Selangor Times May 27-29, 2011 / Issue 26

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Most welfare homesunlicensed

By

Gan Pei Ling

Shah alam:

An alarming nine in 10 welare homes in Selan-gor are operating illegally.Te state has ordered all licensing authorities to act now beore an-other tragedy recurs.Only 82 out o the 865 welarehomes – both charity- and prot-based – are ocially registered withthe Social Welare Department andlocal authorities.“Most o these unlicensed homesare owned by private operators,” saidRodziah Ismail.Te executive councillor, whose portolio includes welare, gave thegures in response to the deaths o 16 people in a landslide at the unli-censed Hidayah Madrasah Al-aqwa orphanage last Saturday.Its Hulu Langat premises, builton agriculture land, did not comply with guidelines, being located nextto a hill with an 80-degree slope.Rodziah pointed out that morethan a quarter o the 783 unlicensedhomes are located in Hulu Langat.Petaling, Gombak, Klang andSubang Jaya also have more than100 unlicensed welare homeseach, according to statistics re-leased by the Selangor Social Wel-are Department.Tese homes are not only hous-ing children, but also ofer shelter tosenior citizens, disabled people andsingle women.Rodziah said the state had in-structed the 12 local authorities toconduct a comprehensive survey tolocate other unlicensed charityhomes in their areas within the nextthree months.“We want to make sure theseshelters are sae. [Not just in terms]o their buildings and acilities, butalso to make sure that they havetrained proessionals to take propercare o the children or senior citizensto prevent abuse,” she said.Rodziah added that the state would categorise these unlicensedhomes and give priority to tackling those located in high-risk areas to

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prevent the Hulu Langat tragedyrom recurring.She said Selangor would assistthese high-risk welare homes byofering them a nominal premiumo RM1 to relocate to sae and suit-able state lands.Meanwhile, Rodziah also an-nounced this week that Selangor would be setting up a one-stopcentre to help unlicensed homeslegalise their operations.She added that while most op-erators might have premise licencesand business licences rom localgovernments, many did not obtainoperating licences rom the Social Welare Department.She said the one-stop centre would assist unlicensed homes se-cure licences and permits.Rodziah assured operators o unlicensed homes that the state would give them ample time to le-galise their operations.

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Sex videos distributedto village heads

“We’re not here to point fngers, but to solve problems. Weacknowledge the operators’ good intention in setting up welarehomes, but they need to ollow saety guidelines and proper procedures,” said Rodziah.However, i operators reused to legalise their operations within the given timerame, she said the state would not hesitateto act against them.She said the operators could be fned or closed down.

Pp pcdu t t up  t

1 Inorm the Social Welare Department o your intention toset up a welare home.2 Register with the Registrar o Societies (or non-proft or-ganisations) or Companies Commission o Malaysia (or private or commercial operators).3. Apply or premise licences rom your local authority. Privateor commercial operators will need to obtain a business licenceas well.4. Invite the Fire and Rescue Department to inspect your build-ing and acilities.5. Apply or an operating licence rom the Social Welare De- partment.

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Welfare home operators needto follow guidelines

ntDistict egisteed registeed ToTaL

Hulu Langat 221 16 237Petaling 134 11 145Gombak 124 10 134Klang 112 16 128Subang Jaya 108 16 124Hulu Selangor 34 2 36Shah Alam 26 8 34Sabak Bernam 10 - 10Kuala Selangor 9 2 11Kuala Langat 5 - 5Sepang – 1 1TOTAL 783 82 865

Source: Selangor Social Welfare Department (as of May 2011)

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Selangor remainsinvestors’No 1 choice

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Bd C’

SHAH ALAM:

Selangor has attracted investments worth RM2.5 billion in the irst three months o the year,topping other states while potentially creating 3,880 new jobs.“Based on statistics rom the Malaysia Industrial Devel-opment Authority (Mida), Selangor’s oreign investment value totals RM1.5 billion, doubling Johor’s igure whichis only RM766 million,” said eresa Kok.he executive councillor or investment, industry andtrade added that Selangor is the number-one choice o localand oreign investors.She added that 60% o the investors are oreign.Kok said the statistics indicate an increase in local inves-tors’ conidence.he state has approved 59 manuacturing projects,amounting to 32% o approved projects in the country,during the period.Kok said 43 projects are new, while the rest are an expan-sion o existing projects.“his igure, [which puts us at number one in Malaysia],contributes to 32% o total projects approved in the coun-try,” she said.Currently, South Korea is the biggest oreign investor inSelangor with RM637 million, ollowed by Singapore withRM485 million and Australia with RM102 million.

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av Yp

SHAH ALAM:

Village heads inChinese- and Malay-majority areas inSelangor have received compact disc(CD) recordings allegedly showing a prominent politician having sex witha woman.Envelopes with Malacca and ShahAlam postmarks containing our CDs were sent to village chies in Rawang and Shah Alam respectively on Mon-day and uesday.At two separate press conerences,Pakatan Rakyat politicians con-demned the act, calling it a circulationo pornography.“Tis is organised. Te perpetratorsmanaged to get the addresses o villagechies in the [Rawang] area,” saidRawang assemblyperson Gan Pei Neiat a press conerence on Wednesday.Gan and the village chies in thearea had lodged a report at the Rawang district police station on Wednesday.She said the scandal, which began onMarch 21 when businessperson DatukShazryl Eskay Abdullah showed the22-minute video to journalists at Car-cosa Seri Negara, had not resulted in any party being investigated and charged.At a press conerence yesterday,Shah Alam Member o ParliamentKhalid Samad said Malay village headsin his area had also received the CDsby post.On uesday, village chies o Sub-ang, Meru, Kota Raja and other placesreceived envelopes containing CDsand a detailed write-up alleging themale fgure in the video was Datuk SeriAnwar Ibrahim.“I the original was surrendered tothe police, where did these copies com-ing rom?” he asked.Kota Raja MP Dr Siti Mariah Mah-mood, who was present at the pressconerence, said the perpetrators weregoing against ethical, moral and Malaycustoms in sending the pornographicmaterial.She did not discount the move as atactic to erode support or PakatanRakyat.Khalid said he would accompanythe village chies to lodge a police report.

Khlid d D Siti mih mhd with th CDs d wit-us st by st.

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Top 10 property developers

BCI

AsiAAward 2011

BCI Asia (Building and Construction Interchange) named Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS) as one oMalaysia’s 10 most-active property developers on the 20th o May 2011.The portolios o these elite developers contain US$5.38 billion worth o projects. Through the BCI Asia Top 10 Awards the industry has a way o knowing who the leading developers in a given region are, and better understand theimportance these rms have in shaping our society and infuencing the built environment.Now into its 7th year, the BCI Asia Awards is a regional event to honour the best in building and architecture in HongKong SAR, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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