Different Biro Tata Negera for Sabah & Sarawak?

I think we ought to have a localized Biro Tata Negera (BTN) in Sabah or Sarawak under the guideline of the 20-points, the basis of Sabah joining Singapore, Sarawak, and Federation of Malaya, to form the 47-years of Malaysia.

The reason for a different BTN is because West Malaysia has different history and social backgrounds than us here. The culture, including mentality and attitude, of government officers there is simply not compliance with our aspirations based on the 20-points spirit.

Our state government must speak up on this matter with the federal to rectify the wrongs for the sake of national unity and progress.

Furthermore, the latest self-exposure of the high officers and respective civil servants in semenanjung had completely going against the 1Malaysia championed by our PM Najib.

BTN is under the Ministry of the Prime Minister.

What should PM Najib do next ????

沙巴马华州联委会理应特别成立专门小组特司处理沙巴州内的医疗保健事物

当初政府决定买下沙巴医药中心(SMC)的整个医院就认为可以解决主要的问题，没想到接踵而来的问题不断的涌现，交通问题相信是始料不及的。

宜今之计，就是期望各方（州与联邦）都能一起投入策划工作，共同拟定一个方案，快速解决问题以消除人民的痛苦。

州政府必须投入参与协助解决这项问题，虽然医院事属联邦卫生部但是现在吃亏的还是人民 -沙巴州的子民。沙巴州政府是不应该袖手旁观的，所谓城门失火殃及池鱼也。

卫生部长一直以来分属马华（马华署理廖中来）掌管，沙巴马华蚩有袖手旁观，坐视不理之理？

除了各院的巡察局外，沙巴马华州联委会理应特别成立专门小组特司处理沙巴州内的医疗保健事物协助廖中来部长监视有关事物的各项问题。在事情未恶化前就抢先解决之。

Is this the begining of the end of MCA? Will the new in-fighting trigger another round of civil war again?

"MCA" car plates: Tee Keat shows proof
by Husna Yusop
newsdesk@thesundaily.com
for details , refer http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=52179 

What are the main agenda in MCA today?

Whta's going on in MCA?

Why is this happening?

It looks like the forthcoming party election has something to do with this incident.

Now, whoever is right is not the centre of the interest, the main issue that is concerned most is that Kong should in a 'selfish' way protecting the name of Ong if there were wrong doings. Ong,  who was after all, a former or immediate-past President of MCA and his immediate-past Minister of Transport or his predecessor; what are the motives behind Kong's somewhat brave integrity and courageous disclosure of this matter which is definitely going to be bad publicity for both Ong as well as MCA as a whole.

The BN, or MCA, badly need to recover from the 308 Tsunami, and also the terrible party crisis and EGM after EGM in the last 2 years, and people especially the Chinese Community has become really fed up with the disunity and dirts exposed during the 'civil war' within MCA.

Now, after the 328 party EGM to re-election, the new team now led by Chua should be going full steam ahead catching the lost time in order to face the challenge - the next General Election which should fall in not later than March, 2013. But, instead, a new smoke now comes up months ahead of the forthcoming party election which should start in March, 2011.

Kong had lost his Deputy President battle against Liow TL in the last EGM, and was immediately appointed Secretary by Chua, and subsequently appointed as Transport Minister. In his immediate reporting for work in the ministry, he announced that the investigation for the PKFZ is not to be continued, and has caused some rows and disappointments in the country.

Now Ong said he had proof that he had rescinded the order or request for MCA number plates; and now it's the Kong's turn to reply. So, who's the liar? Has Kong blow the wrong whistle? What's next?

If I remember quite well, sometimes during October 2008 and March 2010; Chua and Tee were also alleged by fellow comrade in the party that they had committed wrong doing in a hospital land deal in Johor, and the case was quietly faded away without much impact after a while.

Any way, I hope MCA leaders know what they are doing as the party can not afford another mud-slinging, mutual-slandering any more, as the influence and strength in those PR states becoming ever stronger as the days gone by.

Already, the general public impression of MCA leaders has been negative, and a lot of the people has given up hope of relying on the party to champion their rights and benefits.

Are local BN parties at par with their Semenanjung counterparts, and, should Sabah BN has different set of protocol to follow?

I wonder if the position of a local BN party is truly at par with the national BN party. I refer to the Daily Express report today:- 

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=74657

If the statement of PM Najib has been taken heed, or respected, by the respective and relevant BN component party, then this statement of 'advice' or 'appeal' in the open should not have been raised in the newspaper; instead it should be appropriately presented in the follow-up BN internal discussions and meetings, maybe more appropriately at the BN national level now.

 

Why do you need a Youth Head of Sabah BN to do this if there's already sincerity within the Sabah BN or BN to resolve the crisis amicably and peacefully?

 

The action of the Sabah BN Youth is also seen as protocol-wise not appropriate since they could simply write in to the BN office seeking for the clarifications or conveying their views within the BN discussion of the subject, instead of telling the whole world.

 

It's also interesting to know if the view of this so-called Sabah BN Youth Chief included the view of the LDP Youth too? Had the Sabah BN Youth held any meeting in deriving this stand?

 

There shall be some basic respect with regard to this matter. Datuk VK Liew, the Party Chief of LDP,  by right should be talking to PM Najib who is the National BN Chief on any BN matters, and the Youth Head seems to have ignorant on this basic manner. Even if he has to raise the matter, it can only be done internally within the BN channel, and no others.

 

It's high time that Sabah BN observes the basic protocol as the Sabah BN has many of its components who are locally based, and the membership of these respective leaders are of the national status level. So they are both respectable locally, and nationally, and should be respected accordingly within the BN hierarchy.

 

Nevertheless, 'ketuanan' attitude must not be prevail in Sabah soil; and Sabah BN must unite at all levels regardless of rank and file if they want to ward off the oncoming Tsunami of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in Sabah soon.

为什么会有‘本土领袖任副首长’的言论？

国阵精神本来就是应该公平的，但因为有太多的不良竞争和欠缺健全良好的机制，加上人为的疏于管理而演变成今天迎来种种的惊心挑战。

除了各为私利外，主要还是私利。

沙巴人有如此‘小气’的政治心态吗？难道他们有如此这般的看法是错吗？他们的这般心态是如何造成的？

沙巴人就是太相信西马同胞，以为沙巴人的心声及权益会在‘大哥’们的照顾下完全受到处理和贯彻，而维护州利益的20条款亦应该是 稳凤不动的。殊不知，有人失职。沙巴人不断地在问：这些西马来的政党是否真正的会为我们忠诚的服务呢？

冰冻三尺非一日之寒，要使新一代的沙巴政治团体等对马华，民政，国大党等完全信服还得等上好多年的真诚服务.就以中央医院今天的‘处境’来看就能知道为什么本地人不相信西马来西亚的政党了。其他令人不满或疏忽的类似例子的，比比皆是， 如交通部之多样措施活政策之对沙巴所造成的不公不利都未曾给与纠正，而和基建工程的缓慢完成更是有目共睹的事实。总之，馨竹难书矣。

当然 ，与加之罪，何患无证呢？

有一天当东马人发现到东西马的各方面偏差都已经不是课题时，什么人去担任那些官职还会是问题吗？

要挽回沙巴子民对联邦的忠诚，解铃人还须需系令人，今天就拿出诚意做好来届大选的准备功夫吧。

明明是1963，却总是说成是1957；为什么还是那么冥顽不灵呢？

【53国庆献词】蔡细历：重新点燃1957年精神，携手迈向一个大马 

http://www.mca.org.my/Chinese/MCANotices/Pages/300810musa02.aspx

说实在的，为什么你们（我们马华）总把马来西亚的成立说成是1957年呢？

这样写就已经告诉我你们不了解马来西亚，你们又怎能代表东马的人民说话呢?

我们没有西马的历史包袱，也因此没有西马的政治问题，硬要我们和西马的同胞去斗争我们都不认为和我们有切身关系的种族问题是对我们东马人来说是不公平的.


反过来说，你们会对我们的政治问题和需求产生兴趣吗？

From overhead bridges to quality medical service in Kota Kinabalu, or Sabah

I'm amazed by a statement from MIC Sabah that the state currently has RM3 Billion reserve; but why is it that we don't have money to build the long-awaited overhead bridges all overKK. 

For example, 4 overhead bridges must be built from Centre Point to Asia City, Sinsuran, Api-Api, and WaterFront.

Overhead bridges should also be built at the Queen Elizabeth hospital junction at Jalan Penampang, between the Inland revenue building and the EPF, Alam Mesra shophouse to 1Borneo complex, Kompleks Karamunsing to Polis Karamunsing Station, Bangunan Tun Fuad etc.............

People safety must be placed at the highest priority especially against the existing poorer medical services in Kota Kinabalu due to the sudden incident of present tower block be declared unsafe to use. If someone admitted to hospital, how well can we cope? how good are we in providing a resonable level of services? 

My personal experience is that we are far from the expected low quality bracket of the awards, and services.

Question now is how to regain the reputation of Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH)? 

If we were able to make QEH the hospital of choice, Sabah is not far from the medi-tourism, and shall attract more visitors, and second home owners, and various other resources including successful businessmen, talents and genius.

It all boils down to good governance, and our politicians have a lot to catch up.

An Open Letter To Prime Minister - from Green Surf

Your words in public are about listening to the rakyat (people) and hearing their views. A sizeable portion of the rakyat of Sabah has been doing everything within their power to be heard by you. To no avail.
by Cynthia Ong Gaik Suan

Dear Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak,

I write to you as a deeply concerned and saddened citizen of Malaysia.
 
For most of the 45 years of my life, I have been proud to be Malaysian. Recently, I have become heartbroken to be Malaysian.

I am profoundly grateful to write this with the support of both my local communities in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo and California, USA, and a larger world community. 

That said, I take full ownership of and sole responsibility for the views articulated in this letter; I express them from my stand as a mother, an earth citizen and a leader.

I founded and led a public charity and non profit organisation both in Malaysia and in the US, to bridge between worlds and build partnerships for ecological conservation. 

I have been at the front lines of the founding and mobilisation of Green SURF (Sabah Unite to RePower the Future), the civil society movement opposing the construction of the 300 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Lahad Datu, Sabah, on the edge of the Coral Triangle, one of three of the world’s most bio-diverse ecosystems.

You know. You signed the 6-nation declaration between Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Solomon Islands to collectively protect this 1.6 billion acres of ocean. You also know of course of your pledge at Copenhagen to reduce carbon emission intensity by up to 40 per cent by 2020.

You likely also know that the plant will displace fishing communities who have been there for a long time — irreparably contaminating their livelihoods forever. And if you listened, you would also know that they do not want the “development” that your government is imposing on them.

One of the priorities of Green SURF was to study clean energy alternatives to the coal-plant, and propose them to the government.
We collectively invested tremendous time and resources to identify and commission the expertise of Professor Daniel Kammen at Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory of University of California, Berkeley to conduct the Clean Energy Options for Sabah report. We had no notion of the outcome of the study, and results showed that Sabah is in an exceptional position to shift towards clean energy due to the availability of natural resources.

We are in fact in an opportune position to lead the nation and the region in clean energy — the kind of leadership the world so urgently needs now.

I wonder if you know that Sabah is the last coal power-free frontier of Borneo. FYI, the 5 core NGOs in Green SURF are amongst the largest, oldest and most recognized conservation groups in Sabah and Malaysia — collectively responsible for most of the conservation work in the nation, with partnerships that span the world.

We have tried every avenue available to communicate to you the results of our findings and to engage in discussion about the future of energy for Sabah.  After months of unsuccessful attempts to meet with you, I can only conclude that you do not want to meet with us.
This confuses and disturbs me. Your words in public are about listening to the rakyat (people) and hearing their views. A sizeable portion of the rakyat of Sabah has been doing everything within their power to be heard by you. To no avail.

We have given you the benefit of the doubt that word is not getting to you, and yet we have met with those around you who promised they would convey our message to you. Many months, memos, reports, letters, faxes, emails and phone calls later, and we have not received a single response from you or any member of your administration.

We also did our best at state level government, and have huge support from within the government but ultimately the message is that this is untouchable because “ini Najib mau” (Najib wants this).

Sir, my most consistent experience of your administration is stone walls, arrogance and insincerity. I am shocked by the behavior of the leadership of my nation.  I find it patronising, archaic, oppressive, blatantly and self-righteously elitist and top-down. 
I do not experience your administration as democratic, transparent, open, accountable or responsible. There is a deep incongruence between what you are projecting externally and what we have experienced internally.

I can only surmise that you intentionally run your administration in this manner. Otherwise, it would mean that your leadership is incompetent and ineffective.

I am angry, and I am not willing to accept systemic disempowerment of our people. I am writing this open letter as a last resort. Sabahans are speaking up because we are deeply troubled and scared about the fate of our ecological and cultural legacy, and what we will be able to hand down to our future generations.

Please show true leadership and listen. You and your administration have much to do to regain a modicum of respect amongst many Sabahans.

If 1 Malaysia is more than a PR campaign and is truly intended “to provide a free and open forum to discuss the things that matter deeply to us as a Nation”, please walk your talk.

Yours sincerely, for the children,

Cynthia Clare Ong Gaik Suan.

Whose words should be trusted?

Now that Penampang District Office (DO) disclosed that they were hand-tied, and without proper and appropriate resources, in this case, the needed trucks and other related items then how can we expect him or the council to perform? But, has he, or didn't he, report the problems they are, or were, facing all these days or years to the respective higher authority? 

The higher authority should be the Ministry of Local Government which is headed by Datuk Hajiji who is a strong member of UMNO. 

The council was reported to have a strong reserve of RM28 Million in the form of fixed Deposit way back in 2008; they shouldn't have the financial problem to start with, then what's their problem? It can only be incompetency if the finance is strong in the first place. What else?

Another interesting topic arisen from the news is that whose words the public should trust, the honourable YB or the Chief Mechanic?

Two versions of saying, and they have successfully confused the public. I'm referring to the council response today of refuting what had said publicly by YB Edward Khoo yesterday that the council had misled the rate-payers.

累

http://yutingyuan.blogspot.com/

真得是越来越不像样了。

国家应该是只有进步而没有退步的；看到如似，我也累了。

爱国的人应该是先爱民的。爱民的领袖应该是不分种族，不分宗教，不分地区的。

这样的‘爱国’政策真的比‘蓝海’更蓝海；我没话好说。就由它去吧！

为什么马华不能質疑土權的合法性？

http://www2.orientaldaily.com.my/read/GEN/2Icw08x011FL0cxW0r698wRw14398YRU

捍衛人民的权益，是马来西亚人民应该一起来做及一起来承担的；今时今日不再是华人的问题了，他已经转变为整个国家的大问题了。

它不是马来人，印度人，华人，或其他的少数民族的个别责任，而是大伙儿的共同责任。馬華沒質疑土權，却关注质疑土權的正确执行与效果。

 如果华人和马来人是兄弟关系的话，为什么还分土著与非土著呢？

如果华人和马来人是马来西亚公民的话，为什么还分土著与非土著呢？

 

为什么同是人类还会分土著与非土著呢？

把人民如此区分和过去的西方殖民 主义又有何分别呢？不是大开时代的倒车吗？

一个向前迈进的国家是不能由此‘种族政策’来左右的。

取代土权的就是‘一个马来西亚’，它才是适时的国家长远策略矣。

53年前应种族经济贫富差距太大，直故而需要用‘土著与非土著’来在行政上特意协助土著，以拉近差距，用心无可厚非，但可也不是世世代代不能提也不能改的呀。 

有了’一个马来西亚‘，副葵穆希丁，可以说既过时也无什么看头咯。

对马华总会长‘ 华人经济大会诉求'读后感

http://drchua9.blogspot.com/2010/08/30.html

感觉是'有此大会好过没'；如能有些少成绩也算是有成就吧。

‘一厢情愿’的诉求不会有好结果，更谈不上能有突破了。最后，也不会有乐观的成绩向人民，尤其是华人社会，交差。

由’一个马来西亚‘的概念 的引荐至今，似乎是’土著主权运动‘的声音还比首相的影响还大。’土著主权运动‘的所以‘声赫远播’，曾经被我国誉为’发展之父‘的敦马’居功‘不小矣。

我们实在是不知道巫统内部怎么想？即首相纳吉有无十足的把握说服党内的’马来至上‘派系对‘一个大马‘的持续干忧。

因为对华人的长期不信赖，我们华人当然是毫无能力，毫无可能，也自然的好无条件，去说服他们。

解铃人还须系铃人，相信纳吉非找敦马帮忙不可了。

华人真的能如他们所言的能把他们给’吃‘掉吗？这是不对，牵强，不合理，及一厢情愿的缪论。

他们应该老老实实的再讲一遍和在讲得更坦白清楚告诉我们，他们的计划是什么？

700，000 （七十万）已经移民国外的华人不会是今天才有及产生，搞不好，可能在不久的将来会引发更大的移民潮。

马来西亚持续的种族政策就是问题，无它。

如果整个国家还是兜 在这个死泥潭（种族零和）挣扎的话，我看不出这个大会能起什么样的作用。

无数的相关大会到头来还是没有实质上或本质上的改变，那我们华裔在这个土生土长的土地上又能够做什么呢？

马华也只能把这个大会当成另一个列常应该做的政治活动吧。

My view on 'more seats for Sabah MCA'

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=519776
Bernama / 8-August-2010


The request for more seats is reasonable, and fair.

It has been long overdue as what Chua had said that MCA is already 20 years old in Sabah, and it was then one of the loyal BN components in Sabah, before and after, the toppling of the then PBS government. Its contribution for the BN regaining the power in Sabah can not be denied and taken for granted.

However, MCA must first resolve all the many, long accumulated, and overdue issues in Sabah in order to be convincing that it deserves the seat.

The woes or problems are, most notably and namely - the medical services and the transportation services. These woes are required to be handled in greatest urgency politically before the next general election, if I may say so.

Both portfolios are under its cares - Datuk Liow Tiong Lai and Kong Cho Ha for health and transport respectively.

Apart from these two important posts in the federal government, MCA also has other important cabinet posts that have been affecting the livelihood of Sabahan to some extent, that is, the Ministry of Tourism headed by Datuk Dr. Ng Yen Yen, and she should be able to help tremendously for Sabah's long term economy.

There are other portfolios which MCA have been assigned in the federal government are Minister of Local Government and Housing, Deputy Education Minister, Deputy Finance Minister, Deputy Youth & Sports Minister, Deputy Women & Social Welfare Minister, and Deputy Home Minister respectively.

If MCA is really serious in helping the Sabah people, or vice versa, the various mentioned MCA men in the government can undoubtedly be very helpful.

But, its significance role in the government at the federal level has not been felt much here, and MCA should find out the reasons for its 'dismal' performance, and also of the negative public perception of its role in Sabah.

Is it the leadership problems, or lack of working funds?

The answer is likely to be the MCA leadership problem - from the central all the way down to the state, and the divisional levels.

Perhaps the new style of high-profile (politic) publicity emphasized by the leadership can help in elevating the image of the party somewhat among the people at large. Nevertheless, the MCA candidates are still subjected to the people scrutiny considering that most urbanites are mostly very educated and well informed on various issues and topics.

MCA must earn its respect in Sabah by truly contributing, and people will appreciate it if it's done. The MCA leadership in Sabah needs a lot of fundamental change, or transformation, in meeting the new challenges ahead in Sabah; especially with the new emphasis of high-profile politic as championed by Datuk Dr. Chua Soi Lek, the President of MCA.

By the way, the attitude at the central must also change too. The circumstances in Sabah is different from the Semenanjung. The leaders of MCA at the central must read well the 20-point, the historical document which is one of the key basis of the formation of Malaysia, before they understand the real political implications they have to face in Sabah.

Sabah MCA has been practicing the low-profile, quiet politic in the last 20 years. It's high time to change but not without the needed changes in its leadership's quality and performance. New technology and methodology, and young professionals, must be brought in to support the high-profile politic, without which, it would be disastrous for Sabah MCA.

It should also show the people of Sabah of its long-term commitment in Sabah by having its own MCA building in Sabah, just like what UMNO and Gerakan did.

MCA thus have a lot to do to catch up in Sabah now that if MCA is serious about the seat allocation request.

The likely seat that the BN in Sabah has to allocate is likely to be from the quota of one of the existing UMNO seats, or those currently held by SAPP.

Finally, Sincerity is the key to success for the future of MCA in Sabah.

The ball is now with MCA itself, and not MUSA or Sabah BN.

4t round for Chua Soi Lek in 2011?

New published in OCDN / 8-8-2010 referred.

The news clip carry this message, in a gist as follows:-
President Chua reminds MCA members to refrain from the continuous infighting which now causes negative public confidence in the party that MCA will eventually have to face the consequence of closing its shop.

Good in infighting but poor in fighting against outside opponents will destroy the party. Don't let 1 or 2 persons or a small group to cause splits within the party, and it's not right for a member to do so, and that MCA can not afford to have this problem/burden any more.

Having factions in the party will not be positive in gaining confidence from the public, nor would the party gain supports from others within the BN.

He singled out the Ulu Selangor by-election as a good example where Chinese votes obtained by BN was much less than the total MCA's members in the area that indicates MCA members were even voted against the BN.

He praised the little Perlis State MCA for its commendable unity despite little conflicts among its local members there. He said that the local leadership can adopt, and following, closely the party agenda to defuse the sabotage attempts by the various small infighting group.

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My view is:-
MCA has been plaguing by infighting. Unity is now the highest priority in MCA's agenda. President Chua, during a speech addressing to the members in Perlis MCA, reminds members to refrain from the continuous infighting, and that the same advice too for other states; has indicated the seriousness of him in the attempt to resolve conflicts within the party, and of the reformation of MCA before the next party election, which is scheduled in early 2011.

The invisible and 'cold infighting' among the three main factions in MCA, namely the Ong Ka Ting's, Ong Tee Keat's, and the Chua Soil Lek's, has been ongoing but mainly under surface.

Who are actually the one to cause the damages, or sabotage the party reformation, and making instability in the party?

It remains to be seen, as each side is seen pointing fingers at each others internally.

Perhaps, MCA needs another round of election to really settle the prevalent issue of who the main ruler of MCA is.

Sabahan gave up their rights voluntarily over the years

The gist of the news:-
The lost of some of the 20-points rights such as religion and language, was largely due to our own doing in previous years through our voluntarily given up the rights, and he said that we deserve it because we gave them up ourselves.

He said Sarawak used to follow us politically but now any more now as they are more developed and better off than Sabah. On who agreed first on 5% oil royalty, he said that he's not sure but he disclosed that he knew Tun Maustapha asked for 30%, then after Berjaya came to power Tun Fuad asked for 20%, and after the 66 air crash disaster, it was then said to have been agreed to 5%. Who was the witness of the signing of agreement for 5% oil royalty needless for him to disclose he said.

He said the agreement was inked, and nothing much Sabahan can do now even if they could overthrown the BN government; he said, unless we could get two third majority in parliament, and he thinks, people know what to do comes next general election.

Federal kept saying to Tun Mustapha in those day that they (federal) had no money to build the new airport in KK and new RTM building for Sabah; so Sabahan had to come up with own money which at the time was largely derived from timber export.

In those days, Sabahan was recognized as 'timber King' when in KL, but now viewed as coming to 'beg' for projects without giving respect to the dignity of Sabahan, whenever West Malaysian heard of Sabahan coming to semenanjung.

He said it's very unfair that Sabah has no shares in Petronas and Sabah stands to lose forever once oil runs out in Sabah.

He advised some of the local politicians not to criticizing the presence of 'illegals' too much now if they want their votes in coming election since they are now already citizens and have become voters.

He also advised local politicians to be a Sabahan politician and not gaining their votes racially, citing his attitude as 'he loves Malaysia, but he loves Sabah more'.

He blamed the inroad of UMNO to Sabah in the 90s was largely due to PBS failed to honour an agreement with the then USNO; it was meant to teach PBS a lesson.

Speedy approval from federal government will help the Sabah people most

The Tamparuli-Ranau road is an important road stretch linking Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan & Tawau in the east coast of Sabah.

Its economical value to the people of Sabah is simply difficult to quantify but based on layman observation, it's simply a critical part of the road link between the west and the east coast of Sabah.

The invisible loss due to the cave-in can not be assessed but believed to be fairly substantial; however, the by-pass road is no match to the main road quality which has been causing some delays and discomforts to the road users.

Sabah has the highest poverty rate, a good road will reduce their costs of doing business and daily life; the prompt action of the authority, in this case, the federal government, will have significant effect on the people of Sabah.

RM600,000 was reported to be needed for the repairing, and I hope that the PM Najib, who is also the Finance Minister, will without hesitation, sign the approval for its immediate repair.

People of Sabah will no doubt appreciate the efficiency and good attitude from the good administration of the country in return.

YB Edward Khoo has finally done the right thing but must continue consistently without fears or favours

This is the YB that we wanted for a long time, a people representative to deal with the poor administration of the district council through which people's lives are affected directly.

One question arises as to what has been happening with the performance of those District Councilors appointed, in which MCA has three (3) representatives.

It's common knowledge that some District Councilors were very questionable in their integrity that government enforcement units should keep an eye on them.

I hope that YB Edward Khoo will continue with the search for the truth with more follow-ups, and set the matter straight transparently without any compromise, as this type of cases are reported to be rampant, and out of control.

Some district councilors who are vocals, and insisting on strict penalty on faulters, were reported to have been threatened with harm by some public whose interests were at stake due to the enforcement attempts by the council.

YB Edward, you've done the right thing but making sure that you continue with more follow-ups, without fears or favours, in discharging your duty and responsibility. Keep it up, YB!

The implications of the Kudat Mazu statue case

"Offer For Relocation Of Mazu Statue Still Stands: Musa Aman"
Bernama / July 27, 2010 17:24 PM
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=516736

The statue project was approved by the authority in the first place, then a reverse decision was issued on the ground of protest on religious reason that it's too near the mosque which is a few kilometers away when the statue project was already halfway done.

This shows that the authority led by the present leadership of the government was incompetent that it should have had gone through all the necessary standard procedures before a project permit was granted to the Mazu project committee.

The good gesture to offer an alternative site with costs to construct the mazu statue should be viewed as a 'waste', if not abusive, of public fund and power (or authority), technically speaking. BN's image had been gravely tarnished and the damages to the alliance simply could not be assessed, and known.

The effect of the episode will only be fully known perhaps until the results of the coming general election.

The 'abandoned' Mazu status project and its progress is not only known locally but also had widely been informing to the millions of mazu followers nationally and internationally. Would the Mazu case causes any implications on local or foreign trade investments, and international good will, remains to be seen.

One thing very important coming out of this incident was that it had exposed the true colour of some of the Chinese-based BN political parties, locally or west Malaysia-based, all of which were having their own 'surprise if not selfish' agenda and couldn't really work for the benefits of the Chinese community that they have been claiming to safeguarding of the community's rights, especially the constitutional rights.

YBs should not incur unnecessary cost to their own people unfairly

Our elected representative (YB) in Sabah Should help the people in reducing the cost of doing business by finding ways to reduce all unnecessary costings. Sabah people have already been suffering from higher cost of living due to many unfair factors, and our elected YBs should have mercy to help fighting for more subsidy rather than involving themselves in making a quick cut in the businesses of their people.

They should not be involving in some 'businesses' using their position that will incur extra cost to people.

It's a criminal offense if they are caught. Besides, it's immoral and lack of integrity if they do.

The old days of involving themselves as middleman making a fast buck is over if they are considering themselves progressive. They should live humbly nowadays.

For example, some industries, especially the fishing industries, in the east coast of Sabah relying on subsidized diesel for industrial use will be mostly affected with additional burden to the consumers if some kind of monopoly, or conspiracy, is introduced to the industry concerned.

This is against the government's initiative in transforming the government within the 1Malaysia campaign.

People will revenge if they (YBs) compete with their own people with unfair means. This is bad public relation if they do.

What's the link between DAP power struggle, Pakatan dinner, and the presence of a prominent MCA member?

News published in Daily Express / 27-July-2010

Power struggle in a political organization is considered normal but what's really amazing is the story 'linked' to the presence of MCA prominent member, Datuk John Khoo (J. P.), an elder brother of Datuk Edward Khoo Keok Hai, Assistant Minister of the Chief Minister of Sabah, in a Pakatan dinner organized by DAP where big shots like Lim Kit Siong was also present to grace the function.

But, what's the above news got to do with the presence of Datuk John Khoo (J.P.) who is a member of MCA and an elder brother of Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister, Datuk Edward Khoo Keok Hai, in a DAP organized 'Pakatan' dinner?

Does it mean that Datuk John Khoo is interested in DAP, and was there to know more of DAP, or what?

Datuk John Khoo must have got the consent from the family (or the party he belongs now) before he attended the function, maybe for a reason only known to himself, the family, and the organization he is associated with.

If he were there to 'spy', then he must be the most blatant one sent by BN. Will he eventually join DAP? Will he be a champion for the opposition or as an 'under-cover' for BN, only in the last minute of the general election will we know the truth.

Meanwhile, perhaps, a clarification from both Datuk Edward Khoo and Datuk John Khoo will be more appropriate to clear the speculation.