A Guessing Game

Lets' start a guessing game. 3 questions. Guess which country; which top leader, and which leader based on quotes made by others.

A Country

"The nation has long been hobbled by a political culture that places the ruling party's needs over those of the people"

"For six decades, the [ruling party] has appeared to have only one goal: to maintain its hold on power. It's thus promoted -- and recently reinforced -- racial policies that benefit its political base"

"The side effects, including stagnant living standards, waning competitiveness, and the humiliation of [the country's] sizable minority populations, are all overlooked in the service of [holding on to power]"

"[This country] is ensnared in the middle-income trap that South Korea and Thailand escaped years ago."

"Rather than free the economy from race-based quotas and business preferences, the ruling party has expanded them. Never mind that these policies make [the country] even less attractive to multinational companies and encourage so many of the nation's best and brightest to move to Singapore and Hong Kong"

"Philippines and Indonesia are surging ahead as this country looks backward"

"The country is proving to be all hardware and no software"

"For years, [the ruling party] acted as though top-quality roads, state-of-the-art ports and bridges, iconic skyscrapers and a swanky new capital would inevitably pave the way to prosperity."

"But economic software is even more important. And on that front, this country has never bothered to cut red tape, level the playing field for [the minorities], or introduce the competitive forces necessary to stimulate entrepreneurship."

"[This country] governing elite has clung to power without interruption since ... almost six decades ago through a combination of tight control of information, intimidation of the opposition and, until recently, robust economic growth."

"Many newspapers and television networks in [this country] are controlled by the government directly or indirectly."

"..worldwide bafflement at [a tragedy] has challenged the country’s paternalistic political culture and exposed its coddled leaders to the withering judgments of critics from around the world"

"[This country], aspiring to become a developed nation in six years, is finding that more than 50 years under one coalition and tight control over information is a mismatch for handling a rapidly growing crisis followed across the world"

"The crisis has fully exposed the dangers of allowing one party to rule a nation for six decades."

"This country is blessed with enviable natural resources. But it is willfully squandering its equally enviable human capital."

"These affirmative-action policies [of this country] stifle innovation and drive away investment. They disenfranchise the country's minorities, forcing many of them to seek their fortunes overseas."

"Civil-service and cabinet appointments should be about ability and nothing else -- not race, not sex, not age. Until and unless every lawmaker, ministry and government-linked corporation realizes they will have to answer for their actions and failings, the trust gap between the people and their government will only widen."

"It is also an ethnically polarized society where talent often does not rise to the top of government because of patronage politics within the ruling party and a system of ethnic preferences that discourages or blocks the country’s minorities, from government service."

"The longer [this country] sticks with the racial preferences, the more graft and opacity will worsen and undermine growth. The only way to unshackle the economy -- which should be performing a lot more like South Korea than Vietnam -- is to end such policies."

"[This country was recently] hailed by [the president of a superpower country] as 'an example of a dynamic economy' and touted its 'diversity, tolerance and progress' as 'a model to countries around the world'. Today, amid the global outcry over the [handling of the tragedy], such praise sounds naive. The past month has highlighted [this country]'s deepest flaws, and all-too-few of its strengths."

"Ordinary people in [another country] feel the work [of the government of this country] has not been professional.”

"Another neighboring country expressed concern about coordination effort. [This country]’s cooperation has not been positive and their officials are not responsive to requests for information"

"The government [of this country]... also released imprecise, incomplete and sometimes inaccurate information, with civilian officials sometimes contradicting military leaders"

"Information issued publicly from [the government] had been extraordinarily chaotic."

"The government [of this country] seemed evasive and confused, and [an expert] questioned why, if the remarks attributed to [the government official] were true, the government took so long to reveal evidence"

"The government (of this country)’s inconsistencies in the handling of the crisis were further highlighted when the country’s top official contradicting what other officials had said for the past three days."

A Top Leader

"Why bother when all the [this top leader's] party needs to do to stay in power is redraw voting districts, bribe the masses with fat handouts, invoke religion when necessary, and muzzle any pesky publications that dare to write about corruption and privilege?"

"It's a full-time job: For years populist handouts, gerrymandered districts, and political arrests secured the party comfortable majorities, but in last year's election the ruling coalition lost the popular vote for the first time"

"All this explains why per-capita income in a resource-rich nation with an enviable geographic position in Asia has stalled at near the $10,000 mark. [This top leader's country] is stuck in the middle-income trap because its leaders are stuck in time."

"His government has been clamping down on internal political dissent. One opposition leader once again faces the specter of jail on sodomy charges; [and another] is defending himself against sedition allegations."

"Authoritarian laws have helped keep the governing party in power — and an ascendant opposition in check."

"Early on, [he] thrilled global investors by hinting that he would scrap his party's 40-year-old affirmative-action policies, which favor [one race]. But [his party]'s troubles prompted him to expand rather than eliminate such apartheid economics."

"Since rising to the top job, he has had to divert his attention from revitalizing [the country]'s economy to maintaining [his ruling party]'s long hold on power. 

"[His] government's handling of [the tragedy] was no fluke. The fumbling exposed a political elite that's never really had to face questioning from its people, never mind the rest of the world."

"The international press has pilloried [his] government for its initial response to the crisis, which was marred by conflicting information, poor coordination with neighboring countries, defensiveness, and an apparent lack of transparency"

"His government’s lack of a clear message, compounded by a series of false leads... risks undermining its image internationally."

"The families of the victims of [a tragedy] deserve better. But then, so do [the people of the country] whom [this leader] claims to serve."

“There are big issues -- transparency, information sharing, questions associated with security. [The leaders] are not in control of the discussion and the problem is they’re not instilling confidence. Everyone wants to give them the benefit of the doubt but this is a crisis of credibility for [his] administration.”

"The crisis has led to introspection about why the government has appeared uncoordinated and unable to pin down seemingly basic facts about the [tragedy]"

"What can his government do, post-crisis , to improve its image at home and abroad? This isn't a mere PR challenge. The country needs nothing less than a political revolution."

"They’re handling a huge global issue as if it was domestic politics"

"[His] administration is sending the message that people should let [his] government tell them what they need to know, when they need to know it, and not before"

"Local media outlets critical of [this leader] are on the defensive. [His] government has by contrast been silent on efforts by Islamic conservatives to limit who can use the word "Allah" -- a campaign that has eroded [this country]'s reputation for religious tolerance."

A Leader

"Even with his nearly 20-year stint as a legislator and more than a decade in ministerial posts, how does someone like this become a transport minister in Southeast Asia's third-biggest economy?"

"He's also the scion of a powerful political family."

"He is the nephew of the country’s second prime minister, [who is also the current prime minister]’s father

"[He] was elected a vice president of [the controlling party], putting him in line to possibly succeed [the country's top leadership]."

"The lamentable manner in which [this leader] has fielded questions underscores how unaccustomed the country's leaders are to being questioned by anyone"

""It’s only confusion if you want it to be seen to be confusion," he said at a news conference that unfolded before an international audience. [He] rejected a reporter’s assertion that the search [in the tragedy] had been disordered."

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Feel free to give your answers in the 'comments section' in red color below. Guess one answer for each of the above 3 questions. Namely which country, which top leader, and which leader based on quotes made by others.

This guessing game it is based on quotes from respectable personalities who work in internationally credible organisations. Minimalist editing is made to preserve choices of word by the original authors and to ensure this guessing game a success. The original articles can be found below:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-11/malaysia-failing-to-manage-plane-crisis-exposes-leadership-limit.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/world/asia/malaysia-jet.html?_r=0

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-13/a-plane-disappears-malaysia-s-flaws-emerge

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/world/asia/missing-jet-exposes-a-dysfunctional-malaysian-elite.html?_r=0

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-08/missing-plane-will-haunt-malaysia-s-future

Pray For MH370. Pray For Malaysians.

In 2009, we were told the below:

It was a AFP (Agence France-Presse) news. It must be a fairly credible report quoting Malaysian naval officials. The 'magic' happens in 2014 when we are told that the same Scorpene submarines are not suited for search and rescue. I call it 'magic' to put it politely. You will agree that we may as well call it a lie.

Magic happens frequently in Malaysia. A news of 4 passengers with fake passports boarded the tragic MH370 airplane quickly became 2 passengers with fake passports. The source of information came from the same authority and the person. The now infamous, Hishammuddin Hussein Onn, gave us his 2 versions of news without a blink of an eye. He is the same person who has been telling the international community that MH370 had purportedly disappeared in various locations from earlier Vietnam to South China Sea, Strait of Malacca, Andaman sea and now in Indian Ocean, somewhere near Australia. I am not arguing that it was his fault but merely pointing out magical moments in Malaysia.

Hishammuddin's cousin, Najib Razak, who is also the Prime Minister of Malaysia, is supposedly even more capable of pulling off magic than Hishammuddin. The press in Hong Kong was less patience with Najib in comparison with the Malaysians.

Hong Kong Daily News did not mince its words when it called Malaysian authority a lie. The headline can be loosely translated to mean "MaLIEsia lied to the whole world" when the authority changed the time of losing contact with MH370 from initially stated 1:30am to 8.11am.

In fact, a Taiwanese newspaper was even more bold to call Najib Razak a 'Master Magician' for numerous alleged electoral fraud and abuses during Malaysian general election in 2013.

CNN, BBC and even Vietnamese news could not stomach the inconsistencies, to put it politely, or possibly lies made by Malaysian Government under the stewardship of Najib Razak in relation to MH370 investigation, search and rescue. Is it not magical to have so many discrepancies in a matter of days?

It further puzzled many Malaysians as to why the supposedly last statement made from MH370 that was "Alright. Good Night" had changed. It has now become "Good Night. Malaysian Three Seven Zero".  Equally intriguing that it is now unclear as to who has made the last statement. We were told 2 weeks ago that the last statement of "Alright. Good Night" came from the co-pilot. Would you not call this some form of magical change of event?

Magical moments never fail to puzzle Malaysians from food price to election procedure. It looks like they will continue to be amazed as long as the same people are still in power. Malaysians after all have been treated that way for tens of years in case the communities outside of Malaysia do not know this.

It is most saddening to know the tragedy of MH370. The people who manage the crisis are just not making it any easier for family and friends of the passengers. These people in power have neither made it any easier for fellow Malaysians all these years on a list of many other issues.

Pray for MH370. Pray for Malaysians.

Malaysians Need Help

One of the most talked about personality in Malaysia is Rosmah Mansor. Wife to the Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak. Rosmah is immensely attention attracting in Malaysia. You wont miss her and the crowd certainly react to her presence. You can look at how she has become the centre of focus in a stadium when she appears:

She obviously caught plenty of her husband's attention. Najib talks a fair bit about her. The exact words of Najib are quoted below:

"I have never shared this before. When one of our students was arrested in Egypt after being accused of being a spy, my wife made a call to the president's wife and within two hours the student was released.

"Not just that, during Ops Pyramid, when our students were stranded in Egypt during the Arab uprising, my wife used her good relations with the royal family to allow the students to return home without visas.

"In a normal situation, this is impossible but with the relationship she has with the royal family, we managed to bring the students home.

"These were among my wife's contributions to the people of Malaysia," Najib said recently in December 2013.

Rosmah must be very worthy of mentioning for the Prime Minister of Malaysia to sing praises for her in public. Rosmah has also claimed to have done a lot for Malaysians. She went on record to say these:

"... the rakyat (people of Malaysia) have taken everything from me. Everything has been taken away from me, including my time, including my hobbies. I don't get to play badminton now because I am very busy doing things for the rakyat.

“If that is still not right then I don't know what to say,” she said in her official public speech recently.

You can see Rosmah in action in the below video:

Malaysians are facing 2 very difficult situations now. They may need Rosmah to come to the rescue.

The Crisis Level Problems of Malaysians are:

1. Mosquitoes- Denggi and Malaria

The whole country seemes to have been infested by mosquitoes. Dengue fever is on the rise very rapidly. Deaths from dengue fever have nearly tripled in Malaysia this year compared to the same period in 2013. Malaysia dengue cases so far top 18,000, experts predict 60,000 cases for the whole year. Adding insult into injury, a new form of Malaria infecting human being is taking form in Malaysia. The country is now facing the mosquito transmitted diseases during a dry spell and not even a rainy season in Malaysia.

2. Dry spell- Lack of Water Supply and Haze

Malaysians are faced with lack of potable water supply and serious water rationing since the beginning of a dry spell about one month ago. It was still raining heavily before that. On top of insufficient water, the air in Malaysia is also severely polluted with haze. Haze level has exceeded unhealthy level in many places.

We know that Rosmah has 'Midas Touch' from the way Najib talks about her. It is time for Malaysians, especially Najib, to call upon Rosmah to exercise her magic now to help fellow Malaysians who are suffering.

Rosmah to the Rescue:

1. Mosquitoes- Denggi and Malaria

The problems with mosquitoes and mosquito transmitted diseases are human's doing. It is failure of our government to take adequate actions to tackle these problems. Perhaps, the people have a role to play but the government must initiate and lead the people. We must find and eliminate breeding grounds of mosquitoes be it in construction sites, schools, drainage system, commercial, housing and industrial areas.

Rosmah is known to be able to mobilize any cabinet ministers and senior civil servants when she wishes too. She could get the Malaysian Foreign Minister and Special Adviser to Prime Minister to go along with her in her overseas trip to Doha in Qatar, where she attended a fashion show. Now, Rosmah can certainly mobilize Health Ministers, Home Ministers, Defence Ministers, etc to help Malaysians to alleviate the suffering of our people from mosquito problems.

2. Dry spell- Lack of Water Supply and Haze

We can not expect Rosmah to exercise influence over weather and rain falls. She can however help us to resolve problems of water supply and haze. Being a tropical country, Malaysia is one of country with the most rain in the world. How can we be short of water supply just because there was just one month of dry spell? 

We can realistically say that we can not expect Rosmah to be able to call for rain for she is only human although some will disagree with me. Rosmah can however help us to pull politicians aside and coach the water treatment and distribution companies to get on with real work. Leakages in our distribution pipes and failure to ensure cleanliness of catchment areas are the main reasons for our lack of water supply to households. Building over-priced water transfer project and treatment facilities is short term 'relief' and not a long term answer.

Haze in Peninsular Malaysia usually happen between June to August where Malaysians would put the blame solely on Sumatra, Indonesia. It seemed that Malaysia was never at fault. Malaysian can not do the same this time around. The current northeasterly wind is not blowing any haze from Sumatra, unlike southwesterly wind. In fact, the current wind direction should be blowing haze from Peninsular Malaysia to Sumatra if at all. Malaysians must at least stop open burning and other polluting activities during this hazy period. 

Rosmah can ensure that the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment is working rather than talking. Department of Environment can be assisted by police and other government agencies to put a stop to all these irresponsible behaviors that are polluting the environment.

A Malaysian Dream?

Malaysians hope that Rosmah will hear them. Officiating events; launching fashion functions; and glamorous celebrations are just not sufficiently making use of Rosmah's talent. She can do much more for Malaysians. There are so much more to be done. The problems caused by mosquitoes and dry spell are published on the front page of the Sun newspaper. The Sun newspaper is owned by Rosmah's close friend, Vincent Tan Chee Yioun, a billionaire businessman associated with Najib and other Barisan National politicians. Perhaps Vincent Tan can help to convey the problems and the wish of Malaysians to Rosmah. 

It is a dream of many Malaysians that any problem with mosquitoes, dengue, malaria, water shortages and haze can be a thing of the past very soon. Malaysians need help.

Any Kangkung in North Korea?

I have heard of cruelty of an authoritarian regimes in ill treating their fellow country men simply because these fellow country men do not agree with the authoritarians. Nonetheless, Reading the reported open letter of Shin Dong-hyuk, an ex-political prisoner of North Korea, to Dennis Rodman, a former NBA star, is an eye opener to me. I was shocked to know how badly he was treated in prison and the poor reason for his imprisonment. North Korea is perhaps a classic authoritarian regime on the extreme. You can find the full version of the open letter here.

This open letter has kept me thinking. When I recall all the incidences of how Malaysian political prisoners are being treated in jails, perhaps Malaysian political persecution is not that far from the extreme North Korea. Malaysian Government will arrest and detain you for the weakest imaginable allegation of wrongdoing under some draconian laws like ISA, sedition, etc.

Adam Adli

Many students and opposition political leaders have served their time in Malaysian prisons. We can see the case of how Adam Adli was detained and charged.

The Allah issue is still a hot on-going discussion in Malaysia. Allah issue is big in Malaysia and it crops up every so often, especially when the ruling regime is facing some form of issues, be it impending election or price hike. You can follow this issue by clicking on the below links:

http://rt.com/op-edge/malaysia-bans-word-allah-368/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24516181
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/allah-row-a-non-issue-look-at-bigger-picture-say-experts
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/01/22/pakistani-cleric-slams-“ignorant”-allah-ruling/
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104579308180235121604
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/390354/allah-row-thrusts-malaysian-priest-into-spotlight

There are more than just religious or political pitfalls in Malaysia. One can potentially be detained if he makes a joke of kangkung in Malaysia. A Malaysian must not get too creative with kangkung. A music remix on kangkung price going up and down may just get you questioned by the police in Malaysia, with an arrest probably follow suit.

Despite the perilous nature, it does not stop Malaysian creativity from popping up on the cyberspace:

Although Youtube might have terminated the above video clip, you can still find the video here:

http://video.malaysia.msn.com/watch/video/new-lenggang-kangkung-remix-ft-najib/2sl51msjf

Kangkung or Ipomoea aquatica is a common vegetable that can be found in Malaysian diet. It is after all a popular vegetable in tropical countries. It is also known as water morning glory, river spinach, water spinach or even swamp cabbage.

BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation has learned the perilous nature of kangkung in Malaysia recently. A piece of #BBCtrending news article posted on BBC website was blocked or filtered by the authority in Malaysia. The authority however denied such doing and apparently released the censor thereafter. You can see that piece of news here and the information on how the censorship had been done can be found here.

BBC TV News has subsequently made a short report on the kangkung gate in Malaysia. This is a must watch for a quick details of the matter. Click here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25754548. 

This kangkung affair has also been featured in BBC world service radio as reported by Yahoo:

http://my.news.yahoo.com/bbc-covers-kangkung-issue-popular-world-radio-show-122713298.html.

The French has also taken an interest in Malaysian kangkung here:

http://www.france24.com/en/20140116-malaysia-internet-najib-razak-kangkung-water-spinach/

Do you not think that Malaysian Govt is behaving more and more like North Korea? It is scary to think of that. All these terrible world class news are happening right on your own home ground.

From MALAYSIA With LOVE

From Malaysia with Love?

Official  Business = National Interest = Personal Trip

Some background information. Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak, has a wife, Rosmah Mansor, who has never failed to impress the ordinary Malaysians. She shocked the world with her comments by blaming the devastating tsunami that hit north east Japan 2 years ago on Japan's rapid development; failure to study climate change and use green technology. She further emphasized that the tsunami was to be a lesson for Japan and all other countries too.

Rosmah has recently stunted Malaysians again. She does not have any official function in the Malaysian Government. Nonetheless, she flew to Qatar with an entourage of Malaysian ministers, their wives and several UMNO political leaders. She was of course leading the entourage. They traveled in a Malaysian Government jet plane. The government jet is supposedly reserved for the use of Malaysian Ruler, Agong; Prime Minister; and Deputy Prime Minister.

Rosmah is the wife of Prime Minister Najib. She was not appointed officially to represent the government nor was she holding any official posts in Malaysian Government. Rosmah used the goverment private jet on the basis of cabinet ministers' approval chaired by Deputy Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin. Rosmah went to Doha, Qatar for the International Business Women Forum, as well as Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The sequence of events that has unraveled is no less impressive.  Initially, Minister Shahidan Kassim said Rosmah went on “official business”. He even went as far as saying, "She built this country". Rosmah's own special officer Siti Azizah said , “It was not for personal reasons. Rosmah does not represent the Government, but she went there for the sake of the Government’s interest. She is the prime minister’s wife, she went to give the keynote address (at the International Business Women Forum). So she made the address not as a government representative, but in the name of national interest.”

Out of a sudden, Azalina Othman, a member of parliament who was part of Rosmah's entourage, told the Dewan Rakyat of Malaysian Parliament that the Rosmah was invited to Doha in her personal capacity, and that the use of the jet was approved by Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and members of the cabinet despite it was a personal trip. This is a truly Malaysia Inc (incorporated) with a family touch? Malaysia is now managed like a family affair.

If you think of Malaysia as a company, it has a situation of the chairman's wife went on a personal trip but she used the company's private jet without paying for it. The board of directors approved the personal use of the company private jet in a meeting chaired by the deputy chairman. Chairman's wife does not have a role or a post in the company. What she has is that she is the wife of the chairman. I wonder if the regulators, Securities Commission in Malaysia and the stock exchange, Bursa Malaysia will find this situation as an abuse of power and wrongful use of the company's funds.

Even if the Securities Commission and Bursa Malaysia refuse to act on this situation, surely the shareholders of the company are entitled to question and demand return of the company's funds which has been abused. This is one form of related party transactions or abuse of power that the regulators should prevent.

In Malaysia Inc, the situation is very different. In response to the public outcry over Rosmah's abuse of Malaysian govt facilities and funds, she said, "“I’m happy. I don’t talk, I don’t comment, I don’t go down to that level,". Rosmah deemed the response of the people to her abuse as 'that low' and she would not responded to such 'lowly' people. Rosmah felt that ordinary Malaysians belonged to a much lower class of people. These people were undeserving of her attention. I have no doubt Malaysians feel insulted by the comments of this self-styled First Lady of Malaysia. The First Lady that disparaged her own people.

Rosmah oh Rosmah, you may be the prime minister's wife. You may call yourself first lady and demand others to identify you to be so,  but you do not deserve to abuse this country's money more than anyone else. You may think that ordinary Malaysians are 'lowly' people but they are paying for the expensive government jet in your personal trip and for your personal pleasure. This executive jet plane by the government cost RM15 million for fuel and RM160 million for maintenance. Think about it. Who is more low class?

How much does a life mean in Malaysia?

How much does a life mean to you ?

It is Visit Malaysia Year 2014 next year. There are many nice places and events to see in Malaysia. However, there are also many other shocking events that have not been reported as clearly and fairly as they should have been in Malaysia. While you visit Malaysia in 2014, you may be in for some surprises or exciting news which are not part of your planned itinerary. Mind you, they are not necessarily all bad. Some are of course worse than others.

  

Before I start, let me highlight that Malaysia is allegedly the safest country in Southeast Asia, according to the Malaysian Government. Several key Government Ministers, including the Prime Minister, Najib Razak, who have repeatedly said this. Who are we to doubt them?

DEATH by Illegal Guns

In this safest country, the Malaysian Home Minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi officially reported in the Parliament that 74 people have been shot dead from January to August in 2013. 8 months for 74 violent deaths caused by gunshots alone. Let me remind you that possession of firearms in Malaysia is a serious criminal offense penalized with capital punishment. Hence, carrying a firearm without license means death penalty in Malaysia. Do you wonder how did those murderers obtain the guns to carry out the shootings? Are you curious too?

The Home Minister attributed the availability of firearms to smuggling from neighboring countries, putting the blame on Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. There would not have been any unlicensed firearms in Malaysia if not for those neighboring countries which are adjacent to part of Malaysia. He talked as if Malaysia did not have any effective border controls, no customs officers, or any other enforcement against smuggling. Despite that, this is also the same Home Minister who will tell you that Malaysia is the safest country in Southeast Asia, regardless. What do you have to say, Singaporean Prime Minister?

DEATH by Legal Guns

There are other form of deaths caused by human act in Malaysia. Recently, a Malaysian security guard shot a bank officer of a Malaysian bank called AmBank and robbed the bank. The security guard used a legal pump-gun given by his employer, which was a security firm owned by a UMNO leader. The irony was that the security guard was stationed by his employer to enforce security for that bank. UMNO is the dominant party of the ruling coalition in Malaysian Government.

It had been reported that the security guard was holding a fake Malaysian identification card (I/C). The security firm had not done any check on the biodata of the guard before recruitment. Puzzling?  Initially, the Malaysian Government dominated by UMNO had refused to reveal the name of the security firm and its owner. Despite the firm causing death, the security firm was only issued a show cause letter. The firm replied and no further action was taken. Due to subsequent public outrage and immense criticism from the opposition leaders, Malaysian Govt had finally suspended the security firm, Kawalan Prima Sdn Bhd. However, no one has been penalized for the cause of this death.

Update: A man suspected to be the security guard killing the AmBank officer was reported to be arrested on Nov 10, 2014. The man has not been charged in court as yet. Charging a person in court for murder or corruption in Malaysia does not necessarily mean a conviction. You only need to look at or google the case of Altantuya and Ling Liong Sik PKFX to understand this. Hence, CID director, Hadi Ho Abdullah might have gone overboard to claim, "Police believe with the arrest of the suspect, the case has been solved."

Malaysia have been made famous over the years for its custodial deaths in governmental institutions. There is a long list of death caused by some kind of weapons in governmental custody, only known to the government officials. Several news of high profile deaths like Ahmad Sabarni, A Kugan, Teoh Beng Hock, C Sugumar, Chew Shiang Giap can be easily obtained on the internet. You should read more to understand the exact situation better. I list below a few of the relevant links in the following:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/malaysia-end-alarming-rise-deaths-police-custody-2013-07-25

http://www.suaram.net/?p=5673

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/31/us-malaysia-crime-police-idUSBRE96U0BY20130731

DEATH by Legal Water?

It does not take firearms or weapons to kill someone in Malaysia. 3 persons died and 1 was missing in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia last month. Water was released from a hydro-electric dam managed by Tenaga Nasional Bhd, a Malaysian power utility, at about midnight after only 20 minutes of siren as warning. Most of the villagers were still sleeping and had not got sufficient time to react to the siren. In addition to loss of human lives, the man-made flood also destroyed 80 houses and 100 vehicles. A man-made disaster really.

The Malaysian power utility claimed that the release of water and the warning given were in compliance with their standard operating procedures (SOP). Hence, any negligence, recklessness or failure of duty is ruled out by the power utility. SOP are meant for good operating practices. We can only hope that there are not so many SOP in this world which are as deadly as Tenaga Nasional Bhd's SOP.

Malaysian Government had earlier withheld a RM40 million funding to deepen and broaden Bertam river which could have prevented this tragedy. The loss of lives, houses and vehicles could really have been avoided if Bertam river was sufficiently deep and broad. As announced by its Prime Minister, Malaysian Government has finally agreed to the allocation to increase the depth and breadth of Bertam river after the disaster.

The Prime Minister Najib has been known to be very generous in granting government money to voters in his infamous style of 'you help me, i help you'. Residents and voters in Cameron Highland had indeed voted for Barisan Nasional, which is Najib's ruling coalition, in the general election earlier this year. Why did Najib neglect these people's safety and well-being?

Please allow me to repeat this: How much does a life mean to you in Malaysia?

Bill, Mark, Stand Aside! Our Geniuses Rise!!

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet,
Please Stand Aside! Malaysian Geniuses Rise!!

One man who works very closely with the Ministry of Education in Malaysia has found a formula to create a genius. The key to genius creation is in Dimensi 108 tablets/pills or better known as 'smart tablets' or 'smart pills'. These pills are not smart on their own but they will MAKE YOU SMART once consumed by you! Apparently, Some students were buying them in large boxes, as opposed to packets, in their quest to be smarter. Who would blame the students if that was what they had been told. 

Interestingly, a purchase of the smart pills is conducted in some kind of award winning ceremony.

For RM3.00 per packet of  20 pills, it is not overly expensive considering it has the formula to make a person more intelligent. Potentially, developing oneself into a genius. Intelligence is not something that can be easily acquired or trained. Dimensi 108 maybe a game changer. This changes everything!

Glomind Enterprises is the agency authorised to distribute the Dimensi 108 pills. Ahmad bin Abdul Rahman is a shareholder and strong promoter of the Dimensi pills. His facebook states that he is also working for the Ministry of Education. He is then a civil servant, who is a shareholder in a firm, to market his own firm's products to the Ministry of Education he is working for. Serious conflicts of interest and potential abuses can happen from this intertwined situation.

Dimensi 108 received overwhelming support from senior academicians and politicians in the country, especially in Johor:

Malaysian Federation of the Council of Headmasters (Gabungan Majlis Guru Besar Malaysia)

• Expressly supported the marketing of Dimensi 108

Majlis Guru Besar Daerah Mersing and Kota Tinggi, Johor

• Improvement in the UPSR (Primary school examination conducted by Ministry of Education in Malaysia) scores in both districts was made possible due to the pills taken by the students. They gave overwhelming endorsement to this product, and requested other school heads to support Dimensi 108

SK Taman Segar, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur

• The headmistress said that it was compulsory to buy the tablets although it was not compulsory to consume it. She would not promote anything that was bad for the pupils. Dimensi 108 was like herbal supplements to help pupils concentrate and build energy for the examination. She emphasized that Dimensi 108 had the endorsement of the Malaysian Federation of the Council of Headmasters, meaning that it had been approved by the Health and Education ministries.

SRK Bukit Kemuning 2, Kota Kemuning, Selangor

• The deputy headmaster was marketing this product to the students, although it was not compulsory for the students to buy it

SK Teluk Lipat in Endau, Johor

• The percentage of students passing UPSR increased from 20% in 2010 to 60% in 2011 and to an astounding 98% in 2012, since selling the tablets in 2011

Shahrum bin Mohd Sharif, Barisan Nasional State Assembly Member (ADUN) for Dengkil, Selangor

• Supplied all UPSR students in Sekolah Kebangsaan Kota Warisan in Sepang with Dimensi 108 products through the headmaster of the school

There were many doubters of  the magic in Dimensi 108. It is understandably so due to its unprecedented immediate and highly magical effect on intelligence. Leaders from Pakatan Rakyat raised many issues with regard to Dimensi 108 pills, including possible conflicts of interest and fictitious claims made. They urged Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education to immediately investigate Dimensi 108 products.

Tony Pua (left) and Ong Kian Ming (right)

The Ministry of Health has so far only stated that the supplier of the Dimensi 108 pills displayed a fake certification letter from the Ministry in its website. Although the listed ingredients of Dimensi 108 include red dates, water lily seeds, rock sugar and spirulina, Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) argued that herbs constituted only 7.5mg, or 1.5%, of the 500mg Dimensi 108 pill. Dimensi 108 was just a sugar pill with a tinge of herbs. Neither Health Ministry nor MMA provided any clear scientific or empirical evidence to categorically deny any magical effect of Dimensi 108 to improve a child's intelligence. No efforts seemed to be spent on research to further explore the slightest possibility that Dimensi 108 might actually create geniuses. The pills has its formula of combining herbs and sugar, even though the herb content may be deemed as low.

At this juncture, we cant be sure if Dimensi 108 pills could indeed create geniuses for this country. Neither can we be sure if the pills were actually worthless. No wrong doing, be it ethical or criminal, has been reported so far. That means the promoters and academicians must be telling some truth. 

We must not forget that the percentage of students from SK Teluk Lipat passing UPSR increased from 20% in 2010 to 60% in 2011 and to an astounding 98% in 2012.  Malaysian Federation of the Council of Headmasters supported this product. Is it a waste of time to investigate further?

On the contrary, the Health Ministry explained a fake certification but not the effect of Dimensi 108 pills. MMA also ruled out the potential of Dimensi without further study. That means that the promoters and academicians might be misleading the students with lies. Yet, there has not been any news of Dimensi 108's promoters or the academicians involved being investigated, arrested or any legal action taken against them.

In Malaysia, it looks like the laws allow the act of making fake certification and allegedly false claims by product promoters and academicians without repercussions.

On a lighter note,

HAS MALAYSIA LOST AN OPPORTUNITY, ALBEIT A VERY SLIM ONE, TO UNCOVER THE SECRET TO CREATE A GENIUS?

Seriously, we do not know where do we stand now in regards to the potential of genius creation in Dimensi 108. We can not be sure if the combination of herbs plus the sugar is the secret formula to improve a person's intelligence.