理科大学录取新生放榜，学生劝请尽快上网查阅

吉隆坡30日讯。

马青总团教育局呼吁所有在这之前申请理科大学本科学位的学生尽快登入理大网址http://pohon.usm.my/ 查阅他们的申请是否成功。

马青总团教育局主任张盛闻今早接获马青槟城州团团长翁协文的投诉，告知很多学生对理大的录取通知书给予过短时间回复而感到不知所措。根据理大的录取程序，学生必须要在5月31日，下午5点之前回复是否接受理大的学位。然而，很多学生在昨天，29日（星期五）才接获通知，不可能在31日，也就是星期天能够将答复表格呈给理大。就算学生在星期六一早寄出表格，邮差也不会在星期日做工。

因此，马青教育局主任张盛闻第一时间联络高教部副部长何国忠博士，要求协助未能及时呈交回复表格的学生。何国忠博在联络理大副校长后说学生必透过网站或短讯方式回复是否接受学位，而表格则可以在星期天以后再寄到理大。如果学生在这方面遇到问题，可以联络马青总团教育局：03-21618044

张盛闻表示：“理大作为国内首间顶尖大学，拥有招生自主权，但是遗憾的是录取新生成绩放榜竟然没有对媒体公布。理大必须明白不是所有的学生都一定坐在家里等理大的收生通知书或者都有电脑可以随时上网查阅电邮。理大给予的时间过于仓促，又适逢周末，可能会令到很多学生错失就读理大的机会。”

他说：“马青教育局在这之前已经建议大学录取通知和回复答案之间应该至少有7个工作天，让学生有足够的时间考虑和作出回复。这种即没对外公布，又极为仓促的录取新生法应该检讨”。

另外，今年的国立大学录取新生制度有稍作改变。理大作为顶尖大学将优先录取新生。所有同时申请理大和其他19所国立大学的学生，如果一旦被理大拒绝，或拒绝接受理大学位，该名学生的名字将交由UPU处理，让其他国立大学筛选。

因此，马青教育局希望这些学生送往UPU时将获得同等的待遇，与其他没有申请理大的学生一同享有以绩效的标准录取进入大学。

Farewell, Pak Lah

Prime Minister Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi

April 2, 2009 (Thursday), Prime Minister Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi had officially resigned before Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Malaysia, Tuanku Mirzan, at Istana Negara.

Pak Lah, Malaysia 5th Prime Minister was a great person. His contribution to this country cannot be judged now as what he did was to lay down a strong foundation for his successor to continue building this great nation.

You may not even noticed what has he done for this country, but slowly the country is transforming....

Malaysia has developed rapidly from 1990 to 1999, from an agriculture based economy to an industrial based economy and moving forward to a knowledge based economy in early 2000. We have build the highest twin tower in the world and have one of the renown F1 race track in the world. The Malaysian society has changed tremendously over the past 20 years.

Yet, the are so many left behind. Rich peoples get much richer, poor peoples get much poorer. Society value drop, ethnic relation deteriorated, crime rate soar, quality of life goes down, foreign workers increase dramatically and corruption proliferated.

A great cost for the economy booming.

Pak Lah knew very well that his mission is not to create another economy booming, because our economy has reach to a level that we need to transform our economy to a more sustainable growing economy. He abandoned the mega project and turn back to Malaysia's strength- the agriculture sector that we have ignored for the past 20 years. He also has a new master plan of bringing the development to rural area, out of Klang Valley which could growth solely by private sector. With this, he launches 5 economy corridors.

Of course, his greatest legacy was to open up freedom of speech, especially the freedom for media reporting. Though some blamed his move to cause the political tsunami on March 8 General Election.

He may not be the best Prime Minister, but he is certainly the "Mr Clean" that we all know well. And he is certainly the "Good Man" of all time.

Now, it is time for him to return to his normal life, as ordinary Malaysian, a lifestyle that he always wanted to, to celebrate everyday with his family.

May God Bless You, Pak Lah.

Farewell, and we will miss you.

马青教育局主任张盛闻抨击希山慕丁的歪曲独立论

(29日讯) 希山慕丁在巫统代表大会上声称国家的独立是巫统及马来人的功劳，完全没有其他政党的贡献；马青教育局主任张盛闻对有关言论感到极度失望！

张盛闻抨击希山，并说：“作为一名教育部长，希山慕丁应该对自己的言论负责，胡乱发表歪曲独立历史的真相是严重及极度不负责任的行为，尤其是希山表明将修改历史以突显巫统及马来人在争取国家独立所扮演的角色，而罔顾其他族群及政党的贡献。”

张盛闻强调：“马青教育局将极力反对任何一方企图私自修改国家独立历史，以达到个人或团体利益。马青向来对国家历史出现严重偏差已经感到不满，现在希山还要加重突出巫统及马来人在独立过程中的功劳，并抹杀华人及其他族群的贡献，这是马青所不能容忍的！”

国家独立历史清楚记载当年英国人是基于马来亚三大民族能够和谐共处，并合作治理这个国家，才放心移交政权给三大民族组成的联盟政府。当年如果没有马华及后来的国大党与巫统一起建立联盟而赢取全国大选，英国人也不会轻易让马来亚独立。

张盛闻劝请希山不要因为赢了巫统党选而冲昏了头脑，应该吸取以往举剑的教训而学会谦虚及认清国家是多元族群的事实。任何人企图通过修改历史而抹杀事实都会以失败告终。

Stop attacking vernacular school system, say two MCA bureaus

KUALA LUMPUR: Stop attacking the vernacular school system just to score points during party elections because this creates tension among races.

The MCA Youth Education Bureau and MCA Legal Bureau criticised Umno Youth chief aspirant Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir for calling on the Government to abolish the vernacular school system to enhance unity among the people, saying that a single-school system was the only way to check racial polarisation.

“We urge Mukhriz not to purposely play up the education issue simply because of the advent of his party’s polls,” MCA National Youth education bureau chief Chong Sin Woon said yesterday.

“Such sentiment has always been played up by Umno Youth leaders, causing unhappiness among the Chinese community and creating tension among all the races.”

He added that the proposal by Mukhriz contradicted the spirit of the Federal Constitution, which guaranteed the freedom to promote and develop the vernacular school system.

Chong said the vernacular school system was an asset to the country and did not hinder national unity.

“The education sentiment has seriously been politicised, and this will only continue to reduce our nation’s competitiveness,” he added.

He invited Mukhriz to a dialogue with the bureau to have a better understanding of the importance of Chinese education to the community.

MCA Legal Bureau chairman Datuk Leong Tang Chong demanded that the Jerlun MP make a public apology to all Malaysians and refrain from making such political rhetoric.

“The law is clear, and no one is above the law. The supremacy of the Federal Constitution must be respected at all times by all Malay­sians,” he said.

He added that Mukhriz’s call for the abolition of the vernacular school system by integrating it into the national school system flew in the face of Article 152(1)(a) which inter-alia stated that “no person shall be prohibited or prevented from using (other than for official purposes) or from teaching or learning in any other language.

“(b) nothing in the Clause shall prejudice the right of the Federal Government or of any state government to preserve and sustain the use and study of the language of any other community in the Federa­tion”. – The Star

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02-12-2008



马青总团教育局不苟同慕克里的言论


吉隆坡2日讯

马青总团教育局主任张盛闻表示，巫青团署里总团长候选人拿督慕克里发表关闭各源流学校的建议已经抵触了联邦宪法赋予各源流学校自由发展的精神。他吁请慕克里克制自己，不要在巫青团党选的敏感期挑起伤害种族关系的言论。他说这类言论经常被巫青团领袖挑起，令到国内华裔族群感到非常不满，并将造成种族间的关系紧张。

他说：“马来西亚教育拥有一定历史背景，并不能够与其他国家的单元教育相提并论。国家独立已经超过50年，大家应该接受各源流学校是国家的资产，而不是负担，更不是国家团结的绊脚石！教育课题已经被严重的政治化了，如果这种情况继续下去，只会让这个国家的竞争力继续下滑，到时候全国人民都受到伤害！”

各源流学校成为团结绊脚石的言论在很多个年代都出现过，但是首相阿都拉及教育部长希山慕丁都曾经公开说各源流学校是国家重要资产，并保证它们将能够继续自由的发展下去。因此，慕克里没有必要因为巫青团的改选而再度挑起这个课题以塑造个人英雄的形象。他这样做只会令到人民对巫统感到更加反感。

张盛闻呼吁各造停止操纵教育课题，还教育界一个清静的环境。我们应该投入更多的时间及资源发展我国的教育，提高人民的教育水平，而不是一味将教育课题当作政治议题，每天闹的沸沸扬扬。

另外，慕克里再度挑起华人控制经济的课题显示他依然保留华人是外来者并抢夺了本土马来人利益的狭隘思想。这种落伍的思想才是导致国民未能团结的最大障碍。如果政府能够公平施政，利惠各族人民，并严厉管制政治人物发表极端言论，我国各族人民必定能够融洽生活在一起。

张盛闻欢迎慕克里与马青总团教育局对话，让后者了解华社对华文教育的立场及马青对维护各源流学校的决心。

My Last Day In Office

Well, its nearly 5 years since i join this office in January 2004, i was only 29 years old then.

I was very proud to serve the office and i have a wonderful boss who taught me a lot. This was one of my happiest time in my career. I got the chance to meet with the highest authority, the most powerful peoples in the country, the decision makers and witnessed the major issues happening in this country.

My eyes opened widely during my service here and it changes my view on certain issue. My beliefs, my stand, my way of dealing issue has all shifted in different degree, but i am sure it was a good changes because i can now look through some issue that i never had before.

Surely, it was a chance of a life time to work here.

This office gave me the chance to really understand how complex it is to run a country, especially a multi-racial country like Malaysia. I was stunt by how difficult even the most powerful people to execute his power. Now i understand that even the Emperor in China in those day can't really do whatever he likes to do.

I also learned that it is very difficult to carry out reform because reform often challenge some people's comfort zone and they tend to fight back, harshly!

So many things are easy to say than done. Things are just not as what you think it is!

However, a leader must LEAD! He must inspired his people to follow him!

May the office get a good leader, for this country needs a great leader.

God bless Malaysia!

Open Up MCA Youth for Young Female

The newly elected (won without contest) MCA Youth Chief Dato' Dr Wee Ka Siong had announced 3 reform for MCA Youth during his election campaign.

1. To rename MCA State Youth

2. To reduce MCA Youth age limit from 45 to 40 years old

3. To open up MCA Youth for female under 45 years old

First reform is easy, its just the way we call State Youth and the press had changed the term and it is considered done.

Second reform will take at least 5 years. It will begin from branch, division, state and finally national youth. This is more complicated because it needs to be passed in AGM or an EGM, and the new leadership needs to convince central delegates to support a resolution to amend the MCA Youth By-Law and later send for approval by MCA Central Committee. Even though this will take sometimes but generally the grass root will support for this has been an issue dragged for the past 18 years since Tan Sri Dato Chan Kong Choy was the Youth Chief.

The real challenge lies on the reform to open up MCA Youth for young female. It was brought up during campaign period and the first exchange of view between Dr Wee and Wanita Chairman Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun was during an exclusive interview by Sin Chew Daily. Clearly, Dr Wee's proposal was openly rejected by Datin Paduka Chew.

Chew resisted the proposal because according to her, the move will challenge the structure of Wanita MCA.

Chew negative respond for the proposal in the early stage has trigger us to pursue the issue openly. We know very well that if the issue is to be discussed in closed door or set up "a joint committee" to "study" the issue will bring us to no way. Hence, an open campaign to tell MCA Youth our proposal was launched during the election dinner on October 16, 2008 in Wisma MCA. 20 buntings was hung and 50 young male and female wore the "I do" T-shirt on the dinner to showcase to all central delegates our aim for the reform.

It works well on the night and throughout the 3 days assembly and everyone seems accept the concept pretty well, until the final day of MCA General Assembly when a newly elected Wanita U35 CC severely criticized MCA Youth for asking to open up the youth for young female. Sadly what she debated was not the core issue, but instead she pinpoint on the design of the bunting and said it was more suitable to hang on Pub rather than Wisma MCA. Her remark quickly raised the media focus and the next day, MCA Youth was reported as hanging bunting to recruit Bar Girl.

I was deeply disappointed by her remark and thus get all 5 MCA Youth U35 CC to call for press conference to clarify the issue and to stand our ground and win back our dignity. My intention was very clear, to tell my fellow Wanita MCA the real problem we face on the ground. You can close the door and debate until the cows come home but the reality is that most young female feel they are more suitable to join the youth wing rather than Wanita.

I may be too rough in bringing up this issue but I didn't mean to hurt the Wanita, what i did was telling the truth, and in most cases, the truth hurt!

There is no reason for us to continue the fracas on little issue like the design of the bunting. Lets work together on how to win back the youngster to support us. The youth wing is just ask to restore the original status of wing, which is taking young member (under 40 years old) regardless of gender.

We should get back to the discourse, not the little issue like design.

Its easy to know whether this is a right direction, just conduct a survey and the result will not lie.