MCA founder’s website in Chinese and English only

Where’s the content on Tun Tan Cheng Lock in bahasa kebangsaan?

This is its web address — http://ttcl.mca.org.my

It was launched with virtual fanfare yesterday by Wee Ka Siong.

‘Pendatang’ polemics: Sinchew’s sleight of hand

In its Feb 23 editorial headlined ‘We’re not pendatang!’ the Sin Chew Daily said:

“The Chinese people are always citizens of this country.”

“Chinese migrants had been traveling between China and the Malay Peninsula and Borneo for business or engaging in agriculture, mining and road-building works, for almost six centuries from Ming dynasty to the 1950s. Few of these early migrants eventually returned to China, but a lot more settled and died here.”

Err, “always citizens”? Really?

Muhyiddin slammed by NGO over Rohingya policy

There will be an increase in the number of Rohingya boat people coming to Malaysia, warned Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani.

Zafar, who is president of the Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia, said in a press statement yesterday that this bigger impact on Malaysia is only to be expected following the Feb 1 military coup.

And indeed the news about the latest Malaysia-bound Rohingya boat is its rescue yesterday by India’s coast guard.

Sinchew digging ‘pendatang’ hole ever deeper

I mentioned that the Sin Chew editorial published yesterday was worth reading, mainly because it had Rohingya and Vietnamese boat people on its radar.

Regular readers of my blog would, of course, be aware that I’ve been covering Rohingya extensively and I’ve also brought up the topic that Vietnamese boat people were actually ethnic Chinese.

Bad idea to bring in so much foreign cheap labour

In the first part of last year, a quarter of our coronavirus cases were non Malaysians — see pie chart below (segment in red). 

The figures are sourced from a 17 Nov 2020 research paper in The Lancet titled ‘Clinical characteristics and risk factors for severe Covid-19 infections in Malaysia: A nationwide observational study’.

Allegedly M’sian criminals — this should worry you!

The four men in the mugshots below are said to be Malaysians, according to the Malaysiakini report a few days ago.

They don’t look very ‘Malaysian’ to me but more like a certain ‘xyz’ people from a certain ‘abc’ place.

Chance for DAP Christians to show their famous compassion

Penang Chinese can provide the animal shelter for Pak Mie’s dogs and cats while Kedah Malays can welcome into their neighbourhood the Langkawi Rohingya.

A win-win solution.

Be worried about what the silent majority are thinking

Malaysiakini raised RM685,632 through crowdfunding in under five hours yesterday.

The pro-opposition platform had been fined RM500,000 because its subscribers said in reader comments that our judiciary was corrupt and committed wrongdoings.

Branches of government are the judicial, the executive and the legislative arms. All three are being dissed by a vocal section of the population.

DAP Firsters want to teach Muhyiddin about patriotism

Lim Kit Siang and some 111 Malaysiakini reader comments, mostly aligned with the DAP gloom-and-doom narrative, are blathering about a potential “failed state” scenario.

What will ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ do to the Malays?

The Muhyiddin administration yesterday revealed its blueprint for ‘National Unity’.

Malaysiakini readers swiftly told the PM what they thought of his proposal in a torrent of 430 comments.

DAP and its supporters are trying to corral Muhyiddin into the party’s own self-serving ‘Malaysian First’ construct — the same framing device whereby Lim Guan Eng had declared that he is “NOT Chinese”.

Who are the real racists?

For once Anwar Ibrahim said something a little specific rather than his usual broad banalities.

With 134 police reports already lodged against the Tommy Thomas memoir My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, Anwar perhaps felt that he needed to wade in.

Doing so, he took aim at the memoir’s chapter on racism.

Back to the Motherland

Myanmar, now under martial law, will not be able to overturn the coup, according to a confidential assessment by the British Foreign Office (see below).

DAP evangelistas and mosques

Under Covid SOP for the coming CNY, activity in temples will be limited — see latest guidelines in the Star chart below.

SOP for CNY: Why Guan Eng so sibuk when he’s not Chinese

Lim Kit Siang earlier banged his gong that the gomen’s Chinese New Year SOP is no good — see below.

Fifth generation immigrant yet still not integrated

Here we call them Bangla. You can’t tell them apart from Rohingya.

Most outsiders are unable to differentiate a Rohingya from a Bengali (Bangladeshi). The only people able to do so are those from Chittagong, i.e. the Bangladesh division where Cox’s Bazar is located.

“With only minor differences in language and appearance, the average Bangladeshi cannot readily distinguish a Rohingya from a Bangladeshi.” — HRW

Malays now finding out about tauke Rohingya

‘Hidup bertuankan tauke Bangla, Rohingya’ was the news headline yesterday in Sinar Harian. 

The op-ed article said Bangladeshi and Rohingya market wholesalers are “warga asing [yang] begitu berani mengambil kesempatan”.

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Peraih-peraih yang terdiri daripada warga asing begitu berani mengambil kesempatan mengawal harga dan menindas petani tempatan. #sinarharianhttps://t.co/hOkwZTv1AJ

— SinarOnline (@SinarOnline) February 4, 2021

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Actually Bangla and Rohingya are puak serumpun, as will be explained shortly.

Rohingya cheer the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi

News of Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrest had spread quickly through the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh.

“If the camp authorities had allowed it, you would have seen thousands of Rohingya out on celebration marches,” one refugee in the Nayapara camp Mirza Ghalib told AFP.

What Myanmar coup d’etat means for Malaysia

What does the Myanmar coup d’etat mean for Malaysia? 

It means that not only does our Foreign Minister make the appropriate diplomatic noises but our Home Minister as well as Defence Minister are left holding the Rohingya baby.

The last time DAP ‘saved’ Malaysia

Remember when DAP promised to save Malaysia by stopping Lynas?

Let’s recall how they went into action and in the process also captured Putrajaya … riding triumphantly into the administrative capital on Mahathir’s coattails.