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1	Subject: Tough Interview Question - Tell Me About Yourself	Poster	Malaysia	February 02 2012
	Tough Interview Question - Tell Me About Yourself Brian Krueger, President of CollegeGrad.com, presents another tough interview question - "Tell Me About Yourself." Do you know how to best answer this question? Watch this video to find out http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=-ezFNrWMTlc&feature=related
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2	Subject: Career: Find your True Gift	Poster	Malaysia	February 02 2012
	Uncover what truly drives you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9uIEB2t5w
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3	Subject: Take Me Home Country Roads: John Denver	Poster	Malaysia	February 02 2012
	John sings one of his best songs in 1971. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=877963392702020873&q=john+denver&ei=1TlbSNuXOIvEwgPRi_WeDw
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4	Subject: Malaysia accused over migrant abuse	Poster	Malaysia	February 02 2012
	Amnesty said it had uncovered scores of cases of migrant worker abuse [AFP] The Malaysian government must act urgently to combat widespread abuse of migrant workers and reform labour laws to give them better protection, Amnesty International has said. In a report released by the human rights group on Wednesday, it said many of the foreigners working in Malaysia are forced to work long hours in harsh conditions and are subject to verbal, physical and sexual abuse. Conditions in many cases amounted to little short of "bonded labour", Amnesty said, "This report documents the widespread nature of exploitation in Malaysia... in every sector of employment," Michael Bochenek, Amnesty's director of policy, told reporters at a press conference in Malaysia marking the release of the report. "There is no effective system either of workplace inspection... nor is there any effective redress for workers who want to bring individual complaints." Malaysian firms depend heavily on foreign labourers, with migrants making up more than a fifth of the country's work force. Around two million labourers are thought to work legally in the country with another one million working illegally. Exploitation Many are employed in construction sites, factories, restaurants, households and palm oil plantations, doing work that Malaysians will not do. Many Malaysian firms depend on a large supply of migrant labour [AFP] But according to Amnesty large numbers of migrants find when they arrive that they are given lower-than-promised wages and forced to work in unsafe conditions. It said arbitrary arrests and extortion were other common complaints. "Migrant workers come to Malaysia to escape poverty and to provide for their families. Once they arrive, however, many workers toil in conditions that amount to labour exploitation," the London-based rights group said in its report. Amnesty said it had interviewed more than 200 migrant workers, both legal and illegal, for the report. It called on the government to amend laws to guarantee better conditions and to stop employers or recruitment agents from holding workers' passports, restricting their ability to move about. Responsibility "The government of Malaysia has a responsibility to prevent… abuses, which can include exploitation, forced labour, and trafficking in persons," the report said. "Too often, the state fails to do so." It added: "Much of Malaysia's approach to migration is effectively to criminalise it, even though the country could not function without migrant labour." Malaysia's government has dismissed the report, saying foreign workers have the same rights as locals. "The system of bringing in foreign workers is a well established legal system... It is fair to everybody," S. Subramaniam, Malaysia's human resources minister, told The Associated Press. "We offer the same kind of protection to foreigners (as to locals)... We don't protect employers who exploit workers."
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5	Subject: How to Get Hired - Job Interview Tactics	Poster	Malaysia	February 06 2012
	Know how to approach every job interview with confidence. Find out the tools and tactics needed to prepare you for the interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zIQruPEDmg&feature=related
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6	Subject: Earnest & Young 'Oh Happy Days'	Poster	Malaysia	February 06 2012
	Earnest & Young 'Oh Happy Days' A hilarious teambuilding Ernst & Young (apparently internal) video. Too good not to pass on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaIq9o1H1yo&;feature=related
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7	Subject: Ji Duo Chou - Teresa Teng	Poster	Malaysia	February 06 2012
	Ji Duo Chou - Teresa Teng Teresa Teng, dressed in traditonal Chinese clothes, sings Ji Duo Chou. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=005APM_Y8yw
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8	Subject: Malaysian Armed Forces Too Wants Salary Adjustment	Poster	Malaysia	February 06 2012
	The Malaysian Armed Forces' (ATM) request for a salary adjustment for its personnel will be sent to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said ATM was encouraged by the recent salary adjustment for Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) personnel recently. "This makes it easier for ATM to ask for a salary adjustment," he told reporters after opening the Career, Education and Innovation Expo in Teluk Kemang near here on Saturday. He said ATM would use the PDRM salary adjustment as the yardstick adding a similar request was sent to the Public Service Department (PSD) when Najib was the defence minister. "We will send it at a suitable time and when the economy has recovered and the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has increased." Zahid was confident that the salary adjustment would be given although it might take some time. ATM has some 80,000-120,000 personnel. PDRM's salary adjustment made 98,747 personnel happy with each pocketing home RM1,500-RM6,000 depending on rank and the salary matrix schedule. On the aircraft crash in Sintok, Zahid denied that the Pilatus PC-7 MK 11 crashed due to poor maintenance. "I don't like to jump to conclusion as studies found that the Pilatus had only minor technical weaknesses." He said the Pilatus fleet would not be suspended as studies showed that it was a safe aircraft and that most crashes were due to human error. The crash two days ago killed pilot Major Muhammed Zulrihan Jusof of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) based in Kepala Batas, just outside Alor Setar.
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Subject: More middle-class jobless need government aid	Poster	Malaysia	March 29 2010
Heather Tanner, a lawyer laid off in August, had made enough to support her family.Heather Tanner dodged eviction this month after a local social services agency paid her rent, but the unemployed attorney isn't sure how she'll make her April payment. The 37-year-old Pacifica woman, her husband and their two children are among an uncounted number of Californians who find themselves in desperate circumstances caused by long bouts of joblessness. "The duration of long-term unemployment, which is over six months, is unlike anything we've seen since the Depression, and even though we are extending the safety net, it is not enough for some folks," said Stephen Levy with the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. "The situation is awful, way beyond the 12.5 percent figure" of unemployment. This bleak landscape is leading more middle-class families, like the Tanners, to turn to government assistance programs. The family's economic slide began in August when Heather Tanner lost a $100,000-a-year job. Her husband, Carl, 43, had been a stay-at-home dad for their 6-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter, so the loss of her income forced the family to rely on her $450-a-week unemployment benefits for food, shelter and utilities. "It's a strange world I find myself in, to go from making $100,000 a year to making $24,000 a year," said Tanner, who has found some contract legal work and part-time jobs but nothing solid in the past seven months. How many people have been pushed out of homes or apartments because of unemployment is unknown. But with 2.4 million Californians out of work, and an unprecedented 35 percent of them falling into the long-term unemployment bracket, the distress is intense, said Jean Ross with the California Budget Project in Sacramento. "People are staying unemployed much longer, and even if they had a cushion they're burning through it," she said. Stimulus funds The Tanners exhausted their savings this month but were able to stay in their two-bedroom apartment with the help of the Pacifica Resource Center, which used funds from the federal Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program to pay their $1,800 rent. "We're seeing people who've never been in need of our services before," said Marina Castellanos, a case manager with the center. This $1.5 billion program, a tiny part of President Obama's stimulus package, channeled the money through the states to local entities. Castellanos said her agency got $37,500 in January and has spent all but $4,000 of that sum helping 23 families, including the Tanners, by providing money for past-due rent and utility bills, move-in deposits and other emergency aid to keep people from becoming homeless - or to get them housed if they are on the streets. The same stimulus program is helping families in other communities. San Francisco won $8.75 million from the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, and has so far spent about $554,000 helping 306 households either avoid eviction or move into stable housing, according to Dariush Kayhan, director of homeless policy for Mayor Gavin Newsom. "There's a lot of joblessness out there," said Kayhan, who is delivering the assistance through local nonprofits such as Catholic Charities CYO, the Hamilton Family Center, the Eviction Defense Collaborative and Larkin Street Youth Services. Unemployment snafu Tanner's situation was compounded by a problem with her unemployment claim that she has been unable to get the state's overwhelmed Employment Development Department to clarify, let alone resolve. Her checks stopped coming in January. So the reprieve from eviction might be temporary. "Apparently they have not gotten their unemployment checks, so they will have the same problem in April," Castellanos said. Now Tanner is trying to get local elected officials to help solve her unemployment snafu so she can stay current with her rent as she continues to look for work. "I talk to recruiters, I send out resumes, I say to myself every single day: 'I'm going to get a job,' " she said. "I just keep looking at it like it's temporary and it will get better, and it's worse for a lot of people and I should feel lucky."

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