Mar 29, 2011

Poverty Reduction? Easy, Just Lower the Benchmark!

WOW! Only 108 left?

By Jayanath Appudurai

ACCORDING to the Government Transformation Programme [GTP] Annual Report released on 27 March 2011, there are only “108 extreme poor households” left. The GTP within a span of 12 months transformed the lives of 44,535 extreme poor households. {See Chart}

To say the least, this is a stupendous achievement! An intractable problem that the nation has been grappling with for more than 40 years has ostensibly been solved in 1 year!
Should not the Government be lauded for this?

Guess, it all depends on how ‘extreme poor’ is defined?

Read More from Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia HERE

Mar 23, 2011

UMNO's Control of the Malay Mind

"The ministers give the Malay populace a low quality education but they send their own children overseas."

An excellent article by Mariam Mokhtar published in Malaysiakini on 21 March 2011. This is a MUST READ article for all Malaysian.

1 Malaysia but 2 Malays - Mariam Mokhtar

It is impossible to know what the hundreds of thousands of Malays truly want in the way of political reform. Most are reticent about presenting their real views. Others cannot articulate what they want without being emotional or illogical.

Mar 9, 2011

Malaysia Gambling with Toxic Industry!

Cheah Kok Leong was born with severe mental disabilities that is believed
to be due to the radioactive exposure from Asian Rare Earth of  Bukit Merah

Under Construction in the industrial port of Kuantan is going to be the World's Biggest Toxic Rare Earth Refinery!

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