There is a Chinese saying: your money is in the bank, but you are in the Heaven. My friend, try your best to avoid having LAL between floors. There are far too many mishaps and accidents from this type of design which led to many permanently maimed or disabled with fatal cases caused to the owners and consultants for the past years. Almost every year, we hear such misfortunes. Most of them are filthy rich. Such type of design is a booby-trap to the owners. So, do be careful and to reconsider.

thank u cergau, you don't seem to be lack in everything, you should be the committee for the Malaysia association which office is in Kedah, i still disturbed  that how can a Federal association office bear an address in Kedah .

lukas, i guess you have a checklist and numbers to call already when encounter such problem.

I think that's good to have a checlist or 101 Survivor guide book for all . Call it The Red Code book.

Sample:

Code Orange

1) Receive letter
2) Prepare Documents and licenses if have
3) Start Calling Lawyers, Associations, Buddies, NGO , Adun etc.

Code REd
1) Receive Warning Letter
2) Appeal for longer time frame to rescue baby birds.
3) Accept the consequences due to new law but fight for compensation due to lack of understanding in the past and no such law was produced in the past .
Is this a wake up call to some already?

I think that's good to have a checlist or 101 Survivor guide book for all . Call it The Red Code book.

05/May/2010
Ban all swiftlet farming activities
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...89136&sec=focus

Is the SAM also the CAP's President?!
He has a tendency of jumping the gun and sensationalizing mole hills, as many a times his piece contain NO factual research.

Without rebuttals.... it becomes fact to the general public.

Hahaha......I thought the President of FED ASSO had given assurance EVERYTHING IS OK? Call him up lah and F him........

Anyway, good news for me and my buddies, we just closed the deal of selling off our BHs em bloc couldn't take the pressure anymore since 2 years ago............hope BP could come down soon and no more sleeping pills every night as from now........if didn't sell out, sure kena heart attack........ Lucky still got suckers didn't know situation and came to take over the baby.......hahaha......good luck to them and thank them for taking away our BP and insomnia......must present them a big box of sleeping pills later......

Good question and suggestion........... as far as I was told is that before the office is in KL and since  the Executive Secretary is from Kedah and he has 2 of his staffs attending to the swiftlets matter for the Association, it is best in the interest of the Association to move there. If more answers are needed, it's best that you get them from the Executive Secretary or Mr. President himself, I presume i.e from the horse's mouth. The above reason is what I get from the AGM held recently. I wonder if any of the Committee members of the Fed is with us for at least, he can answer all the question pertaining the Association and swiftlets matter here and then, everyone can have a good night sleep. 

Hackwire, Why till now you haven't got a BH and if you have done so, you will surely and truly be one of us, a Swiftlets Sanctuary Protector and you will be  like Cergau cos until you are one of us and truly feel like us, I really don't know where you are standing...........pardon me for being frank.

Do go, buy or build one and you will understand our true feelings, sentiments and love for the lovable swiftlets....otherwise, I really don't believe you truly understand what we are all about........if only we, human being can be like the swiftlets, giving without asking for any return, then the world will surely and really be a better place to live in and only paradise can only be a comparison.

No reason to ban swiftlet farming
[U]
I REFER to the letter “Ban all swiftlet farming activities” (The Star May 5).

The writer’s concern for the welfare of the birds and his call to allow them to live in their natural habitat are laudable. However, I do not think swiftlet farming is cruel to the birds.

It is true that swiftlet farmers set up houses to lure the swiftlets to nest inside. But it must be remembered that if the house does not meet the swiftlet’s “taste”, it will not stay. That’s why the success rate of swiftlet farming is low at only about 30%.

Now, if the swiftlet stays, it means as far as that swiftlet is concerned, it is its natural habitat. We must not forget that the swiftlets migrated here from Indonesia because their natural habitat was affected by open burning.

A farmer cannot compel the swiftlet to come, neither can he compel the swiftlet to stay. All he does is to get ready a place and hope the swiftlets like it. The swiftlets come and go as they like; they leave in the morning to hunt for food, and come back in the evening – if they want to.

Personally, I think swiftlet farming is more humane than chicken farming. The chicken layers are kept in cages with the sole purpose of laying eggs for human consumption, without once seeing any of the eggs hatch. And when their job is done, they are sent to the factories to be processed for meat!

As far as harvesting of nests is concerned, the farmer knows that his long-term profit depends on the multiplication of the birds. It is suicidal to harvest the nests before the fledglings are mature. Of course, there are some dumb ones but they are the exception rather than the rule.

As for the noise from the speakers, I would rather listen to the chirping of the birds than the deafening music from some shops and the roaring traffic.

What about hygiene? A knowledgeable writer to this column had earlier explained that these birds have very clean habits – they only do their “business” inside the house. So one does not need to worry that they will drop anything on one’s head. Also, they do not hang around food outlets, unlike crows.

I am not a swiftlet farmer. But I know of a small town where, for generations, many of the town people made a living by operating small provision shops. Then the town was invaded by supermarkets which sold items below the cost price of the small traders. Within a short time, some of them were reduced to poverty level. Swiftlet farming threw them a life line.

It is for this reason that I think the call to ban all swiftlet farming activities is inconsiderate. Most of the nests are exported, earning the nation valuable foreign exchange. Swiftlet farming helps both the farmers and the nation. I appeal to the Government to do all it can to help the farmers.

HUMANE,
Klang.

Did called up the Fed. Swiftlet Boss yesterday and I think he doesn't know about the Wildlife Act bill being tabled @ Parliament except what he has read in the newspaper. All the while he was taking are about GP at the AGM.

Thanks for the infos here and I did email him the websiteas requested by him  and will check up with him later and if any news will be posted for all concerned.

Did called up the Fed. Swiftlet Boss yesterday and I think he doesn't know about the Wildlife Act bill being tabled @ Parliament except what he has read in the newspaper. All the while he was taking are about GP at the AGM.

Thanks for the infos here and I did email him the websiteas requested by him  and will check up with him later and if any news will be posted for all concerned.

i assume AF is Aerodamus deciphagus , the correct species for swiflet.

so you mean the swiftlet is too general ? correct me if im wrong. It's good to be more specific as i saw the same case happen to the dolphin documentary lately that Japanese does not recognize dolphin fish as  one of the species in the whale category thus it was exempted and legal to be kill by the japanese govt but according to scientist dolphin is in the family tree.

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Dato' Beh Heng Seong <hsbeh@ediblenest.com>
To:..............edited...............
Sent: Friday, 7 May 2010 13:33:11
Subject: RE: Ban all swiftlet farming activities (URGENT)
Dear All,
After discuss with Veterinary Dr. Fazilah and Menteri Perumhan Dato Sri Kong,
The amended Bill has taken out Walit from the list.
Thank you
Dato Beh

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All,
I was forwarded the above self explanatory email from Dato Beh and I have taken the liberty to share the good news here.
However,.... it still bugs me cos' AF never was listed specifically anywhere in the Bill.
Again I stress AF is NOT listed in any of the Schedules in the Bill .....to be taken out.

My layman reading of the Bill has been that AF is included implicitly through a combination of clauses.
It worries me even more that both Dr Fazilah and Dato Sri Kong has chosen to assure Dato Beh that it will be taken out from the list.
Again AF is not on ANY list!!!!!
Does anyone actually has a handle on this?
Do we have to ask the PM personally? 

Appreciate any comments if you hold a different view or I am being too cynical to take any good news at face value.