Saturday, June 24, 2006
I had an interesting conversation with an American lady on the plane to Seoul, and one of the things we discussed was the below list (thanks to Lilian for sending it to me). There is little or no focus in the West on Malaysia's apartheid system directed against its Chinese minority population. When you think about it, the fact that an ethnic majority feels that it needs to discriminate against a minority group is rather odd. Malaysia is of course not unique with regard to discrimination against Chinese people. The cause seems to be that Chinese immigrants tend to dominate the commerce and business sectors of some Southeast Asian countries. Rather than trying to learn from the Chinese, the approach in Malaysia seems to be to discriminate against them. However, that a majority will discriminate against a successful minority has been common throughout history, just look at how the Jews and French Hugenots (both successful minorities) were treated in Europe.
I love Malaysia, and have visited the country on several occasions. However, the country's anti-semite foreign policy (Israeli citizens are not allowed to enter Malaysia) and internal apartheid policies leave a bad taste in my mouth. Anyway, the chain email on Malaysian discrimination reads as follows:
This list of racial discriminations is practiced both by the government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret, best verified by the government itself because it has the statistics. (that will probably never be fully disclosed)
This list is not in the order of importance, that
means the first one on the list is not the most
important and the last one on the list does not mean
the least important.
This list is a common knowledge to a lot of
Malaysians, especially the non-malays (Chinese, Ibans,
Kadazans, Orang Asli, Indians, etc) who are being
racially discriminated.
Figures in this list are estimates only and please
take it as a guide only. The Government of Malaysia
has the most correct figures. Is government of
Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by
publishing racial statistics?
This list covers a period of about 48 years since
Malaysia's independence (1957).
List of racial discriminations
(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is
multi-racial, the rest are controlled by Malays
(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays (Petronas is
Malaysia's own oil & gas company)
(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese
(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned
by malays
(5) 100% of all contractors working under Petronas
projects must be bumi status
(6) 0% of non-malays staff is legally required in
malay companies. But there must be 30% malays staffs
in Chinese companies.
(7) 5% of all new intake for government police,
nurses, army, are non-malays.
(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian
Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960
(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government
servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%
(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government
servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from
30% in 1960
(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays
(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by
malay government e.g. taxi permits, Approved permits,
etc
(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to
be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s.
Otherwise, life is made difficult for Chinese rice
millers
(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed
by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government,
and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. UTC,
UMBC, MISC, etc
(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies
(throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be
sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to
rejection by malay authority to Chinese application
for bus routes and rejection for their application for
new buses
(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving
in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi
drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling
taxi club properties was the reason given
(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the
new Muar bus station (November 2004)
(18) 8000 billions ringgit is the total amount the
government channeled to malays pockets through ASB,
ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies,
Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period
(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968
- 2000
(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968
- 2000
(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 -
2000
(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary
schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got
96.5%
(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary
(monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay
parent with RM2000 salary is eligible
(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are
malays
(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of
non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in
1965 to only 5% in 2004
(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government
scholarships over 40 years
(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea
under "Look East Policy" Scholarships
(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into
the course that they aspired i.e. Medicine (in 2004)
(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science
schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are
filled. Before that it was 100% malays
(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians,
are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003
(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop
from 45% in 1957
(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population
(2004), a drop from 12% in 1957
(33) 2 millions Chinese Malaysians had emigrated
to overseas since 40 years ago
(34) 0.5 million Indians Malaysians had emigrated to
overseas
(35) 3 millions Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia
and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status.
(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indians Malaysians
with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when
applying for citizenship for 40 years. (red ICs =
Permanent Residency but not yet a citizen) Perhaps 60%
of them had already passed away due to old
age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got
their citizenships compare with the Chinese and
Indians
(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house,
regardless whether the malay is rich or poor
(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with
98% of what malays villages got for rural development
budget
(39) 50 road names (at least) had been change from
Chinese names to other names
(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered
to other name (e.g.Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it
was being officially used for a few days. The
Government tries to shun Chinese names. This racism
happened in around year 2000
(41) 0 temples/churches were built for each housing
estate (government assisted or funded). But every
housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built
(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing
estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No temples, no
churches are required to be built in housing estates
(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to
apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority
that it must look like a factory and not look like a
church. Still not yet approved in 2004
(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in
2002)
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3)
are directors of non-malays origin
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and film always
showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the
good guys had malay face. You can check it out since
1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less
(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had
threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using
May 13 since 1969
(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds
from the government to develop. Or these Chinese
majority constituencies would be the last to be
developed
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had
been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were
diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP
candidates lost in election since 1970s
(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified
by Malaysia government since 1960
(51) 0 elimination of, all forms of racial
discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by
Malaysia government since 1960s
(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance
attendance treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and
malay government hospital staffs purposely delay
attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported
cases may be 200
(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially
Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in
public places. We may check at police reports
provided the police took the report, otherwise there
will be no record
(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who
accidentally knocked down malays were seriously
assaulted or killed by malays
(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks
fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum
(ASB/ASN is only for bumis)
I love Malaysia, and have visited the country on several occasions. However, the country's anti-semite foreign policy (Israeli citizens are not allowed to enter Malaysia) and internal apartheid policies leave a bad taste in my mouth. Anyway, the chain email on Malaysian discrimination reads as follows:
This list of racial discriminations is practiced both by the government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret, best verified by the government itself because it has the statistics. (that will probably never be fully disclosed)
This list is not in the order of importance, that
means the first one on the list is not the most
important and the last one on the list does not mean
the least important.
This list is a common knowledge to a lot of
Malaysians, especially the non-malays (Chinese, Ibans,
Kadazans, Orang Asli, Indians, etc) who are being
racially discriminated.
Figures in this list are estimates only and please
take it as a guide only. The Government of Malaysia
has the most correct figures. Is government of
Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by
publishing racial statistics?
This list covers a period of about 48 years since
Malaysia's independence (1957).
List of racial discriminations
(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is
multi-racial, the rest are controlled by Malays
(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays (Petronas is
Malaysia's own oil & gas company)
(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese
(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned
by malays
(5) 100% of all contractors working under Petronas
projects must be bumi status
(6) 0% of non-malays staff is legally required in
malay companies. But there must be 30% malays staffs
in Chinese companies.
(7) 5% of all new intake for government police,
nurses, army, are non-malays.
(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian
Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960
(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government
servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%
(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government
servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from
30% in 1960
(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays
(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by
malay government e.g. taxi permits, Approved permits,
etc
(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to
be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s.
Otherwise, life is made difficult for Chinese rice
millers
(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed
by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government,
and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. UTC,
UMBC, MISC, etc
(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies
(throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be
sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to
rejection by malay authority to Chinese application
for bus routes and rejection for their application for
new buses
(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving
in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi
drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling
taxi club properties was the reason given
(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the
new Muar bus station (November 2004)
(18) 8000 billions ringgit is the total amount the
government channeled to malays pockets through ASB,
ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies,
Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period
(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968
- 2000
(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968
- 2000
(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 -
2000
(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary
schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got
96.5%
(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary
(monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay
parent with RM2000 salary is eligible
(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are
malays
(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of
non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in
1965 to only 5% in 2004
(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government
scholarships over 40 years
(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea
under "Look East Policy" Scholarships
(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into
the course that they aspired i.e. Medicine (in 2004)
(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science
schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are
filled. Before that it was 100% malays
(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians,
are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003
(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop
from 45% in 1957
(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population
(2004), a drop from 12% in 1957
(33) 2 millions Chinese Malaysians had emigrated
to overseas since 40 years ago
(34) 0.5 million Indians Malaysians had emigrated to
overseas
(35) 3 millions Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia
and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status.
(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indians Malaysians
with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when
applying for citizenship for 40 years. (red ICs =
Permanent Residency but not yet a citizen) Perhaps 60%
of them had already passed away due to old
age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got
their citizenships compare with the Chinese and
Indians
(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house,
regardless whether the malay is rich or poor
(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with
98% of what malays villages got for rural development
budget
(39) 50 road names (at least) had been change from
Chinese names to other names
(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered
to other name (e.g.Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it
was being officially used for a few days. The
Government tries to shun Chinese names. This racism
happened in around year 2000
(41) 0 temples/churches were built for each housing
estate (government assisted or funded). But every
housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built
(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing
estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No temples, no
churches are required to be built in housing estates
(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to
apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority
that it must look like a factory and not look like a
church. Still not yet approved in 2004
(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in
2002)
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3)
are directors of non-malays origin
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and film always
showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the
good guys had malay face. You can check it out since
1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less
(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had
threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using
May 13 since 1969
(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds
from the government to develop. Or these Chinese
majority constituencies would be the last to be
developed
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had
been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were
diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP
candidates lost in election since 1970s
(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified
by Malaysia government since 1960
(51) 0 elimination of, all forms of racial
discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by
Malaysia government since 1960s
(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance
attendance treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and
malay government hospital staffs purposely delay
attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported
cases may be 200
(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially
Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in
public places. We may check at police reports
provided the police took the report, otherwise there
will be no record
(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who
accidentally knocked down malays were seriously
assaulted or killed by malays
(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks
fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum
(ASB/ASN is only for bumis)
Sunday, June 11, 2006
CNN.com - England hang on after superb start - Jun 10, 2006
I watched the England-Paraguay game at a bar in Roppongi. Before going, I did not really care who would win, but the English fans in the pub quickly convinced me to cheer for the Paraguay underdogs. Three English friends were already drunk before the game started. Sharing one brain, which they apparently had left at home, they were more concerned about screaming and shouting during the game than actually watching it.
A newspaper article the other day noted that men who are not good at sports often compensate for this deficiency by drinking lots of alcohol. Some of the English idiots in the bar today proved whatever the study was trying to say.
Otherwise, I am having trouble convincing friends and colleagues that Norway could not join the World Cup this year due to vacation and various timing issues. Being a small nation, we can not simply take time off for any random sports event, and this year we decided to focus on the Olympics. Therefore, we simply could not afford to send a team to the World Cup. Thank you for your understanding.
I watched the England-Paraguay game at a bar in Roppongi. Before going, I did not really care who would win, but the English fans in the pub quickly convinced me to cheer for the Paraguay underdogs. Three English friends were already drunk before the game started. Sharing one brain, which they apparently had left at home, they were more concerned about screaming and shouting during the game than actually watching it.
A newspaper article the other day noted that men who are not good at sports often compensate for this deficiency by drinking lots of alcohol. Some of the English idiots in the bar today proved whatever the study was trying to say.
Otherwise, I am having trouble convincing friends and colleagues that Norway could not join the World Cup this year due to vacation and various timing issues. Being a small nation, we can not simply take time off for any random sports event, and this year we decided to focus on the Olympics. Therefore, we simply could not afford to send a team to the World Cup. Thank you for your understanding.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Visiting Amusement Parks & Other Attractions In Florida During The New Year
I can't believe it took me 6 months to get these Florida pictures online... Hey, what can I say, I am just a slow guy.
Hopefully my May trip to Cambodia will get published soon, though I have not even started working on that part.
I can't believe it took me 6 months to get these Florida pictures online... Hey, what can I say, I am just a slow guy.
Hopefully my May trip to Cambodia will get published soon, though I have not even started working on that part.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Webcam Girls Go Wild - Google Video
Great marketing by Lynx, a big fragrance company. While the above video initially looks like an amateur home video, it must be the work of Bluetooth (a huge marketing agency, check out the deal with Lynx covered here).
Anyway, the great "Webcam Girls Go Wild" video ends with an unsuspicious ad for clickmore.com, a great marketing site targeting guys to launch the new fragrance Click. Great design, beautiful girls, and a funny ad featuring Ben Affleck. It just makes you wonder how much the campaign costs, and did they pay Google for it? Anyway, this really shows the way forward for video marketing.
Great marketing by Lynx, a big fragrance company. While the above video initially looks like an amateur home video, it must be the work of Bluetooth (a huge marketing agency, check out the deal with Lynx covered here).
Anyway, the great "Webcam Girls Go Wild" video ends with an unsuspicious ad for clickmore.com, a great marketing site targeting guys to launch the new fragrance Click. Great design, beautiful girls, and a funny ad featuring Ben Affleck. It just makes you wonder how much the campaign costs, and did they pay Google for it? Anyway, this really shows the way forward for video marketing.
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