SINGAPORE, Sept 20 — PKR president-elect Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today that Singapore’s issues or problems certainly cannot be compared to what he referred to as the fiasco in Malaysia.
“Nobody thinks about corruption and discrimination, as you see, here,” said Anwar at the Ho Rih Hwa Leadership in Asia Public Lecture Series hosted by the Singapore Management University.
Anwar was a speaker and spoke on the topic ‘Leadership in the 21st Century: Winds of Change’. About 1,000 people, mainly students, attended the lecture.
The Malaysian prime minister-in-waiting took a question from the floor on “what it will take for reform to happen in Singapore and whether Singapore is ready for such reform”.
Anwar said it was for Singaporeans to decide whether they should move on for more vibrant democratic reform but added that it was not right to compare with Malaysia.
He said Malaysia had been in a state where “if (the situation) was not handled or changed, we will have certainly gone down”.
In Singapore, the People’s Action Party (PAP), founded in 1954, has dominated politics since the 1959 general election.
The last election, held three years ago, saw the PAP win 83 of the 89 seats in Parliament, securing almost 70 per cent of the total votes cast. — Bernama.
“Nobody thinks about corruption and discrimination, as you see, here,” said Anwar at the Ho Rih Hwa Leadership in Asia Public Lecture Series hosted by the Singapore Management University.
Anwar was a speaker and spoke on the topic ‘Leadership in the 21st Century: Winds of Change’. About 1,000 people, mainly students, attended the lecture.
The Malaysian prime minister-in-waiting took a question from the floor on “what it will take for reform to happen in Singapore and whether Singapore is ready for such reform”.
Anwar said it was for Singaporeans to decide whether they should move on for more vibrant democratic reform but added that it was not right to compare with Malaysia.
He said Malaysia had been in a state where “if (the situation) was not handled or changed, we will have certainly gone down”.
In Singapore, the People’s Action Party (PAP), founded in 1954, has dominated politics since the 1959 general election.
The last election, held three years ago, saw the PAP win 83 of the 89 seats in Parliament, securing almost 70 per cent of the total votes cast. — Bernama.
Compare Anwar's polite diplomatic 'apples and oranges' with the Old Man's rude intrusive interfering insidious statement on 29 May 2018 as reported by the (Sing) Online Citizen in its Mahathir: Singaporeans must be tired of having the same government since independence.
The Old Man didn't and doesn't give two figs of how he interfered(s) with the politics of another nation, especially one he detests and is jealous of.
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invited by White House and needn't pay Jack Abramoff (an American Jewish lobbyist) millions just to be seen with Dubya better than Maddy every which way |
My take: Honestly, Mahathir is very much far superior than Anwar.
ReplyDeleteforeign affair n international relation matter, yes. domestic issue both lack honesty, but is there one? maybe kak wan, tapi kena hantam left right depan belakang.
DeleteHonesty? IMHO Rhan, I would say Hadi and Parti PAS.
Deletelets forget politician for a while bro, i step into taipei grand mosque recently and i dun felt that tensed the first time in a mosque, its a atmosphere we appreciate. i just wonder how we could remove the barrier in our heart n open to each other...still a long way or become worst?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuFScoO4tb0
https://youtu.be/4zDeBIA-vQ8
Delete~ RPK
nice song.
Deletebut rpk always get it wrong bec too much into dedak, next he will post the track "judas rising"
TDM masih degil, tak terima gay atau LGBT. Tapi no choice, mesti terima Anwar.....:-)
ReplyDeleteThere is no perfect leader
ReplyDeleteMahathir is probably much better in terms of management execution and sheer determined action, even when the actions are necessary but unpopular.
Anwar has got far better reformist and democratic credentials. He's been leading this struggle for 20 years, with much personal sacrifice. Mahathir was still clearly supporting UMNO just 5 years ago.
At this point in time its great that we have both of them.
They should work together for the sake of the nation, and not be trying to neutralise each other.
My take is so far , the relationship is actually working, but there are lower rung activists on both sides who are lobbing bombs here and there.
Tua Tiow Sai still justifying Lynas factory.
ReplyDeleteWell, seeing how much Pekan voters love him even after GE14, MP Wong Tack should recommend to Minister Yeo Bee Yin to store Lynas waste in Pekan.
NB: the effects of excessive low level radiation exposure will show up many years later. Does Tua Tiow Sai or his immediate family even live there?
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No Wolverine or Prof X after 6 years of Lynas operating - Najib
21 Sep 2018
Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak has revisited the Lynas debate, saying he is glad he never "bowed to pressure" from the then Pakatan Harapan opposition to shut down Lynas Corporation Ltd’s plant in Pahang.
"So far, there has been no Wolverines or Professor Xs wandering the streets of Kuantan and its surroundings," he quipped, referring to the popular X-Men comic characters depicting mutant superheroes.
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The effects of low-level radiation are suspected, but not much available scientific data simply because it takes decades or a lifetime for the damage to show up.
DeleteHow many people or organisations are willing to back a research project which will take 40 years to produce results ?
Damage there will be, in shortened lives from cancer decades later, genetic deformities in children and higher infamy mortality.
The fact that Lynas ships what is essentially 99.99% dirt from Western Australian desert (where they could have built their factory but they didn’t), all the way to Pahang for processing tells you something. Nasty wastes perhaps?
ReplyDeleteThe surface explanation is the Rare Earth extraction process requires very large amounts of water, which desert Western Australia has very little of.
DeleteFor Malaysia, the question is what happens to the very large amount of contaminated water ?
I never trust companies assurance that the water will be properly treated before release.
Over the long life of the factory there will inevitably be corner-cutting and accidents, deliberate or unintentional.
DPM Kak Wan says supporting LGBT is haram. Her husband says sodomy laws are archaic and unjust, needs to be repealed.
ReplyDeleteIt ties your brains up in knots, dividing even husband and wife. Paralyses you.
they were NOT contradictory.
DeleteWan Azizah talked from a Malaysian Muslim's view (which I don't agree with)
Anwar said the law could be (and presumably have been) MISUSED to persecute guiltless people
So where's the difference?
There is one matter, which decriminalizing LGBT acts, so that consenting adults will not get arrested, charged, and jailed or flogged. That I support.
DeleteTreating LGBT activity as socially acceptable and even legalizing LGBT marriage I oppose.
Slippery slope arguments.
DeleteAny law can be misused to persecute the innocent, not just the anti-sodomy law. Anwar was also (wrongly will he say?) convicted for corruption and abuse of power in 1998/99. Will he now also repeal these laws?
He also gave the reason that the anti-sodomy law was archaic and wrong, echoing Theresa May who recently apologised to former colonies for leaving behind this colonial law against LGBTs. So Anwar is saying LGBT is against religious teachings (as per his wife's view) but is all right from a secular point of view (his view, that's why he wants to repeal this law). Well, I fully agree. I wait for his promotion to PM and want to see him implement this. Or will he chicken out and propose an "SOP where LGBT behaviour will be permitted" such as if done in private but not in public, as Kak Wan suggested?
Now Suhakam jumps on the slippery slope.
ReplyDelete“Gays are same-same but different”? Marriage is not a “basic right”?
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 — The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) said today it was not in favour of same-sex unions, but also noted that everyone had the same “basic rights” under the Federal Constitution.
Suhakam also said ratifying international human rights treaties would not likely oblige the government to legalise same-sex marriages.
“While Suhakam believes and subscribes to the universality of human rights, Suhakam does not fail to take into account our context specific values,” Suhakam chairman Tan Sri Razali Ismail said in a statement.
“However, Suhakam is steadfast in its position that no one has the right to discriminate LGBTs (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) or treat them with hate or violence,” it said.
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Suhakam should advise if Muslim wives have "basic rights" not to be "hit". Just asking.
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Lawyer and activist Siti Kasim has called on Education Minister Maszlee Malik to explain an Islamic Studies examination question for Form Five students on permissible ways to “hit a disobedient wife.”
“Is this what our Malay children (are) learning in school?? What is this Maszlee? Is this acceptable?
“What kind of trash are we teaching the kids in school?” she asked in a Facebook post alongside an image of the examination question.
The question, which Malaysiakini has sighted, presents a flowchart with the title “Ways to hit a nusyuz (disobedient) wife”.
The chart states two such ways – “Not too overboard that it would cause injury” and “Not on sensitive areas,” and requires students to fill in the third permissible way.
The question originates from a Sept/Oct 2018 model examination paper for the Form Five Islamic Studies subject, issued by the Selangor Education Department.
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https://m.malaysiakini.com/news/444215
ReplyDeleteLim Kit Siang receives award from Bersih Sydney for a lifetime's contribution to promotion of democracy.
Three Cheers for Lim Kit Siang.
Richly deserved award.
Slippery slope, the more you try to explain the faster you slide backwards.
ReplyDeleteDecriminalise LGBT activities but keep it behind closed doors OK?
NB: I'm staying neutral on this one.....I have gay friends myself.
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Suhakam only supports LGBT rights, not same-sex marriage
Updated 13 hours ago · Published on 22 Sep 2018
Suhakam chairman Razali Ismail says Suhakam regrets Malaysia’s continued non-ratification of the treaties and the government’s lack of determination to live up to its international human rights commitments.
THE Human Rights Commission of Malaysia said while it believes and subscribes to the universality of human rights, and is steadfast in its position that no one has the right to discriminate against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders, or treat them with hate or violence, it never supported same-sex marriage.
“Just the rights of LGBTs,” Suhakam chairman Razali Ismail said, to quash insinuations from “many media reports” that it was an advocate of same-sex marriages in Malaysia.
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