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World Bank says: "World bank Votes Singapore Best Country for Business"

Bernama says: "Malaysia Among 25 Most Business-friendly Economies" (Malaysia is no.24!!!!)

IHT says, "Too Business-Friendly in Hong Kong and Malaysia"

ha ha ha... (http://www.iht.com/articles/1998/12/31/edbow.t_2.php)

Folks

It confirms that this UMNO-led Govt is a Fascist Govt.

It is worse than a police state.

Malaysia has been turned surreptitiously into a FASCIST STATE.

Read here the 14 Characteristics of a FASCIST STATE:

http://www.rense.com/general37/fascism.htm

Malaysia met 12 of the 14 Characteristics.

Update yourself what is fascism:

(a) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

(b) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html

(c) http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/Enc/Fascism.html

Political junta as well.

Frank&Honest,

I don't agree with you. From what I see now, Malaysia met 14 out of the 14 Characteristics.

Sinar Harian, the latest tabloid in town, owned by Kumpulan Karangkraf (Utusan group?), has the protest picture at the front page.
http://www.sinarharian.com.my/selangor/cover/cover.jpg

Wow... I never quite understood the meaning of left wing and right wing, let alone facism. How ironic that I've actually been living under a facist regime all this time! Now, I'm more convinced than ever that I should vote with my feet! It hurts to know that this once well loved country has been plundered, abused & manipulated to UMNO's own gain. I hope that one day, even their own children will despise them and dance on their grave for the evil that they are doing to the country today!

Get real people. The press in Malaysia has to self censor. Isn't it better that we do at least have newspapers and TV news broacasts than none, if they are closed down completely. The fact that some journalists 'moonlight' by putting the real stories our into cyberspace, at least means that they are still employed (a big plus, I think!) have access to the stories, and have the enthusiasm to make sure the story is still heard. It is when the press buckles down completely and is totally gagged, that we have to really worry. At least we still have the information to form opinions and make judgments.

LLtwigs

Where have you been. In the cave or what.

Don't you know that the press is totally gagged inasfar as local news except for accidents, robberies and press statements from Ministers?

This Govt gagged the press to highlight the march, the shutdown on the PKFZ issue and others over the last 30 years.

Presumably you were born late to know this.

au contraire, Frank & Honest. I have been around for a good long while and I remember 1987 well. Please read my comments carefully. I am not saying I agree that they should have to be self censoring. I am indicating that they need to do this for self preservation. If you can at least keep your job, you still have access to the information, and with cyberspace there are many ways of getting this information out there, even if it doesn't have the same 'authenticity' as that given by the mainstream papers or TV news broadcasts. I have sufficient contacts with journalists to know that they and their media owners are watched VERY carefully, and it only takes a few minutes for a response to anything even a little bit 'sensitive', where there will be queries by one or other of the 'watchers'. Perhaps if we had had the opportunities we now have to 'get the story out there', in 1987 and 1969, we would perhaps now be better informed about those times.

LLtwigs

Thanks for the clarification.

We need to distinguish between journalists/editors trying to put food on the table and having to play ball with the political masters owning the press.

Here, what we are concerned is that the press is OWNED by the UMNO and MCA. They are the govt.

I can only empathise with the journalists but the fact remains the press is NOT serving the public good and the national interest. I am not blaming the journalists/editors, but the owners of the press.

These journalists and editors, if they are worth their salt and if they hold dearly to the ethics of decent journalism if they are trained, would find jobs elsewhere.
But then again, other pro-UMNO and MCA journalists will join the fold.

Distinguish between journalist trying to earn a decent living and the institution called the Malaysian mainstream press.

Maybe the right way left is for our journalists to write the 'politically correct' stuff for their bread-n-butter in the mainstream media, AND write incognito the full truth as commentators and bloggers even in blogosphere. Some already are, one notes, but more should too.

They owe it to the rakyat who are choking in a fog of national inscrutability.

Right now, the Immigration Dept and its Home Ministry still have not come out with the real numbers on the number of people getting citizenship/mykads who are foreigners in Sabah and Sarawak.

Also the PKFZ fiasco has disappeared from the radar.

Not to forget the Lumut Shipyard Naval Boats contract.

The rakyat remember because blogosphere is a permanent record and constant reminder.

We have to do what is right once and for all. Really, enough is enough.