Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Biased views in inter-racial lectures
Biased views in inter-racial lectures
AN MCA leader has ticked off several university lecturers for bringing in their personal views during lectures on inter-racial relationship.
China Press quoted MCA Youth chief Datuk Liow Tiong Lai as saying nobody should be allowed to distort the course outline by exploiting racial sentiments among the students.
He said MCA Youth was collecting information on the issue to bring it up to the Higher Education Ministry.
He added that action would be taken against such lecturers for adding in their “interpretation”.
An undergraduate had earlier told Liow that a lecturer has expressed his “extreme views” on racial issues during a lecture.
Among the statements the lecturer made were “The land of Malaysia belongs to the Malays”, “Chinese have trespassed on the Malays’ land” and “Chinese with poor Bahasa Melayu are deemed unpatriotic”.
Liow said MCA had provided input to the relevant ministry before the course’s outline was drawn to ensure that the course conformed with the country’s multi-racial society that recognised the contribution of each race.
He added that the course was meant to promote racial harmony and social stability.
“It is unacceptable for lecturers to hold extreme views. This must be corrected,” he added.
HMMM I AM WONDERING IF THIS LECTURER WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE COURT FOR SEDITIOUS REMARK .... HMMM WILL THIS BE CONSIDERED SEDITIOUS OR WILL THEY SAY I AM CREATING PROBLEM ????
Sedition ...seditious ...whatever
Monday, December 10, 2007
CONFUSED......
its kinda funny though ... i was watching aljazeera on that morning during the so call "illegal" rally ..then when i watch TV3 they started ... telling abt HINDRAF faxing the so call "petition" hmmm funny also when i c both international and local news .....actually there are a lot more but i m lazy to type laaa.... sumtimes i think they should be fair .....whenever i read international news and local papers i find it very funny hmmmm i wonder if the local news people have ever thought abt it ......
Though i dun agree with a lot of issues with HINDRAF and obviously i dun wan to get into trouble at this age where i m struggling to survive .....but i think there are certain things i should speak up ...
Few months ago i was on my way to PUDU bus station ...my 2 friends and i was in d car driven by his fren and another guy in a KANCIL... means - 2 + 3 = 5 of us...they came from subang and came to fetch me... after fetching me frm my home as we were leaving ...a police patrol car came out from of the lanes and followed us slowly at the back and switched the police light - god knows whatever u call it - so all of us came out - one guy came to us and asked us where are we going and we told him we are on d way to pudu to catch bus ...so he requested for our IC and started checking ...in his patrol car... the light was switched on - all the people passing by was looking ...wondering dunno wat wat might be running in their mind.... and then after 10 minutes or so he came back ....gave us back all our IC and dats it ...nothing happen... now my question is - y did he stopped us ????? was it bcoz 5 indian guys was in d car ????? isnt this ridiculous .... dis is my 3rd encounter with such action of police officers in malaysia....
Malaysia, not truly Asia?
9 Dec 2007, 0306 hrs IST
,Ketan Tanna,TNN
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Last year, the Indian High Commission in Guyana published an advert in a local newspaper offering scholarships to 'Children of the Diaspora'. An angry reader wrote in that the Indian government should surely know that while assistance to Guyana was welcome it should be on non-discriminatory grounds, regardless of ethnic origin. The spark ignited by so innocuous an offer of help illustrates how combustible is the race vs nation debate. Most recently, India was delivered a stinging slap in the face when it spoke up on behalf of the 1.8 million-strong ethnic Indian population in Malaysia and was told to Lay Off. India has the third largest Diaspora in the world after Britain and China. These two countries have never fought shy of taking up cudgels on behalf of their scattered brood. When Indonesia under Suharto banned public displays of Chinese culture and asked its Chinese population to change their names to Indonesian ones to get citizenship, China broke off diplomatic ties for years. "The English too take care of their own across the globe, including in Australia," says Jamia Millia vice-chancellor Mushirul Hasan. "India has taken the correct stand on Malaysia. Persons of Indian origin are culturally bound to us. We cannot wash our hands of them simply because they do not have Indian passports." In the past, too, India has spoken up--when Mahendra Chowdhary was deposed as prime minister in Fiji in 2000, New Delhi expressed its concern. But, equally, it has always worried about crossing the thin red line from concern to interference. A dithering that angers the Indian Malay. "If India does not protest against the unfair treatment of Malaysians of Indian origin do you expect Mongolia and China to do so on our behalf?" asks an indignant P Uthayakumar, legal adviser to the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) which is leading the movement. "For God's sake, we in Malaysia have the closest links with India. If a wife is unfairly treated by her husband, she can only go to her parents. India must intervene because human rights have no boundaries." G Parthasarthy, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan points out that whenever there has been a massive violation of human rights of Indians, such as in Fiji, the Indian government has taken cognisance. "This has been our policy since the time of Jawaharlal Nehru," he says. "The problem is that if we start making statements other countries can do so too when there are communal riots here. Therefore, we have to be objective." India's early Diaspora has its roots in colonial oppression. In the 19th century, boatloads of indentured labour were forcibly transported to work on the rubber plantations of Malay. Today, the descendants of the boat people may not be watering rubber fields but their lot is still very much that of the marginalised migrant, they claim. Since its independence in 1957, Malaysia has powered ahead and is often held up as the exemplar of Muslim development. But for the Indians who make up a little less than 10 per cent of the population, prosperity has stayed stubbornly out of bounds. Hindraf says that the job reservations for ethnic Malays effectively cut the Indians out leaving them to be "labourers, industrial workers, office boys, sweepers, beggars and squatters". The only index on which ethnic Indians lead is suicides. The crime rate of the group is also shockingly high. The Tamil schools are largely dysfunctional. "The conduct of the Malaysian authorities has been particularly offensive," says India's former external affairs minister, Yeshwant Sinha. "Even the country's official history starts with the 14th century after the last Hindu king converted to Islam. They want to obliterate their past." On November 25, nearly 8,000 Malaysians of Indian origin gathered in the shadow of Kuala Lumpur's iconic Petronas Towers to demand equality. Instead they were brutally beaten with batons, bombed with tear gas and flung into jail. An anguished Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi wrote to Manmohan Singh urging him to intervene diplomatically. He did. Malaysia reacted swiftly. "This is Malaysia. We'll deal with our problems and issues according to our laws. Other countries should be mindful of our rights," said Syed Hamid Albar, Malaysia's foreign minister. "I can turn around and ask, what business was it of Malaysia's to protest the Babri Masjid demolition or even the Danish cartoons of Prophet Mohammed," rebuts Dr Subramanian Swamy, known for his efforts to improve Indo-Chinese relations in the Eighties. "Malaysia should be the last country to tell India to lay off." Those who advocate caution say that India cannot take on the burdens of its Diaspora, and that fighting for Malaysians of Indian origin will only open a Pandora's box. After all, there are millions of Indians in Fiji, South Africa, and the Caribbean Islands. Others say that since India is quick to tom-tom the achievements of its Diaspora--V S Naipaul, Bobby Jindal, Sunita Williams --it should also look out for them. Moreover, since they are victims of colonialism, the government owes them the support of the mother country, says Ormila Bhoopaul, an activist lawyer of Indian origin from Guyana, who now lives in Canada. "What first needs to be acknowledged is that these PIOs were forced to leave, they were tricked into going by the British," she says. "Why didn't they all return? The reasons are many and when examined, they are not to be blamed for not returning. And the British must take some responsibility too." Hindraf still hopes that old blood ties will move the mother country. "Every few weeks a temple is being razed. Last year, 79 temples were demolished or faced legal action," says Uthayakumar. "We are grateful that India has expressed concern. We hope now for more concrete action. India is a growing power. Malaysia is bound to listen." hehehe check out ..i didnt know this is like going international level ...hmmm i wonder where is this heading.... |
HINDRAFFFFF
Saturday, December 1, 2007
LAY OFFFFF!!!!! it sound very familiar ..... hmmmm i think there is another word but kinda vulgar :)
Malaysian courtesy: Lay off - Karunanidhi’s plea on Tamil rights sparks war of words | ||||||
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Nov. 29: Malaysia today told Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi to mind his own business after he complained about the country’s treatment of ethnic Indians. “This is Malaysia, not Tamil Nadu,” Malaysia’s de-facto justice minister Nazri Aziz said. “This has got nothing to do with him... lay off.” Karunanidhi had asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to intervene and protect the rights of Tamils. He made the request after the minority community’s biggest anti-government protest in Malaysia on Sunday, sparked by anger over policies they say prevent ethnic Indians from getting decent jobs or a good education for their children. Karunanidhi today said it was his “duty” to “defend” Tamils and he was prepared to accept any “punishment” for doing so. Told about the comments of Aziz, the chief minister said: “If there is any punishment for doing the duty, I am prepared to accept it.”
Karunanidhi pointed out that he did not criticise the Malaysian government. “I don’t want to reply to his (Aziz’s) remarks. I don’t want to get into a tit for tat. It is my duty to defend Tamils.” Aziz said he had not seen the protest letter from Karunanidhi. In the letter to Singh, Karunanidhi said he was “pained” at the way Malaysian police had treated Tamils when they organised a rally to complain of racial discrimination. The rally, which drew more than 10,000 people, had triggered sporadic protests in Tamil Nadu. Karunanidhi said Tamils were the largest group among Malaysia’s 1.8 million ethnic Indians and added that the people of Tamil Nadu were disturbed by the events there. He sought Singh’s intervention “to end the sufferings and bad treatment of Malaysian Tamils”. Today, MPs from Tamil Nadu disrupted both Houses of Parliament, demanding that New Delhi pressure Kuala Lumpur to protect ethnic Indians there. Some MPs raised slogans against Malaysia and demanded the Indian foreign minister make a statement on the issue, forcing proceedings in the Lok Sabha to be suspended briefly. “We have expressed our concern over the condition of Indian-origin Tamils in Malaysia,” said CPI leader D. Raja, who hails from Tamil Nadu. “They are subjected to repression and discrimination. They are fighting for equality with other sections of Malaysian people.” Multi-racial Malaysia has brushed aside claims that it mistreated its ethnic Indians, saying that they were better off than those in India. But ethnic Indians complain of lack of educational and business opportunities, saying government affirmative-action policies that favour majority ethnic Malays had marginalised them. Indians comprise 8 per cent of Malaysia’s 27 million people. Malays form about 60 per cent of the population and control the government. Ethnic Chinese are a quarter of the population and generally much more wealthy than Indians, most of whom earn low incomes and do menial jobs. The Malaysian Indians hold the British responsible for their plight. The British had taken their ancestors to Malaysia as indentured labour to work on rubber plantations. A petition is pending in a UK court seeking compensation of £1 million each for the ethnic Indians in Malaysia. The Hindu Rapid Action Force, the organiser of Sunday’s procession in Kuala Lumpur, had marched to the British High Commission to present a copy of the petition. hmmmm looks like things getting worse ....peaceful demonstration but y must the people being handled like dat ???? |
Friday, November 30, 2007
Siva Subramanian forced to leave meeting
KUALA LUMPUR: A red-faced Datuk Siva Subramaniam was forced to leave a meeting at the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) here Friday after members of several civil society organisations demanded that he should not be present.
When the Suhakam commissioner sat down to moderate the event, the 70-odd participants unanimously agreed that he was "inappropriate" for the meeting.
The organisations had scheduled an appointment with Suhakam in protest of the police's actions on Sunday during the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) rally.
Led by Groups of Concerned Citizens coordinator Charles Santiago, they asked for Siva's absence because of previous newspaper reports quoting him that the police had "done the right thing” by forcefully dispersing the crowd during the Bersih rally which took place on Nov 10.
"His stand on such issues contradicts what we have to say here today. So we politely request that he leaves this meeting," said Charles.
Suhakam Commissioner Prof Datuk Khoo Kay Kim then took over the event.
Charles, in his preamble to Khoo, urged the commission to look into the incident at Batu Caves where many devotees were allegedly hurt.
Four victims of the incident also came forward, and gave short accounts of the injuries and the grief they suffered.
Charles later added that they were also upset over Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz's comments in newspapers referring to Indians as thugs and ruffians.
He then presented a memorandum listing various recommendations for improvement to such situations to Khoo.
During an interview, Khoo said the matter would be brought up to the commission immediately.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Supercop Kulasingam dies
Police officers paying their last respects to S. Kulasingam at the crematorium in Jalan Templer, in Seremban yesterday. — NST picture by Owee Ah Chun |
JOHOR BARU: Malaysia's own supercop, S. Kulasingam, was once quoted as saying: "How could I die of anything but old age?"
| S. Kulasingam was dubbed 'the toughest cop the force ever had' after dodging bullets and surviving numerous attempts on his life. |
His death was due to old-age complications.
The retired assistant commissioner who never married, slipped and fell about a month ago in his apartment in Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad here and was bedridden after undergoing an operation at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital to replace a broken hip.
He died in his sleep at 3.06am.
The mere mention of his name was enough to send shivers down the spine of many criminals.
"It's not easy to kill me. I won't go before my number is up," Kula had once said in an interview, after having survived several attempts on his life by desperate gangsters.
The first attempt was on Nov 22, 1975.
He had stopped at a traffic light junction while driving alone when 11 shots were fired at him. One of the bullets shattered his right rib, piercing his liver, and grazed his lungs.
On April 7, 1976, Kula was shot in the stomach during a robbery at a jewellery shop in Paramount Gardens, Petaling Jaya.
He also survived when a 44-pound jar of formic acid was splashed on his legs and chest; when a tree fell, killing a helper instead; when an axe-wielding man rushed at him; and when a patrol car in Sarawak was ambushed - another officer with the same name as him was killed.
Kula, who later held the post of Johor CID chief, was best known for capturing the infamous "Botak Chin", who carried out many robberies in the Klang Valley in the 1970s.
Johor police chief Datuk Hussin Ismail said Kulasingam, which means "lion of the community" in Tamil, would always be remembered for the rare qualities that made him the quintessential policeman.
"He was a man who did not flinch in the face of danger. He was courageous, obstinate and steadfastly devoted to his duties and he held fast to the belief that these qualities made the difference in the fight against crime," Hussin said.
Before joining the police force in 1951, Kula had worked as a teacher for six months. He was only 19 when he joined as a probationary inspector in July, 1951.
His courageous crime-fighting style soon caught the attention of his immediate supervisors, who recommended him for promotion to assistant superintendent of police in August 1957.
Kula served the force with dedication for 35 years. He retired in 1985.
He was also awarded the Ahli Mangku Negara (AMN) for distinguished service in the police force and had been hailed as epitomising the qualities that policemen should be made of - courage, tenacity and selfless devotion.
* funny thing he is known as SUPERCOP but never received any "datuk" "dato" "tan Sri" hmmmm sumthing to ponder..... :)
...acted in Hollywood and received "datuk"
...sailed around the world and swimmed across the sea and received "datuk"
...i have no problem with whoever getting ...but just curious....thats all... :)
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
CTOS vs KAYVEAS
and for those who support ...dun forget to go here .. www.insolvency.gov.my
NST 3rdJuly2007 :
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk M. Kayveas has challenged credit information provider Credit Tip-Off Service (CTOS) to prove that it had obtained the financial records of individuals in its database legally.
He said if the company failed to do so, it should cease its operations.
"Does CTOS have any payment receipts or evidence that the data were voluntarily given by the public? Is the company buying the information via legal means? I want proof of that," he said at a press conference at the parliament lobby yesterday.
Kayveas warned the company that if it continued to operate with outdated data, it could face legal consequences.
"Personally, I feel the company should cease operations.
"With so many complaints levelled against them, they should shut down. The public and Fomca (Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations) wanted it to be shut down."
To date, the government website, www.insolvency.gov.my, had received 850 complaints against CTOS. The website receives an average of three complaints every five minutes.
Kayveas said CTOS did not obtain permission from individuals to have their financial status stored in its database and later sold to third parties.
He said while there were provisions in the law for banks to trade information on individuals between themselves, private companies were not allowed to do so.
As a result, he claimed that CTOS had violated several laws in the country, including the Computer Crime Act 1997, the Internal Security Act 1960, the Official Secrets Act 1972 and the Human Rights Commission Act 1999.
Citing an example, Kayveas said under the Computer Crime Act, CTOS could be charged under Section 73 for providing and selling inaccurate information to third parties.
"We will study which laws could be used to act against CTOS."
Kayveas said when the issue was first highlighted, it was hoped that CTOS could update the information in its database and clear peoples’ names.
"Everyone needs a second chance, even criminals. Here, we have simple people with tiny offences being blacklisted due to CTOS historical data.
Even the government doesn’t blacklist people, so how could a private company do so?"
He said intense marketing by CTOS had caused confusion not only among the public, but also among government agencies that had used its services as they were under the impression that CTOS was government-owned.
Kayveas admitted that even the People’s Progressive Party, of which he is president, his service centre in Taiping and a law firm known as Messrs Blanche, Kayveas & Co had been subscribing to the services provided by CTOS since 1999.
However, he is unsure if his service centre and the PPP still used CTOS services.
He also claimed that CTOS made about RM80 million a year, based on 2,100 bank branches in the country which used its services.
He said CTOS had not submitted its accounts to the Companies Commission of Malaysia for the last 10 years.
CTOS has more than 13 million entries in its database compared with Bank Negara’s Central Credit Reference Information System, which has two million entries.
Asked why no action had been taken against CTOS before this, Kayveas said previously, no one had treated the matter seriously.
"But now, we are serious," he said, adding that he would visit the company on July 10 to discuss the complaints that had been received against it.
Lawyer Datuk Mohd Zaid Ibrahim said the government should come up with a law dealing with data protection.
He said there were companies in Britain which offered similar services but they were regulated.