MCA Youth wants Barisan to discuss Khairy’s remarks

MCA Youth wants Barisan to discuss Khairy’s remarks

The MCA Youth wants the controversy over the remarks made by Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin to be discussed at the Barisan Nasional supreme council and not through private meetings.

MCA Youth secretary-general Dr Wee Ka Siong said the matter should be sorted out through the proper channel and that the party had not sent any representative to talk to Khairy.

“The meeting between MCA Youth deputy chief Ling Hee Leong and Khairy (on Monday) was merely a private meeting,” he said.

“The meeting was purely personal and private. It was Ling’s right to meet Khairy as a friend to find out more about the matter.

“But as far as MCA Youth is concerned, we have not sent anyone for a formal meeting with Khairy,” he told reporters at the Parliament lobby here yesterday.

Dr Wee was commenting on Ling’s statement on Monday that Khairy, during a meeting between the two, had assured the MCA he had no intention of hurting feelings of the Chinese community.

Ling had also said that both of them were looking at the greater interest of the nation.

Last week, several Chinese newspapers front-paged remarks by MCA and Gerakan leaders over Khairy’s statement in Kedah last Friday that the Chinese would take advantage of any weakness in Umno to make demands.

Meanwhile, Ling said Khairy had spoken to him, as they were both counterparts in the MCA and Umno.

“I was also one of the Barisan leaders who was not happy with his remarks. That was why he decided to meet me to give his assurance that he did not mean to hurt the feeling of the Chinese community,” he said.

“We also agreed to take this issue as a lesson and to not use racial issues to gain political mileage as this will not bring any advantage to any person.”

He believed that he would not be the only Barisan leader that Khairy would meet, as Barisan Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein had said that Khairy would explain to other Barisan leaders.

(Source:The Star)

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KTemoc wrote in his blog :

MCA Youth: "Not yet kow-tim "

Ling Hee Leong - son of former MCA president Dr Ling Liong Sik - clarified that Khairy Jamaluddin had no intention of hurting the feelings of the Chinese Malaysian community, and that the two of them had agreed to ‘look forward to the greater interest of the nation’.

But the official voice from MCA Youth said: “Hang on a bloody ding dong minute!”

MCA Youth secretary-general Dr Wee Ka Siong stated in no uncertain terms that as far as the Youth organisation is concerned, Ling Junior was acting on his own, and did not speak for MCA Youth. Whatever ‘consensus’ was reached between Khairy and Ling Hee Leong at a meeting yesterday did not represent MCA Youth’s stand.

Looks like MCA Youth wasn’t about to accept some cosy arrangements between those two youngsters.

Wee cleverly added: “It was a private meeting between them as friends. The matter should be sorted out through the proper channel, which is Barisan Nasional Youth”, which 'coincidentally' has been precisely what PM AAB had advised.

Wee didn’t mince his words. He said bluntly that the MCA Youth did not accept Khairy’s explanation.

He added: “Our chief Liow Tiong Lai has denied that MCA Youth agrees with the MIC Youth stand, which was to fully accept Khairy’s explanation that his statement had been misinterpreted by the media and BN leaders.”

Wee explained why MCA Youth thinks Khairy's excuse of being ‘misinterpreted’ had been nothing more than a crock of shit.

He stated: “There was no inconsistency in newspaper reports about what Khairy said and they (media) can’t be fabricating the stories together. The media should reveal tape recordings of what Khairy said.”

Asked what MCA Youth wants from Khairy, Wee said: “We want Khairy to understand that he must be responsible for his remarks, which are untrue.”

When I was a kid, my dad would give me a tight slap when he reckoned I was fibbing, even though most times I wasn’t – I just have that damn face that makes people distrust me ;-). Oh, I have wandered off, as usual. Sorry.

Wee said (using KTemoc’s words) Khairy’s ‘untrue’ remarks had right royally pissed off MCA Youth. He expects heated debate on the issue at the wing’s annual general meeting this coming Friday.

KTemoc recommends that MIC Youth sends observers.

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Malaysia terkeluar senarai 500 Universiti Cemerlang Dunia

Malaysia Today

Usaha mengejar kecemerlangan akademik dan kualiti universiti Malaysia sekali lagi mengecewakan, dengan Malaysia dikeluarkan untuk tahun keempat berturut-turut dalam Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Top 500 Universities.

Tidak satupun universiti Malaysia disenaraikan dalam senarai terakhir Jiao Tong University, 500 universiti terbaik di dunia, walaupun lebih lima universiti dari rantau Asia-Pasifik memasuki senarai tersebut berbanding tahun lepas. 92 buah universiti di Asia-Pasifik sudah tersenarai adalah dari negara-negara berikut:

Negara - 2006 - 2005

Jepun - 32 - 33
Australia - 16 - 13
China - 9 - 8
Korea Selatan - 9 - 8
Israel - 7 - 6
New Zealand - 5 - 5
China–Taiwan - 5 - 5
China-Hong Kong - 5 - 4
India - 2 - 3
Singapura - 2 - 2

Jumlah - 92 - 87

Sepuluh universiti teratas dalam senarai Jiao Tung University, 2006 adalah Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, University of California – Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology, Columbia, Princeton, Chicago dan Oxford.

19 universiti teratas dari Asia-Pasifik yang tersenarai adalah:

1. Tokyo University (No. 19)
2. Kyoto University (No.22)
3. Australian National University (No. 54)
4. Hebrew University Jerusalem (No.60)
5. Osaka University (No. 61)
6. Tohoku University (No. 76)
7. University of Melbourne (No.78)
8. Tokyo Institute of Technology (No. 89)
9. Nagoya University (No.98)
10. -19. (No. 102-150 out of 500) -

Hokkaido University
Kyushu University
National University of Singapore
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Tel Aviv University
Tsukuba University
University of Queensland
University of Western Australia
Weizmann Institute of Science

Tidak satupun daripada 18 universiti di Malaysia diiktiraf peringkat antarabangsa dan masih jauh daripada 32 buah universiti di Jepun, 16 buah universiti di Australia, lima universiti di Taiwan, lima universiti di Hong Kong dan dua universiti di Singapura – itu tidak termasuk tujuh universiti di Israel.

Selagi meritokrasi dan kecemerlangan akademik tidak dikembalikan ke tahap tertinggi dalam akademia Malaysia, universiti-universiti di Malaysia tidak akan mampu bersaing dengan yang terbaik di dunia. Bagaimana mungkin negara akan mencapai Wawasan 2020 dan menjadi negara maju.

Menteri Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Mustapa Mohamad mesti berani untuk mengambil langkah penting bagi mengembalikan meritokrasi, kecemerlangan universiti dan kualiti dengan memperkenalkan peperiksaan kemasukan yang sama bagi pengambilan pelajar universiti, dan mengakhirkan dua peperiksaan berbeza, iaitu peperiksaan matrikulasi dan STPM.

Reader commented :

macamana nak masuk senarai '500' kalau pelajar uni kat malaysia nih asyik sibuk :-

1) susun syiling 50sen terpanjang di malaysia

2) kibar jalur gemilang terbesar di gunung kinabalu.

3) susun tin coca-cola tertinggi di malaysia.

4) sibuk jadi 'monyet sementara' di UPM...

5) dapat duit PTPTN beli phone 3G.

lepas graduate tak dapat kerja salahkan semua orang...

maire

and my previous post here





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