‘Be like Singapore in Efficiency, Not Authoritarian’

Malaysia likes to learn from authoritative governments, their way of shutting the mouth of the people who could see the wrongs they are doing to the country and people. They have absolutely no idea of how to improve themselves and how to govern a country effectively. This lack of quality in our leaders is appalling. The country will be doomed if we continue to let these dictator-mentality type of people to lead. Look at Zimbabwe and the outcome is unimagineable!

Don't try to copy Singapore in this. Its citizens are also unhappy about this lack of freedom. Copy Singapore's education system, copy its efficiency at the government level and at the level of infrastructures and services, copy their mentality of cultivating and retaining talents, even foreigners, irrespective of race, nationality or gender.

Singaporeans are not that angry with their leaders the way we are at our corrupt, racial-divide-mentality cronies. Our "leaders" lack qualifications if we want to compare the type of talents they have in Singapore running their country.

So, please learn to be more efficient, clean and hardworking. Don't aim for easy money in politics. It will lead to your downfall and bring down your party and country wth it. It is just a matter of time.

Friday May 23, 2008

‘Be strict like Singapore’

ROSLINA MOHAMAD at the Pahang State Assembly yesterday

KUANTAN: Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob briefly became a newscaster during the state assembly sitting here yesterday, reading an article about stringent measures taken by the Singapore Government on a group of political activists who screened a film about Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew without obtaining approval from the media regulator.

The article was carried by a local English daily yesterday and with the paper cutting in his hands, Adnan took several minutes reading it.

It was to drive home the message that by being too lenient and open to media practitioners including bloggers, there could be an influx of articles so much so that readers were inclined to believe falsehoods.

Adnan said that it was good if Malaysia could be strict like Singapore.

“In Malaysia, we just let them be and due to some bloggers, people tend to believe unfounded articles as the truth.

“This is to show that this is what we get when we are too open,” he said.

Adnan, however, noted that a blog had its uses as it could be a platform to explain the government's policies and programmes.

He also spoke in jest that even he had a blog while state Information, Science, Technology and Innovation Committee chairman Datuk Mohd Sharkar Shamsuddin had none.

Earlier, when replying to a written question from Abdul Rahman Mohamad (BN – Padang Tengku), Mohd Sharkar said he had no intention of setting up a blog because readers whose negative comments were not posted might take the matter into another blog and condemn him or the state government.