{"id":631,"date":"2007-10-18T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/10\/18\/samy-worries-about-couch-potatoes\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T23:45:10","slug":"samy-worries-about-couch-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/10\/18\/samy-worries-about-couch-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Samy worries about couch potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samy worries about couch potatoes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/10\/17\/nation\/19185970&amp;sec=nation\">source <\/a><\/p>\n<p> KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu is worried that more Malaysian Indians are becoming couch potatoes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;With Astro introducing more Indian channels, such as <i>Chutti TV <\/i>and <i>Makkal TV<\/i>, my worry is that the viewers may become couch potatoes from watching the many drama series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Malaysian Indians now have more channels than they bargained for,&#8221; he said while launching the International Dance Competition <i>Attam 100 (Nuru) Vagai<\/i>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> He commended Astro&#8217;s Indian programmes for being community-based with the potential to trigger a positive change in the mindset of its viewers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;Vaanavil&#8217;s legal talk show and <i>360 Degrees<\/i> address social and community issues,&#8221; he noted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Samy Vellu proposed that the channels take on the responsibility of producing more English programmes to improve the standard of spoken English among Malaysians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n He congratulated Astro for showcasing the dance competition as an international event in other countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> On the frequent floods at SRK Tamil Ladang Bukit Jalil, Samy Vellu said that RM650,000 had been allocated to relocate the school away from flood-prone areas.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samy worries about couch potatoes source KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu is worried that more Malaysian Indians are becoming couch potatoes.&nbsp; &#8220;With Astro introducing more Indian channels, such as Chutti TV and Makkal TV, my worry is that the viewers may become couch potatoes from watching the many drama series.&nbsp; &#8220;Malaysian Indians now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}