Archive for February, 2023
Let Parliament honour Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman’s 120th birthday today and achieve his aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in difficult and distracted world”
Posted by Kit in nation building on Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Today is the 120th birthday of Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.
Let Parliament honour Tunku’s 120th birthday and achieve Tunku’s aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.
Support parliamentary reform to penalise MPs who make racist or religious allegations including punishing MPs who make allegation that someone is promoting Islamophobia but could not substantiate the allegation
Posted by Kit in Parliament on Tuesday, 7 February 2023
I support the proposal by the Speaker of Parliament, Johari Abdul, that MPs uttering remarks that are racist, sexist or insulting are liable to an RM1,000 fine and may even be suspended.
The parliamentary reform should also specify that MPs who make racist or religious allegations, for instance, that someone is promoting Islamophobia, should be punished if they cannot substantiate the allegation.
Indonesia is one step ahead of Malaysia in giving a new meaning to “Unity in Diversity” with people celebrating the great ethnic, religious, and cultural festivals of the world to bring about civilizational understanding and harmony in the world
Posted by Kit in nation building on Monday, 6 February 2023
In my joint Thaipusam-Chap Goh Mei message yesterday, I ventured the view that Malaysia can lead the world in giving a new meaning to “Unity in Diversity” where Malaysians celebrate the great ethnic and religious festivals and cultures of the world while keeping their own ethnic, religious, and cultural identities.
Malaysia can lead the world in giving a new meaning to “Unity in Diversity” where Malaysians celebrate the great ethnic, religious, and cultural festivals of the world while keeping their own ethnic, religious, and cultural identities
Posted by Kit in nation building, Thaipusam on Sunday, 5 February 2023
Thaipusam and Chap Goh Mei falls on the same day today.
Malaysia can lead the world in giving a new meaning to “Unity in Diversity” where Malaysians celebrate the great ethnic and religious festivals and cultures of the world while keeping their own ethnic, religious, and cultural identities.
It is ten weeks that Hadi has not been able to produce an iota of evidence to substantiate his preposterous allegations that DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist, and promoting Islamopobia and yet Hadi will not apologise for the allegations
Posted by Kit in Hadi Awang on Saturday, 4 February 2023
It is ten weeks that PAS President, Hadi Awang has not been able to produce an iota of evidence to substantiate his preposterous allegations that DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist, and promoting Islamopobia and yet Hadi will not apologise for his allegations and retract them.
Malaysian youths and school children must be encouraged to dream the Malaysian Dream — to be a first-rate world-class nation to contribute to global progress or to be a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state
Posted by Kit in Malaysian Dream, nation building on Friday, 3 February 2023
Malaysian youths, those between 18 to 21 years old, and even younger ones, the school children, should be encouraged to dream the Malaysian Dream — to be a first-rate world-class nation to contribute to global progress or to be a divided, failed or kleptocratic state.
This is what struck me when I read the media reports that academician Mohammad Agus Yusoff had been appointed the director-general of the Community Communications Department (Jkom) under the Prime Minister’s Department to propel the Malaysia Madani concept with three thrusts to cultivate knowledge, create a society with digital skills and strengthen the people’s patriotic spirit; the digital dream of the Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil to create a new golden digital decade of the country; and the Nationl Unity Week programmes being formulated by the National Unity Minister Aaron Ago Dagang based on the theme of “Unity in Diversity” in multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysia.
TI CPI 2022 is best evidence that after six decades, Malaysia has regressed to become a second-rate mediocre country in danger of being lumped together with other failed states in the world in the next few decades
Posted by Kit in Corruption on Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Transparency International (IT) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2022 is the best evidence that after six decades, Malaysia has regressed to become a second-rate mediocre country in danger of being lumped together with other failed states in the world in the next few decades.
TI Malaysia President Muhammad Mohan said Malaysia is back to square one in the annual TI CPI and that urgent action is needed to improve the nation’s CPI score in the following years.
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