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i don't understand the media's (or Malaysia's) fascination with embracing EX-Malaysians who are successful abroad. our country doesn't permit dual-citizenship, so why cry pride that someone born here is doing well in another country? point is, they're NOT Malaysians anymore. you might as well pride yourself on all the Hollywood actors or British talent who were born here too. check IMDB, you can find quite a few.

Malaysia like to take credit for almost anything that is 'remotely' connected to it.

When Australia had its first Idol, we had it all over our papers, Malaysian born Guy Sebastian.

When an Australian model slept with Beckham, we also claimed the fame in national media, another Malaysian born.

Malaysia really boleh. We went to space to play gasing what. How many can do that?

...This reminds me of someone singing something like the government screwed you up here so that you can go outside and learn and grow so that you can come back and "membalas budi" the country.

To the immigrants, the headline read "MALAYSIA CITIZENSHIP WILL NOT BE OFFERED TO THE IMMIGRANT...BUT OF COURSE UNLESS YOU ARE DAMM FAMOUS/POWERFUL WE WON'T BE ASHAMED TO 'TUMPANG' GLAMOUR"

These Australians, cultureless people should emulate Malaysian culture and keep these immigrants at bay. Should isolate the Aborigines to the vast desserts and ensure only white majority rules!..

Now letting the Malaysian born Chinese simply simply climb up political ladder only buggers up all our principle of ketuanan Melayu and makes it more confusing for our people.

Good Malaysians should not subscribe to the Australian culture. Malaysian culture should be perpetuated so that we can have ass licking-MCA and MIC parties to represent the minorities and we give them inconsequential Ministerial positions. Of course if next elections MIC fails miserably, then maybe there cannot be any more Indian ministers la. Maybe Kavyeas!!! Smart bugger keeping quiet over the Hindraf demonstrations!!!Got some smart Indians after all.

Bernama and Star ran this article because of the syiok sendiri syndrome in our mainstream media. Someone else's gain is our loss...but our journalist want still to take a bite at the cherry that she is Malaysian. Compare her position to our MCA ministers..Finance Ministry used to be in MCA hands..now they are looking after local housing and transport. Think further.. how would our MCA ministers fare down under?

for Rudd's public relations ppl to mention that Penny's a migrant frm Malaysia is obvious to gain political mileage from minorities, and obvious politicking.

but for Malaysian press? it is SHAMELESS 'tumpang glamour' over someone who DISPOSED of her Malaysian citizenship to serve another country.

Art Chan

Australia has no need for ass-lickers. MCA leaders only excel in that. So how do you think they'd fare?

@art chan,

In all fairness, the Star says that she grew up in Australia at the age of 8. But still, I do agree the press loves to "tumpang glamour" over ex-Malaysians.

If Penny Wong returned back to Sabah after her law graduation in Oz, what would be the probability that she would be elected as a MP in Malaysia? Hmmm, just wondering ...

Ahh Penny Wong, I've seen her debating in Parliament during my Uni days in Australia. She speaks very fluent Aussie-English if I can recall. Probably moved to Australia when she was younger.

Anyways, its not unusual for Malaysian papers to run 'glamor coat tail riding' on outsiders in other countries. Remember that Miss USA story that ran a couple of months ago; they traced it back to her Malaysian father who migrated to the US in the 80's.

Shame shame Malaysia media. What are you trying to tell us? Are they trying to encourage more brain drain? So that we'll all fly off to other countries, make big names for ourselves and then have our stories published in the local newspapers?

Not as if we can claim them as Malaysians. BECAUSE they ARE NOT the citizens of the country ANYMORE.

This is another inflated sense of world belonging that the M'sian government THINKS it has on itself. Shame shame.

Malaysian media have tendency of mengagung-agungkan ex-Malaysian who had done good in other countries.

I can't imagine if there would ever be an ex-Australian having a seat in our parliament or cabinet.