Lee Hom NEW ALBUM Pre-sale Launch Event!

Leehom Album Presale Launching Information

Date : 2nd July 2007 (Monday)
Time : 8pm
Venue : Sungai Wang Plaza KL

Date : 3rd July 2007 (Tuesday)
Time : 8pm
Venue : Gurney Plaza Penang

1) For those who make an order will received Celcom Leehom T-Shirt immediately. There will be leehom's face printed on the back of the Celcom T-Shirt and is in White Color Based. Celcom T-Shirt will be available for the whole period of presale from 4th July until 12th July 2007 at all major music stores

2) An imported Tag Cover & Postcard (extra charge of RM12) and is LIMITED STOCK ONLY & ONLY AVAILABLE ON 2nd July 2007 KL & 3rd July Penang(Presale Day) and collection of the premium will be together with the album release.

3) For the premier (extra charge of RM12) is an optional item and 1 permier set per CD order.Presale Period start from 4th July to 12th July 2007 at ll major music store.

For more information or clarification, u may contact sonybmg personnally at 03-4252 3233

Malaysia fury at EU envoy remarks

Europe's top diplomat in Malaysia has been summoned by the foreign ministry to discuss criticisms he made about policies favouring ethnic Malays.

Thierry Rommel, head of the European Commission delegation in the country, was accused of meddling in Malaysia's internal affairs.

In a speech last week, Mr Rommel said that the policies amounted to discrimination and protectionism.

Malaysian politicians reacted furiously to his remarks.

Mr Rommel described his 45-minute meeting with a senior foreign ministry official as "a useful exchange of views", and he hoped that it had resolved any misunderstanding.

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The envoy accused Malaysia last week of denying foreign companies a level playing field - remarks which one government minister labelled "arrogant and extreme".

Mr Rommel called Malaysia's affirmative action policies a deterrent to both investment and free-trade deals - like the one Malaysia hopes to strike with the European Union.

He said that the policies - once intended as a means of reducing poverty amongst Malays by giving them privileges over Malaysians of Chinese and Indian descent - were now an excuse for "significant protectionism".

Correspondents say some foreign companies have complained that rules forcing them to take on ethnic Malays as business partners open the door to corruption.

Malaysian leaders were angry at Mr Rommel's remarks, with Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak saying the comments could be "construed as trying to interfere in the internal administration of the country".

But Mr Rommel insisted over the weekend that this was not his intention.

The veteran leader of Malaysia's parliamentary opposition, Lim Kit Siang, said that the government should justify giving state aid according to race, rather than accusing Mr Rommel of not having the facts right.

Malaysia's continued use of race as a test for business and social welfare has proved an obstacle in trade talks with the US, and is likely to be no less controversial in Europe, the BBC's Jonathan Kent in Kuala Lumpur says.

( Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6237328.stm )

Dell replaces displays on nine laptop models

Annoyed users created a Web site to publicize the flawed screens

June 20, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- Dell Inc. is offering free replacements of the displays on nine popular laptop PC models, responding to customers who created a Web site to complain that some LCD screens developed a one pixel-wide vertical line.

"Dell shipped faulty LCD screens in 2005 and is giving customers grief about replacing the screens. It's time to bring attention to the issue," according to the site, Dellverticalline.com. "Managers at Dell need to be made aware of the issue so that they can stop treating their loyal customers like dirt and replace the screens in a timely fashion."

Unless a faulty screen is replaced, it can develop a permanent vertical line one pixel wide, either stuck on a single color or reflecting the color displayed behind it, said the Web site.

Dell first responded to the issue in April, offering to replace certain 17-in. displays on Inspiron 9200, Inspiron 9300 and XPS Gen 2 notebooks sold between November 2004 and October 2006.

Yesterday, Dell expanded its replacement program to include six more models -- Inspiron 6000 and 8600, Latitude D800 and D810, and Precision Mobile Workstation M60 and M70 notebooks sold between December 2004 and December 2006. Some of those models use a faulty component that can generate the line over time, according to a posting on Dell's corporate blog by Lionel Menchaca, Dell's digital media manager.

Dell will now replace any LCD screen affected by this issue within three years of purchase, or will refund customers who were forced to pay for their own replacements, Menchaca said. Dell did not respond to requests for comment about the size of the program, or say whether the manufacturer of the faulty component would help pay for it.

The recall happens at a time when Dell is struggling to comply with an accounting investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, maintain its listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange and reverse a market share slide that has allowed rival Hewlett-Packard Co. to claim the title of the world's largest PC vendor.

In response, CEO Michael Dell launched the corporate blog in February, announced he would lay off 10% of the company's workers and has begun selling PCs in retail shops such as Wal-Mart. Retail store distribution is a sharp break with the company's history of selling computers only directly through its Web site and phone lines.

(Source from www.computerworld.com: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9025309&taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top)