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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Of late, I noticed less and less Indians wearing the religious mark on their foreheads. Probably they are not Hindus, but Christians or Muslims. Or perhaps there are other reasons.
Perhaps its an indication that people may not be praying or they even don’t have much faith in the vague thing called religion.
What do you think? Do you wear any such religious marks on your forehead? Do vote in the poll at the sidebar.
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email This is the results of the poll that ran in this blog from September 4 till September 15. Total of 104 people voted. More than half said it should remain at the current location, while 8 respondents said it should be demolished! About 39% suggested relocation in one way or another.
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| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Survey on ISA by Home Ministry reveals at least 90% support removal of the law (as of 11.31pm today).
Check it out at:
The questions being asked:
Pada pandangan anda, ISA adalah…
Adakah anda faham dan tahu sepenuhnya mengenai ISA?
Bagaimana anda mengetahui tentang ISA?
Apa yang anda mahu dari ISA?
Tahukah anda, Amerika Syarikat dan Britain turut mempunyai undang-undang pencegahan mereka yang dikenali sebagai Anti Terrorism Act dan Patriot Act. ISA (Malaysia) adalah salah satu undang-undang yang dirujuk oleh mereka.
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email A survey is planned by Public Complaints Bureau to determine the number of pupils without birth certificates in primary schools, says Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator Datuk T. Murugiah.
He said he had received many complaints from parents and Parent-Teacher Associations that their children could not pursue secondary education as they did not have birth certificates.
Murugiah cited SJK (Tamil) Puchong where 16 pupils did not have birth certificates.
“This problem is rampant in many primary schools. I have instructed the bureau to send special forms to all schools so that they can tell us how many students don’t have birth certificates,” he said, adding the schools have one month to fill the forms and send them back to the bureau.
Its a good move. We hope to see the results of the survey and the follow-up actions, even if Murugiah may not around to see it in a month.
I remember last year, special task force were set up at NRD to facilitate identity document problems. Not sure what is the status of those task force now.
Even political party like MIC handles such cases, so one can wonder if the schools did not approach th party officials, since Tamil schools and MIC are very much intertwined.
Next question would be – is it the official responsibility of the school/HM/teacher to highlight such cases or can they just close two eyes? It should be a moral responsibility of course, but then, not many teachers/officials would have the time or know-how to handle such cases. And some may think that even the kids’ parents are not bothered or unable to do anything, so why should the teacher get involved.
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Wow, I wonder if MCA change their name and constitution, would more Indians leave MIC/DAP/PKR/PPP and join MCA? 🙂
The poll, conducted by the centre between Sept 11 and 22, interviewed 1,002 registered voters on their perceptions of current issues, the economy and the country’s leadership. Respondents were selected via random stratified sampling method along the lines of state of residence, ethnicity, gender and age. 55% Malay, 36% Chinese, 9% Indian. 51% urbanites and 48% from rural area. Equal number of male and female respondents. 10% aged 63 above, 16% aged 56-63, 29% aged 44-55, 26% aged 32-43, and 19% aged 21-31.
A quarter of the respondents were homemakers, 22% were employed in private sector, 12% each are self-employed and retired, while 8% in public sector, 4% unemployed, and 2% own business.
35% of them had less than RM1500 household income, 26% between RM1501-3000, 14% between RM3001-RM5000, 12% having RM5000 or more, and 13% no answer.
In terms of location, 38% from central region, 24% from southern, 19% from eastern and nothern respectively. As for education level, 35% were SPM leavers, 19% primary education, 18% up to PMR level, 10% diploma, and 11% degree and above.
The margin of error was estimated at ±3.10%. It was also noted that the survey was concluded during “impending” September 16th crossover. The full poll results are in PDF format over here. It covers a wide area –
1. problems affecting the country at the moment – for which 50% were concerned over economic issues and 21% over political issues. Political issues rose 20% compared to March 2008.
2. satisfaction over federal goverment’s handling of the issues – generally the dissatisfaction is above 69&.
3. 21% were not aware of tabling of Budget! 42% said budget not beneficial at all, 23% said somewhat unbeneficial and 28% said somewhat beneficial.
4. 54% said if Pakatan forms federal government, the Malay political power will remain but UMNO loses power.
5. 53% were at least somewhat dissatisfied with PM Badawi’s performance, while 43% approved his performance. This was an overall improvement for all races if compared to the poll in mid August. with Chinese increasing by 5%, while Indians by 3%, Malays by 2%.
6. 44% agree that Najib will be a good PM while 39% disagree. This is an improvement compared to July poll results, except for Indians who declined 5%. It increased the most among the Chinese, 13%.
7. 69% say that Ahmad Ismail’s statement is unappropriate, while 25% agreed. The Indians registered 100% disproval, while it was 90% for the Chinese. It was 58% for the Malays. Hmmm…this is food for thought.
8. In the exclusive question for Malay respondents, 41% felt that Ahmad Ismail’s statement was born out of concern for the Malay community, while 55% said it was due to own political interest.
9. Quite a number of Indians believe Anwar is not an agent of US/Jews (85%), is not a sexual criminal (86%), is a competent manager of the economy (85%) and is a strong and visionary leader (90%). The other communities were not so believing.
10. And probably the most shocking find was that 70% of the Indians knew about MCA election compared to the Chinese themselves (55%) ! Indians were also not agreeable to a politician tainted with sexual scandal to hold senior position in a political party and government at 79%, with Malays at 88%. The Chinese were 54% disagreeable.
There were some other questions related to Anwar Ibrahim, and MCA elections as well.
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