thanks a lot for spending your valuable time to have a personal spot check at the air polluter factories around Sungai Puloh Area.

Let me have some comments(C) and questions(Q) to your summary and impression of the problems.

Q) I have learned the Selangor Government will legalese some of 3,000 illegal factories operating within the Selangor district zone (reference: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/24/nation/2359465&sec=nation). Will this factory (your story) be within this amnesty?

C/Q) You mid have right, the state administration have to take more care to a prove housing projects, but on the other hand how about the environment issue, which is related/controlled by the government (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment), is the hot line (http://www.doe.gov.my) of DOE useless? – or the labour protection issue, which have a link to an other Ministry ? I can not image the healthy prorata of the staffs working in this factory …. beside to the effects to the people living beside. Malaysia wants to have the acceptance of a leading country (WAWASAN 2020), but this acceptance of the problem brings Malaysia far beyond to be so ……

I understood from your story, there will be in the near future a press conference to address the problem in public. Please let me know the outcome of it.

Further more I’m quite interested how PKR will handle the issue in the interest of the people living around the area and of course in the interest of our nature.

TQ and awaiting your feedback

Best Regards,

Gunther

Former coordinator of the outlawed Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) R.S. Thananthiran was summoned by the police today over a commotion in Parliament on Oct 22.
Besides Thananthiran, Police Watch Malaysia member S. Jayathas was also seen entering the Sentul police headquarters at 10.15am. They left about two hours later.

Sentul police chief ACP Zakaria Pagan said later that police had recorded statements from the two individuals.

Thananthiran told reporters: “Both of us were asked some 20 questions on the handover of a memorandum on Oct 22 but we only anwered a few because it is our right not to answer. We are only ordinary citizens.

“Why were we called to give evidence when we only went to Parliament that day to hand over a memorandum? Nevertheless, we thank the police for their professional conduct today,” he said.
He also said members of Parliament for Kapar S. Manikavasagam and Teluk Intan Dr M. Manogaran had been summoned to give statements over the same incident tomorrow.

“I feel Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar should also be called to give evidence since there are over 40 police reports lodged against him nationwide over his inaccurate remarks about Hindraf,” Thananthiran said.
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