’s FDI into the mode selection effects. The preference-based power from the control of sexually-oriented country, and risk preferences of foreign-owned preferred to enter the Chinese market, those who own cultures and Chinese’s cultures, the greater the differences between the countries, the more likely foreign joint ventures are to be taken to circumvent the cross-broader operation in the risk. The cultural differences will produce both positive and negative influences to the enterprise development (Hofstede G.1993). The most significant negative aspect is that, the cultural differences will cause cultural mis-registrations and cultural conflicts, these factors will restrict enterprise’s survival and development inevitably, and will affect business goal realization frequently. Arjun Bhardwaj (2007) found that, host country trust on location decisions of foreign firms is decided by the mixed support for a direct effect. Besides that, the most important finding is that of an interaction effect of uncertainty avoidance and trust on FDI, uncertainty avoidance moderated the positive relationship between a country’s level of trust and the FDI, the relationship will became weaker as the uncertainty avoidance increased. It should be noted that the host country cultural factors affected FDI inward, after controlling for economic, human capital, institutional, and regulatory antecedents of FDI. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Differences in culture exit due to differences in races, ethnicities, nationality, geographical region, age, physical ability or disability, socioeconomic status, gender identity and language differences. All of these differences can differ the way for communication and interpretations on beliefs, values, as well as norms, in which will affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people. Some cultural differences in customs and behaviors are obvious. For example, in Switzerland and Germany, punctuality seems to be important but less important in most parts of Africa. Along with important differences, people from varied backgrounds also share many similarities. Even when we acknowledge cultural variation, the fact remains that not everyone in a particular culture behaves identically. Ignoring cross-cultural similarities and intercultural variation can lead to stereotyping people from different backgrounds, exaggerating and caricaturing the other culture, and judging its communication practices as radically different and implicitly wrong. Hence, we must study about cultural of other countries as well to prevent this situation happen. We must learn to adapt and accept conflicts, and learn to appreciate the importance of harmony when communicating cross-culturally. Once we learn to appreciate different sets of rules about how to express and handle disagreements, conducting business will becomes much easier and able to attract more FDI to invest across our country. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides that, the world is an uncertain and massively changes marketplace. International politics, economic trends and the forces of nature do affect the competitiveness of Malaysia in attracting FDI. Uncertainty avoidance is a measure of how accepting a culture is of a lack of predictability. Some culture such as Singapore and Hong Kong are comfortable with this fact. Their acceptance of uncertainty allow them to take more risks, relatively more tolerant of behaviors that differs from the norm, and enable a more open society to be formed. Other cultures societies such as Japan, Greece, and Portugal are less comfortable with change. They value tradition and formal rules, and show less tolerance for different ideas. So, we have to study about the different within countries’ traditions, values, and cultures.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Moreover, communicating with others from different backgrounds is not always as easily as just speech and listening to a particular language. Matters including cultures, races and genders may have made others’ experiences quit different from us. Hence, we must learn to accept and adapt other countries cultures and behaviors. We must also respect each other during the communication process to prevent conflicts happen. This can help to promote more satisfying, productive relationships among members of different countries and will increase the competitiveness of Malaysia in attracting FDI inflows. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Furthermore, we must practice and improve our personal skills to enable good communication when we dealing with foreign countries’ members. Language has the power to stir intense emotions. It can motivate, inspire, and amuse audiences. Unfortunately, it can also generate negative feelings such as antagonism, defensiveness, and prejudice. Therefore, we must avoid biased language when we are communicating with others. We must also beware of trigger words to prevent these conflicts happen. Some social scientists have suggested that conversation between men and women is a kind of cross-cultural communication in which members of each sex are not speaking different dialects but “genderlects.” Accepting gender differences can lead to smoother relationship across the countries. By the way, gender isn’t the only factor that influences conversational style. Cultural, geographical, and occupational influences also play a role on it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lastly, we must also build up our interpersonal skills. Building positive relationships among the members of other countries can help in attracting FDI into Malaysia. The ability to work well with others is very important when Malaysia want to attract FDI. Therefore, good interpersonal communication skills are important. The ability and skills to interacting well with others need to be improved as Malaysia tried to attract FDI because improve the personal communication skills that are so important for individuals and organizations. To attract FDI, Malaysia should keep an open mind. Listening with an open mind makes good sense because others people probably have knowledge that you don’t. Besides, providing useful information, listening open-mindedly can also promote good relationships with foreign countries. This will help Malaysia to attract more FDI. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In a paper entitled ‘Educational and income inequality in Malaysia’, Rahmah Ismail claimed that inequality in educational attainment may contribute to inequality in income distribution. Students, both in urban and rural areas, must be able to reach the provision of better and more efficient services in our education system. This can enhance our ability to produce local skilled talents. Malaysia has been moving up the industrialization development chain from one that is labour-intensive to capital and technology-intensive. Consequently, this development alters the pattern of demand for labour required by the industries by raising the demands for skilled and also highly educated workers as the economy moves up the value chain. Incentives for the development of intellectual properties in the area of information and communication technology (ICT), biotechnology and high-value adding manufacturing, including in sourcing of high-value adding processes and out-sourcing of low-value adding process are now given priority. This profound shift in the government’s macroeconomic policy will result in structural changes required in the economy, as we cannot compete using the old industrial economy. Though Malaysia had been producing thousands of graduates every year, it is not far-fetched to state that our educational system is not up to standard and neither is the vast graduates produced by the system. Since the supply of this type of skilled talents lagged behind their demand, then the skilled workers were able to command an increasing premium over unskilled workers. At the same time, the divergence of the wages of skilled and unskilled workers is said to be enhanced by the massive entry of unskilled foreign labour into the Malaysia economy that dampened the wages of unskilled labour.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides, Malaysia had been very selective with regard to the type of FDI to accept. FDI projects that were lower down the value chain and largely dependent on cheap labour were turned away. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In fact, human capital development is one of the key factors to increase overall productivities, which will determine the volume of FDI inflows. Countries with better human capital resources will increase the attractiveness of that particular country’s investment climate, as it will increase the level of skill of the country’s workforce and improve the social-political climate in the country. The 9<sup>th</sup> Malaysia Plan recognized quality of human capital as a key determinant in the achievement of the plan’s goals and objectives. And the current Malaysia educational system is with several disadvantages, such as: rote learning without real understanding of the learned theories, pressure to study just for passing the examinations, and an emphasis on uniformity are the norm. As such, the government is recently taking into consideration to rebuild our current examinations’ system. One of the key considerations is to abolish the PMR examination, in which has become less meaningful since all secondary students will be promoted into SPM level, regardless how is the results obtained in PMR examination. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Logistic and communication infrastructures are both the fundamental determinate for a country’s economic to growth, as well as to attract the FDI. Communication facilities are used for establishing connection networks with the remote areas around the country and the logistic facilities are the important backbone for transporting services. Countries with proper infrastructures facilities are able to gains more substantial amount of FDI, and the logistic and the communication networks are both facilitates to better supply chain management, as well as better distribution networks development. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides, there is with significant effects of public investment rate on FDI. Public investment can either be in basic facility, such as transportation system, educational institution, water and sewage facilities, could direct facilitate FDI inflows and in projects for the public sector enterprises where the product compete, which for input factor and also the market with those of the private sector involved. In Malaysia, both logistic and communication facilities have been massively financed by the government. The adverse consequences of government activities via the public sector have been noted by a group of observers. They are the reduction of fair competition among private firms in Malaysia (Ghazali, 1988) and the generation of macroeconomic problems, such as balance of payment deficits and inflations (Fischer, 1988).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to Badlisham Ghazali (2010), IT would be hard to deny that the continued infusion of technology across all economic sectors in the country is key to driving productivity and innovation (Business Time, 2010 October 14). Besides, both of Implementation Council Meeting (ICM) and MSC Malaysia International Advisory Panel Meeting, had concluded that ICT empowerment is a source of national competitive advantages (Business Time, 2010 October 14). In order to encourage the development of ICT within Malaysia, the Malaysia’s Budget of 2011 have proposed 4 key policies, which includes : [1] Public-private partnership investment to actively facilitate the diffusion of ICT through all economic sectors, [2] Tax incentives for private sector to encourage technology refresh, [3] Investments to strengthen the ICT human capital pool particularly in talent growth attraction and quality development, and [4] Incentives to increase ICT adoption by SMEs (Business Times, 2010 October 14).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Green technology is another increasingly new technology, where Malaysia is planed to involve in actively. According to prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the government is planning to make Malaysia the regional center for green energy, especially solar energy, and the research shown that green technology investments would be able to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 30 percent by 2020, without harming business profitability and the economic growth (New Straits Times, 2010 October 14). Malaysia has attracted over RM12billion or US$4billion in FDI to the solar photo-voltaic industry, and the prime minister declared that employing in green technology as country’s new growth engine is no longer an option, but is a must in light of an increasingly environmentally-conscious marketplace (New Straits Times, 2010 October 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Every country has its own legal system in place to keep order. In areas of business, particularly FDI, investors consider different dimension of the potential environment’s legal framework before undertaking investment. The Malaysian legal system is substantially based on the English legal system and on the principal of common law, a legacy of British colonial rule. The High Court has jurisdiction over all criminal and civil matters, while the Court of Appeal hears appeals from the High Court. The Federal Court, in turn, hears appeals from the Court of Appeal, and has jurisdiction over constitutional law matters. The King of Malaysia on the advice of the Prime Minister appoints judges to the Federal Court. Different researchers have drawn relationship between FDI inflow and the following elements of regulatory frameworks: poor governance and inhospitable regulatory environments (Dupasquier and Osakwe, 2006 ); several specific trade and FDI policies like, foreign ownership ceiling in sectors open for FDI, policy on reputation of capital and remittance of profit (Tarzi, 2005) , government regulations and restrictions on equity holdings by foreigners (Cotton and Ramachandran, 2001 ) all are found to have negative impact on FDI inflow. According to Biglaiser and DoRouen (2006), goverments that implements reforms are not always more likely to attract FDI inflow.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Corruption is another issue to be seen in relation to the legal system. Corruption has been implicated as hampering economic activity and economic development (Voyer and Beamish, 2004). Most researchers found out that the presence of high corruption and low transparency have negative effect on the inflow of FDI (Zhao and Du, 2003; Habib and Zurawicki, 2002; Kersan-Skabic and Orlic, 2007).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intellectual Property Right (IPR) protection is also critical factor for importing and involvement in high-tech areas. Ensuring property right in Malaysia (Fedderke and Romm, 2006) and developing countries (Kapuria-Foreman, 2007) were identified as one factor affecting FDI inflow. A large sample of host country study (Nunnenkamp and Spatz, 2004) points out that IPR protection affects FDI inflow. As it has been the case for other determinant factors, opposing views are forwarded for this variable. Investigation of the interaction of industry characteristics and IPR on multinational firms’ behavior, (Nicholson, 2007), suggest that when IPRs are strong, firms in industries with high investment in research and development (R&D) are more likely to enter a market by licensing to an unaffiliated host firm resulting in lower FDI inflow. Hence the effect is dependent on the kind of investment under investigation.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Over the last few years, Malaysia has abolished import duties on a wide range of raw materials, machinery and components to encourage foreign direct investments. Malaysia is also committed to the ASEAN Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) whereby import duties imposed on 99.48 of Tariff Lines from ASEAN countries has duties of between 0-5% only. By 1 Jan 2010, import duties on all the tariff lines will be eliminated except for: as per SENSITIVE and HIGHLY SENSITIVE (Customs.gov.my,2010)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Different products and services would fall under the control of different Ministry in Malaysia. As such, it is important to contact the relevant ministry for the regulations e.g. Pre-packed drugs must bear labels in English or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bahasa</i> Malaysia that designate the substance or the active ingredients and quantitative particulars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As for labour forces, a</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ll persons seeking entry into Malaysia must possess valid national or other international recognized travel documents valid for travel to Malaysia. These passports or travel documents must be valid for at least six months beyond the date of entry of Malaysia. For instance, Swiss nationals do not require a visa for travel of less than 3 months (Nadia and Suria, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia taxation policies are imposed by federal legislation passed by Parliament. The individual states do not collect taxes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some of the main tax legislations are the Income Tax-1967, Promotion of Investments Act-1986, Real Property Gains Tax Act-1976, and Petroleum Income Tax Act-1967. Offshore companies carrying on an offshore bness activity are subject to a preferential tax regime under the Labuan Offshore Business Activity Tax Act-1990. Certain taxpayers are taxed on special bases e.g. banks, insurance, air transport etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Income tax - is levied on individuals, companies and other taxable entities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Real property gains tax - this is levied on capital gains arising from disposal of real estate, rights on real estate and shares in real property companies where the property is situated in Malaysia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia commercial law is another left-over from the British legacy. The domestic legal system is open and accessible. In the past, cases of foreign investment disputes, although it is rare, the dispute settlement has been handled with satisfaction. However, many firms choose to include mandatory arbitration clauses in the contract.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia is also a signatory to the UN-sponsored Convention on the settlement of Investment Disputes. In the local front, the Malaysian government has set up the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration under the auspices of the Asian-African legal Consultative Committee to offer international arbitration mediation and conciliation for trade disputes. Commercial law firms of international standing are available in the country. However, it is noted that commercial disputes will takes a while for a final settlement through the court process. (Musbri Mohamed, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As for setting up companies, all</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> companies intending to do business in Malaysia are required to register with the Companies Commission of Malaysia which is formerly called Registrar OF Companies under Ministry of domestic Trade & Consumer affairs which is responsible for the administration of the companies act. This includes keeping files open for public inspection. (UHY, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most large Malaysian companies have been involved in trade and industry for generations, and many have excelled in international and regional markets. Thus, foreign investors seeking joint-venture partners in Malaysia will be able to select from a wide range of companies to find one that matches their needs. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">MIDA also</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> assists foreign investors in business match-making to start joint-venture projects or to undertake contract manufacturing. As the government welcomes foreign investors investment into Malaysia, various agencies and trade association including MIDA, Federation of Malaysia Manufacturers, Small & Medium industries, The Chinese Chamber of Commerce etc, assist foreign investors to identify local joint venture partners in the manufacturing, trading and services sectors. (MIDA, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia welcomes and is actively inviting foreign investors through MIDA( Malaysian Industrial Development Authority ), particularly in export-oriented manufacturing and high-tech industries under the promotional of investments Act 1986 and the Industrial Co ordination Act 1975. MIDA was established to act as a one-stop Centre to administer the regulation of investment in the manufacturing sectors of the Ministry of International Trade & Industry. The government recognized the need for foreign capital investments and technology </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">for the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> development of the country. MIDA’s major </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">functions are</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> to recommend to MITI policies and strategies on industrial promotion and development, to evaluate applications for investment incentives, and to process application for manufacturing licenses. Policy and guidelines are set and interpreted withy flexibility; conditions imposed on foreign investors are usually flexible and are based on the merits of individual projects. At the moment, foreign investors are allowed majority equity in most of the industries. Various incentives are offered to investors in promoted industries. These include 5-10 years tax holidays and investment and reinvestment allowances are also offered. Another actively promoted sector for foreign investment is in the information technology industry particularly in the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). It is located in a 15 by 40 kilometer area south of Kuala Lumpur. Investors in the MSC area receive a host of tax incentives and regulatory exemptions. Profits are freely remittable and exchange controls are minimal. Malaysia also signed investment guarantee agreements with various countries including Switzerland. (Kaziah Abdul Kadir, 2009)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the procedures for collecting payment, i</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">t is customary for a creditor to negotiate with a financially difficult debtor when an unsecured debt has become due for some suitable arrangement for repayment. It is only when the repayment fails; creditor will then resort to legal recovery method. Malaysia‘s judicial system is relatively effective for such purpose, however, in view of back-log in the judiciary system, it will take a few years for the case to be settled. Private debt collection agency is another avenue, but it is not widely used as the fee is quite substantial (15-25% on amount collected).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">3.7 The Political Instability and</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Policies Inconsistency</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Problems</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Malaysian government has provided various incentives to encourage FDI but most of our competitors have also provided similar incentives package (Lim, 2002). So, government had formulated various policies from the mid 2009 including the New Economic Model, 10<sup>th</sup> Malaysia Plan, Government Transformation Plan and Economic Transformation Plan to attract foreign investment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Previous researchers indicate that political stability is a pre-requisite to attract FDI, but it is not a strong drive for FDI inflow (UNCTAD, 1998). While political instability reduces the inflow of FDI and also changes the nature of FDI from an investment in the country’s future into a drain on a country’s future (Henley, 2004). Political instability could be a serious deterrent for FDI as it creates uncertainties and increases risks and costs (OBwona, 2003). According to Ajami and Ricks (1981) and Nigh (1985) a country with political stability has a positive influence on FDI. Political stability is important for creating a climate of confidence for investors. This is also supported by (Henley, 2004) because, the foreign investors need to confident with the government for will not to take over their investments, that their agreement will be honoured, that conflicts will not destroy their investments, and make business too expensive (Henley, 2004). Thus, political stability is essential for FDI inflow which has large effect whether the foreign investors will invest in Malaysia or not and it will encourages investments in long-term business. So, Government plays an important role in maintaining political stability, because the investor have to adjust their strategies in accordance with the new policies if a new government come in with highly different policies. The long term political stability then will make foreign investor confident with their businesses will succeed and remain profitable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">After former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was released sodomy charge in 2004, he went to be the opposition leader for the coalition known as Pakatan Rakyat. He put pressure on the government under the Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak for many accusations of cronyism, bribery and seeking advice from APCO, a jewish firm. In 2008, a new allegation of sodomy was made surface by his former aide, accusing him of sodomy. Popular with Sodomy II, this allegation went public and popular all over the world as the world leaders and foreign investors keep watching at close distance. This political chaos has tarnished Malaysia reputation among foreign investors and several of them even warn Malaysia government for a fair trial of Anwar Ibrahim. One of the famous examples here came from British tycoon Richard Branson when he said that the ongoing sodomy trial against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was discouraging investors from coming to Malaysia. The case is like a thorn because it has gone on for a long time and it damages Malaysia a lot as Malaysia has a good reputation. Malaysia can be more liberal and a lot more people will invest. Malaysian leader should get rid of these things that are damaging the country’s reputation quickly. Branson, the founder of the sprawling Virgin business empire, said Malaysia would have more success in wooing foreign funds if it adopted a more open and competitive business policy. The Malaysian political environment which has continuous crises between the government and opposition parties can be the reason why FDI declined last year, as the Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister, Mukhriz Mahathir said. He accused the opposition actions often maligned the name of country caused many foreign investors are afraid to come to Malaysia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Variables that will come under government factors are government incentives, economic policies, and political environment and government promotions towards FDI. The Malaysian government has provided various incentives to encourage FDI. Brewer (1993); Woodward and Rolfe (1993); Kerr and Peter (2001); Tung and Cho (2000) and He and Guisinger (1993) found that tax incentives had a positive effect on FDI. The tax is expected to have an inverse relationship with FDI, which means lower taxes will promote FDI and vice versa (Kerr & Peter, 2001). However, according to Lim (1983) the tax incentives do not affect FDI because most of our competitors have also provided similar incentives package (Lim, 2002).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">One of the key factors affects the FDI to invest in Malaysia because of the good environment (Har, Teo & Yee 2008). According to them, the good environment will encourage foreign investor to invest in our country because with the good conditions make investors face fewer problem and they can run their business conveniently and make more profits. The political environment refers to the laws and regulations passed by governments that can affect viability of multinational company operations in the host country (Griffin & Pustay 1999). Sound political environment can encourage FDI due to the role they play in lowering profit uncertainty (Agarwal, 1980; Schneider and Frey, 1985).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">The major and the biggest change in policy involving Malaysia was back in 1998 when the Asian financial crisis attacked and the Malaysian ringgit was falling very fast to almost 60% of its value, the Prime Minister at that time Mahathir Mohamad had to make a radical decision. He decided to impose a strict capital controls that prevented investors from taking money out of the country and then he pegged the ringgit at RM3.80 to the U.S. dollar. His action enraged foreign governments and investors whereby many of them felt threaten until some of them even declared to never set foot in Malaysia again. This action in changing policy overnight and make the investors felt uneasy had led to the fall in the foreign investments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">The government at that time, under Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi believed that the change in policy will strengthen the economy. The ringgit showed strong appreciation after the announcement and the value of ringgit grew strongly until it reached RM3.00 to the U.S. dollar in October this year. These moves made the Malaysian import of foreign products become cheaper and increase the Malaysians buying power. But on other hand, Malaysia revenue from oil and gas sector suffers huge loss since the trading was conducted in U.S. dollar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">This has prevented more foreign investors to come and invest hence less and less foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into the country. The government need to break up big companies and let them compete against each other to make the economy become more interesting for foreign investors. For example, the success story of AirAsia, a Malaysia-based budget carrier which they came with a lower cost base and they helped transform Malaysia. And that is because they are more nimble than bigger government-run companies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">But in recent years, a combination of factors have colluded to make attracting FDI more challenging. Key among them is the rising labour cost. Malaysia no longer has cheap labour and the people are becoming more selective about jobs. Understandably so because the average Malaysian is more educated, has higher expectations and needs a higher income to cope with the rising cost of living. At the same time, the poor and low-income countries of the region are becoming more open and stable, and are offering the kind of incentives that Malaysia can no longer match. There are Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, who offer cheap labour, an abundance of land and a large domestic market, which</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia is a multiracial, multicultural and with rich natural recourses country. The living standard in Malaysia’s major towns, such as Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, and Penang are relatively high if compared with other South East Asia countries. Besides, the cost of living within Malaysia is relatively low as well. This scenario in fact can be the key determinant to attract FDI, as they can enjoy the same standard of living with relatively low cost of living. Also, Malaysia’s in general are using not only Malay and English as the languages, but we do have the most complete Chinese based educational system in the world, other than China and Taiwan. Also, Arabic and Tamil, as well as other local dialects, are widely in used as well. This enable Malaysia to have languages advantages over its other countries. Based on the fundamentals above, we do believe that Malaysia in fact can be much more seductive to FDI over other regional countries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The GDP per capita of Malaysia is $14800, and is one of the highest in South East Asia. 70% of Malaysian population lived in urban areas, with life expectancy of 72 years at birth and an 88.7% literacy rate, and the country’s capital – Kuala Lumpur is rated as an alpha world city (Manoj Yadav, 2010 May 15). An alpha world city is known as global city, which deemed to be an important node point to the networks of the global economy system and play important role for globalisation process. On average, a salary of RM4000/month is enough for basic living life style in Malaysia, and above RM6000/month will ensures a decent living, as well as with RM10000/month will generate a lifestyle which is really comfortable (EvanoOruvan,2008).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, Malaysia can no longer rely on cheap labour and low cost of production as the way to attract FDI. In fact, we should compete on quality and perceived value generation. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As such, we need to reduce inefficiency and wastage, while focusing on improving productivity. We need to focus on the priority on growth with equity, as unequal income distribution is not conductive for promoting social cohesion and providing an acceptable level of quality of life for all Malaysians. It is also inconsistent with out aspiration of becoming a high-income and high value-added economy that envisaged in the New Economic Model (NEM) which was unveiled by current Prime Minister. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">There are several aspects should be take note in the policy making process in order to advance the pattern of Foreign Direct Investment in the various manufacturing industries in the country. First, since that certain physical infrastructure and human aspects are closed to manufacturing are concern to the eyes of foreign investors, the provision of a well trained and efficient labour force, other infrastructural facilities and special or subsidized industrial sites can attract the attention of foreign investor to certain designated industries. Then, the allocation of credit facilities and special funds for the firms that involve in industries which are under invested can also increase the flow of FDI into those industries. This is because a lot of foreign firms regard the possibility for local finance as one of the important considerations in their FDI decisions. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia government should also try to produce a generation of workforces which are capable in communicate in English, which is the main language in global business world. However, policy which aims to improve the scholar’s English proficiency should not affect their mother languages learning opportunity as well. This is because we believe that a society with multicultural and multi-languages proficiency will be the focus on FDI in the next decades. The reason is simply because of, Chinese which is the main language for China region will because the second language for businesses, since China is currently the world 2<sup>nd</sup> bigger economy just behind U.S.A. The important of Tamil as a language in business world will be increasingly high together with the development of India as the world class economy. Also, the Arabic language is somehow important since that it’s the main language in used in the Middle East, as well as the language for Islamic financial and banking world. In order to improve the competitive of Malaysia in attracting FDI within the South-East Asia countries, Malaysia should work hard from the communication aspect. The ability to communicate is very importance. Virtually everyone communicates at work. So, if Malaysia wants to be competitive in attracting FDI, the communication skill must be improved. Good communicators have the desire to persuade, an interest in talking and working with other people, and an outgoing, ascendant personality. This will help Malaysia able to compete with other countries within the South-East Asia. Good communicators able to persuade, sell ideas, negotiate, and other forms of speaking when they are dealing with foreign corporate. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In order for the economy to move up the effectiveness and competitive value chain, attributes such as creativity, risk taking, entrepreneurship, and adaptability are necessary. Only with a proper <span style="color: black;">education system</span> that promotes problem-solving skills, communication, and teamwork can inculcate these types of attributes. The quality of teaching also needs to be seriously reviewed. This would require the increasing the motivation and stature of the teaching profession.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Also several important factors that affect FDI inflows are including infrastructure availability, quality of the banking system, characteristics of trade and competition policy and public security. And the policy consistency and predictability of policy makers moves should be taken into account as well, as the key determinate to attract FDI. Furthermore, the government should figures out a consistent formula of policies that are not only can attract more FDI-inflow, but also can enable the integration of FDI into the host economy, as well as sustainable economy growth in the long term. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, 9(2).105-135.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This report investigates the competitiveness of Malaysia in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). More specifically the study investigates the relationship of FDI with Malaysia’s economy, analyzes the reasons that affected the FDI into Malaysia, and evaluates each possible reason with relevant supportive data. The study will further evaluate the effectiveness of government policies in attracting FDI into Malaysia.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia has a policy of mixed economy whereby the countries attract FDI into the country to drive its economy and to ensure growth. Most of the empirical studies on the function of FDI in countries suggest that FDI is an important source of capital, complements domestic private investment, enhancement of technology transfer, and increase overall economic growth in countries <span style="color: black;">where higher economic growth will creating sound investment environment which attracts investment from market-seeking firms </span>(Karimi et al., 2009)<span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">According to Krugman and Obstfeld (1994) FDI functions as one way to bridge an inter-temporal gap of capital demand and supply, and like other capital inflows, increase the production frontier of developing</span> countries, which normally suffer a shortage of capital<span style="color: black;">. </span>FDI also lead to increase the employment rate through the expansion of the economy and job creation. Insufficient funds for investment are the main reason to seek FDI and normally, less-developed countries lack of fund for investment (Har, Teo, & Yee, 2008). Therefore by having the FDI, it can help them to develop their countries and improve their standard of living by creating more domestic employment and increase the economy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides FDI creating more job opportunities, inflow of FDI has been an important source of knowledge transfer in technology, management skills and international linkages for Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines and Thailand (Yussof & Ismail, 2002). FDI is considered to be an important vehicle for transfer of new technology which contributes to growth more than domestic investment (Borensztein et al., 1998). FDI provides the fastest and most effective way to deploy new technologies in developing host countries, through the process of technology transfer, the foreign multinationals also contributed to the development of the technical capabilities of the locals (UNCTAD, 2000). Moreover, through training of employees and hands-on learning, FDI can raise the skills of local manpower and as a result, increasing their productivity level ( Marial & Ngie, 2009). Furthermore, FDI’s role is to fuel exports growth whereby the production of products and services are to cater both domestic and international markets.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The government’s effort by introducing more liberal incentives including allowing a larger percentage of foreign equity ownership in enterprise under the Promotion of Investment Act (PIA)1986, and also by the establishment of Free Trade Zones (FTZs) in the Second Malaysia Plan (1971-1975) in order to attract a larger inflow of FDI. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As the result, Malaysia has attracted a large number of FDI</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Between 1986 and 1996, it resulted to a large inflow of FDI at an annual average rate of 38.7% after 1987. In 1995 for instance, Malaysia was the second largest FDI recipient among Asian economies with US$ 5.8 billion (UNCTAD, 1996). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The figure above shows the trend of FDI inflow to Malaysia. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia has received a lot of FDI since the 1990s and FDI has become<span class="apple-style-span"> an important contributor to the growth and the transformation of Malaysia’s economy whereby</span> FDI could create job opportunities for the countries’ citizens. The<span class="apple-style-span"> FDI flow in Malaysia is inconsistent and fluctuates randomly</span>. For the record, <span class="apple-style-span">Malaysia has recorded RM 152 billion in net FDI inflows during the period 2000-2009 higher than RM 134 billion from 1990-1999. But actually Malaysia’s performance starts to grow up impressively by 1990s compared with the years before 1990s and it show that may be the investor confidence had improved. However, the lowest figures of FDI inflows recorded in 2001 were due to the global trend and followed by the collapse of technology bubble </span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The star newspaper</i>, 25</span> </strong></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">March</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">2010)</span></strong><span class="apple-style-span">. As for 2009,</span> <span class="apple-style-span">the FDI inflow into the Malaysia had drastically dropped 81% to US$1.4bil from US$7.3bil in 2008</span><strong>, </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">which</span> </strong><span class="apple-style-span">reported by the World Investment Report (WIR). According to the chief economist of RAM Holdings Bhd </span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dr Yeah Kim Leng, the reason why the FDI have contracted sharply due to lack of confidence as the result of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The star newspaper</i>,</span></strong> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">13</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">March</span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">2010). I</span></strong><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">n 2007, FDI inflows peaked, when it reaching US$1.8 trillion, up 30% from 2006, bringing the worldwide stock of FDI to US$15 trillion. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">FDI is an important contributor to the growth and the transformation of Malaysia’s economy, particularly in establishing new industries, enhancing production capacity, employment, trade and technological capability. Malaysia has attracted a steady inflow of net FDI in the recent decade, averaging 3% of GDP per annum with a peak of 4.5% of GDP in 2007 (Har, et. al., 2008). However, relatively lower FDI inflows were recorded in 2001 and 2009, similar to the global trend, following the collapse of the technology bubble and the global financial crisis respectively. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to the World Investment Report 2010, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia’s FDI was dropped more than 81 percent in 2009 on Year-on-Year basic</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, from US$7.32 billion in 2008 to US$1.38 billion in 2009. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The FDI inflow into Malaysia of the entire year of 2009 was even less than half of the annual average total FDI inflow between the years of 1995 to 2005</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, which included the long recovery period after the 1997 Asia Economic Crisis. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides, Malaysia’s FDI inflow in 2009 was also lower than Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. This is the very first time in the history where the Philippines’s FDI total is more than Malaysia’s FDI.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flow in RM billion<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">(Source: World Investment Report 2010 United Nations)<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">1995-2005<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">(annual average)<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">2008<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">2009<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">Malaysia<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">Inward<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">13.04<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">23.47<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">4.43<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">Outward<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">6.36<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">48.06<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">25.77<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">Thailand<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Inward<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">15.41<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">27.40<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">18.08<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Outward<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">1.36<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">8.21<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">12.24<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">Indonesia<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Inward<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">4.63<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">29.88<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">15.64<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Outward<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">2.73<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">18.92<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">9.46<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">South East Asia</span></strong><strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Inward<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">89.63<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">151.63<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">118.02<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Outward<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">37.01<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">49.34<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">68.25<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia was a strong performer in economic growth within the South-East Asia region in the early and mid-1990s. However, the country’s economy was hit hard during Asia Economic Crisis, which began in July 1997 started from Thailand. The crisis caused Malaysia economy contracted by 7.4 percent, and the Ringgit slipped by more than 40 percent until the country decided to implement currency and capital control, as well as pegged it currency- RM3.80 to USD1. However, the economy was able to recover strongly, particularly in 1999 and 2000, as the result of increased government spending and highly increased export sector. Malaysia had successfully to register averaged annual GDP growth rate at 5.9 percent since 2001. The country economic growth are transforming from depending on government spending and exports to become more driven by investment and private consumption, especially in the services sector. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia had taken the initiatives to reconstruct it economy, especially financial sector since 1997 Asia Financial Crisis. This enabled Malaysia’s economy did not hurt badly by the global financial crisis which began on November 2008 in US. However, the country’s economy is facing several problems internally and externally. These include of potential decreasing exports demand, higher commodity prices (due to Quantitative Easing (QE) Policy- worldwide, and Quantitative Easing 2 (QE2) - US), lower competitiveness in attracting FDI inflows, and challenges in gaining the high income country status.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia’s government had introduced 5 economic regions within the country (Iskandar Malaysia (Iskandar), North Corridor Economic Region (NCER), East Coast Economic Region (ECER), Sabah Development Corridor (SDC), and Sarawak Corridor of Renewal Energy (SCORE)) within the year of 2008. Also, the Malaysian’s government has promised to commit to an open economy, increase the country’s competitiveness and promote more freedom for foreign investors to the country. However, the introduced of 5 economic regions and the promises given by the Malaysian’s government did not responded positively by foreign investors, as the FDI inflow into Malaysia was dropped shapely in the year of 2009.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to World Investment Report 2008, MNCs often invest in countries with well established network of transportation and communication facilities. Malaysia is ready to fulfill the needs of logistic and communication within the country’s boundary, especially in the Peninsular of Malaysia. PLUS-highways and KTM railways are both linking the major towns in peninsular. Malaysia is famous with cheaper ports services than Singapore provided in southern Johor, as well as in Klang. Besides, the leading budget airlines- Air Asia, which selected Malaysia as the hub of it networks also increased the competitiveness of Malaysia in term of transportation. As for communication, Malaysia is moving toward to implement National Broadband Initiative (NBI), other than the MSC projects. According to SKMM (Malaysia Multimedia and Communication Commission), 95% of peninsular lands and 55% of East Malaysia areas are covered by fixed line broadband. Besides, there are with 29.6 Million cellular subscription (Q3,2009), with 95% of area coverage in Peninsular and 77% of area coverage in East Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">FDI in general can help to create jobs opportunity and reduce the poverty rate in a developing country. There are many ways in which FDI can help to enhance a country’s manufacturing and export competitiveness. As the purpose to attract more export oriented FDI and to ensure that such investment transform into development gains, a country needs to select the most effective ways for the chosen of locations as well as the target segments, conducive to the kind of export activities the MNCs aim to foster. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of the biggest tools for economic integration is FDI. FDI moves towards low technology production and labour intensive in developing countries, but they flows in high technology production towards developed states. FDI usually depend on different views of investments such as the sector of investment whether it’s manufacturing or services, the size of multinational investor or company. When the firms, which relocate only a part of its production’s process, but not the whole production’s line, then there is with possibilities for more FDI inflows in future, as the firms might continuously to relocate other production’s process. Natural resources, specific skills, inexpensive labour and infrastructure will usually be the motivator to the foreign investors to relocate their production’s line. On the other hand, the investors will invest heavily in an advantaged location to increase their competitive advantages.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In today’s rapidly globalizing world, successful exporting needs not only competitive products, but also marketing expertise and access to international markets. Giving greater access to FDI can provide major benefit in this respect especially in markets in which established brand names and large distribution networks are important assets. FDI can also be effective means of providing resources, such as skills, training, technology, capital goods and intermediate input needed to exploit a country’s existing comparative advantages.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">FDI is the vehicle by which firms achieve their strategic objectives. A company must posses some asset such as products and processes technology or management and marketing skills that can be beneficially in the foreign affiliate in order to invest in production in foreign markets. According to Kindle Berger (1969), “For direct investment to thrive there must be some imperfection in markets for goods or factors, including among the latter technology. Or some interference in competition by government or by firms, which separates markets”. The industrialized nations have remained the major contributor as well as the major recipient of FDI though FDI flows to the developing world have more than doubled between 1990 and 1999. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">FDI is generally defined as ownership of a country’s business or properties by entities not domiciled there (BusinessDictionary.com). In this 20<sup>th</sup> century, the improved technologies and consolidated economies make a greater mobility of peoples, goods, capital and ideas from one country to another country. Such exchange of goods, services, knowledge and cultures between countries brings us to a world without boundaries and it is popularly known as globalization (Global Education). As the tendency of world towards globalization, FDI plays an extraordinary and growing role in global business (Graham & Spaulding, 2005). In terms of FDI, the host country is the country which receives the investment from the source country or home country, which is also known as the foreign investor. The inflows of FDI into a host country can drive to a significant development of economy by providing an external source of capital, new technologies, management skills, and process.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to Graham & Spaulding, FDI is classically defined as a company from one country making a physical investment into building a factory in another country. A direct investment is about investing in buildings, machinery, and equipment while indirect investment is refer to undertaking a portfolio investment. In current year, the definition of FDI has been expansive to include the acquisition of lasting management interest in a company outside the investing firm’s home country, investing in a joint venture, or construction of facility, or league with a local firm with the following input of technology and licensing of intellectual property (Graham & Spaulding, 2005). Besides, the form of FDI has much different from the pass in terms of the size, scope and methods of execute due to the expansion in technologies, changes in market’s capital structure as well as the gradually aggrandizing liberalization of national investment regulatory framework. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The expanding of FDI in current year proposed different view point to different people. Adherents of FDI indicate that the exchange of investment flows profits both the host country and the home country while opponents hold that multinational collaboration are able to exert greater power over smaller economies and would lead to larger local competition (Graham & Spaulding,2005). Since the flows of investment in a country’s economies does brings about great impact, most governments, especially for those in industrialized and developed nations really put much attention to FDI. In the United States, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, a section of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is responsible for collecting economic data about the economy including information about FDI flows (Graham & Spaulding, 2005). By going through this data, the influence of such investment on the overall economy can be determined and the impact on industry segments will be assessable.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In general, FDI will improve competitiveness and create employment, as well as increase the development of the host nation. This is a result of inward investment increasing the number of entrants in the indigenous industry which forces all competitor firms in the industry to become more competitive by reducing costs and improving efficiency and quality. In the analysis of Bosworth and Collins (1999) found that about half of each dollar of capital inflow can converted into an increase in the domestic investment. The result of the analysis show that the transferring of foreign resources equal to 53-69 percentage of the inflow of financial capital. The rest are transferred to reserves accumulation or capital inflows. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In addition to the contribution of joint ventures, foreign firms can serve as a catalyst for other domestic exporters.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In an empirical analysis, the probability of domestic factories will be exported is considered to be actively associated with the nearby multinational companies </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Aitken et al. 1997). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">One implication is that the government may encourage potential exporters to be close to each other, creating export processing zones, duty-free import of inputs given as to fund infrastructure, special offers or tax-free to help reduce the cost of domestic enterprises to foreign countries to break the market. Export processing zone is a useful broad-based reform, but may introduce spatial distortions, the government in the wrong place to find the area.</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Much FDI activity is achieved by way of a joint venture between a foreign company and an indigenous company and this may bring advantages such as risk diversification, capital requirement reductions and lower start-up costs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides, foreign firms will bring in superior technology and enable free spreads of technology to the existing firm for extent of benefit to the host countries. FDI will manifest itself in the</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">creation of spill over and linkages – typically in suppliers and customers – whereas the dynamic impact will affect the competitive environment. In addiction,</span></span> both adherents and opponents support their respective view point regarding to the implication and effect of growing in FDI. Adherents stand the point that exchange of investment flows benefits both the host country and the home country (Graham & Spaulding, 2005). This enable the mutual benefit between both countries where the enterprise in host country providing the new technologies, capital, management skills, and facilities as needed by the home country while the home country investor invest money in the host country to achieve their common goal, making profit from their collaboration. In spite of the perspective mentioned above, some proposed that FDI helps in economic development of the particular country where the investment is being made and especially applicable for the economically developing countries (EconomyWatch). Supporters vouching for FDI say that it is stable and is a source of advanced technology and better managerial practices, so it is good for developing economies (Peter Nunnenkamp, 2002). Optimism about the consequences of foreign investment, coupled with heighten awareness about the importance of new technologies for economic growth, has contributed to wide-reaching changes in national policies on FDI and it helps accelerate the process of economic development in host country (Gordan H. Hanson, 2001). For most nations that were developing form the economic perspective, FDI is considering as one of the major foreign source of financing during 90s. Besides, there is an observation shows that FDI has played an important role in helping several countries when they were confronted by economic difficulties. For example, during the financial problems of 1997-1998 that the amount of FDI made in countries in East Asian region was pretty steady and similar observation has been made in the 1980s and in Mexico in 1994-1995 (Economy Watch).<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The presence of foreign corporate in a host developing economy produces a positive externality that is the transfer of technologies. As a research for technology transfer, there are four correlated channels which are vertical linkages with suppliers and purchasers in the host countries, horizontal linkages with competing or complementary companies in the same industries, migration of skilled labours, and the internationalization of R&D (OECD, 2002). With the presence of Multinational Enterprise (MNE), the technology transfers have been demonstrated that existing particularly through vertical linkages however the weighty of horizontal linkages is still the subject to argue (OECD, 2002). Moreover, technology transfer can only be accomplished through FDI since trading of goods and services and investment in financial source are unable to fulfil this goal.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The countries that get FDI from another country can develop the human capital resources by getting their employees to receive training on the operations of a particular business (Economy Watch). According to the overview of OECD, this human capital enhancement is not only occurring through the efforts of MNE whereas it arises from government policies seeking to attract FDI via enhancement of human capital (OECD, 2002). Besides the effects of MNE in human capital development, the other enterprise which has a direct business relationship with MNE such as their supplier may also produce positive influences on the human resource quality. This effect can have a further movement which labour move to another firm or become entrepreneurs. In addition, it is possible for the host country to receive corporate taxes revenues when there is any profit generated by the FDI in that country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">FDI movement is basically derived from financial transactions and non</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">-</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">transaction factors such as changes in pricing level, movement of foreign exchanges and other changes during the particular period. In other words, the movement of the FDI is derived from the differences between the opening and closing positions of the year.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">There are t</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">hree factors t</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">hat make Malaysia attractive to FDI, which have been identified are: (1) Malaysia’s</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> undervalue </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">currency; (2</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">low</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">er</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> cost of </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">labour;</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and (3)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> fairly low interest rate </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Oti-Prempeh,2003).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Generally, firms are always looking that overseas expansion as a necessary way to reach a more effective access in the markets which have low representation. Investments often lead to increased trade flows indicating that trade flows and investments are complementary ( Tyler and Miranda, 2007 ). A set of region determinant is chosen from the literature on the location of US service industries to state the pattern of the Foreign Service firms FDI activity in the US. These determinants are the share of metropolitan population, the agglomeration of domestic producer services, the value of commercial and industrial property and population growth.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">About their study in the location of FDI and state characteristics within the US, Coughlin et al. (1991) assumed that a foreign firm company will choose to invest in a special state depends on the levels of its characteristics that influence profits relative to the levels of these characteristics in the other states.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Besides that, Qian Sun et al. (2002 ) find proof that the value of the FDI determinants flows through the time period. Facility and labour quality are also important determinants of the distribution of FDI. The good infrastructure and labour quality will attract the attention of the foreign investors. Besides, the political stability and openness of that country to the foreign world are also as the important dimension to drawing in the foreign capital.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Inward investment is likely to stimulate the production of global competitors in the recipient country. Market size and growth, barriers to trade, wages, production, transportation and other costs, political</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">stability, psychic distance and host government’s trade and taxation regulations, performance requirements, cultural distance, GDP per capita and infrastructure are</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">factors affecting FDI location. While economic growth and technology transfer to the host country are important</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">consequences of FDI, development of technological infrastructure and human capital</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">are critical prerequisites and so antecedents for FDI.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Moreover, while psychic distance has been pertinent so far in FDI decisions, its importance might gradually reduce with increasing globalization</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">and development of new digital economy. “Institutional and strategic factors into theory . . . need to be considered in tandem to</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">explain the change in trend of FDI flows” (Sethi et al ,2002).</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The inflow of FDI includes a raise in the</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">production base, the introduction of new skills and technologies and the creation of</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">employment. Foreign investors increase productivity in host countries and FDI is often</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">a catalyst for domestic investment and technological progress. Increased competition</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">associated with the entry of an MNE upgrades the competence and product quality in</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">national companies, and opens up possibilities for export (Ahn and Hemmings, 2000).</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since the early 1960s a large number of theories on FDI have emerged. This proliferation was to a large extent, due to Hymer 1976, and the subsequent recognition that FDI is a manifestation of market imperfection and firm specific advantages. This is the implicit and explicit assumption in most modern theories. The multiplicity of factors involved in production, combined with barriers to the free flow of goods and services, together with the differences in production environment, are also been an increasing number of studies regarding other modes of foreign investment (FI). These new forms of FI activities – such as join venture, licensing, franchising, etc seem to have taken on an increasingly important role in recent years everywhere, including developing countries (Oman, 1984).<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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- Alex - " Xela "http://www.blogger.com/profile/08477872551771531090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23347428.post-7757690952802471632010-12-20T21:00:00.002+08:002011-06-12T00:17:23.713+08:00Merry X'mas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehv5D8ew-GrGW2Ih8qGRiDiIAChQpuJ6SFTiYHc6YJstdrtYacDBGxHJb2q9y5v_pAgCjaZjBuRWazInqSvhRi626mJob8ZOtRNTJuSdxjXQQTSWPKfjY_wRcMeZd8VizqOA1Zw/s1600/merryxmas.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehv5D8ew-GrGW2Ih8qGRiDiIAChQpuJ6SFTiYHc6YJstdrtYacDBGxHJb2q9y5v_pAgCjaZjBuRWazInqSvhRi626mJob8ZOtRNTJuSdxjXQQTSWPKfjY_wRcMeZd8VizqOA1Zw/s400/merryxmas.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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- Alex - " Xela "http://www.blogger.com/profile/08477872551771531090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23347428.post-1443287703135508362010-11-22T18:39:00.004+08:002012-08-19T13:54:20.688+08:00TM Streamyx was given RM55 Rebate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Finally I know the amount of TM Streamyx rebate is RM 55.00, which is equivalent to half-</b></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span lang="EN-US"><b>monthly Streamyx Package Total. Frankly telling I am not so satisfied with this rebate amount, the reason is simply because of I was experienced a down time of Streamyx Connection for more than 3 weeks time. But this rebate is only equivalent to half-monthly Streamyx fee. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Well, nothing much that I can do as for now, since that TM Streamyx is the only wired broadband service provider in Malaysia. If gov really want to change, yet they should either forcing TM to provide better services with lower fee. The broadband fee in Malaysia is much higher than Singapore, South Korean and Taiwan. But the service provided by TM is far lack than can be considered as good. This is what we call as the disadvantages to consumers of ‘Monopoly businesses. Some of you might wish to suggest that, perhaps I can try to switch to Wimax or YES. Well, it is not suitable for me, as well as those who are playing online games regularly. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>TM problems are nothing new, until their advertisement also featured with client’s complaining as the idea. Just wondering what have been done by TM as well as the related GOV’s Agencies to promote much better online experiences. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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