女人的癌症·男人的支撑

主题：“女人的癌症·男人的支撑”

主讲人：Anita Boay医生

时间：晚上8时

日期：2008年6月14日

地点：民主行动党升旗山区服务中心

媒介语：英文

主讲者简介与内容：

Anita Boay医生毕业于印度喀拉拉邦的卡利卡特医学院（Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India），专攻临终关怀（Hospice或Palliative Care，又称安宁缓和医疗或安宁疗护），她曾经在沙巴亚庇伊丽莎白女王医院服务多年。她将与大家分享有关临终关怀的功效与经验，让大家了解如何处理癌症末期者 “痛”的缓解，同时顾及病患在社会、心理、灵性各层面的照顾。

欢迎大家出席！更多详情，敬请联络民主行动党升旗山区服务中心：04-2285298或游览：http://www.bukitbendera.org/

Community Talk - July

You are cordially invited to attend a health talk organized by DAP Bukit Bendera:

Presenter : Dr. Anita Boay
Time : 8pm
Date: 14 June 2008
Location : DAP Bukit Bendera Service Center
Topic : "Female Cancer and Male Support"

Synopis of Talk/Speaker :
Dr. Anita Boay specializes in Palliative care and she has an MBBS qualification from Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India. She has years of experience dealing with cancer patients and have been working at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, before going into private practice. She speaks occasionally at Hospice functions and is very active in providing public talks and seminars on Palliative care.

Talk is free and open to all. For further enquiries, kindly contact the Bukit Bendera Service Center for more information!

Bring Back A Rocket With You

We are now fully operational! Thank you to all friends and fellow comrades for coming over to our Branch Opening. We will be informing you about the latest program that we will be running at our center in June. Anyway, we hope you can support us by purchasing this little keychain that has the rocket symbol and information of where we are located. Sold in a pack of 5s and 10s (Rm15 and Rm30), or Rm3 each! we hope you can support us by purchasing it at our center. Do write to us at gootsiew@bukitbendera.org if you need information as to how to get to our Service Center. How does the key chain look like? Here it's!

Enjoy your weeks ahead. Stay tuned and do "Bring Back a Rocket With You"

Sights and Color at Bukit Bendera Service Center Opening - 11 May 2008

DAP Bukit Bendera Service Center Opening

Calling all new members!

The Burmah Road Branch servicing the Bukit Bendera has been operational since May 2. We will also be having our grand opening this weekend officiated by the Chief Minister of Penang as well as MP for Bukit Bendera. Incidentally, we have many new members that have joined the party and we will like your participation too.

For those of your supporters who are not yet members, and are interested in joining DAP in Burmah Road Branch, please write to dapbukitbendera(at) gmail (dot) com, with the Subject header - "Membership", and we'll try to get the forms to you. Alternatively, you can just pop by our service centre at 396A,1st Floor,Wayton Court, Jalan Burma, 10350 Penang.(9am-5pm weekdays).

Membership fees is RM5 per annum or RM100 for life membership. Join us, support our cause and play a part in shaping the face of this country in the years to come! ;-)

Chin Tong's Response on Malaysiakini.

Response on Malaysiakini.

I refer to the Malaysiakini report Royal address: What MPs say.

One of the most confusing parliamentary conventions is that of the Royal Address. The New Straits Times' headline (April 30) read, ‘Uphold people's trust, King tells Parliament’ while The Star said, ‘Keep the peace - ensure the various races remain united, King tells MPs’.

The King's speech (Para. 4) read: ‘We congratulate the Prime Minister for successfully steering the country's economy despite the many external challenges such as a slowdown in the world's economic growth and soaring prices of crude oil and foodstuff, coupled with stiff competition in trade and investment’.

But is the King really speaking for himself at the opening of a parliamentary session? The answer is 'no'. His Majesty speaks for the government of the day from a text prepared by the prime minister.

Each parliamentary term lasts for up to five years and is divided into annual sessions. The Yang di Pertuan Agong officiates a session of Parliament once a year. Each term consists of five sessions. Each session is practically a year and usually consists of three meetings.

Malaysia's Parliament is an adaptation of the Westminster system. Since the 1920s, the British monarch has opened Parliament to mark the start of its annual session in November, except in an election year which disrupts the cycle. Whereas the Governor-General of Australia opens the Parliament once only at the start of its three-year parliamentary term. In Malaysia, the annual session usually begins in March.

But there is a stark difference between the opening of the Malaysian and British Parliaments. The British monarch addresses the members of the Commons and Lords in the House of Lords Chamber. There is an interesting history behind the choice of Upper House as the site of opening.

The British monarch is by convention ‘disallowed’ to enter the Commons since 1642 when King Charles I attempted to arrest five leading members of the Commons for treason.

The British speaker, therefore, voices his allegiance to Parliament rather than to the monarch and hence established the independence of Parliament.

Although the our King’s Royal Address is made by the monarch, the content of the speech is entirely drafted by the Malaysian government and approved by the cabinet and details the government's policies and possibly the Bills it will introduce in the next session. This is explicitly manifested in the ceremony of submission of the text by the prime minister to the monarch.

In short, the Royal Address is our version of the American president’s State of the Union address, but read by the monarch.

It is of course smart politics for the BN government to appropriate the aura of the King to 'praise' the prime minister and the government of the day. It is perhaps not in the government's interest or inclination to expressly articulate the institutional relations between the monarch and itself, but as the electorate becomes increasingly more educated and message-savvy, it is perhaps better to call a spade a spade.

The writer is the member of Parliament for Bukit Bendera, Penang.

Written Reply from Ministry of Information

Jawapan:
Langkah Kementerian Penerangan menyiarkan secara langsung persindangan parlimen bermula penggal kali ini pada 30 April 2008 melalui RTM1 tanpa tapisan membuktikan sifat keterbukaan kerajaan dan ketelusan media arus perdana selari dengan amalan demokrasi negara. Siaran langsung 30 minit bagi sessi soal-jawab Dewan Rakyat ini turut disiarkan melalui Radio KLASIK Nasional dan laman web Kementerian.
MAKLUMAT TAMBAHAN
Walaupun pada peringkat permulaan, hanya melibatkan sessi soal-jawab, Kementerian bersedia memperluaskannya meliputi perbahasan sekiranya mendapat reaksi positif masyarakat.
Di samping siaran langsung, rancangan 'Parlimen Hari Ini' yang sedia ke udara melalui RTM1 sebelum ini akan turut disiarkan selama 30 minit semasa hari persidangan disamping lintas langsung pada waktu-waktu tertentu melalui Warta setiap jam di RTM1.
Kos penerbitan dianggarkan sekitar RM100ribu untuk sessi sepanjang hari atau RM3 juta untuk sessi 30 hari persidangan.

Swearing in of MP Bukit Bendera

YB Liew Chin Tong swearing in at the 12th Parliament Sitting.