“Is M’sia lacking midwives?”: Netizens on Najib’s daughter for giving birth in S’pore
IN most households, the arrival of a new family member is always welcomed by friends and family with greetings of joy and wellbeing.
However, when former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s daughter gave birth to a baby, netizens took to social media to criticise him and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.
The reason being his daughter’s decision to give birth in a hospital in Singapore instead of a local establishment.
“The expertise of Malaysian midwives is frowned upon due to their 90% mortality rate. So that is why his daughter will deliver her baby in a Singaporean hospital.
They have more confidence in the republic’s doctors then ours. It is a playground for the rich,” user Adlyshaz scoffed in a jest.
User Azlan Selamat added: “There must be hundreds of good hospitals in Malaysia. Why go to Singapore?”
Yesterday, Rosmah, who is facing graft charges in court, was allowed by the High Court to attend to her daughter Nooryana Najwa Najib in Singapore for childbirth.
High Court judge Datuk Mohamed Zaini Mazlan allowed her application to temporarily use her international passport.
Zaini, in his ruling, said the accused needs to return the document back to the court before Dec 6.
On that note, user Rafeet Capero said that with the “court cluster” receiving more privileges, he opined it would not be long before they get off the hook.
“With more of the court cluster people being treated with kids’ gloves, I won’t be surprised if they get released soon.”
However, user Rafael Cecirro said benefit of the doubt must be given to Najib’s daughter, as Nooryana might be a resident in the city state. – Oct 16, 2021
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kt notes:
This is the sort of double standards hypocrisy that pisses me off. I recall that some years ago when Anwar Ibrahim was still a prisoner and had some back in jury problems, he insisted on seeing a specialist in Germany. His supporters and pro Pakatan people demanded that he be allowed to leave Malaysia to seek medical aid there. There was then a hoo haa on the matter as there were back-pain specialists in Malaysia too. In the end he was permitted to go. Now this? Disgusting!
Secondly, Nooryana Najwa has had birthing difficulties before and naturally she seeks the best medical there is for her second childbirth, and we all know Singapore has the BEST medical facilities and specialists in SE Asia, if not Asia. Even an Indian student who was horrendously raped and sexually-brutally assaulted on a bus was flown from India to Singapore Mouth Elizabeth Hospital to be attended to, alas, unfortunately futilely.
Jyoti Singh Pandey, the 23-year-old physiotherapy student who was horrendously brutalised and gang raped by six men in a moving Delhi bus, and flown from India to but died in Singapore Mouth Elizabeth Hospital
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AsiaNews.it:
09/02/2004, 00.00
Anwar Ibrahim set free
Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The Federal Court Thursday freed former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from prison. The court was reviewing an earlier rejection of Anwar's appeal - but decided to quash the original sodomy conviction and sentence by a vote of 2-1. "He is free to go, there is no doubt about it," said his lawyer Pawancheek Marican when the verdict was announced. He is expected to leave custody later on Thursday.
The decision came six years to the day after his dramatic sacking by Malaysia's then Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohammed. Anwar was imprisoned in 1999 and had lost earlier appeal against his conviction. He was charged with corruption after a trial widely seen as politically motivated. It followed his disagreement with Mahathir Mohammad over how to run the country's economy.
On Aug 8, 2000 he received a further nine years for sodomy. The High Court convicted Anwar and his adopted brother Sukma of sodomising Anwar's former family driver Azizan Abu Bakar in 1993. Thursday's appeal to Malaysia's Federal Court - the country's highest - was the last legal opening for the former minister.
"We allow the sentence and conviction to be set aside. We find the High Court misdirected itself. He should have been acquitted," said Judge Abdul Hamid Mohamad, head of a three-judge panel.
Anwar's continued imprisonment had posed problems for the government of current Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi. Although his star has waned since the days when thousands marched in protest at his treatment, many in Malaysia and abroad still regarded him as a political prisoner. He is now expected to travel to Germany to receive treatment for a back injury he says he suffered when arrested. The country's former police chief was responsible for a beating he received when first arrested in September 1998, Anwar says.
"We allow the sentence and conviction to be set aside. We find the High Court misdirected itself. He should have been acquitted," said Judge Abdul Hamid Mohamad, head of a three-judge panel.
Anwar's continued imprisonment had posed problems for the government of current Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi. Although his star has waned since the days when thousands marched in protest at his treatment, many in Malaysia and abroad still regarded him as a political prisoner. He is now expected to travel to Germany to receive treatment for a back injury he says he suffered when arrested. The country's former police chief was responsible for a beating he received when first arrested in September 1998, Anwar says.
I have no problems with Nooryana Najwa choosing to give birth in Singapore. That is her right to choose, assuming the Singapore authorities are fine with that.
ReplyDeleteI do have serious objections with Rosmah-Jib (Rosma undergoing trial, Najib a convicted criminal undergoing Superior Court appeal ) being given Super Special dispensation for their passports to be returned, to travel.
There MUST NOT be a different legal standard for Rosmah-Jib from the ordinary Nobody Abu, Ah Kaw or Ariapan.
I know of of ordinary people under similar circumstances (charged , undergoing trial , out on bail) who were denied permission to travel overseas to see a close relative on the last legs of their life. They had to say their farewell over Zoom.
Tell me , why should Rosmah-Jib be treated by a different standard under the law ?
Anwar Ibrahim's 2004 request to be treated for his back injury at a world-class orthopedic treatment centre in Germany can in no way be compared to Rosmah-Najib's request to travel to Singapore for their daughter's delivery.
ReplyDeleteThe first case is a clear medical justification.
The Rosmah-Jib case is clearly optional - and many people have been denied such requests in the past related to family members.
No double standards involved for those who object to Rosmah-Jib being given such Super Special dispensation.
the issue-argument was NOT about Rosmah being given permission to do down to Sing. The issue in the post is about double-standards Malaysians criticising Nooryana Najwa for choosing to give birth in Singapore
DeleteIs Nooryana Najwa choosing RedDot as the birthplace of her daughter meant anything to u guys?
Delete"her right to choose"!
Wow… fine… jus soli, anyone? & why?
M'sia, no good? Kazakhstan?
How about those nominee a/c in s'pore that's going to feed the family for the next 7 generations?
Then, WHY not Switzerland? US?
Wakakakakaka… u guys obviously have missed those new money laundering rules in these countries.
RedDot is stubbornly refusing to enact such rules. For obvious reasons - the withdrawals/transfers of trillions sitting in those singgie banks would burn a huge hole in its tattered covid economy!
Anwar sought medical treatment in Germany nearly 20 years ago (2004). At that time good orthopaedic specialists in Malay-sia were rare, only tukang belakang and tukang uruts. But today many good specialists around. Why Zahid Hamidi have to go to Germany I don't know....
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Ahmad Zahid applies to get passport back for medical treatment in Germany
Bernama
October 07, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 7): Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is facing 47 charges of money laundering, criminal breach of trust (CBT), and corruption, today applied for a temporary return of his impounded passport to seek medical treatment in Munich, Germany.
The former deputy prime minister's counsel Hamidi Mohd Noh informed High Court Judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah that his client was suffering from back and neck pain and needed to get treatment from a leading specialist in Munich.
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But talking about double standards ayam more interested if Jibby's grandchild will be given Malay-sian citizenship since the father is a foreigner (Kazakh). Many Malay-sian mothers married to foreigners too want to know. Their children still waiting for citizenship after many years.