I have noticed a lot of young generation who is over 21 and eligible as a voter, never register himself or herself as a voter.
According to a survey, there are 70% of youth between 21 to 35 have not register themselves as voter.
Stop complaining this country if you are yet to registered as a voter (if you are over 21) as you not qualify to do so. You have a chance to decide the fate and direction of your country but you give up the right to do so. Of course voting does not mena you love your country but it certainly is an act to love your country.
You should read the article of the link below. It may change the mind that you should vote to change this country. I definately not here to teach you to vote which party as I believe you can judge it yourself.
Review of what your ministers said
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Malaysia, you still want more foreign labours??
It has shown how our government view on the current view of foreign labours. Within a week, the stand is somehow change 180 degree.
Fisrtly on Sunday, 20 Jan 2008, goverment plan to slashed as much as 10% of the total foreign labours in this country. We have 2.6 million legal foreign labours in Malaysia and reducing 10% of the total foreign labours is approximate 260,000.
At the same time, government admits that this move is to reduce the dependency of foreign labours and to increase the paid of locals. I have another post of which i wrote of too much of foreign labours.
However, today...what a twist. Seven hundred to 1000 Bangladeshi workers are still arriving in Malaysia daily because their work permits were issued before the Government freeze last October. Bangladesh High Commissioner M. Khairuzzaman, who revealed the figures at a press conference Friday, said the Malaysian Government's move was meant to stabilise the situation involving Bangladeshi workers here.
It is so obvious that our government still want more unskilled foreign labours to "develop" our beloved Malaysia. Till now, goverment still not realize how wrong they are to import so many of foreign labours until they (foreign labours) have overtook Indian as the 3rd largest gropu on Malaysia.
If we not start to transform to a more value added industry which rely on skilled and knowledge workers, we will lagging behind Vietnam in a short time and not to mention catching up Singapore. No wonder we are exporting our professionals to Singapore, China, Australia and others developed countries and replaced by Indonesian, Nepalese, Bangladeshi to our country!
Fisrtly on Sunday, 20 Jan 2008, goverment plan to slashed as much as 10% of the total foreign labours in this country. We have 2.6 million legal foreign labours in Malaysia and reducing 10% of the total foreign labours is approximate 260,000.
At the same time, government admits that this move is to reduce the dependency of foreign labours and to increase the paid of locals. I have another post of which i wrote of too much of foreign labours.
However, today...what a twist. Seven hundred to 1000 Bangladeshi workers are still arriving in Malaysia daily because their work permits were issued before the Government freeze last October. Bangladesh High Commissioner M. Khairuzzaman, who revealed the figures at a press conference Friday, said the Malaysian Government's move was meant to stabilise the situation involving Bangladeshi workers here.
It is so obvious that our government still want more unskilled foreign labours to "develop" our beloved Malaysia. Till now, goverment still not realize how wrong they are to import so many of foreign labours until they (foreign labours) have overtook Indian as the 3rd largest gropu on Malaysia.
If we not start to transform to a more value added industry which rely on skilled and knowledge workers, we will lagging behind Vietnam in a short time and not to mention catching up Singapore. No wonder we are exporting our professionals to Singapore, China, Australia and others developed countries and replaced by Indonesian, Nepalese, Bangladeshi to our country!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Too much of foreigners
When you pass by Jalan Silang,Jan Tun Siew Sin or Kota Raya in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, you may think you are another world. It is like a small United Nation with foreign labours from Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Myanmar, India gathering with their hometown friends. In another location in KL, you may notice that Indonesian that passing by are not less than Malaysian. This scenario is a norm for many people in KL.
On the last day of 2007, NST, The Star and The Sun, 3 major English dailies have each published one news related to foreign labours.
1.Foreigners took up 20% of the new job opportunity that is created in Malaysia on 2007, according to the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER). MIER executive director Prof Dr Mohamed Ariff Abdul Kareem told Mingguan Malaysia that it was a worrying scenario, especially in the labour sector.
2.Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakar has called to halt the intake of foreign workers. He added that there were some 2.6 million foreign workers in the country.
3. The Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) has called on the Human Resources Ministry to immediately stop issuing permits to labour suppliers.
Three of the news has concluded, too much of foreign workers in our country and it has brought more problems to our country.
It is a shame that only now the government has realised there is too much of foreign workers in Malaysia. We have over 2.6 millions foreigners and I supposed this amount is exclude those illegal workers. A very conservative estimation, there should be around 3.2 to 3.5 million foreigners in Malaysia. It is over 10% of our population and is overtaken Indian as the third largest groups.
If we analysed closely, the industries that needed a lot of foreigners is construction, plantation and manufacturing. Besides,wherever the working opportunity exist, the more foreign workers exists. Thus, you will not surprise if 20% of population in KL is foreigners. Most of them are Indonesian. Notice that the bus driver in Metro Bus is Indonesian? Going Petaling street or Chinatown, do you see the foreigners that doing business there is just as much as Chinese?
Government should be blamed on this due to lack of planning and vision.
Bringing these 2.6 million foreigner, unskilled foreigners will not move Malaysia forward or at least the direction as a developed country.
1. Foreigners is why our country salary is low all these years. The competition from foreigners has lower down the salary and took up many unskilled local people job opportunity. These foreigners has no long term commitment and that is the reason why they can accept lower salary. And the employer is the sole winner. They pay lower salary and no EPF and get higher profits from it.
2. Crime rates has been increased since more and more foreigners. Although there is statistics said only 20% of crime rates is by foreigners but bear in mind, their population is less than that.
3. These foreigners are not going trough medical check up thoroughly. They may bring illness from their country and spread to local people. Check it out at Hospital Kuala Lumpur you will see how many foreigners there.
Once a Singapore minister said" We top up the the summit of pyramid with foreigners and our neighbours top up the bottom of pyramid with foreigners".
It is our own fault by not changing our economic structure and rely on these cheap labours. We have missed the chance to transform to high tech industry and labour intensive industry has been move to China or Vietnam. Whereas Singapore is still strong as they know they are moving the value added industry.
How we are going to do with the extra foreigners? I don't know, but I know many Indonesian have become Malaysian. It is easy to 'invite' them, it is hard to kick them back.
On the last day of 2007, NST, The Star and The Sun, 3 major English dailies have each published one news related to foreign labours.
1.Foreigners took up 20% of the new job opportunity that is created in Malaysia on 2007, according to the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER). MIER executive director Prof Dr Mohamed Ariff Abdul Kareem told Mingguan Malaysia that it was a worrying scenario, especially in the labour sector.
2.Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakar has called to halt the intake of foreign workers. He added that there were some 2.6 million foreign workers in the country.
3. The Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) has called on the Human Resources Ministry to immediately stop issuing permits to labour suppliers.
Three of the news has concluded, too much of foreign workers in our country and it has brought more problems to our country.
It is a shame that only now the government has realised there is too much of foreign workers in Malaysia. We have over 2.6 millions foreigners and I supposed this amount is exclude those illegal workers. A very conservative estimation, there should be around 3.2 to 3.5 million foreigners in Malaysia. It is over 10% of our population and is overtaken Indian as the third largest groups.
If we analysed closely, the industries that needed a lot of foreigners is construction, plantation and manufacturing. Besides,wherever the working opportunity exist, the more foreign workers exists. Thus, you will not surprise if 20% of population in KL is foreigners. Most of them are Indonesian. Notice that the bus driver in Metro Bus is Indonesian? Going Petaling street or Chinatown, do you see the foreigners that doing business there is just as much as Chinese?
Government should be blamed on this due to lack of planning and vision.
Bringing these 2.6 million foreigner, unskilled foreigners will not move Malaysia forward or at least the direction as a developed country.
1. Foreigners is why our country salary is low all these years. The competition from foreigners has lower down the salary and took up many unskilled local people job opportunity. These foreigners has no long term commitment and that is the reason why they can accept lower salary. And the employer is the sole winner. They pay lower salary and no EPF and get higher profits from it.
2. Crime rates has been increased since more and more foreigners. Although there is statistics said only 20% of crime rates is by foreigners but bear in mind, their population is less than that.
3. These foreigners are not going trough medical check up thoroughly. They may bring illness from their country and spread to local people. Check it out at Hospital Kuala Lumpur you will see how many foreigners there.
Once a Singapore minister said" We top up the the summit of pyramid with foreigners and our neighbours top up the bottom of pyramid with foreigners".
It is our own fault by not changing our economic structure and rely on these cheap labours. We have missed the chance to transform to high tech industry and labour intensive industry has been move to China or Vietnam. Whereas Singapore is still strong as they know they are moving the value added industry.
How we are going to do with the extra foreigners? I don't know, but I know many Indonesian have become Malaysian. It is easy to 'invite' them, it is hard to kick them back.
Friday, December 21, 2007
Religious and noise pollution,any solution?
Religious is one thing that I normally will avoid to touch. However, this is a bit different.
I live near to a mosque for over 25 years. So I assume myself immune to the 5.30am morning call. Three years ago, the new mosque, which is about 4 times larger than the old mosque, is built on a previously children playground. The old mosque which accordingly the second oldest mosque has been renovated and reburbished. Whether it is a government plan to make it a tourist attraction is unknowned. What I noticed is the loudapeaker of the mosque produce a much higher decibels than before. It was shocking loud when I first heard it. Then i slowly get used to it.
On this Thursday morning, supposed a one minutes pray has extended to 3 hours. Although I knew i was a big day for Muslims, but suffer a 3 hours noise pollution with high decibels is just annoying. Mind you, times by times, there will be religious seminar in the mosque that I can listen very clearly through loudspeakers.
Here come a question, if I respect muslims has the right to pray 5 times, the mosque can use high decibels loudspeakers, who will respect the non muslims has the right as well to get rid of the noise pollution especially the morning prayer at 5am to 6 am?
Due to this I have made soem searching in google.
I found that some country such as India has a law regulation to control the loudspeakers to a under 65 decibels during 10 pm to 6am.
Islamic Voice
Indonesian opinion
UK opinion
I used to remembered there is a quarral in somewhere around PJ (forgive me as I can not recall clearly) because of a chinese funeral that generate noise at night. On the night before funeral, monks will pray for the person that passed away before the body is buried. Due to this customs, it will generate some noise at the night. And that quarral that published in the newspaper is another ethnics that don't understand the culture.
However, just the same case as the mosque, we are not living in a same village with all the same ethnics anymore.Time is changing.It is not the same now especially in a city like Kuala Lumpur.
Your neighbours could be Malay, chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Vietnamese or even an expatriate from Europe. Right, we should respect other culture, but in this society which is more complex and complicated, it is important that you don't disturb others while you practice your culture or minimised the disturbance.
It would be a better living place if 10pm to 6am any noise that produce must be in a acceptable level as this is the rest time for most of us. Some practice in the old days must be adjusted to the current lifestyles.
P/S: I respect all the religious, no offence to Muslims but truth is truth.I welcome you to examine the whether the loudspeakers is really too loud. The mosque is in Jalan Pahang.
I live near to a mosque for over 25 years. So I assume myself immune to the 5.30am morning call. Three years ago, the new mosque, which is about 4 times larger than the old mosque, is built on a previously children playground. The old mosque which accordingly the second oldest mosque has been renovated and reburbished. Whether it is a government plan to make it a tourist attraction is unknowned. What I noticed is the loudapeaker of the mosque produce a much higher decibels than before. It was shocking loud when I first heard it. Then i slowly get used to it.
On this Thursday morning, supposed a one minutes pray has extended to 3 hours. Although I knew i was a big day for Muslims, but suffer a 3 hours noise pollution with high decibels is just annoying. Mind you, times by times, there will be religious seminar in the mosque that I can listen very clearly through loudspeakers.
Here come a question, if I respect muslims has the right to pray 5 times, the mosque can use high decibels loudspeakers, who will respect the non muslims has the right as well to get rid of the noise pollution especially the morning prayer at 5am to 6 am?
Due to this I have made soem searching in google.
I found that some country such as India has a law regulation to control the loudspeakers to a under 65 decibels during 10 pm to 6am.
Islamic Voice
Indonesian opinion
UK opinion
I used to remembered there is a quarral in somewhere around PJ (forgive me as I can not recall clearly) because of a chinese funeral that generate noise at night. On the night before funeral, monks will pray for the person that passed away before the body is buried. Due to this customs, it will generate some noise at the night. And that quarral that published in the newspaper is another ethnics that don't understand the culture.
However, just the same case as the mosque, we are not living in a same village with all the same ethnics anymore.Time is changing.It is not the same now especially in a city like Kuala Lumpur.
Your neighbours could be Malay, chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Vietnamese or even an expatriate from Europe. Right, we should respect other culture, but in this society which is more complex and complicated, it is important that you don't disturb others while you practice your culture or minimised the disturbance.
It would be a better living place if 10pm to 6am any noise that produce must be in a acceptable level as this is the rest time for most of us. Some practice in the old days must be adjusted to the current lifestyles.
P/S: I respect all the religious, no offence to Muslims but truth is truth.I welcome you to examine the whether the loudspeakers is really too loud. The mosque is in Jalan Pahang.
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