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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Not sure if the girl has been offered alternative courses or not. Anyway, PSD (JPA) had only given 12% – 25% of scholarships to normal Malaysians a.k.a second class citizens from 2004-2007. The rest went to the privileged Malaysians.
It is the time of the year where parents and students have to approach political parties in order to convince and get more places from PSD. » Read more: SPM 10A1 Kamine Devi rejected by PSD
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Wow…Ungku Aziz very brave ohh….Surely he have heard of Sedition Act before this? 😆
I believe the contract exists virtually, exchange of citizenship for preserving the special rights, and the details were made into articles in the constitution.
http://malaysiakini.com/news/82665
Royal professor Dr Ungku Abdul Aziz today made a startling claim today that there was no physical social contract between Malaysia’s diverse ethnic communities. “There is no such thing as social contract,” said Ungku Aziz, a panelist in the 25th Anniversary Look East Policy Forum in Shah Alam today.
Deviating from his original speech during the event, the celebrated academic said that the social contract was “a fantasy created by politicians of all sorts of colours depending on their interest”.
Ungku Aziz said the social contract should rightly be called an “economic contract” to justify affirmative action in areas of education and health for groups that needed it the most. However, he did not elaborate on the subject and said that he would save it for another forum.
Among the panelist today were former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Public Servide Department director-general Ismail Adam.
But Mahathir disagrees
Speaking at a press conference later, Mahathir however disagreed with Ungku Aziz and stressed that a social contract exists albeit not in written form. Instead, Mahathir explained that the social contract was an “understanding among founders of the alliance (government)” by Tunku Abdul Rahman.
“Tunku gave one million citizenship to the Chinese, in return, he expected the Chinese would give some support to the demand for independence and to the sharing concept. He didn’t spell it (the contract) out 100 per cent, but there was this understanding, not written,” he said. “But it is also reflected in the constitution, every time something is given to the Malays, something is also given to the Chinese and Indians,” he added.
Mahathir said the social contract was an understanding that includes sharing of political power and sharing the economic cake, which the bigger portion was given to the bumiputeras.”So eventually they can catch up with the non-bumiputeras,” he said.
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Its basic malay that opposite of tuan (master) is pekerja (worker) or hamba (servant/slave). If there’s Ketuanan Melayu, there is no reason why we should not have Ketuanan India or Cina, since PM’s interpretation was different with him relating it to economic success. However, for me, Ketuanan has an negative connotation, thus should not be used. It may serve to drum up support for political parties but if other races resort to their own Ketuanan cries, then political party involved should not complain or make threats of racial unrest.
Information Minister Ahmad Shabeery tries to related this ketuanan (supremacy) with the Sultan and Raja position as reflected in the Federal Constitution. I think that its misleading to relate supremacy with historics. Like it or not, monarchic systems is a dying breed. If not 50 years ago, it would have happened now or maybe in another 50 years. Less and less countries are still retaining their monarchy, demoting them to customary or symbolic roles. My guess is that the Arab states, Malaysia, and other Asian countries will be the last few countries with monarchs in the next 50 years. » Read more: Stop Using Ketuanan says MCA Ong Tee Keat
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email BETWEEN 2004 and 2007, a total of 6,084 Malaysian students were offered full scholarships by the Public Service Department to pursue their studies abroad, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He said 4,540 students were Bumiputeras and 1,544 students were non-Bumiputeras. Abdullah said 23,038 students were offered scholarships by the department to pursue their studies locally. Of this total, 20,096 were Bumiputeras and 2,942 students were non-Bumiputera.
Scholarship for Foreign studies:
Normal Malaysians (aka the rest of us) – 1544/6084 = 25.38%
Privileged Ones – 4540/6084 = 74.62%
Scholarship for Local studies:
Normal Malaysians (aka the rest of us) – 2942/23038 = 12.77%
Privileged Ones – 20096/23038 = 87.23%
» Read more: Normal malaysians only get 25 and 12 percent of scholarships
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Simple activity to help poor students also can be publicised and make headlines. For past few years the same activity was done without any concern for disruption of school activities. Suddenly, the activity is asked not proceed. Very fishy! » Read more: Spectacle Debacle
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