Abdul Wahid and Low taking huge pay cuts

PETALING JAYA: Corporate figures Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar and Datuk Paul Low Seng Kuan will be giving up their lucrative annual salaries upon taking up posts in the new Cabinet.

Former Malayan Banking Bhd chief executive officer Wahid earned RM6.26mil from the banking giant last year, according to data from Bloomberg.

The Star had also reported that Wahid took home RM2.96mil for the six months ended Dec 31, 2011, which is the new financial year end for the banking group.

His total remuneration was RM4.68mil and RM4.7mil for the financial years (ended June) of 2011 and 2010 respectively, Maybank’s annual report showed.

Both Wahid and Low have been appointed ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department.

Low draws at least RM560,000 a year from his various corporate positions.

He is paid a monthly salary of RM30,000 as the managing director of Malaysian Sheet Glass Sdn Bhd and RM200,000 a year as an independent director of both Sunway Holdings and Pos Malaysia Bhd.

However, Low, 66, who is also Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) president, said he did not draw any salary from TI-M as it is a donor organisation and his work is voluntary.

As ministers, Wahid and Low will now draw a minimum annual salary of RM179,642.40 (or RM14,970.20 a month) and also RM49,353.48 (or RM4,112.79 a month) each as senators.

Both are also entitled to a number of allowances for official duties and other perks.

~The Star

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Security guards ‘chopped up like meat’ at Cheras condo

KUALA LUMPUR: Three security guards were slashed with machetes and “chopped up like meat” at a condominium in Cheras here.

Four foreign guards were on duty at the condominium when two men wearing motorcycle helmets attacked the guard- house of Vistaria Residency condominium at 7.30am yesterday. One of them escaped unhurt.

Resident association chairman Bruce Tan, 31, said this was the second attack on the guards in the past month.

“The previous attack was not so serious. They only punched a guard and broke the window.

“The attack this time was so horrifying. I watched the CCTV recording and saw the guards being chopped like they were meat,” he said.

A resident coming back after buying breakfast was among the first to witness the gruesome sight of the three guards lying in a pool of blood in the lift lobby.

“When I went out at about 6.50am, everything was fine.

“But when I came back, I noticed the windows of the guardhouse was smashed. I wanted to park my car but a guard told me to run away because there were thieves in the compound,” said the resident, who declined to be named.

City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah said the victims were in stable condition.

~The Star

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Most Bizarre Houses Around The World


The Spaceship House, a weird house in Chattanooga (TN, USA).


The Teapot Dome, a strange house in Zillah (WA, USA). It was built in 1922 as a reminder of the Teapot Dome Scandal involving President Warren G. Harding and a federal petroleum reserve in Wyoming.


The Boeing 727 House, a weird house in Benoit (Mississippi, USA). The plane set Joanne Ussary back $2,000.00, cost $4,000.00 to move, and $24,000.00 to renovate. The stairs open with a garage door remote, and one of the bathrooms is still intact. And let’s not forget the personal jacuzzi in the cockpit.


The Toilet-shaped house, in Suwon (South Korea). South Korean sanitation activists marked the start of a global toilet association right here on November 21, 2007, by lifting the lid on the world’s first lavatory-shaped home that offers plenty of water closet space.


The Nautilus House, in Mexico DF (Mexico), is a seashell-inspired abode built by designed by Senosiain Arquitectos for a couple.


The Shoe House in Hellam (Pennsylvania, USA). It was an actual guesthouse (3 bedroom, 2 baths, a kitchen and a living room) of a local shoe magnate, Mahlon N. Haines. After his death, it was an ice cream parlor for a while, and now it is a museum.


The Upside-Down House, in Szymbark (Poland). The house was created by Daniel Czapiewski to describe the former communist era and the present times in which we live.


The Cube houses, in Rotterdam (Holland). All of this 32 cube houses are attached to each other. Designed by architect Piet Blom in 1984, each cube house has three floors.


The Bubble House in Cannes (France). In the early eighties, fashion designer Pierre Cardin bought this atypical summer house built by architect Antti Lovag.


The Eliphante Art House, in Cornville (AZ, USA). Artist Michael Kahn and his wife Leda Livant built it from found materials piece by piece.


The Mushroom House, in Cincinnati (Ohio, USA).


The One Log House, in Garberville (California, USA). It is a one-bedroom house hollowed out from a single log that came from a 2,100-year old redwood tree. After felling this 13 foot diameter forest giant, Art Schmock and a helper needed 8 months of hard labor to hollow out the log into a room 7 ft. high and 32 ft. long, weighing about 42 tons.


The Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania (USA). It was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 and built partly over a waterfall.


The Steel House, in Lubbock (Texas, USA). Architect and sculptor Robert Bruno spent 23 years building this strange home that looks like a giant pig out of 110 tons of steel.


The Pickle Barrel House, in Michigan (USA).


The Strawberry House, in Tokyo (Japan).


The Errante’s Guest House, in Chile.


The Kettle House, in Texas (USA).

 
The Kvivik Igloo,in Kvivik (Faroe Islands).

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Seattle sculptress; Kim Graham and her team made this amazing troll sculpture out of reclaimed lumber, discarded cardboard, and papier mache.
 
Amazing!!
 
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Blind student successfully crosses Penang channel

Faiq Adnan. Faiq Adnan.

BUTTERWORTH: Blind student, Faiq Adnan, 23 successfully swam across the Penang Channel on Sunday.

He left the Swettenham Pier at 9.05am and arrived on the Bagan Ajam shoreline at 11.30am.

~The Star

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Student activist Adam Adli arrested in Bangsar Utama

KUALA LUMPUR: Student activist Adam Adli Abd Halim was arrested at 3.15pm in Bangsar Utama, here to facilitate police investigations under Section 124 of the Sedition Act.

His arrest was believed to be connected to his speech at a  forum held at the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall on Monday where he allegedly urged the  people to go down to the streets to protest against an  allegedly unfair election and to topple the government.

City police chief Datuk Mohmad Salleh confirmed the  arrest.

He said the suspect has been taken to Jinjang police lockup  for investigation.

Adam Adli previously made headlines for bringing down a  flag bearing Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s image  outside the Umno headquarters at the Putra World Trade  Centre on Dec 17, 2011.

He has since been suspended for three semesters from  Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris.

~NST

* Good, let’s see who’s next.

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