Live Coverage of UMNO General Meeting On TV

29 Nov, 2012, Thursday.

In Malaysia, the current government is formed by a coalition of parties called Barisan Nasional, BN for short. In BN, the single biggest party is UMNO. The current prime minister of Malaysia is a member of UMNO, and more than half of his cabinet is made up of UMNO members.

Today is the 4th day of the annual general meeting of UMNO. The prime minister of Malaysia, who also is the party chairman, the one and only Najib, is addresing the party today. So RTM1, TV3, NTV7, 8TV, TV9, all 5 free to air tv channels are broadcasting the live coverage of the one and only Najib making his speech in the UMNO general meeting.

Malaysian parliament sessions are not broadcasted live, except for the budget report, and this only happened since the past few years. Many people from many sectors have been calling for live coverage of parliament sessions for years, but no television channel ever showed any interest in broadcasting parliament sessions, and the government is not giving green light.

In fact, other than sponsored major sport events, like Olympic games, or Datuk Lee Chung Wei is fighting for a gold medal, or his wedding, or national day parade and the likes, Malaysians see very little live coverage of any activities of any kind at all, so why the live coverage of a general meeting of a party? Yes, the chairman is making his speech today. But it is still a general meeting of a political party, how is that more important than parliament sessions?

This is the underlying message of the live broadcast:

the One Najib is the most important person in Malaysia, UMNO is the one party that controls the nation, so the speech by the One Najib in general meeting of his party is the most important event of the year, all Malaysians should tune in to understand and remember this. And remember to stay loyal to him, vote for him in the coming general election, GE13. Stray away from him, and suffer the consequences.

The One Najib is still delivering his speech as I am typing this. Looking at the screen, a book and 2 movies came to my mind:

1984(a book),

“V for Vendetta”, “Wag The Dog” (2 movies).

If you do not understand why they came to my mind, google for the summaries of them. Or actually go read the book “1984”.

General meeting of the ruling political party is more important than parliament sessions, scary. Only in Malaysia.

Both happened on 25th Nov, 2012

According to tv news, at the 1125 rally, the organizer, that is Dong Zong claimed 20,000 people had turned out, and media estimated it at 6,000. A huge gap in the 2 figures. Of course both sides have reasons to inflate, down-play the figures.

Dong Zong needs to exaggerate the turn-out figure to show they have the support of the people, and  the media needs to down-play the figure so as not to offend the One Najib.

But looking at the news footage of 1125, I believe the number of people who turned out is far higher than 6000.

I did not see any report about 1125 rally or Anti-Lynas March on the TV3 00:00 26th Nov, 2012 English news, it was just full of the elections talks from One Najib, and the vice-prime-minister/education-minister trashing Dong Zong.

What figure will the Chinese dailies report on Monday?

Green March reached Merdeka Square on 25th Nov, 2012, and the police say the marchers had broken the law. What is that? The only thing marchers did is walk, they walked from Kuantan to Merdeka Square, they did not commit any act of violence, did not damage any property, either public or private, did not vandalize anything, did not shout any kind of insults to any one, be it personal, racial, religious, or nationality. And the police say they had broken the law? Is it because the One Najib is afraid of them? But the Malaysian court had cleared the way for Lynas to start operation, and the raw rare-earth ore had arrived a few days ago in the wee hours. So Malaysia is going to have Lynas after all.

從電視新聞上看到的，在星期日的1125大集會，董總說有20,000人到場，媒體則估計現場有6,000人。兩邊的數字差很大。媒體的數字當然是要照政府的意思報小；董總則要報大以壯聲勢。照電視播出的畫面看，現場人數肯定遠超過6,000人。

在11月26日00:00時的TV3英語中，不見任何1125大集會或步行反萊納斯的報導，只有首相的競選發言和副首相攻擊董總的言論。

星期一華文報章會刋出甚麽數字？

步行反萊納斯在同一天到了獨立廣場，警方說他們犯法。真的這麽怕步行反萊納斯？前幾天淩晨稀土礦已經運到了。看來馬來西亞政府是一定要讓萊納斯在馬來西亞運作了。

A Buddhism celebrity visits Malaysia

A Buddhism celebrity from Taiwan just visited Malaysia, and made a public preaching appearance on 25th Nov, 2012. Before the event, he met the One Najib, as a courtesy call and gave him a scroll of Chinese calligraphy, which is by the celebrity himself.

This celebrity had decided not to travel far a number of years ago, because of his failing health. Now that the GE13 is inevitably around the corner, he came here and met the One Najib? However the story is spinned, it just reads like a show, for the political gain.

在決定不出門好幾年之後，星雲法師今年來馬來西亞。在11月24日的大會上，真是盛事，不只是許多無名氏的善男信女去聴他弘法，還有華人圈中的政治人物名流到場，特別要記者拍下他們和星雲法師會面的相片在報章新聞中刋登。當然拍照之後，他們之中有誰是由大會的工作人員向人說他們另有急事走了，有誰留下來聴法師弘法就不得而知了。

在24日之前，星雲法師先去拜會馬來西亞首相納吉，送了親自寫的吉星高照給首相當紀念品。新聞報導特別強調說吉是指納吉，星是指星雲。

在馬來西亞本届國會就快要届滿，不得不改選的敏感時期，星雲法師這次［破例出訪馬來西亞］（照本地報導抄自台灣報章的文稿用詞），還獲得首相納吉接見，怎麽看這行程都充滿了政治算計。真令人懷疑是不是馬來西亞政府暗中去說動法師來的？好讓納吉演一場政治秀？

Nov 25, 1125, who will answer the call of Dong Zong?

In a press conference on 20 Nov, 2012, Dong Zong claimed that 540 Chinese organizations will attend the 1125 (25 Nov, 2012) rally, to tell the government they are not happy with the new Education Blueprint.

At the other side, Jiao Zong had made it clear that this organization, along with Hua Zong, and lots of other Chinese organizations will not attend the rally. Actually they call for Malaysian Chinese community not to attend the rally or show any support for Dong Zong, because Jiao Zong and Hua Zong are working real hard with MCA and government to have a new Education Blueprint that is acceptable to everyone.

Hua Zong? Do you believe that organization any more? After the case of Letter Of Approval for Chinese Independent Middle School in Kuantan, how can anyone in his/her right mind still believe in that organization? It is crystal clear that Hua Zong is only sucking up to the government, because they are afraid of being labelled as anti-government. That school in Kuantan is just a shame, and Hua Zong is still standing by MCA to say it is not. Just how thick skinned can they be? And now they are calling people to follow their footsteps? To boycott 1125 rally? Is Hua Zong getting any real financial gain from the government in this? I wonder. Bizarrely, there are actually Chinese organizations had made public statements that they are not supporting the 1125 rally.

So, on the surface, Jiao Zong and Dong Zong are moving apart, the 2 once Siamese-twins like bodies are almost enemies now, or maybe already are behind the scene.

In the Chinese newspapers, Sin Chew Daily and her sisters are campaigning against 1125 rally. So despite the near desperate efforts of Dong Zong, there is very little voice in the media supporting this rally. So come this 25 Nov, who will answer the call of Dong Zong and show up in the rally? What kind of people? And worst of all, will it ever be reported if the rally got a huge turn out?

WARNING! CRUEL AND SCARY VIDEO. Below is a link to an experiment on how to boil a frog alive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8QOB0mCarI
Just type "frog boil alive" in search bar in youtube, and you will get more videos like this. Scary.

2012年11月20日的記者招待會上，董總宣稱已有五百四十個華團會參加11月25日的集會，表達對育發展大藍圖的不滿。

同日另一邊廂，教總也召開記者招待會，公開聲明教總和華總不支持也不會參加1125大集會。教總說他們（教總和華總和其他在同一陳綫的華團，那是包括馬華？）正在和政府合作協商對教育發展大藍圖的修改。

華總？關丹那由華社出錢的國民中學，只可以教政府中學課程的批文內容浮出來之後，還有誰敢相信華總？現在華總和教總叫別人和他們一樣，不支持1125大集會，竟然已有華團表態跟隨教總和華總不支持1125大集會。

不管怎樣，董總和教總這曾經像連體嬰的兩個團體，現在已經是差不多公然對駡了，那在暗地裏是不是已經成了敵人在生死博斗了？

在11月25日當天，甚麽人會去支持？抱著甚麽心態？會有多少人？星洲日報和同一集團的姊妹報一直在反1125大集會，那在當天如果有大批公衆參加， 星洲和姊妹報會怎樣報導？

Added on 2013-04-01:
I just checked my statisitics, and was surprised that it was viewed again a few days back. On 2012-Nov-25, it was a huge turned-up, lots of people showed up with entire family, like grand-parents, parents, children, even babies.

This shows we Malaysians know what we want, what we need, and we are not afraid to do what is perfectly our right to do, that is to express what we feel, what we want.

2012年11月25日當天，很多人全家出動去出席這大集會。馬來西亞人已經明白甚麽是自己的權益。

爲何星洲日報抄襲的大都是台灣的報章？

星洲日報抄襲的文章，除了鄭丁賢的翻譯英文短篇而不說明是翻譯的小文章之外，差不外全都是抄自台灣的報導的。這是否有特別的原因？

在網民揭露星洲日報有多篇社論是抄襲自台灣的之後，羅正文已經辭職以示負責。可是網民都看到在今年７月３０日之後，星洲日報還繼續刋登多篇抄襲文章。而且在已經被認出來的抄襲文章中，有不少是以其他編輯的名義發表的。那爲何至今只有羅正文一人辭職？要羅正文一人承擔所有責任？

其實在馬來西亞的中文報章的編輯，就和獨中的師資一樣，在公元２０００年前，大部份都是留台回來的大學生，那些當編輯的更有不少是在台灣的所謂文化圈中工作過的。當然，有誰真的曾經做到司馬中原的那種御用文人的地位就不得而知了。

當然現在有人去中華人民共和國留學回來，所以這些中文圈子的成份多了大陸留學生。但因爲大陸的消息封鎖功力高深，外面看得到的言論又都是中共式八股的難看難唸，所以還是香港台灣這兩地，再加上在歐美的華人名嘴的言論才會在本地報章出現；但通常會標明是那一名嘴的文章，有的還會加上本報特約的標示。像羅正文辭職，連台灣也報導了，標題直指是因爲抄襲台灣的中國時報社論：

大馬報社主筆抄襲中時社論辭職

所以星洲日報被揭發抄襲的文章源自台灣一點都不出奇。現在是網絡時代，台灣的報章社論會被網民看到也不奇怪。的奇怪的是是誰這麽注意台灣的社論，進而看出這些社論被修改成馬來西亞版的，再成了星洲的社論？會不會是留台人？不然誰花這麽多時間上網去讀台灣的報章？原來馬來西亞華人還是沒有社會正義的？羅正文辭職是因爲留台人在內斗，而不是因爲真的有人要星洲日報真的不抄襲？星洲日報也只是順手把羅正文給甩了而已，正好用來挽回星洲日報的面子？羅正文還真的有點無辜。

Chloramphenicol in chicken, English dailies do not name the company.

Read it in newspapers today. On 1st of November, Sarawak state veterinary department banned the import of Ayamas products into Sarawak, including whole chickens, nuggets, chicken sausages,chicken meatball, and burger patties, because Ayamas products were found to contain Chloramphenicol. As of the news on 4th November, 2012, the Ayamas products are still available in supermakets in Kuching. And Health Minister Liow Chong Lai said his department is still awaiting the laboratory test report; but the allegedly contaminated batch of products had been taken off the shelves, as an act of precaution.

According to the newspapers, chloramphenicol is a kind of antibiotic, could cause vomitting, diarrhoea and headache.

Ayamas is a local food product company, a member of QSR Brands Bhd, alongside KFC Malaysia and Pizza Hut Malaysia. Ayamas mainly marketing chilled/frozen whole chicken and chicken parts, chicken based pre-processed foods.

The Chinese dailies reported the name of the company, Ayamas, but the English dailies chose to omit the name of the company in this case. This is the opposite of the usual practice of newspapers. Usually when it comes to something like a scandal or robbery kind of news, the Chinese dailies always omit the names of the company in their reports, and the English dailies always report the names of those companies in the papers.

But in the case of Ayamas products were found to contain chloramphenicol, English dailies chose to omit the name of the company, just mentioned chicken marketed by a certain company is alleged to contain chloramphenicol, reporting in a really ambigious, anyone could be or not be it kind of way. One has to wonder why? I have some speculations, but I have no way to find out more or verify anything, so all I can do is ask WHY?

在今天的報紙上看到金鳳凰的產品在砂朥越被查出有氯霉素，砂朥越獸醫局已經禁止金鳳凰的產品進入砂朥越。衛生部長彥中萊則說衛生部正在等化驗報告出來。

金鳯凰 是QSR Bradns Bhd 旗下的一家子公司，業務主要是冷藏或冷凍全雞，冷藏或冷凍雞塊，和加工過的雞肉食品。

根據報紙的報導，氯霉素是一種抗生素，會引起嘔吐，腹瀉和頭痛。

奇怪的是在這件事上，中文報章直接的登出金鳳凰的產品在砂朥越被查出有問題，而英文報章則只含糊的報導說有家公司販售的雞被指含有氯霉素。

通常在類似的新聞中，中文報章都不會把公司的名稱登出來的，而英名報章則通常會把公司名稱登出來。可是在金鳯凰的產品被查出含有氯霉素的新聞，作法相反了，英文報章不登出公司名稱，而中文報章則登出來。有人知道這是甚麽原因嗎？

He was the only one that took the fall for Sin Chew, why?

Just read online, in July this year, the senior writer of Sin Chew Daily, Mr Loh Cheng Boon, had resigned from Sin Chew, to take the responsible for the plagiarism scandal the newpaper is in.

Right after his resignation, more acts of plagiarism in Sin Chew Daily were exposed by the public online, and they happened after he had left. So what is going on here? If he was the only one who committed plagiarism, then the acts of plagiarism should have stopped with his resignation.  So Sin Chew Daily just put all the blame on Mr Loh, and hope the fact that Sin Chew is full of works of plagiarism will just go noticed? What a shame.

And strangely, how come none of his peers who graduated from Taiwan showed him any kind of support? And his former students? He was a teacher in a Chinese Independent Middle School in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. So much for Chinese kind of social etiquette.

The truth of Malaysian Chinese, the social etiquettes, social protocol of friendships, old acquaintances, are simply based on practicality, i.e. benefits. Mr. Loh is not the only one who committed plagiarism in Sin Chew, but only he resigned. Sin Chew is still publishing works of plagiarism.

And here are the links to critics about Sin Chew plagiarism

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=40979

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=40381

A shameless major newspaper. Only in Malaysia. It is time we let them know, all newspapers have to take their social responsibility seriously.

剛在網上看到，原來星洲日報的主筆羅正文在今年７月辭職了。他辭職是表示爲星洲日報的抄襲社論負責。

在他正式離職的第二天，網友又在星洲日報上看到抄襲的社論。之後還是陸續有抄襲的社論類的文章被揭露。難道星洲日報以爲只要說羅正文已經辭職了，就不會有人注意星洲日報是不是有抄襲的文章了？未免太小看馬來西亞的讀者了。


以下是評論星洲日報抄襲的連結：

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=40979

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=40381

羅正文是留台人，在加入星洲日報之前，曾在馬來西亞砂朥越州美里市的一家獨中教過書。怎麽沒看到留台人或他以前的學生出言支持或者安慰的？這是馬來西亞華人社會的真面目：甚麽人情，禮儀，全是在計算利害關係。


羅正文不是星洲日報中惟一抄襲的人，但只有他辭職。他走了之後，星洲日報還是陸續被揭露有抄襲的文章。大報一直在抄襲，還想含糊過去，只在馬來西亞。

Of Course Orang Asli Do Not Know Orang Penan

In her column in Oriental Daily(東方日報), Young Ai Ling(楊艾琳) wrote about her belated realisation that the Malaysians from Peninsula have next to zero knowledge about people in Sarawak. She was accompany a group of Sarawak natives, in a tour around Peninsular Malaysia, telling that facts that the Sarawak natives are suffering, while news reports had demonised them as hindrances to progress.

In her imagination, she actually thought that all the natives, all from Sarawak, Sabah, and Peninsula, actually know each others, and are old acquaintances, so the locals were supposed to meet the touring party with great enthusiasm, and chat like so.

As it turned out, in one of the stop of the tour that she is part of the team, the host of the stop actually got the names of the tribes from Sarawak mixed up, the host actually had no idea that the group is made up of Orang Penan. And that is when the reality hit her:

People who live in Peninsula actually have next to zero knowledge about people who live in Borneo Island. So Orang Asli in Peninsula actually have no idea who are the visitors from Sarawak, it was like Just-because they-are-Sarawak-natives-so-we-should-know-them? kind of situation.

This is not news to me, because Sarawak and Sabah are hardly mentioned in the national news. And the newspapers in Peninsula only report news in Peninsula, so to know anything about Sarawak and Sabah, one have to actually go to Sarawak and Sabah to read the local newspapers and talk to the locals. So it is only natural for the Peninsular Malaysians to actually have next to zero knowledge about East Malaysia, but always think they know everything. Now I know she really is a bona fide Peninsular Malaysian, as she is just like the Peninsular Malaysians I have met in Malaysia.

At least she really was trying to help the natives.

當然半島的原住民不知道本南人是從哪來的。砂朥越人看就知道了。半島人去到砂朥越，以爲是這樣那樣的，結果砂朥越人要有如教小孩似的，從頭教起。砂朥越人早就當這是笑話了。楊艾琳是真的半島人。但她該是真心的想幫本南人。