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Survey shows political blogs unpopular

November 14th, 2007
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Minister: Survey shows political blogs unpopular
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/74789
Yoges Palaniappan
Nov 14, 07 5:43pm

A survey conducted by Microsoft has shown that most bloggers in the country operate blogs for entertainment and to communicate with family members.

The survey, titled 'A Windows Live Report' in August last year, discovered that 63 percent of respondents blog for entertainment and 49 percent blog to communicate with family and friends.

Energy, Water and Communications Minister Lim Keng Yaik, in a parliamentary written reply, said the survey showed that only three percent of bloggers are into citizen journalism.

"The survey also concluded that political blogs are the least preferred, where only two percent of respondents visit these blogs. On the other hand, 81 percent said they prefer to frequent blogs operated by family and friends," he said.

Lim, referring to the statistics derived from a survey conducted by a website based in the US in April, said that out of the three billion websites in cyberspace, 70 million are blogs.

"The high number of blogs is the result of technological advancement, which enables anyone with an Internet access to form a blog through various blog hosts," said Lim.

He said it is difficult for the authorities to monitor all the blogs to identify those that spread lies.

Thus, the government relies on the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to conduct random supervision based on complaints received from the public.

Jail, fine or both

He was responding to a query from Salahuddin Ayub (PAS-Kubang Kerian) who asked the minister to state whether the government has identified Malaysian based blogs that spread lies.

On the actions that could be taken against bloggers, Lim said: "Section 211 and 233 of the MCMC Act allows actions to be taken against bloggers who misuse the Internet to spread lies and false information."

"If convicted, the person can be fined not more than RM50,000 and jailed for more than a year or both," he said, adding that bloggers can also be charged under the Sedition Act and Penal Code.

However, Lim said that the authorities have not identified any Malaysian-based websites that publish lies and false information.

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Statistics for 2007/2008 university intake

October 30th, 2007
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total accepted: 40,116
Bumi: 24940 (out of 47057 – 53%)
Chinese: 12746 (out of 16,299 – 78.2%)
Indian: 2448 (out of 4754 – 51.5%)

24940+12746+2448 = 40134 (not equalling 40116). Let's ignore the difference of 18 students.

Bumi: 24940/40134 = 62.14%
Chinese: 12746/40134 = 31.76%
Indian: 2448/40134 = 6.10%

Interestingly, 68,220 people applied and about 58.8% got a place. Wonder what is the breakdown of the 41.2% who did not get a place. We should go through it and see how we can improve the percentage of intake.

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He told Chong Eng (DAP-Bukit Mertajam) that of the 68,220 students who applied for places in universities for the 2007/2008 intake, 40,116 were successful.

Of these, 65 per cent were female. Applications from Bumiputera students totalled 47,057 but only 53 per cent were accepted. Chinese and Indian applications stood at 16,299 and 4,754 respectively and only 78.2 per cent and 51.5 per cent were accepted

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Statistics on Tamil School by YSS

October 10th, 2007
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THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN TAMIL SCHOOLS

by Dinesh on Tuesday, 09 October 2007

In recent weeks, several issues relating to Tamil schools have been highlighted by certain individuals and groups either in media or in public forums of which some are misleading information on Tamil schools. Many articles and views were not substantiated with accurate statistics and data. In this context, YSS has updated the data on Tamil schools relating to the number of schools, enrolment, infrastructure development, achievement and teachers development in order to provide an actual information to the Indian community on the whole.

Number of schools and enrolment
There were 888 Tamil schools in Malaysia in 1957 with 50,766 students. This number of Tamil schools has dwindled over the last 50 years due to development of estates into housing and commercial areas. Therefore there are 523 Tamil schools in 2007 with a total of 105,618 students.

Of the 523 schools there are 327 under-enrolled Tamil schools where there are less than 150 students. 149 schools out of the 327 schools have fewer than 50 students.

Table 1: Number of schools and enrolment

Year

1957

1970

1980

1990

2000

2006

2007

No school

888

657

589

547

524

524

523

No of students

50,766

79,277

73,958

96,120

89,175

101,972

105,618

 

Infrastructure Development
Since independence, Tamil schools have undergone tremendous changes in their infrastructure development. Many small schools and old schools have been rebuilt and upgraded with good building and the latest teaching and learning facilities. Several Tamil schools have also been relocated at suitable sites.

A study undertaken by YSS in 2004, identified that there were 106 Tamil schools required either a total rebuilding of the school or major portions of the school. A majority of these schools are situated in the rural area especially in estates and are partially aided schools. However out of 106 schools about 50 schools have close to 100 students or above.

With the special allocation from the government since 1986, YB Dato Seri Samy Vellu had managed to build 76 Tamil schools and some of them are from these 106 schools. Dato Seri has also been instrumental in upgrading a number of Tamil schools since 1986. In addition to that, Dato Seri has secured RM53,129,000 to rebuild and upgrade 136 Tamil schools in the 9th Malaysia Plan period. Of this, the upgrading of 27 schools have been approved in 2007. 

UPSR Results
Tamil school students since the last 10 years have been performing well in the UPSR examination. They have achieved marked improvement in all subjects. In 2000 only 95 students scored 7As. But in 2006, a total of 570 students obtained 7As in UPSR. (See Table 2 & 3)

Table 2: UPSR Results Of Tamil School Students (1993-2006)

Subjects

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Malay
Writing

18.0

26.9

26.9

24.3

31.3

31.5

24.9

39.2

40.1

51.7

57.6

56.3

56.8

52.1

Malay
Compr.

18.0

44.8

41.4

47.2

46.5

45.3

44.5

43.9

54.6

59.3

60.0

58.0

59.6

60.7

Math

44.0

58.1

59.6

65.3

65.8

68.6

70.9

73.9

74.4

81.1

85.8

84.4

83.3

87.7

Science

–

–

–

–

69.2

67.2

66.7

73.9

82.6

74.7

78.6

79.2

80.9

81.7

English

40.0

54.8

46.9

51.8

46.8

45.1

47.7

45.6

52.4

59.3

61.2

61.1

62.1

62.8

Tamil
Writing

62.0

54.6

63.1

63.6

64.7

64.8

65.2

65.9

70.2

79.1

78.0

79.1

79.5

80.3

Tamil
Compre.

62.0

76.3

81.2

80.3

82.8

83.1

80.2

81.5

81.5

84.1

58.6

84.9

87.9

86.6

Source: Yayasan Strategik Sosial

 

Table 3: Number of 7A achievers in Tamil Schools (1999-2006)

Year

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Total

45

101

165

202

356

378

518

570

 

Development of Teachers
There were 3258 teachers in Tamil schools in 1970. The number has grown up to 7,126 teachers in 2007. More than 97% of them are trained teachers.

Table 4: Number of teachers in Tamil schools

Year

1970

1980

1990

2000

2006

2007

No. of teachers

3,258

3,560

4,049

5,996

6,740

7,126

 

from: http://www.malaysianindians.net/v1/latest/the-latest-development-in-tamil-schools-2.html

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Consumers paying more for food and transport

September 20th, 2007
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Even though there was an increment recently for government servants, plus the guarantee by government to control prices, we find that cost of living has increased.  As mentioned by Statistics Dept below, CPI has increased 2% compared to last year.
Do you notice prices changed for the things you usually buy? Well, if you are not aware, do check your bills when you check out at the counter and try comparing will bills from few months back.

As for me, I'm trying to reduce eating out for both health and cost reasons. Char koay teow and wan tan mee price either increased or quantity becoming less. Same goes for malaysia's favorite roti canai and teh tarik. Rather mix my own teh tarik and enjoy it…even though not expert yet 🙂

Consumers paying more for food and transport


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PETALING JAYA: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January to August registered a 2% increase from the same period last year, from 103.2 to 105.3 with notable increases in transport, food and utility costs. 

According to a statement by the Statistics Department, transport costs increased 2.9%, food and non-alcoholic beverages increased 2.8% and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels increased 1.4%. 

The increase in the cost of food and non-alcoholic beverages was the result of increases in segments such as food at home (+ 2.7%), food away from home (+ 3%) and coffee, tea, cocoa and non-alcoholic beverages (+1.8%). 

The statement added that the CPI for August this year compared with the same month last year had increased by 1.9% while there was a 0.2% increase in the CPI for August when compared with July. 

Among the food items that recorded notable price increases in August compared with the previous month was spinach (+ 10.3%) and choy sum (+ 6%), while cucumber and kai lan recorded price decreases at 7.9% and 5.6% respectively. 

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Samy says Indians are doing well

August 24th, 2007
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i'm not sure if "Malaysian Indians have shed their rubber tapper image for one of a community comprising the educated and urbanised" as claimed. Perhaps about 20 % fit the bill, while the rest may be either educated (another 20%) or urbanised (another 30%), or neither (the balance). Remember that 63% of malaysian are as said to be living in urban areas according to latest statistics. Anyway, being urbanised does not mean life is a bed of roses. Instead it will be a nightmare trying to live on a salary of RM800 in a town as compared in a kampung or estate surrounding.
 
Now, lets look a a bigger picture. nearly every country in the world reports healthy progress in terms of education, living standards etc, except for those ravaged by war or severe famine etc. The question is, are we on par with the rest? if not, why is it so? our fault – being lazy, complain but not intiative, begging for help; or the systems fault – discrimination, prohibitive policies, lack of opportunities etc. ?
 
And why keep harping on being rubber tappers? It is those jobs that helped the country and the descendents to prosper.
 
For MIC to gain back its name, it has to furnish statistics on all fields concerned to dispel or counter HINDRAF's claims. These statistics have to be back by its sources so that an independent body can choose to investigate if neccessary.
 
While I agree that not 3000 people attended the gathering as claim by HINDRAF, i am certain it is not 600 as claimed by Samy. I think it was more to about 1200 – 1600 people, as i counted the rows of people during the walk past the roundabout.
 
Also, even if the PM was there, would the people who gathered would have been entertained personally?
 
Its good that statistics on number of temples were furnished,(wonder what is the source of these figures). We have to assume that these are licensed temples. 24,000 temple for a population of 1.44 million (i assume 80% of indians are hindus) is about one temple for every 60 hindu. Quite a big number, but religion being a personal issue, a tree can also be a temple in hinduism.
 
I saw the speech  which he gave at the HYO's assembly which was attended by about 200 people (from i saw on TV3 news). He asked if Indians are backwards, would they be sitting there in the hall and listening to him. Those who attended are educated and doing well, which he imply represents indians in malaysia.
 
 
Indians today are ‘doing well’

By : June Ramli

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Indians have shed their rubber tapper image for one of a community comprising the educated and urbanised.

MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said this was the outcome of better educational facilities and jobs provided by the government over the past 50 years.

"Those who say the Indians are backwards are mad," he said during the Hindu Youth Organisation’s annual general assembly at the Shree Lakshmi Narayan Temple in Jalan Kasipillay yesterday.

The works minister said that if Indians were 50 years behind other communities, many would still be working as rubber tappers.

"But that is not the case. Today, all Indians are educ-ated with some doing very well."
Samy Vellu chided the opposition for sending a memorandum of protest to the Prime Minister’s office recently, alleging that the Indians had generally been ignored.

He lambasted them for claiming that 3,000 people had gathered at the Prime Minister’s office.

"First of all, there were only 600 people and not 3,000.

"And the best part is that they chose to protest on the day that the prime minister was away in Brunei on a working visit."

On the rationale behind the demolishing of several Hindu temples, Samy Vellu said this was done as they had not received approval from the authorities.

"As they have been built near drains and next to roads, these structures will definitely be brought down as they have not received approval from the authorities."

He said the number of temples had mushroomed from 17,600 in 1979 to 24,000 this year.

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