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Raja Petra Kamarudin
Reinstate giveaway pier standing to Penang Port, supervision told
(Bernama) - Reinstating giveaway pier standing to Penang Port will stimulate mercantile wake up in diverse sectors in a state, pronounced Penang Chinese Assembly Hall authority Datuk Lam Wu Chong.
He pronounced most sectors, particularly a tourism sector, would good immensely if a giveaway pier standing was reinstated.
"Economic activities will flourish if Penang was postulated a status. Penang will emerge as a selling haven as good as a tourist paradise.
"I believe Penangites have been seeking forward to a reinstatement of a status," he pronounced during a Chinese New Year open residence hosted by a assembly.
Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas, his wife, Toh Puan Majimor Shariff, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as good as Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng attended a open house.
Lam pronounced a state manage to buy needed injection of fresh mercantile elements to provide a procedure for a colourful economy.
He pronounced reports from professionals showed Penang's economy, which relied heavily upon a industrial sector, was losing a competitive corner as good as this has caused a manage to buy to! slow do wn.
Penang has been a giveaway pier given a colonial days until a standing was revoked in 1969.
On an additional matter, Lam pronounced Penangites supported a devise to introduce monorail services as a pierce would extremely palliate trade overload which has turn a vital complaint in a state.
"Traffic woes have turn a vital concern to Penangites. A permanent solution has to be found for this problem. This must be addressed soon.
"If you demeanour during vital cities around a world, a cities have competent trade systems, subways or subterraneous train services to help palliate trade congestion," he added.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had not long ago promised a monorail use for Penang if a Barisan Nasional (BN) was given a charge to govern a state in a soon-to-be-held 13th ubiquitous election.
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What a Penang Chinese Assembly Hall chairman, Lam Wu Chong, pronounced is a theme close to my heart given you have been observant a same thing given approach behind in a 1970s. Now, after 40 years, someone else is observant a same thing.
you always discuss it my friends which you adore Penang of a 1950s as good as 1960s though not a Penang of today. In fact, a same relates to Port Dickson, Cameron Highlands, Frasers Hill, as good as so on. All these places have lost their charm. They no longer have 'character'. They have been zero similar to what you remember them to be prior to as good as shortly afterMerdeka.
When you were kids-- shortly afterMerdekawhen my grandfather was a Governor of Penang -- you would outlay dual weeks each December holidaying in Penang. One week would be outlayed upon a beach as good as an additional week in Bel Retiro up upon Penang Hill (the residence when Tunku Abdul Rahman would stay when he was in Penang).
Bel Retiro, Penang Hill
It was bliss as good as you would demeanour forward to a year-end holidays in Penang. you wished you could have lived in Penang as good as not have to go behind to Kuala Lumpur. The beach was superb. Penang Hill was lovely. And you can't kick a selling in Penang. We would never go to Singapore given Singapore could never kick a selling in Penang.
Then, in 1969, Penang fell to a opposition. And afterwards Penang's giveaway pier standing was terminated. Penang was no longer a shoppers' bliss similar to it used to be. And what a contrition indeed! This was also what happened when Terengganu fell to a antithesis 30 years after in 1999. The sovereign supervision withdrew a oil kingship as good as brought a state to a knees.
What you can't assimilate is, whilst a sovereign supervision consummated Penang's giveaway pier standing in 1969 as good as withdrew Terengganu's oil kingship in 1999 (or rsther than in 2000, a couple of months after a state fell in Nov 1999) given a antithesis had won those states, when these dual states went behind to a statute party Penang's giveaway pier standing as good as Terengganu's oil kingship were never reinstated.
And since was this?
Penang had been determined as a giveaway pier behind when Captain Francis Light first conned a island from a Sultan of Kedah. If you review a (Malaysian) history books, they will discuss it you which Penang was a forlorn island which was founded in 1790 after Captain Francis Light of a East India Company leased it from Sultan Abdullah Mukarram Shah of Kedah. That is as loyal as a story which Yap Ah Loy founded Kuala Lumpur in 1873 or which Umno fought a British in 1946 to gainMerdekafor Malaya in 1957.
Actually, Admiral Cheng Ho of a Ming Dynasty, who went to Malacca in a 1400s, reported a existence of an island called Penang in "The Nautical Charts! of Zhen g He". At which time China as good as Penang were already intent in trade. (Does this warn you? -- given you did not learn about this in Malaysian schools).
Hence Penang already existed given a 1400s as good as was not 'founded' 300-400 years later, as what you have been told. Furthermore, in Apr 1591, privateer (the politically-correct word for 'pirate') Sir James Lancaster sailed theEdward Bonadventurefrom Plymouth as good as reached Penang in Jun 1592.
He returned to England in May 1594 after dual years of rapine a island as good as all a ships which sailed circuitously (not called 'piracy' though, given Lancaster was a 'privateer' as good as not a 'pirate' -- now do you know since 'privatisation' is called 'piratisation'?).
And all this happened hundreds of years prior to Francis Light was ostensible to have founded Penang.
Anyway, what might be noteworthy about Francis Light is he gave Penang giveaway pier standing (as if it was hiskuasato do that). Then, almost 180 years later, when Penang fell to a opposition, a island's giveaway pier standing was removed and, shortly after that, Singapore became a new shoppers' paradise.
By a mid-1970s, you no longer worried to go to Penang. Instead, you went to Singapore to shop.
you first knew Dr Ibrahim Saad when he was Anwar Ibrahim's Political Secretary during a Ministry of Youth as good as Sports. In 1990, Ibrahim Saad contested a Bukit Gelugor state seat in Penang as good as won. He was afterwards appointed a Deputy Chief Minister of Penang.
Soon after which you made a outing to Penang as good as met Ibrahim Saad as good as his mother for dinner. you afterwards asked him since do not a sovereign supervision re-establish Penang as a giveaway pier as good as give Singapore a run for a money, similar to how it used to be prior to a 1970s.
And this was what Ibrahim Saad told me.
He pronounced he had in actuality lifted! this ha ve a difference with his boss, Anwar Ibrahim, though Anwar told him: what for? It will only have a Chinese rich. All a businesses in Penang have been owned by a Chinese, not by a Malays. So a Malays have been not starting to good from Penang's giveaway pier status. Might as good a supervision tax all imports as good as earn some revenue.
When politics overrides mercantile decisions afterwards over a long term a country will suffer. Do you know which over a last 5 years about twelve million tourists a year revisit Singapore? More than dual million of these tourists have been from Indonesia whilst rounded off a million each have been from China, Malaysia, Australia as good as India.
Hence about half a tourists have been from only 5 countries with a alternative half have been from Japan, a Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, a UK, a US as good as alternative countries from Europe as good as Asia. And selling is a categorical attraction of Singapore, similar to what Penang was once prior to politics overtook usual sense.
And do not discuss it me which this is since you need to change a supervision given some of these 'decision-makers' who once were in a supervision have been now in a opposition.
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