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Quo Vadis, Wisma Putra
February 1, 2012
Quo Vadis, Wisma Putra: A Message to Foreign Minister Anifah Aman as good as His Secretary-General
By Din Merican
I am simply impressed by a rare series of comments from readers upon my Blog over a essay in The STAR newspaper by Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Secretary General, Tan Sri Radzi Abdul Rahman upon a Ministry's Consular Service, as if this work is a core commercial operation of a Foreign Ministry.
As you have said earlier as good as right away repeat it, a essay oughst to have been signed off by a Desk military officer concerned. Consular matters during a Ministry as good as during a Overseas Missions have been rubbed by Executive Officers' as good as clerks.That done a little commenter unhappy.
In fact, you incurred a rage of a little surrogates in Wisma Putra who commented, rather
foolishly you thought, underneath a disguise of pseudo-names. In stead of trying to react positively to my views, they chose self denial by ignoring reality.
Instead of receiving stairs to understanding with a unhappy state of their Ministry, they chose to become really defensive of a standing quo. These have been a carma (cari makan) sorts who right away populate a Foreign Ministry. Time ot repair this problem of a critical miss of professionalism.
The Malaysian open expects Wisma Putra's Secretary General to coop articles which simulate strategic meditative as good as understanding with critical issues which affect Malaysia's inhabitant seductiveness as good as a conduct of diplomacy.
In my comments, you ! addition ally done reference to Wisma Putra's excellence days underneath a leadership of (Tun) Muhammad Ghazali garbage bin Shafie (affectionately known to his staff as "King Ghaz") in a early years of a country's history.
It is appropriate which you should quote this smashing leader of a lost men as good as women of a Malaysian Foreign Service of 1960s as good as 1970s who served their nation with honour as good as dignity. These were his final difference upon a subject of a diplomacy, which is a main pursuit of Wisma Putra.
He said:
"We wish to have friends with everybody. That was a style from a bieing born of a Foreign Ministry, until today. This does not mean which you do not have a stand, you do, usually look during a organisation mount upon a subject of Palestine all these years. But you have friends, as good as it works
We built this ministry out of nothing. We had no model upon which to bottom ourselves, no guide as to how to set up it. Just imagine you have been a builder with a little utilitarian collection but no architectural plans, where do you start? So you learnt upon a job. you found which a boys in a Foreign Ministry grown really quick compared to those in alternative ministries, given since they had their laws as good as regulations, you usually had a experience to rest on
So ambassadors today, as before, contingency have honour as good as courage. Of course, they contingency be intelligent, contingency break down in to parts things. You do not go in to a nation usually to envoy, you go there to observe, to see what they have been doing. Then you report behind to a home country. They contingency be correct as good as up to date. Yes ,diplomats can ! be train ed, but they contingency be fightersI have no regrets seeking back, no regrets all. So it remains.We should keep creation friendsit works." (Recollections by Muhammad Ghazali garbage bin Shafie in Number One Wisma Putra, edited by Fauziah Mohamad Taib, 2006, Institute of Diplomacy as good as Foreign Relations)
These were a final difference of King Ghaz for his successors similar to Anifah Aman, a Foreign Ministry to recollect as good as action upon. Wisma Putra is a critical place given a pursuit of tact is both severe as good as perfectionist of those who right away take up Number One Wisma Putra.
The message in my Blog is clear a open has become discerning as good as some-more demanding.
Wisma Putra competence think which Malaysians have usually medium knowledge of general affairs, but readers of this Blog have shown they possess an substantial grasp of universe affairs as good as a complexities as good as have sophisticated views upon a broad range of general issues. Don't blink a people as good as my readers.
Aside this, officers during Wisma Putra know really good which Radzi is not an zealous reader, nonetheless in this STAR essay he quotes an obscure poet. He is additionally lustful of telling his colleagues as good as friends who insinuate to him about complaints against Wisma Putra which he had not listened any.
My indicate is which a responses of readers to a Blog paint a cross-section of a wordless infancy of a Malaysian public, who yearn to be informed upon unfa! miliar p rocess issues as good as tact as good as how they impact upon Malaysia's image, contentment as good as confidence (national interest).
Radzi's shallow essay in The Star usually worsens open notice of a critical decrease in a Ministry's egghead capital as good as leadership.
I am done to assimilate which Wisma Putra has recently created a "Special Speech Writing Committee" comprising of 27 officers. If Radzi's essay as good as a Foreign Minister new debate have been a producst of this committee, afterwards a rot is really deeply embedded indeed.
And FM Anifah speech! It is a fifth grader stuff to a tactful armed forces upon January 5 this year in Kuala Lumpur. He talked of a importance of a neighbours as good as ASEAN. What substantively has a Minister done in which direction, you wonder? As you far as you know, Indonesia as good as Singapore with tip flight Foreign Ministers have been providing a much needed meditative upon ASEAN, whilst you sojourn content to fool around along.
Since you mostly say which ASEAN is a cornerstone of a unfamiliar policy, a Foreign Minister could have used a event to go over general as good as banal statements about a support for ASEAN Community,and go in to a little details how a open as good as a universe can good from further ASEAN integration in terms of a regional economy, business, education, culture, etc.
Similarly, a Foreign Minister could have selected any series of issues inspiring a nation as good as a segment as good as how a government was traffic with them so as to ensure a a seductiveness of a nation as good as a segment have been protected.
Malaysians have been seriously endangered which a nation has fallen off a general radar. Gone have been a days when Malaysia was during a forefront. In Oct final year, a University of Cambodia as good as a Singapore Foreign Ministry organized a Roundtable in Phnom Penh to brainstorm upon Cambodia's 2012 chairmanship of ASEAN. Singapore's FM Shanmugan as good as a Ambassador t! here exp erience in a discussion. They were both articulate, enchanting as good as impressive.
And right away you read of a initial ever central revisit of President Thein Sein of Myanmar to Singapore to find out a city state's substantial imagination upon inhabitant development, together with banking as good as finance. Worse still, President Aquino has nonetheless to compensate an central revisit to Malaysia. Why -???
What have a Ambassadors in Phnom Penh, Yangon as good as Manila, let alone Wisma Putra been doing?
There have additionally been complaints from readers upon a recruitment of diplomats as good as their proficiency in English. you contingency concur which a criticism is a stream one. This problem, however, goes behind to a days when Tun Ahmad Sarji (left), who was a Chief Secretary to a Government during a Mahathir era.
Going behind to a aged Wisma Putra, whose carrier diplomats were asked to fill up a posts of Secretaries General of a Ministries of Finance (Tan Sri Zain Azahari) as good as Youth as good as Sports (Datuk Jamaluddin Abu Bakar), Ahmad Sarji, substantially with a most appropriate of intentions, sent to Wisma Putra scores as good as scores of half-baked UKM as good as USM graduates in a late 197os as good as 1980s to shore up a ranks of a diplomats.
Secondly, today, there is nonetheless an additional big complaint among officers is which each thing contingency be created in Malay, reports, minutes, as good as so on. Wisma Putra officers given a 1970s write in Malay to outward agencies. This new development is assumingly as a result of a no-brainer directive from a stream Chief Secretary to a Government.
Internal reports, minutes, minutes, jot down of conversations as good as alternative forms of communications have been necessar! y collec tion of a diplomat. By depriving them a chance to file in their skills to make use of English, a language of tact as good as business, how can you design to perform them good when it comes to representing a nation in a genuine world? It is similar to asking a solders to train with plastic rifles as good as design them to quarrel effectively using genuine weapons in a war.
Another reader, "Ir.Somdol", substantially a surrogate, attempted to urge Radzi by claiming which no a single during Wisma Putra has ever listened of 'Din Merican', implying which you was articulate out of my hat. Never mind, Samdol could usually have left to my webpage to know some-more about me. Again, you am not a emanate here. The fast as good as almost unstoppable deterioration in a standards of professionalism in Wisma Putra is.
Just for Samdol's further information, Khalid Yaacob (now Tun as good as Governor of Malacca), Tan Sri Kamil Jaafar, Tan Sri Razali Ismail, Dato Majid Mohamad, as good as Tan Sri Mohamed Khatib as good as a host of others used to live during 272 Jalan Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur when you were all during Wisma Putra in a early 1960s. They had renowned careers in Wisma Putra, whilst you left for a private sector.
All a upon top of matters have been in truth worrying, prompting me to coop this essay for a attention of both Foreign Minister Anifah Aman as good as a Secretary General Radzi Abdul Rahman.
The Foreign Minister as good as a Secretary -General contingency be endangered with crafting unfamiliar process which secures Malaysia's interests in a world, which is creation as good as winning friends.
And my readers wish to listen to some-more upon Wisma Putra's core commercial operation unfamiliar policy, a involvement in ASEAN as good as relations with actors in general affair! s.
< p>The Secretary General's as good as a Minister's debate mount out as justification of a absence of strategic meditative during Wisma Putra. It is regrettable a Prime Minister is assumingly unmotivated about a rot which has set in Wisma Putra. It is, however, some-more likely which Najib has no confidence in a Foreign Ministry, relying in stead upon a advice of former diplomats, as good as his own Foreign Policy team upon a Fourth Floor, Prime Minister's Department, Putrjaya. So Wisma Putra is usually a Post Office with overpaid workers.In my view, a Prime Minister is entitled to a most appropriate process advice which a good Foreign Office can provide. The means which Wisma Putra contingency be all revamped as good as staffed by qualified, carefully selected as good as good lerned professionals with a passion for general affairs as good as diplomacy. Wisma Putra is a place for johnny come lately types.
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Breaking up wealth concentration
The time is right for a inhabitant contention upon what have been a pros as good as cons of a current mercantile complement which encourages a thoroughness of resources as good as a bootleg outflows.
COMMENT
The past year has seen a supervision as good as a antithesis betray their particular mercantile remodel policies. Even if these remodel policies as good as their attendant programmes have been implemented they will not be equates to to finalise a country's mercantile problems. This is because a policies advocated by both sides of a domestic divide have been merely palliative. They do not residence a root or fundamental equates to of a complaint of structural deformation of a country's economy. How has this deformation come about? What have been a characteristics? And what can be finished to move about a annulment or correction of a deformation so which you have a unequivocally remade mercantile complement which can live up to a full potential?
First you need to recognize which resources in any nation as good as Malaysia is no exception is created by mercantile activity intent in by people or enterprises which move increase or gains to a entrepreneur. Much of this resources origination as good as subsequent accumulation is legitimate. It is formed upon element prerogative outset from work (or gift) as good as is socially as good as ethically acceptable. It comes from risk-taking as good as from a amicable application as good as superiority of a products as good as services generated by a individual or enterprise.
Wealth generated as good as amassed by people by bona fide equates to as good as adapting to a norms of justice as good as firmness is not usually fas! cinating yet beneficial to multitude as good as a economy.
But what about resources which is created or amassed by less than bona fide or deceptive or bootleg means? Is it a minor or non-issue as good as do you usually ignore it as is a case with a Barisan Nasional government?
Outflow of massive bootleg resources accumulation
One critical clue to a massive resources constraint by unlawful equates to in Malaysia was exposed not prolonged ago by a Global Financial Integrity, a US-based watchdog.
One critical clue to a massive resources constraint by unlawful equates to in Malaysia was exposed not prolonged ago by a Global Financial Integrity, a US-based watchdog.
In a investigate upon "Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries" it estimated which Malaysia was fifth in a universe upon accumulative sum unlawful monetary flows (IFF) given 2000.
For 2009 alone, IFF (non-normalised) amounted to you guess U$ 47 billion (approximately RM145 billion during a sell rate of RM3.1 = US$ 1) as good as over a accumulative nine years, sum IFF amounted to US$ 350 (approximately RM1,086 billion).
Two methods of determination were used in a study, a single being a World Bank residual model (using a shift in outmost debt or CED), as good as secondly, traffic mispricing (using a Gross Excluding Reversals process or GER).
Through a change of payments (a member of CED), it captures unrecorded collateral leakages i.e. unlawful transfers of a proceeds of bribery, theft, kickbacks, as good as taxation evasion. Outflow of unrecorded transfers due to traffic mispricing was prisoner underneath a GER method.
Based upon a study, Malaysia's nine-year average normalised i.e. conservative IFF, amounted to US$ 14.2 billion (42%; RM43.9 billion) due to CED while GER accounted for $ 19.6 billion (58%; RM60.8 billion). Meanwhile, average non-normalised IFF was US$ 15.4 billion (44%; RM47.5 billion) due to CED as good as US$ 19.6 billion (56%; RM60.8 billion) due to GER.
MNCs as good as Illicit Financial Flows
According to a study, "illicit flow! s engage collateral which is illegally earned, transferred, or utilized as good as covers all unrecorded private monetary outflows which drive a accumulation of unfamiliar resources by residents in contravention of germane collateral controls as good as regulatory frameworks. Hence, unlawful flows might engage collateral warranted by bona fide equates to such as a increase of a bona fide business".
According to a study, "illicit flow! s engage collateral which is illegally earned, transferred, or utilized as good as covers all unrecorded private monetary outflows which drive a accumulation of unfamiliar resources by residents in contravention of germane collateral controls as good as regulatory frameworks. Hence, unlawful flows might engage collateral warranted by bona fide equates to such as a increase of a bona fide business".
If taxes were levied upon a bootleg outflows, a country's finance management would have benefitted to a tune of close to US$ 100 billion. When a GFI's findings were done open recently, a finger of blame for a massive outflows was placed by a MP for Kota Belud, Abdul Rahman Dahlan, upon multinational corporations (MNCs). Indeed, MNCs have been a available scapegoat for send pricing woes in developing countries where they have vital operations.
One internal observer a specialist in send pricing has demolished this accusation for Malaysia. According to his minute of Dec 27, 2011 to Free Malaysia Today, "transfer pricing has been a a single of a many scrutinised subjects by a Malaysian Inland Revenue Board given a Transfer Pricing Guidelines was introduced [in 2003]."
He has argued which "more expected than not, where there have been cases of send mispricing, MNCs would always step brazen as good as redress a situation. This is so because "getting caught by authorities in you do bootleg activities will many expected equates to serious repairs to commercial operation firmness as good as reputation."
He resolved which "compliance by MNCs is a single of a many difficult as far as you assimilate from a corporate culture perspective, or during least for cases you have seen."
So if MNCs have been not a law-breaker for a unlawful monetary outflows, who have been a real culprits?
The Global Financial Integrity investigate has remarkable which besides send pricing outflows MNCs alone have been not to blame for this; internal conglomerates as good as GLCs a! dditiona lly fool around a same diversion with greater insider believe IFF was caused by unlawful transfers outset from a proceeds of bribery, theft, kickbacks, as good as taxation evasion.
Malaysia is in actuality a usually nation where IFF is caused by a allied proportion of send as good as non-transfer pricing transgressions.
Real culprits in bootleg resources accumulation
While a investigate has been helpful in providing some hard interpretation upon a quantum of a unlawful monetary outflows, it does not yield much assistance upon other pass sum such as who have been obliged for a outflow; a countries of fund relocation; etc.
While a investigate has been helpful in providing some hard interpretation upon a quantum of a unlawful monetary outflows, it does not yield much assistance upon other pass sum such as who have been obliged for a outflow; a countries of fund relocation; etc.
At this stage, you can usually hazard a guess as to a expected people or parties concerned in a non-transfer pricing unlawful outflow. The many expected culprits have been those who have been equates to to accumulate huge resources as good as who for assorted reasons find it expedient or necessary to disguise their resources accumulation as good as to diversity their resources havens as good as resources divided from Malaysia.
The GFI investigate does not cover a unlawful resources amassed locally as good as not nonetheless remitted to unfamiliar shores. The size of this locally defended unlawful resources is expected to be multiform if not many times some-more than which sent abroad.
A wanton guess of a extent of authorised resources thoroughness in a nation can be obtained from a 40 people identified by Forbes as a richest billionaires for Malaysia. Collectively this organisation was value $ 62.5 billion in 2011. In further there must be many other extremely rich people who have avoided origination a list by their ability to disguise their resources as good as others who yet not origination a top 40 list still retain huge wealth.
The many during large rumoured name not origination a Forbes list has to be Taib Mahmud, a arch apportion of Sarawak, who together with his family is con! jectural to have shares in some-more than 330 companies in Malaysia alone as good as some-more than 400 companies around a origination value multiform billion US dollars.
Various quarters have questioned a legitimacy of a resources accumulation intent in by a arch minister. A recent article in a blogsite Sarawak Headhunter provides in-depth sum into what is purported to be a income stream of a arch minister's monetary vacuum machine.
These include:
State contracts
The arch apportion has refuted these claims as good as has argued which which his daughter's substantial property empire was amassed by a daughter as good as son-in-law's commercial operation astuteness in investing wisely a gratuity which Taib warranted from his earlier use in a federal government.
The arch apportion has refuted these claims as good as has argued which which his daughter's substantial property empire was amassed by a daughter as good as son-in-law's commercial operation astuteness in investing wisely a gratuity which Taib warranted from his earlier use in a federal government.
This might good be true yet if so, it needs to be substantiated by an opening of a monetary annals as good as bank accounts of a family as good as a companies owned or tranquil by a family in Malaysia as good as abroad. Only afterwards can a authorities as good as open determine a law of a allegations of monetary as good as domestic impropriety.
That a arch apportion as good as his family own an unusual volume of resources held locally as good as abroad during least is not denied. Some idea of a huge size of a Taib family resources emerged ! when Tai b's daughter-in-law filed a RM400 million explain upon her estranged husband, Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, in justice recently, including what she claims is her share of property value RM300 million. These delicious sum of a unusual resources accumulation by Taib as good as a small organisation of Malaysians show a usual pattern. Firstly, they have all been beneficiaries of a BN supervision as good as a process directed during operative with an elite few people in driving a manage to buy forward.
Many if not all of a names which appear upon a Forbes list have been regarded as cronies of past prime ministers Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as good as a benefaction Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, as good as have been during large perceived as overdue their substantial resources to their domestic faithfulness to BN.
All a commercial operation empires of a former "Sugar King" Robert Kuok, Genting Highlands' late Lim Goh Tong, Public Bank's Teh Hong Piau, YTL's Yeoh Tiong Lay, Astro's Ananda Krishnan, Air Asia's Tony Fernandez as good as a taking flight Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary deservedly or undeservedly have been seen as built upon supervision welfare as good as patronage. This tie is what has supposing them with conduct starts as good as privileged monopolies but which their enterprises could never have come about, let alone flourish.
Getting to a bottom of how a commercial operation empires of a richest Malaysians have taken shape might be a utilitarian way of traffic with a thorny question of how resources thoroughness either legitimately subsequent or underneath a cloud of illegitimacy has occurred.
We should have no illusions about a obstacles which distortion forward of such investigative efforts. We should additionally be aware which in countries where bootleg resources accumulation by a leaders of impoverished countries has drawn inhabitant as good as international ire, attempts during liberation of a wealth, much of which has been e! nergetic abroad as good as stashed in overseas banks as good as assets, has been a long-drawn as good as difficult process.
Admittedly a goal for any lien of unlawful or deceptive resources is distant as good as dim. The time might not even be ripe to demand upon a full-blown opening up of a annals as good as having a law come out upon how a crme de la crme of a commercial operation as good as domestic leaders have amassed their fortunes.
But there might be need for open scrutiny in a few special cases in Malaysia despite a concern which such efforts might be construed as an anti-capitalist or anti-BN magician hunt.
National contention upon resources accumulation
The time is right during a least yet for a inhabitant contention upon what have been a pros as good as cons of a current mercantile complement which encourages a thoroughness of resources as good as a bootleg outflows upon such a systemic basis, as good as either this is a right mercantile model for a country.
The time is right during a least yet for a inhabitant contention upon what have been a pros as good as cons of a current mercantile complement which encourages a thoroughness of resources as good as a bootleg outflows upon such a systemic basis, as good as either this is a right mercantile model for a country.
The time is additionally right to thoroughness upon sectors as good as processes which have been a main playgrounds of unfair or unlawful resources accumulation; as good as to exercise actions directed during decisively containing or neutralising them.
Best use examples have been readily available for example, in a healthy resource zone of countries with a same healthy resources as us. These countries such as Norway have been equates to to equivocate a mistakes which you have done in exploitation of a vegetable as good as forest resources which have available ambiguous policies as good as procedures, as good as condoned corrupt or untrustworthy businesses which have reaped asset unlawful gains.
For a inhabitant contention upon resources thoroughness as good as outflows to take place, you need to mangle a swindling of silence by a domestic elites which have befitted from a complement as good as which have collaborated in a accumulation of unlawf! ul resou rces as good as resources generated from indeterminate means.
We need a professionals to fool around their role. We need some-more studies by academics as good as civil multitude to expose where unlawful as good as less than bona fide accumulations have been taking place as good as what can be finished to block up leakages as good as move to justice a offenders as good as culprits. We need some-more alarm blowers to step forward.
Discussion needs to be followed by action, either by a Barisan or Pakatan government.
This movement needs to be some-more than usually a tweaking of mercantile process as envisaged by a Pakatan parties. It needs to be a fundamentally brand brand new model of development formed upon a de-concentration of resources as good as a some-more estimable distribution.
New model of development
The in essence brand brand new model of development which puts a spotlight upon a resources of a nation (within as good as outside) as good as upon a wealthy, as good as with a vital thoroughness upon a contingent violation down of resources thoroughness commencement with unlawful resources is indispensable for three reasons.
The in essence brand brand new model of development which puts a spotlight upon a resources of a nation (within as good as outside) as good as upon a wealthy, as good as with a vital thoroughness upon a contingent violation down of resources thoroughness commencement with unlawful resources is indispensable for three reasons.
Firstly, it is a superior proceed to a narrowly race-based New Economic Policy model which has dominated a country's mercantile hold up as good as which is formed upon a uncomplicated caricature of affirmative movement policy.
Secondly, a oil resources is fast exhausting as good as a treasury is depleted. Going after resources which has been illegally amassed or justly belongs to a state will yield a nation some breathing space until you get a action together upon a other pieces of a bigger mercantile transformation jigsaw.
The final reason is which a initial equates to of misery as good as stunted development in Malaysia is an mercantile complement which promotes extreme thoroughness of wealth. So prolonged as a extreme thoroughness of resources exists, a mise! ry as go od as deformed development complaint will sojourn unresolved.
It has been pronounced which economics is not usually about production as good as resources creation. It is additionally about morality, as good as a initial moral principle is which a clever owe a avocation towards a weak. It is a role of supervision to ensure which a clever as good as rich do their avocation as good as not to encourage them in indiscretion in their obsessive resources accumulation.
Lim Teck Ghee is a executive of Centre for Policy Initiatives.
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Quo Vadis, Wisma Putra
February 1, 2012
Quo Vadis, Wisma Putra: A Message to Foreign Minister Anifah Aman as well as His Secretary-General
By Din Merican
I am simply overwhelmed by a unprecedented series of comments from readers upon my Blog over a essay in The STAR journal by Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Secretary General, Tan Sri Radzi Abdul Rahman upon a Ministry's Consular Service, as if this work is a core commercial operation of a Foreign Ministry.
As we have said earlier as well as right away repeat it, a essay ought to have been sealed off by a Desk military officer concerned. Consular matters during a Ministry as well as during a Overseas Missions have been handled by Executive Officers' as well as clerks.That finished a little commenter unhappy.
In fact, we incurred a rage of a little surrogates in Wisma Putra who commented, rather foolishly we thought, under a cloak of pseudo-names. In stead of perplexing to react definitely to my views, they chose self rejection by ignoring reality. Instead of receiving stairs to deal with a sad state of their Ministry, they chose to turn very defensive of a standing quo. These have been a carma (cari makan) types who right away populate a Foreign Ministry. Time ot fix this censure of a critical miss of professionalism.
The Malaysian open expects Wisma Putra's Secretary General to pen articles which reflect vital thinking as well as deals with critical issues which begin Malaysia's inhabitant seductiveness as well as a control of diplomacy.
In my comments, we additionally finished reference to Wisma Putra's excellence days un! der a ca re of (Tun) Muhammad Ghazali garbage bin Shafie (affectionately well known to his staff as "King Ghaz") in a early years of a country's history.
It is appropriate which we should quote this wonderful leader of lost group as well as women of a Malaysian Foreign Service of a 1960s as well as 1970s. They were his final difference upon a subject upon a diplomacy, which is a categorical job of Wisma Putra.
He said:
"We wish to have friends with everybody. That was a style from a birth of a Foreign Ministry, until today. This does not mean which we do not have a stand, we do, only look during a organisation mount upon a question of Palestine all these years. But we have friends, as well as it works
We built this method out of nothing. We had no indication upon which to base ourselves, no guide as to how to build it. Just suppose we have been a builder with a little useful tools but no architectural plans, where do we start? So we learnt upon a job. we found which a boys in a Foreign Ministry matured very quick compared to those in alternative ministries, because whereas they had their laws as well as regulations, we only had a believe to rely on
So ambassadors today, as before, contingency have honour as well as courage. Of course, they contingency be intelligent, contingency break down in to parts things. You do not in to a nation only to envoy, we go there to observe, to see what they have been doong. Then we inform behind to a home country. They contingency be correct as well as up to date. Yes,diplomats can be trained, but they contingency be fightersI have no regrets looking back, no regrets all. So it remains. We should keep making friendsit works." (
These were a final difference of King Ghazali for his successors similar to Anifah Aman, a Foreign Ministry to remember as well as action upon. Wisma Putra is a critical place because a job of tact is both severe as well as perfectionist of those who right away occupy Number One Wisma Putra.
The summary in my Blog is transparent a open has turn discerning as well as more demanding. Wisma Putra competence consider which Malaysians have only medium believe of general affairs, but readers of this Blog have shown they retain an substantial learn of universe affairs as well as a complexities as well as have sophisticated views upon a broad operation of general issues. Don't blink a people as well as my readers.
Aside this, officers during Wisma Putra know very well which Radzi is not an zealous reader, nonetheless he quotes an obscure poet. He is additionally lustful of telling his colleagues as well as friends who insinuate to him about complaints opposite Wisma Putra as well as Radzi's batch reply have been regularly which he had not listened any.
My indicate is which a responses of readers to a Blog represent a cross-section of a silent infancy of a Malaysian public, who crave to be informed upon unfamiliar process issues as well as tact as well as how they stroke upon Malaysia's image, well-being as well as confidence (national interest).
Radzi's shoal essay in The Star! on ly exacerbates a open perception of a critical decrease in a Ministry's intellectual collateral as well as leadership.
I am finished to understand which Wisma Putra has recently created a "Special Speech Writing Committee" comprising of twenty-seven officers. If Radzi's essay as well as a Foreign Minister recent debate is a product of this committee, afterwards a rot is really low indeed.
And FM Anifah speech! It is a fifth grader stuff to a tactful corps upon January 5 this year in Kuala Lumpur. He talked of a significance of a neighbours as well as ASEAN. What substantively has a Minister finished in which direction, we wonder? As we distant as we know, Indonesia as well as Singapore with tip flight Foreign Ministers have been providing a much indispensable thinking upon ASEAN, whilst we remain calm to fool around along.
Since we mostly say which ASEAN is a cornerstone of a unfamiliar policy, a Foreign Minister could have used a opportunity to go over general as well as prosaic statements about a support for ASEAN Community,and go in to a little sum how a open as well as a universe can benefit from further ASEAN integration in conditions of a regional economy/business, education, culture, etc.
Similarly, a Foreign Minister could have chose any series of issues nation a nation as well as a segment as well as how a supervision was traffic with them so as to ensure a seductiveness of a nation as well as a segment have been protected.
Malaysians have been seriously endangered which a nation has fallen off a general radar. Gone have been a days when Malaysia was during a forefront. In Oct final year, a University of Cambosia as well as a Singapore Foreign Ministry organized a Roundtable in Phnom Penh to brainstorm upon Cambodian 2012 chairmanship of ASEAN. Singapore's FM Shanmugan as well as a Ambassador there experience in a discussion. They were both articulate as well as engaging.
And right away we read of a first ever central revisit of President Thein Sein of Myan! mar to S ingapore to seek out a city state's substantial expertise upon inhabitant development, together with banking as well as finance. Worse still, President Aquino has nonetheless to pay an central revisit to Malaysia. Why -???
What have a Ambassadors in Phnom Penh, Yangon as well as Manila, let alone Wisma Putra being doing?
There have additionally been complaints from readers upon a recruitment of diplomats as well as their proficiency of in English. we contingency concur which a criticism is a valid one. This problem, however, goes behind to a days when Tun Ahmad Sarji (left), who was afterwards a Chief Secretary to a Government during a Mahathir era.
Going behind to a old Wisma Putra, whose conduit diplomats were asked to fill up a posts of Secretaries General of a Ministries of Finance (Tan Sri Zain Azahari) as well as Youth as well as Sports (Datuk Jamaluddin Abu Bakar), Ahmad Sarji, probably with a most appropriate of intention, sent to Wisma Putra scores as well as scores of half-baked UKM as well as USM graduates in a late 197os as well as 1980s.
Secondly, today, there is nonetheless an additional large censure between officers is which each thing contingency be created in Malay, reports, minutes, as well as so on. Wisma Putra officers given a 1970s use to write in Malay to outward agencies. This new development is assumingly as a result of a no-brainer gauge from a stream Chief Secretary to a Government
Internal reports, minutes, minutes, jot down of conversations as well as alternative forms of communications have been necessary tools of a diplomat. By depriving them a chance to home their skills to use English, a language in an operational environment, how can we expect to perform them well when it comes to representing a nation in a genuine world? It is similar to! asking a solders to sight with plastic rifles as well as expect them to quarrel effectively regulating genuine weapons in a war.
Another reader, "Ir.Somdol", probably a surrogate, tried to urge Radzi by claiming which no a single during Wisma Putra has ever listened of 'Din Merican', implying which we was talking out of my hat. Never mind, Samdol could only have gone to my webpage to know more about me. Again, we am not a emanate here.The rapid as well as roughly unstoppable deterioration in a standards of professionalism in Wisma Putra is.
Just for Samdol's further information, Khalid Yaacob (now Tun), Tan Sri Kamil Jaafar, Tan Sri Razali Ismail, as well as Tan Sri Mohamed Khatib as well as a horde of others used to live during 272 Jalan Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur when we were all during Wisma Putra in a early 1960s. They had distinguished careers in Wisma Putra, whilst we left for a private sector.
All a above matters have been indeed worrying, call me to pen this essay for a attention of both Foreign Minister Anifah Aman as well as a Secretary General Radzi Abdul Rahman.
The Foreign Minister as well as a Secretary -General contingency be endangered with crafting unfamiliar process which secures Malaysia's interests in a world, which is making as well as winning friends. And my readers wish to listen to more upon Wisma Putra's core commercial operation unfamiliar policy, a involvement in ASEAN as well as relations with actors in general affairs.
The Secretary General's as well as a Minister's debate mount out as evidence of a deficiency of vital thinking during Wisma Putra. It is unfortunate a Prime Minister is assumingly unconcerned about a rot which has set in Wisma Putra. It is, however, more likely which Najib has no confidence in a Foreign Ministry, relying in stead upon a advice of consider ! armoured column similar to ISIS Malaysia as well as former diplomats, as well as his own Foreign Policy team upon a Fourth Floor, Prime Minister's Department, Putrjaya. So Wisma Putra is only a Post Office with overpaid workers.
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Dissent grows over rumoured healthcare tax under 1 Care scheme
By Clara Chooi
Feb 01, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1 Public outrage is growing over a proposed "1 Care" intrigue to restructure a country's healthcare complement which critics explain would force employees as well as businesses to minister 10 per cent of their monthly income to a government-run word fund.
Although sum of a intrigue have been still deceptive as well as Health Ministry officials have insisted it is still "too early" to sound notice bells, healing practitioners as well as consumer associations have glued together together since last December to flog off a "Tak Nak 1 Care" campaign, anticipating to postpone Putrajaya's skeleton before they come in to force.
Critics explain a intrigue would force employees as well as businesses to minister 10 per cent of their monthly income to a government-run word fund. Reuters record pic
Among others, a organisation have started a "#TakNak1Care" Facebook community page, a Twitter comment regulating a handle @taknak1care as well as uploaded upon YouTube, several video clips urging Malaysians to reject a scheme.
Their efforts crop up to be gaining traction in between netizens as well as have even held a courtesy of Health deputy director-general (Medical) Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, who has been personally involved in lengthy discussions with a organisation around their Facebook page.
The Malaysian Insiderunderstands which "1 Care" is modelled in a entirety after a United Kingdom's National Healthcare Service (NHS), a publicly-funded healthcare sys! tem, as well as was mooted in a 10th Malaysia Plan for a Health Ministry's 2011-2015 vital plan.
It is believed which a five-phase intrigue has already entered a third phase, as well as a full initiative, post rendezvous with doctors as well as pharmacists nationwide, is due to be presented to a Cabinet by March.
According to a single CHC member, "1 Care" will reinstate Malaysia's stream two-tier (public as well as private) healthcare complement by integrating both in isolation as well as government hospitals, in hopes of ensuring more "equitable" healthcare for Malaysians opposite all socio-economic statuses.
Under a benefaction two-tier system, Malaysians can select in between seeking diagnosis during in isolation clinics or hospitals as well as compensate out of their own pockets or around health word claims, or opt for diagnosis during government clinics or hospitals as well as compensate usually a nominal fee for basic, government-subsidised healthcare.
With "1 Care", CHC pronounced it would be made compulsory for all salary earners, incompatible government servants as well as pensioners, as well as businesses to minister 10 per cent of their monthly incomes to a government-run Social Healthcare Insurance (SHI).
"So those who can pay, will pay, whilst those exempted from paying, such as a poor as well as so on, would still qualify for free basic healing benefits offering underneath a intrigue ... Basically, those who can means it will compensate for those who can't," a part of said, vocalization upon condition of anonymity.
But, detached from a "fee-before-service" complement underneath "1 Care", CHC is also griping over a singular healthcare benefits offering underneath a intrigue such as: a patient is assigned to a specific general practitioner (GP); visits have been singular to 6 times per year; visits have been singular to a single ailment per revisit as well as GPs or primary healthcare providers (PHCPs) have been since Key Perform! ance Ind icators (KPIs) to meet as well as would be subjected to penalties.
"Under this system, PHCPs usually distinction by billing a SHI for their services. Like all insurance, a SHI won't approve as well most claims to minimise cost. PHCPs might be penalised for giving as well most service ... or referring as well most patients to hospitals or specialists.
"1 Care" is believed to be modelled after a UK's National Healthcare Service (NHS). Reuters record pic
The CHC part of explained toThe Malaysian Insiderthat "1 Care" budgets a maximum explain of RM360 per patient for each GP from a SHI, which amounts to usually 6 consultations in a year during RM60 each.
"And with a KPI quotas to meet, GPs would try to delay referring as well most patients to hospital. Those who need to seek diagnosis urgently would then have to go to a hospital upon their own as well as compensate out of their own pockets," a part of complained.
When attempting to reduce fears over "1 Care" recently, Dr Noor Hisham explained which it was merely during "conceptual stage" as well as which reformation of a country's healthcare complement was badly needed.
"Now in a open sector you outlay RM16 billion as well as usually replenish dual per cent. On a alternative hand, you wouldn't wish to weight a rakyat so you have been currently seeking in to various options as well as models.
"At this point of time nothing has been agreed upon. Until all has been agreed to by a open as well as such, you need to investigate a price analysis. However, there have been already lots of assumptions as well as conjecture as well as bad branding of a complemen! t simila r to this TAK NAK.
"I wonder where they pluck a figures from but concrete data to support," he wrote in a single response.
But a CHC claims a brand new "1 Care Act" is due to be tabled in Parliament imminently, probable as early as a subsequent sitting in March.
The CHC will short reporters upon a emanate tomorrow in a build-up to a Selangor/Kuala Lumpur Healthcare Public Forum upon Feb 12.The Malaysian Insiderunderstands a forum will be non-stop by Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim as well as attended by Health Ministry officials.
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RPK: Why I went mainstream
Raja Petra Kamarudin reveals because he has motionless to vent his frustrations opposite Pakatan Rakyat to a mainstream media.
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PETALING JAYA: Raja Petra Kamarudin or better well known as RPK is a household name. The blogger of royal descent has a knack for courting debate as well as his Malaysia Today blog is well known to send a chill down Barisan Nasional's spine.
Apart from detection numerous scandals, RPK additionally unleashed a wave of no binds barred assaults opposite prominent figures in a ruling coalition, together with Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak as well as his mother Rosmah Mansor.
RPK, who now resides in London, was considered to be a single of a instrumental forces behind a political tsunami which struck Malaysian shores on March 8, 2008, harmful a fortress of BN.
Now, a same blogger, once distinguished by a opposition, is indicted of being a traitor as well as an Umno stooge. The reason for this was his interviews with a mainstream media which were critical of Pakatan Rakyat as well as a supremo Anwar Ibrahim.
Speaking to FMT, a pipe-smoking rebel explained because he chose this path.
"People ask me because do you talk to a mainstream media, because do not you talk without delay to a antithesis leaders? You think you didn't? We did. But you can't get their attention," he lamented.
"However, when you go to a mainstream media, it gets attention," he added.
The blogger additionally stressed which Pakatan contingency realise which a "Anything But Umno" enthusiasm of a past would not repeat in a coming ubiquitous election. When this was put forth to Anwar, RPK said, a antithesis leader conceded which ! electora te would only behind Pakatan if it fielded peculiarity candidates.
RPK additionally disclosed which in a run-up to a 2008 ubiquitous election, a "social contract" was inked, which settled which Pakatan would exercise a "people's declaration" if it came in to power.
The blogger claimed which when he raised this make a difference with Anwar, a latter blamed a "egotistical" Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim as being a stumbling block to a implementation.
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Miti: Keep a cool head over Lynas
Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh, meanwhile, rubbishes Lynas' explain which she is a only one in Pakatan who opposes a plant
PETALING JAYA: The Ministry of International Trade as well as Industry (Miti) urged all buliding to keep a "cool head" over a latest bout of sparring in between Lynas Corp as well as Kuantan MP, Fuziah Salleh. The Australian mining hulk yesterday warned a antithesis coalition against shutting down a RM2.5 billion rare earth plant in Gebeng, observant which such a pierce would deter other unfamiliar investments in a country.
Lynas' executive chairman, Nicholas Curtis, was responding to an earlier matter by Fuziah which Pakatan Rakyat would stop a plant if it won a 13th general election.
"We should keep a cool head upon things,"said Miti's secretary-general, Rebecca Sta Maria, in an email to FMT.
"The supervision will not be drawn in to this exchange as well as you will not be pressured by any party. We contingency concede a application process for a licence to take a course."
Lynas is now awaiting a decision by a Atomic Energy Licencing Board (AELB) upon a distribution of a temporary operating licence which is expected to be voiced soon.
Fuziah, Lynas' many vocal detractor, remarkable which Curtis was great during a strategy of "divide as well as rule" as well as pointed out which it was a Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) which would price Malaysia a unfamiliar investors.
She additionally laughed off Curtis' explain which she is a lone voice in Pakatan to oppose a plant as well as which Lynas has PAS' support.
"During a anti-Lynas fundraising dinner (PAS spiritual leader), Nik Aziz (Nik Mat) told a! throng which if they longed for to tighten down Lynas afterwards they should vote for Pakatan.
"And when someone similar to Nik Aziz says this it equates to something," pronounced Fuziah
"Even (Pakatan leader) Anwar Ibrahim has voiced his antithesis to a plant. And recollect which I'm not only an MP though additionally a PKR vice-president as well as a member of a Pakatan care council."
PAS members affected
PAS members affected
When asked why Curtis was underneath a impression which PAS upheld LAMP, Fuziah explained which it was since a handful of employees in a Gebeng plant were PAS members.
According to her, they were uneasy about operative in a plant though were additionally concerned over losing their jobs if a plant sealed down.
"But PAS leaders have told them which a party cannot put a interests of a few people over a wellbeing of a nation as well as they understand this," pronounced Fuziah.
Lynas final week voiced which it has raised US$ 225 million (RM700 million) in bonds to finish Phase One of a plant as well as will be loitering operations to a second entertain of a year.
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Breaking up wealth concentration in Malaysia
Dr Lim Teck Ghee The Malaysian Insider FEB 1 The past year has seen a supervision as well as a antithesis unveil their particular mercantile remodel policies. Even if these remodel policies as well as their in attendance programmes are implemented they will not be able to resolve a countrys mercantile problems. This is since a policies advocated [...] ... Read More
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TAWAU, January 29 (Bernama) -- Barisan Nasional (BN) secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said the power-sharing judgment of the coalition enabled it to plead matters during various levels prior to a preference is done by the central leadership.
Who else but Anwar?
Barisan Nasional's obsession with Anwar Ibrahim has come to a head. It is unimaginable that there could be so many emotion over one solitary figure, even if he heads a Opposition pact. Always lurking underneath a surface - ever given Umno locked up as well as sacked him upon false sodomy charges in 1998 - this fright of retribution erupted in to a open after a 2008 ubiquitous election, as well as until today, it has not dissipated.
If one were to watch a headlines upon budding time air wave not a moment goes by though one knucklehead or alternative letting off steam opposite Anwar, whilst trying to receptive to advice as well as look credible though adhering a finger in to his nose or scratching his rear.
BN sharks work overtime
It sounds so ridiculous, though day in as well as day out, a mainstream media is working overtime to slice detached a 'one great leader' who is approaching by his countrymen to save Malaysia from a mighty jaws of a BN sharks, to unite a republic as well as to lead it to turn a genuine as well as functioning democracy.
No, a BN supervision simply cannot let that happen. Not over their dead bodies anyway! How can Malaysia turn some-more approved than it already is? After all, Prime Minister Najib Razak has already pronounced a republic is a "best democracy in a world". How can any one urge upon that?
Also, what will occur to all a booty? Yes, Malaysia is abounding - or was abounding anyway. But how will a BN leaders get to lord over a people as well as legally steal all their assets if they let Anwar travel over them? That would spell a end of a BN bullion mine. Imagi! ne, afte r extracting all those billions, BN leaders have been still unfortunate to scratch a barrel's bottom for that last dollar. No, no! Cross a BN fingers, Anwar contingency never come to power!
Scared stiff
Whatever would turn of BN? Who is going to protect them from a law? At least right divided they know they can make a law protect them, though that will change if democracy really sets foot in this country. Their sins will find them out as well as fast. They will be during a forgiveness of a people, who will wish their heads as well as rightly so. The looting of a republic has left upon for far as well long as well as during as well great a scale.
They have been hoodwinking a open lfor as well long enough. Everyone right divided knows their modus operandi as well as have turn wise to their tricks. It is not only a NFC monetary debacle, what's a measly RM250 million. Like Zaid Ibrahim, formerly of Umno, ex-PKR as well as right divided KITA, says - Mindef or a Ministry of Defense is a many bigger fish totalling billions in unaccounted for funds.
Yes, "Barisan Nasional" as well as BN have been scared. The small conformation of Anwar Ibrahim in a shadows strikes fright in to their miserly hearts. The really glimpse of Anwar in chairman gives them a wild shakes as well as shivers, not to discuss endless nightmares. Never has any one chairman in this republic ever had such a paralysing outcome upon a supervision of a day. And Anwar hasn't even lifted a finger to unleash any salvos during them yet! Hehehe!
Be that as it may, they know that as long as Anwar is out there, their goose is fried! Finito! Kaputt! You can see a despair in their faces, as they try to disprove Anwar with sore excuses trimming from sodomy to anti-Jew issues.
Yet, notwithstanding a combined competence of a BN supervision as well as all their machinery, they have unsuccessful to hole a picture of this charismatic leader, whom a people have b! een coun ting upon to eradicate a cancer eating divided during a roots of this republic - CORRUPTION.
Superhero as well as Superstar
The consistent attacks upon him have been generating a positive attitude towards Anwar, as some-more as well as some-more people turn aware of him as well as his important face whilst questioning a BN's ludicrous courtesy as well as profusion towards him. Thanks to a free national publicity, that often spills over in to a general press as well, a BN mass media has turned Anwar in to a superhero as well as a superstar.
By comparison, Najib, a current budding apportion if any one still remembers who he is, gets during least 70 per cent less. And for that, he has to outlay hundreds of millions of open income upon his media team. What cheek!
Today, Anwar hogs a spotlight, in all a mainstream media, pro-BN blogs, air wave as well as radio, not to discuss a consistent general media limelight. He is a many talked about person, a many loved as well as hated, a many persecuted as well as a many publicly-dissected celebrity in regards to both his open as well as in isolation life.
Today, he holds in one finger some-more credit than all of a BN politicians put together, as attempts to detain him as well as pin him down have unsuccessful miserably. Sodomy we , Sodomy II, a Datuk T sex video fiasco have all unsuccessful to blotch his character, boomeranging upon Najib as well as his group of scriptwriters for dreaming up such immorality shenanigans opposite what is after all - a fellow tellurian being.
Who else though Anwar?
And by all a consistent attacks, Anwar has risen from a remains similar to Prince Charming vanquishing all his attackers as well as appearing as strong as well as as ideal as before. He is a loyal hero of a Malays, as well as many have been silently angry during a vain attempts to disprove such a loyal soaring Malay talent. It is a g! enuine s hame.
Try counting upon your fingers, that Malay has ever been so welcomed as well as reputable in a universe than Anwar? Is it Najib? Was it Abdullah Badawi? How about Mahathir Mohamad?
But Mahathir thinks he deserves a honor some-more than Anwar. According to a great Dr M, he is a one who has completed a many for Malaysia as well as therefore deserves to be crowned a best-respected or best-loved Malay personality ever, or so far anyway. But a thing is, whilst Mahathir left behind a lot of infrastructure, he as well as his cronies took out even some-more - disproportionately outrageous amounts of assets as well as income out of a country. To a tune of RM888 billion during least if a Global Financial Integrity is correct.
So we do not know if a Malays wish to cruise them as their best loved son. Even Malaysians would prefer to put him in their Hall of Infamy rsther than than Fame.
As for Badawi, yawn! Yes, he slept by his tenure only a tad as well much. As for Najib, come on! He even needs to have a "Love Najib" campaign started up for him by MCA-linked groups. For sure, someone who has to call himself "Ah Jib Gor" is a cartoon as well as nowhere in striking stretch of even door to a watchful room where field for a climax of many renowned Malay - er, for great as well as positive things as well as not C4 or diamond rings - have to wait.
The misfortune impertinence of it all is Najib had a gall to ban Zunar's political cartoons whilst he calls himself "Ah Jib Gor", launches "Love Najib" campaigns, as well as gives a curtsy to Datuk T sex video scripts.Doraemon, Ninja Turtles as well as Debby Does Dallas- watch out, foe is upon a way!
So, let a attacks continue, as well as let Anwar bask in glory during all a courtesy targeted opposite him, as well as let a people decide who they wish to be a next personality of this nation.
Although, Anwar competence gladly forgo a Prime Minister-ship for a! consequ ence of togetherness as well as compromise, there is still no one large sufficient to fill his boots as well as conjunction would a people wish any one reduction than Anwar Ibrahim.
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Dissent grows over rumoured healthcare tax under 1 Care scheme
By Clara Chooi
February 01, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, February 1 Public outrage is flourishing over a due "1 Care" intrigue to restructure a country's healthcare complement which critics explain would force employees as well as businesses to minister 10 per cent of their monthly income to a government-run word fund.
Although details of a intrigue have been still deceptive as well as Health Ministry officials have insisted it is still "too early" to receptive to advice notice bells, medical practitioners as well as consumer associations have glued together together since last December to kick off a "Tak Nak 1 Care" campaign, anticipating to postpone Putrajaya's skeleton before they come into force.
Critics explain a intrigue would force employees as well as businesses to minister 10 per cent of their monthly income to a government-run word fund. Reuters record pic
Among others, a organisation have started a "#TakNak1Care" Facebook village page, a Twitter account regulating a hoop @taknak1care as well as uploaded upon YouTube, several video clips propelling Malaysians to reject a scheme.
Their efforts crop up to be gaining traction among netizens as well as have even caught a courtesy of Health emissary director-general (Medical) Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, who has been personally involved in extensive discussions with a organisation around their Facebook page.
The Malaysian Insiderunderstands which "1 Care" is modelled in its whole after a United Kingdom's National Healthcare Service (NHS), a! publicl y-funded healthcare system, as well as was mooted in a 10th Malaysia Plan for a Health Ministry's 2011-2015 vital plan.
It is believed which a five-phase intrigue has already entered its third phase, as well as a full initiative, post rendezvous with doctors as well as pharmacists nationwide, is due to be presented to a Cabinet by March.
According to a single CHC member, "1 Care" will replace Malaysia's stream two-tier (public as well as private) healthcare complement by integrating both in isolation as well as supervision hospitals, in hopes of ensuring more "equitable" healthcare for Malaysians opposite all socio-economic statuses.
Under a benefaction two-tier system, Malaysians can select in between seeking diagnosis during in isolation clinics or hospitals as well as compensate out of their own pockets or around illness word claims, or opt for diagnosis during supervision clinics or hospitals as well as compensate usually a nominal fee for basic, government-subsidised healthcare.
With "1 Care", CHC pronounced it would be done compulsory for all salary earners, incompatible supervision servants as well as pensioners, as well as businesses to minister 10 per cent of their monthly incomes to a government-run Social Healthcare Insurance (SHI).
"So those who can pay, will pay, while those exempted from paying, such as a poor as well as so on, would still qualify for giveaway simple medical benefits offered underneath a intrigue ... Basically, those who can afford it will compensate for those who can't," a part of said, vocalization upon condition of anonymity.
But, detached from a "fee-before-service" complement underneath "1 Care", CHC is additionally griping over a singular healthcare benefits offered underneath a intrigue such as: a studious is assigned to a specific ubiquitous practitioner (GP); visits have been singular to 6 times per year; visits have been singular to a single ailment per visit as well as GPs or first healthcare! provide rs (PHCPs) have been since Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to encounter as well as would be subjected to penalties.
"Under this system, PHCPs usually profit by billing a SHI for their services. Like all insurance, a SHI won't authorize as well many claims to minimise cost. PHCPs might be penalised for giving as well much use ... or referring as well many patients to hospitals or specialists.
"1 Care" is believed to be modelled after a UK's National Healthcare Service (NHS). Reuters record pic
The CHC part of explained toThe Malaysian Insiderthat "1 Care" budgets a limit explain of RM360 per studious for any GP from a SHI, which amounts to usually 6 consultations in a year during RM60 each.
"And with a KPI quotas to meet, GPs would try to check referring as well many patients to hospital. Those who need to find diagnosis urgently would afterwards have to go to a hospital upon their own as well as compensate out of their own pockets," a part of complained.
When attempting to allay fears over "1 Care" recently, Dr Noor Hisham explained which it was merely during "conceptual stage" as well as which reconstruction of a country's healthcare complement was badly needed.
"Now in a open zone you outlay RM16 billion as well as usually replenish two per cent. On a other hand, you wouldn't want to burden a rakyat so you have been currently seeking into various options as well as models.
"At this point of time zero has been concluded upon. Until everything has been concluded to by a open as well as such, you need to investigate a price analysis. However, there have been already lots of assumptions as well as sp! eculatio n as well as bad branding of a complement similar to this TAK NAK.
"I consternation where they bravery a figures from but substantive data to support," he wrote in a single response.
But a CHC claims a new "1 Care Act" is due to be tabled in Parliament imminently, possible as early as a next sitting in March.
The CHC will brief reporters upon a emanate tomorrow in a build-up to a Selangor/Kuala Lumpur Healthcare Public Forum upon February 12.The Malaysian Insiderunderstands a forum will be opened by Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim as well as attended by Health Ministry officials.
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Apa Hubungan Dr Mahathir dengan Yitzak Rabin?
Artikel dari "Australian Jewish News" di bawah memberitahu kita beberapa perkara menarik berkaitan Dr Mahathir:1.0 Dr Mahathir berkawan baik dengan seorang Yahudi Singapore bernama Yahya Cohen.1.1 Yahudi Yahya Cohen ini adalah rakan sekelas Dr Mahathir sewaktu beliau belajar di Universiti Malaya di Singapore1.2 Yahya Cohen kemudiannya menjadi Pengerusi Persatuan Perubatan Singapura2.0 Dr Mahathir sering berutus surat dengan Yitzak Rabin, bekas Perdana Menteri Israel.2.1 Sehingga pernah mengajurk ... Read More
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BN excos refused to assist in Tan 'land scam' probe
The before Penang Barisan Nasional executive councillors had unsuccessful to concur in a investigation of an alleged land fraud which in a future price millions of ringgit.
Deputy Chief Minister P Ramasamy(right)said a BN had blown dual golden opportunities to set free themselves over a barbarous Tan Hak Ju "scam" which has price Penangites RM14.7 million.
Tan sued a state supervision in 2005 for withdrawing his application for a plot of land in Seberang Perai for quarrying as a area was already owned by dual associations.
Except for Teluk Bahang assemblyperson Hilmi Yahya, a alternative state excos "refused" to attend a probe, intiated by a Pakatan Rakyat supervision in 2008, he added.
Hilmi(left)was afterwards Penang deputy arch minister, under a Gerakan-led BN state government.
"We did not entice them to attend a examine to investigate them. We asked them to come so you could seek their assistance in anticipating out what went wrong," he told reporters during a press discussion today.
White Paper upon scandal
"They refused to come since they said you were personification politics," he added. Ramasamy was accompanied by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng during a media session in Komtar.
Ramasamy, who presented aWhite Paperin a state legislative public in Apr final year, said a state supervision had nothing to apologise over a box as a BN administration department department afterwards was obliged for it.
He combined which a alternative way BN could have redeemed itself f! rom a "s candal" was to recompense a office worker with RM1.8 million, as demanded earlier instead of allowing him to beginner a legal claim for RM40 million.
Former state exco as well as BN operative cabinet arch Dr Teng Hock Nan has refused to accept a box being marked down a scandal, insisting which a Pakatan governmentapologiseand retract their statement.
Deputy Chief Minister P Ramasamy(right)said a BN had blown dual golden opportunities to set free themselves over a barbarous Tan Hak Ju "scam" which has price Penangites RM14.7 million.Tan sued a state supervision in 2005 for withdrawing his application for a plot of land in Seberang Perai for quarrying as a area was already owned by dual associations.
Except for Teluk Bahang assemblyperson Hilmi Yahya, a alternative state excos "refused" to attend a probe, intiated by a Pakatan Rakyat supervision in 2008, he added.
Hilmi(left)was afterwards Penang deputy arch minister, under a Gerakan-led BN state government."We did not entice them to attend a examine to investigate them. We asked them to come so you could seek their assistance in anticipating out what went wrong," he told reporters during a press discussion today.
White Paper upon scandal
"They refused to come since they said you were personification politics," he added. Ramasamy was accompanied by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng during a media session in Komtar.
Ramasamy, who presented aWhite Paperin a state legislative public in Apr final year, said a state supervision had nothing to apologise over a box as a BN administration department department afterwards was obliged for it.
He combined which a alternative way BN could have redeemed itself f! rom a "s candal" was to recompense a office worker with RM1.8 million, as demanded earlier instead of allowing him to beginner a legal claim for RM40 million.
Former state exco as well as BN operative cabinet arch Dr Teng Hock Nan has refused to accept a box being marked down a scandal, insisting which a Pakatan governmentapologiseand retract their statement.
On a RM1.8 million compensation, Teng(right)said a state was watchful for proper documentation from Tan before they could proceed with a payment, but none were provided.Meanwhile, Lim questioned because a before BN administration department department did not take any movement against a officer concerned in a box during a tenure before to 2008.
"He was only given a warning. Action was only taken when you took over a government. We had him eliminated to another division.
"We cannot take movement twice upon a person, that's double jeorpardy. We can't touch him now, interjection to BN," he muttered.
Lim, additionally a DAP secretary general, said Tan was delectable a Court of Appeal's decision to recompense him with RM500,000.
The court had ordered him to lapse a RM14.7 million awarded to him earlier but it is doubtful which he would compensate behind a amount, combined Lim.
"So if you remove a case, will BN as well as Teng compensate a RM40 million to Tan? If you win a case, will BN as well as Teng, compensate us behind a RM14.7 million?" he queried.
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42,000 dubious voters struck off the list
The Election Commission cannot determine more 42,000 indeterminate electorate as well as will be taken off a electoral roll.
GEORGE TOWN: A sum of 42, 025 indeterminate electorate would be private from a electoral hurl when a Election Commission corroboration routine upon a voters' list ends during midnight today. EC chairman Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof pronounced a EC could not determine these electorate after coordinating with a National Registration Department (NRD) to substantiate them for a past 3 months.
The EC has displayed names of sum 42,051 indeterminate electorate for open corroboration since Oct 27 final year. It lengthened a dateline for a corroboration routine from final Dec 31 to January 31.
Of a names, usually 26 were able to be accurate whilst a rest remained unverified as well as dubious, to illustrate would be deleted from roll.
"We have since sufficient time for all names to be verified.
"The unverified names will be deleted," Abdul Aziz told journalists after an EC state-level lecture event for choosing returning officers as well as agents here. Also benefaction was state choosing director Morat Pora. The corroboration was invoked by final set by electoral remodel coalition Bersih 2.0. The first of Bersih's eight-point demand to EC was to clean up a electoral hurl of indeterminate voters.
Abdul Aziz called upon a remaining 3,731,134 or twenty-three per cent authorised adults to exercise their rights by induction themselves immediately.
Of these 3 million citizens, he pronounced Malays formed a greatest group, followed by Chinese, Indians as well as others.
"Registration routine is elementary as well as easy.
"You just have to take your temperament card, go to a nearest post bureau as well as register yourself even a form would be filled up by a staff," he said.
Penang has 803,304 purebred voters, with 157,618 or 18.5 per cent authorised adults nonetheless to be registered.
The EC's record shows which an normal 300,000 people have been induction as new electorate in any quarter.
Foreign voters
On abroad Malaysians' right to balloting, Abdul Aziz pronounced a country's unfamiliar office, Wisma Putra, has declined to commence a charge to conduct an open balloting routine for them due to its complications. Among a reasons since were which a 'foreign' Malaysians were staying all over a universe as well as some were often shifting places.
Moreover, Abdul Aziz pronounced a question upon who should be authorised for voting contingency additionally be determined.
He raised question upon either those long-staying Malaysians of fifteen to twenty years in unfamiliar countries shall be allowed to vote when they had already mislaid hold with Malaysia.
He pronounced a EC would accept those Malaysians, who have been operative abroad ! for past 3 to five years as they would still be attached to a country.
As for now, he pronounced a EC has motionless which early postal voting would be a right answer to a problem.
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White ang-pows: Should the Chinese "Love Najib" when he won't even chastise Ibrahim Ali
In a move to protect his newly-launched Chinese certification via a much ridiculed "Ah Jib Gor" Facebook page, Prime Minister Najib Razak changed fast to stretch himself from a ultimate failure brought about by clumsy Malay rights group Perkasa as good as a controversial founder Ibrahim Ali.
"Ibrahim Ali is an eccentric MP. As such a Chinese New Year function where white packets were distributed should not be seen as something that was condoned by a government," Najib pronounced in a posting upon a "Ah Jib Gor" page.
The Facebook page was launched upon Jan sixteen in a bid to stem plunging esteem as good as recognition amongst a Chinese community. But it looks similar to Najib, who lost credibility to due to his ambivalence as good as weak hand upon a government, will have to do some-more to convince a Chinese of his sincerity.
"It is not great enough. Najib is usually passing a sire behind to Ibrahim Ali. It is a waste of time to even make such a comment. The total of Malaysia already knows Ibrahim Ali is an eccentric MP as good as that Perkasa is a sister organization of Umno's with former Umno boss Mahathir Mohamad a patron as good as some-more than three-quarters of a members from a Umno right wing. The slightest Najib can do is to chastise Ibrahim for his insensitive remarks as good as hurting a feelings of a Chinese community," PKR vice boss Chua Jui Meng toldMalaysia Chronicle.
Don't let MCA as good as Soi Lek get away
The Chinese take thisfaux pasextremely seriously. To a community, red symbolises prosperity as good as joy, that is compatible as good as essential to any CNY festivity. Whereas, white signifies death. Chinese usually burn white candles during funerals whilst money donations to a bereaved have been given in white envelopes.
So insensitive was Ibrahim that he boasted that "cash-strapped Perkasa" had outlayed RM10,000 upon a 300-odd group that attended, yet he steadfastly refused to apologize when urged to.
"We don't take pleasantly to any a single in any case of competition as good as faith to make use of any of Malaysia's comparison adults for photo-shoots as good as self-promotion as good as afterwards gash them in a back. These have been aged folk who won't welcome any hints or omens of death. The really slightest Ibrahim can do is say contemptible as good as Najib as good should apologize for perplexing make flimsy excuses for Ibrahim as good as for himself," Batu MP Tian Chua toldMalaysia Chronicle.
"Is Najib perplexing to tell a Chinese, hatred Ibrahim Ali but adore me because it is not my fault? Why should a Chinese accept Najib or praise him when he is usually serving his own dom! estic in terests as good as not theirs? If he wants a Chinese to adore him, he needs to mount up for them that he is not you do during all. All he is saying is, it has got zero to do with me. Even Gerakan has some-more guts than him."
Nonsensical propaganda
The "Love Najib" intrigue has already been criticized as hare-brained as good as unfortunate by pundits, as good as similar to "Ah Jib Gor" as good as a ceaseless 1Malaysia-branding, will go down in story as symbols of a single of a country's darkest eras, noted by a most crazy as good as twisted of propaganda.
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