HKEX listed Top Education Group share price still showing signs of manipulation, Australian regulator NSW Legal Profession Admission Board officers are the most likely source of price sensitive information- NSW LPAB known to lack transparency despite being a public regulator

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Top Education Group Ltd's  share price, which a few months ago was  flat lining at HK 0.04, but with strong buying support, continues to exhibit manipulation (see Yahoo Finance chart above). The company's law school re-accreditation expires on 30 June 2024 and the  apparent manipulation is similar to that witnessed in 2019 when it last received re-accreditation. 

Re-accreditation is price sensitive, and that  information should only be known to the  NSW Department of Communities and Justice 's NSW LPAB , which has refused to answer questions about the Top Education Group Ltd ramp and dump IPO in 2018,and spike in share price prior to the re-accreditation in June 2019.

TO BE READ WITH 

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Zhu Minshen's Top Group share price spiked 26% before re-accreditation on 27 June 2019: NSW LPAB personnel should have been the only persons with knowledge of the price sensitive information

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Zhu Minshen's Top Group share price spiked 26%, from a then new record low of 0.27 HKD, to a high of 0.32 HKD in the week before re-accreditation on 27 June 2019. It continued its climb to a high of 0.36 HKD, from which it has since sunk to a new record low of 0.22 HKD.

NSW LPAB personnel should have been the only persons with knowledge of that price sensitive information; with regards the results of the review, and the date of notification. 

                                                   

                                         

TO BE READ WITH 

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Zhu Minshen Top Group law school enrolments still frozen: Regulator NSW LPAB & its Chairman , the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst, maintain silence, despite re-accrediting Zhu's law school in 2019 for five years

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

         Ambassador Cheng Jingye Pays an Official Visit to the State of New 
                          South Wales   (2016/08/16)

The Acting Dean of  Zhu Minshen's Top Group law school Katherine Lindsay , has confirmed in writing, that the law school is still not enrolling news students.  As reported the Top Group froze enrolments in 2019 , for the 2020 year, shortly after receiving re-accreditation from the regulator, the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board, and its chairman, the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst. 

TO BE READ WITH 

Sunday, August 9, 2020

Zhu Minshen Top Group law school froze enrolments in 2019 after NSW LPAB reaccreditation: NSW LPAB & its Chairman , the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst, have provided no explanation

by Ganesh Sahathevan

                          Ambassador Cheng Jingye Pays an Official Visit to the State of New 
                          South Wales   (2016/08/16)

The following statement appears at the bottom of Zhu Minhen's Top Education law school website:


* Law school is currently not accepting any new enrolments for its Bachelor of Laws course

The Acting Dean of the law school,  Katherine Lindsay , has confirmed in writing :

No new law students have been admitted  in 2020.

The decision to freeze enrolments appears to have been made after the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board reaccredited Top's license to issue law degrees on 27 June 2019. 

The NSW LPAB and its Chairman, the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst, have provided no public explanation and have maintained their usual silence. 

Top is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange but the HKEX has not been informed of this freezing of law school enrolments, despite Top relying on its "one and only" and "very unique" law school to sell its IPO.

TO BE READ WITH 

Friday, September 27, 2019

Zhu Minshen announces that NSW LPAB review "went smoothly": AG NSW Mark Speakman and officers unconcerned by Clive Hamilton's disclosures of threats, intimidation and defiance of AFP directives ,share price collapse

by Ganesh Sahathevan

The LPAB''s tick of approval does not seem to have reversed the downward trend in share price.Indeed it does look as if the LPAB has ignored all together the fact that Top's market capitalisation has collapsed since listing. Note that Top's shareprice has fallen 14.29% over the past month,compared to 1.13% for the overall market as measured by the Hang Seng Index

In the words of Zhu Minshen, chairman and CEO of his Top Education Group Ltd:



Bachelor of Law Re-accreditation 

The scheduled re-accreditation process of our Bachelor of Laws (‘‘LLB’’) went smoothly. On 27 June 2019, TOP received formal notification from the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales (‘‘LPAB’’) to accredit TOP’s LLB for a further five-year period commencing from the notification date.
(TOP EDUCATION GROUP LTD
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019)




All this despite the revelations of open defiance of an AFP directive, threats and intimidation disclosed in Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion",which have been previously reported on this blog:

In his 2018 book "Silent Invasion" Professor Clive Hamilton reports that Top Education Group's Zhu Minshen organised  students , including students from his Top Education Institute to protest  against Tibetans at the  2008 rally , which counted towards the Top students’ assessment.  Zhu’s Top Institution is “perhaps the only accredited degree program in Australia that counts agitating for a foreign power towards its qualifications.”


Hamilton provides details of Zhu's Communist Party China antecedents and his organisation of the 30,000 strong demonstration by Chinese students at the Canberra torch relay, many of them brandishing Chinese flags.

This was clearly an open challenge to the authority , and in public defiance  of, the AFP's directive to Chinese government security that they were not to be involved in the torch relay. As Hamilton puts is "ASIO shat themselves".

Despite this open defiance of the law that they are meant to defend and uphold the Attorney General NSW Mark Speakman and the other senior judicial officers at the LPAB determined that an exception should  be made to allow Zhu to operate the "first and only" law school in Australia that is not part of a university.

END 

See Also 

Law Council Australia 's exception for Zhu Minshen despite Law Council declaring China's justice system "a joke"

"The fishy smell around Zhu Minshen's Top Education Institute": Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion" raises questions for NSW AG Mark Speakman & the LPAB

Posted by Ganesh Sahathevan at 5:37 AM 

Posted by Ganesh Sahathevan at 10:10 PM  

Jemaah Islamiyah re-emerges in Malaysia, killing two police officers in police station located near Malaysian Armed Forces jungle warfare centre that hosts Australian soldiers; Anwar Ibrahim's pro-HAMAS stance has not protected the country

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                            ADF soldiers often train in Malaysia, at Butterworth and PULADA 

Jemaah Islamiyah has re-emerged  in Malaysia, killing two police officers in  a police station in the southern town of Ulu Tiram. The town is best known as the location of PULADA, the Malaysian Armed Forces jungle warfare centre where Australian soldiers train (see story below).

Ulu Tiram was JI's base prior to the Bali bombings, in which very many Australian were murdered,  and it is generally assumed that that base, and any other presence in Malaysia, has been eradicated.  The murder of two police officers suggests otherwise.

It is assumed in Australia that JI and other jihadis are motivated toa large part by the Palestine-Israel conflict but clearly   Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's pro-HAMAS stance has not protected the country.

To Be Read With 



Malaysia arrests 7 people after attack on Johor police post by Jemaah Islamiyah suspect kills 2 cops


The attacker - who was shot dead at the scene - was a member of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, local police say. Seven people, including the assailant’s family, have been arrested as local police track down over 20 suspected JI members in Johor.


Two policemen were killed and another injured in an attack by a masked assailant at Ulu Tiram police station, Johor on May 17, 2024. (Photo: CNA/Zamzahuri Abas)
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ULU TIRAM, Johor: Malaysia police have arrested seven people as they track down more than 20 people believed to be members of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) after an attack on a police station in the outskirts of Johor Bahru in the early hours of Friday (May 17).

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The attack at Ulu Tiram police station by a JI member at around 2.30am killed two police officers and left one injured. The attacker was killed in an ensuing firefight.

The suburb town of Ulu Tiram is located about 20km from Johor Bahru. It's close to Mount Austin, a popular shopping destination for Singaporeans.



Speaking at a press conference outside the police post, Malaysia’s Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said that the suspect, a 21-year-old male, had entered the police post armed with a parang. He attacked one police officer near the station’s entrance, taking his pistol.

A firefight then ensued at the car park area of the station between the suspect and police officers, which resulted in the death of another officer, Mr Razarudin added. The suspect was also shot dead during this exchange.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain speaks to the media during a press conference outside the Ulu Tiram police station. (Photo: CNA/Zamzahuri Abas)


He said that police officers then searched the suspect’s home and found evidence that he was a JI member.

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“We have also found that the suspect did his preparations, the bag he was using was padded with zinc (sheets) and other material so that he could use it as a shield during a firefight with police,” said Mr Razarudin.

“So from what we see, the individual came to the police post to get a gun for his agenda, which we don't know yet what it is. I have instructed the Special Branch to identify all JI members in Johor to be called up for questioning,” he added.

When probed by reporters on what was the motive of the attack, Mr Razarudin said: "They are JI members ... we suspect that (it is to obtain weapons), but we must investigate further."
Two policemen were killed and one was injured in an attack by an intruder at the Ulu Tiram police station on May 17,2024. (Photo: CNA/Zamzahuri Abas)


Mr Razarudin outlined that more than 20 people believed to be linked to JI are being tracked down for questioning. He added that all five members of the suspect’s family aged between 19 and 62 have been arrested, noting that the suspect's father, aged 62, is a known member of JI.

Mr Razarudin added that two people who were making a police report at the time have also been nabbed as he said that “it was not logical” for them to be reporting an incident which allegedly took place two years ago, implying that they might be involved in the attack as distractions for police.



Mr Razarudin added that security has been stepped up at police stations, the state’s palace as well as the official residence of the Johor chief minister.




The bodies of the two police officers and the suspect have been taken to Hospital Sultan Ismail for autopsy and further investigations. The injured officer has also been taken to the same hospital for treatment, reported Bernama.

Jemaah Islamiyah is linked to Al Qaeda, the terror group that carried out the 9/11 attacks in the US in 2001. JI is responsible for some of Indonesia’s deadliest terror attacks, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed more than 200 people.

JI's spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir set up a religious school or madrasah in Ulu Tiram called Luqmanul Hakiem in the early 1990s, according to various reports.

The school was attended by Noordin Muhammad Top, the suspected mastermind of the Jakarta hotel bombings in 2009, as well as another JI militant Mukhlas who was part of the 2002 Bali bombings.

Dell data breach may cause breach of Australian Tax Office data - Data breach may have enabled hackers access to Dell laptops, computers

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Dell has alerted customers to the fact of s data breach (see above), and the hacker claims to have the details of about 50 Million Dell customers. This writer can confirm that his laptop was hacked after that breach, and that the hacking has caused a loss of all data. What the data will be used for is left to be seen.  

Dell's clients includes corporations such as the Australian Tax Office (see story below) and what the hacker and his customers might be capable of doing with data about those corporations is not something that Dell is addressing.Dell and its CEO Michael Dell have refused to respond to this writer's emails about the breach, loss of data, and laptop that is possibly compromised to the point where it is no longer usable. 

Dell is very clear that its products remain the property of Dell even after purchase. 

TO BE READ WITH 

ATO buys 12,000 new Dell devices

By Justin Hendry

May 23 2019 12:18PM

To replace end-of-life HP fleet.


The Australian Taxation Office is poised to rollout more than 12,000 new Dell devices over the next four years to replace its end-of-life fleet of Hewlett-Packard desktops and laptops.

Source: Dell


The national revenue collection agency last month signed off on the desktop and laptop environment refresh with the IT conglomorate at the cost of $12.1 million.

Under the deal, Dell will supply 12,000 Dell 7050 desktops and 250 Dell E5480 laptops between April 2019 and May 2023.

A spokesperson told iTnews the procurement, which is part of the ATO’s “normal refresh cycle”, was needed to ensure staff have “up-to-date” devices to support the agency's operations.

“The contract is to refresh existing Hewlett-Packard desktops and laptops, that are beyond end of life,” the spokesperson said.

However the new devices won’t extend to all ATO staff, with the agency’s average staffing level currently sitting at more than 17,000.


The ATO’s long-standing end user computing partner, Leidos, will manage the rollout of the devices and the disposal of the old.

Leidos is one of the ATO's three main IT suppliers, alongside DXC for centralised processing and Optus for manage network services.

The last major upgrade of the agency's desktop environment occurred back in 2009, according to the spokesperson, prior to the end of its monolithic IT outsourcing agreement with EDS (now DXC).

However, other "smaller, focused refreshes" have taken place over the last ten years, the largest of which occurred in preparation for the 2017 tax time.

Updated 3:30pm: To include information on the last major desktop refresh.
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WA stabbing by radicalised 16 year old may be linked to Zakir Naik, jihadi wanted in India but provided asylum and VIP status in Malaysia by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

WA Today and others have reported :

A concerned parent at the Perth school attended by a teenager shot dead by police on Saturday contacted authorities in the weeks before the attack over fears students were being radicalised.

In a letter dated April 3, the Rossmoyne Senior High School mother claimed a year 11 student at the school named Mohammed was using the school’s prayer room to try and convert her year 8 son to Islam.

The letter states in part:

Zakir Naik is in fact wanted in India, but has been provided asylum in Malaysia by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

Sunday, November 5, 2020

by Ganesh Sahathevan

Malaysian court awards Zakir Naik, wanted in India for instigating Muslim youth in India and abroad to commit terrorist acts, RM 320,000 in damages for defamation -Naik has pledged award to the Muslims of Palestine

                           Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, and Zakir Naik

The High Court of Malaysia was awarded , Zakir Naik, wanted in India for  instigating Muslim youth in India  and terrorists in India and abroad to commit terrorist acts, RM 320,000 in damages for defamation -Naik has pledged award to the Muslims of . Palestine.

An imputation is defamatory, according to the most commonly applied test, if the words tend to lower the plaintiff in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally: Sim v Stretch [1936] 2 All ER 1237

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Will fugitive preacher Zakir Naik be extradited to India? MEA says 'have taken up the matter with Oman'

This comes after Naik came to Oman as a ‘state guest’ to deliver his speech on "Holy Quran is a Global Necessity" in the country.

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• Updated Mar 24, 2023, 7:38 PM IST

Bagchi said that he will have to confirm with the ratified list if India has an extradition treaty with Oman or not.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said that all necessary actions will be taken to bring back radical Islamic preacher Zakir Naik to India. 

In a weekly press conference, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, "Zakir Naik is an accused in numerous cases in India. He is a fugitive from justice. We have taken up the matter with the government of Oman and its authorities."

This comes after Naik came to Oman as a ‘state guest’ to deliver his speech on "Holy Quran is a Global Necessity" in the country.
Naik, an Indian Islamic preacher, has been residing in Malaysia since 2017. The Oman government recently invited Naik to deliver two religious lectures in the capital city Muscat on March 23 and March 25 during Ramzan.

On Naik’s extradition, Bagchi said that he will have to confirm with the ratified list if India has an extradition treaty with Oman or not.

"As regards the extradition part, I will check on this. I think the list of countries we have an extradition treaty with is already in the public domain and Oman is not on the list. However, I do need to reconfirm," he said.

Naik, 57, fled India in 2016 after his organisation Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) was banned, and a first information report was lodged under his name. He is accused of instigating Muslim youth and terrorists in India and abroad to commit terrorist acts.

In 2019, he was also banned from delivering public speeches in Malaysia. Besides India, his Peace TV network is also banned in Bangladesh, Canada, Sri Lanka, and the UK.

The Government of India had banned his channel Peace TV for peddling hate propaganda.

Posted by Ganesh Sahathevan at 8:49 PM 

Sydney University VC Mark Scott may be powerless to act against pro-HAMAS supporters because of funding decisions by former VC Michael Spence, and failure of his General Counsel Richard Fisher to address the issue

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Sydney University VC Mark Scott may be powerless to act against pro-HAMAS supportersrs because of funding decisions made by former VC Michael Spence, and  the  failure of  his General Counsel Richard Fisher to address the issue. Fiher and Spence were sentt queries with regards the story below. Spence remained silent,and Fisher threatened to sue for defamation.

First posted by Ganesh Sahathevan on the Terror Finance Blog in 2010

The University of Sydney, Australia has refused to confirm or deny that funding has been received from the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)  and/or its associates  even while the  IIIT remains under investigation for financing terrorism.

Queries on the matter were put to the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Michael Spence ,consequent to the university’s  invitation and sponsorship of a lecture tour of Australia by IIIT director Anwar Ibrahim. The sponsorship comes at a time when the university  cuts corners due to what it  say is a shortage of funding for day-to-day operations.

Anwar was invited to give a public lecture titled  "Islam, Democracy and the Status of Malaysia's Quasi-Secular State". The lecture was organised by the university’s Department of Government and International Relations.

Anwar and his fellow IIIT directors continue to invoke the 5^th Amendment against self-incrimination in their declarations disclosed in the IIIT’s IRS 990 tax filings. The IIIT’s IRS 990s provide some evidence of a history of providing funding to bodies that have then either extended invitation to Anwar , or bestowed on him some award. The ongoing investigation has led to these filings containing less detailed information such that the ultimate beneficiaries may not be identified.

  The queries about IIIT  funding were also put to Michael Spence in his personal capacity. These queries have also been met with silence. In addition, Spence and the university  continue to maintain silence  about  the university’s   communications  with  Dr Adrian Ong Chee Beng, who has been convicted of fraud, and  has worked for Anwar and his principal adviser Dr Rahim Ghouse. Ghouse is  believed to have represented Anwar in his business dealings with  Sheik Yassin Al-Qadi,   the Al-Qaeda financier whose activities included the transmission  of funds to terrorist groups for  and/or on  behalf of Mohamad Al-Faisal.

(http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2006/1754286.htm AND http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/business/09trust.html?_r=1&th&emc=th)

One of the first high-profile visitors to the  university following Spence’s appointment as VC in 2008 was Turki al-Faisal, Mohamad Al-Faisal’s brother. As mentioned previously , there was no apparent reason for Turki’s visit (http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2009/07/jakarta-marriot-ritz-carlton-17-july-2009-australian-government-dereliction-of-duty-cannot-be-ignore.html).

Spence is no stranger to Saudi  funding. He  was formerly at Oxford University , where he was  Head of the Social Sciences Division, one of the four Divisions that make up the University. In  welcoming him to Sydney University , the University said:

One of Dr Spence's priorities at Oxford was actively to encourage fundraising and substantial sponsorship from benefactors and corporate groups (http://ussc.edu.au/people/michael-spence)

These benefactors and corporate groups have included many from the Middle East. For example the controversial  Saïd Business School was under his purview . (http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1990)

It was also  during his tenure that £20 million was received  from the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia for the financing of the  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, which is associated to the university.(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584954/Extremism-fear-over-Islam-studies-donations.html)

It appears that Spence has brought to Sydney his Saudi  connections. Via the MWL  and WAMY , both funded by the Faisal Foundation,  Anwar and the IIIT themselves owe much to the Saudi Government and Royal Family . As reported in Malaysian Business, September 1, 2005:

Then, sometime in mid-1970'S I (Tengku Razaleigh,former Finance Minister,Malaysia)   met Prince Mohammed Al-Faisal who was then running the Al­Faisal Foundation. He asked me if I had heard of a young man called Anwar Ibrahim. He wanted my view of Anwar, saying that the foundation would go ahead with helping him (Anwar) with his
activities if I said okay."

The Al-Faisal name seems to link Spence to Anwar, and the IIIT. Spence’s stint at Oxford may provide some clues as to what their objectives might be.

In 2005  Anthony Glees, the former  director of Brunel University's Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies identified Oxford as one of a number of UK universities that had accepted Saudi funding and whose scholarship then took on a pro-Arab stance.In regards to Oxford he said:

Saudi Arabian and Muslim organizations are funding cash-strapped British universities to the tune of more than $466 million….. over the past five years, 70 per cent of politics lectures at the Middle Eastern Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, were "implacably hostile" to the West and Israel - an allegation denied by Oxford …

Glees sees the donations as a poisoned chalice: "Britain's universities will have to generate two national cultures: one non-Muslim and largely secular, the other Muslim. We will have two identities, two sets of allegiance and two legal and political systems. This must, by the government's own logic, hugely increase the risk of terrorism."(http://www.thejewishpress.com/pageroute.do/31497)

The matter was also reported in the UK Telegraph:

Extremist ideas are being spread by Islamic study centres linked to British universities and backed by multi-million-pound donations from Saudi Arabia and Muslim organisations, a new report claims.

Eight universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, have accepted more than £233.5 million ($466 million) from Saudi and Muslim sources since 1995, with much of the money going to Islamic study centres, according to the report.

Universities that have accepted donations from Saudi royals and other Arab sources include Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, University College London, the London School of Economics, Exeter, Dundee and City. Prof Glees says Government policies "push the wrong sort of education by the wrong sort of people, funded by the wrong sorts of donor".

He added: "The Government must reconsider its far-reaching, security-driven plan to use higher education in the fight against the radicalisation of young British Muslims. If it proceeds, it will create the very situation the Government wants to avoid: the development of self-imposed Muslim apartheid in the UK."

 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584954/Extremism-fear-over-Islam-studies-donations.html)

 Sydney University  being  one of the oldest in Australia has significant  input into government departments that shape policy. I have previously written about Islamists influences at Sydney and other universities in an article that can be located at http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2007/03/islamist_influe.html.

Sydney University and Michael Spence’s  work with Anwar appears to be  the latest act in a long term strategy to buy influence , and ultimately government policy.

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