{"id":811,"date":"2007-11-27T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/11\/27\/happy-birthday-pak-lah\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T06:30:16","slug":"happy-birthday-pak-lah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/11\/27\/happy-birthday-pak-lah\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday pak lah!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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thanks to MK for highlighting this. nothing in the star and nst about PM's birthday (yet). btw, i'll be covering the merdeka center survey next. oh..there's also the "remove the cross" from school issue to settle. my…my…hands are getting full! <\/p>\n

Abdullah: I'll continue with my style
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Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today said he will continue with his style of administration since Malaysians are happy with it. <\/p>\n

Responding to a finding of a recent survey, Abdullah said that he was happy with the survey that showed Malaysians were happy with the administration of the present government. <\/p>\n

quoted Abdullah as saying. <\/p>\n

"We will continue to administer the country like we are doing now," he added.<\/p>\n

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The premier, talking to journalists at the end of his two-day visit to Egypt, also said that he welcomed constructive criticism from everyone. <\/p>\n

"If someone wants to criticise, then it is fine as long as it is constructive criticism and we will try to do whatever possible to overcome the problems we face. <\/p>\n

"The important thing is that we will do everything possible to ensure success of the national vision to uplift all Malaysians. To those who supported the current government, I wish to say thank you. <\/p>\n

"To those who criticise, I would also say thank you but please ensure the criticisms are fair and not overboard, do not make your own conclusions without knowing the truth," he said. <\/p>\n

Economy, safety and corruption<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n

Bernama<\/em> also reported that Abdullah, who turned 68 today, when asked what was his birthday wish, he said: "I just want to stay healthy and be happy". <\/p>\n

The survey, conducted by the Merdeka Center for the New Straits Times<\/em>, found "a stable and positive voter support for Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and the Barisan Nasional government". <\/p>\n

It said that the public confidence in the PM and the government remained stable and positive despite some major concerns. <\/p>\n

The survey – polled among 1,024 respondents – indicated that Malaysians were concerned on economy, public safety and corruption. <\/p>\n

One in five respondents had listed price hikes, the rising cost of living, jobs and other economic issues as the "most important problem affecting Malaysia today".<\/p>\n

Crime and public safety came in as the second biggest concern while the third biggest concern was corruption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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thanks to MK for highlighting this. nothing in the star and nst about PM's birthday (yet). btw, i'll be covering the merdeka center survey next. oh..there's also the "remove the cross" from school issue to settle. my…my…hands are getting full! Abdullah: I'll continue with my stylehttp:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/75325 Nov 27, 07 1:34pm Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117,115,133,24,225,111],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-crime","tag-economy","tag-isa","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}