The dire need for a new Chinese Primary School in any community is sure to attract support and will hog the limelight as far as the Chinese community is concerned. Politicians from both sides of the political divide will clamour for a piece of the action in the hope of winning the hearts and minds of the ethnic Chinese voters.
“Are you sure you want to spearhead the intervention program for saving abandoned babies?” exclaimed one of my NGO partners who brainstormed with me on the subject matter two weeks ago.
Prickly as the issue may be, this is nothing new to me. Time and again, initiatives that seek to provide proper hutches for abandoned babies never fail to raise eyebrows.
Few years ago when I first conducted the ‘City Survival’ program, an all female program, together with my NGO friend K Bala, many people either frowned upon me, or simply shrugged with a cynical grin. They thought that should be the concern of feminists. The Party insiders were questioning of its relevance and political mileage in the partisan politics; while others were wondering if we were contemplating to conduct classes of self-defense for the women.
By Boo Su-Lyn (Malaysian Insider)
September 02, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 — DAP assemblyman Jenice Lee has maintained that she does not need to be accountable to the public over their donations for a party campaign, even as allegations of corruption surfaced against her.
The Teratai assemblyman has been accused of abusing public funds for a campaign since 2007 to build a Chinese primary school in Pandan Perdana — which stil
Let's save babies, says Tee Keat (31st August 2010)
By Shahrim Tamrin (Malay Mail)
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat is set to launch a ‘life-saving initiative for abandoned babies’ in his Pandan parliamentary constituency to curb baby-dumping.
“I can’t take it anymore. Lately, we heard of many tragic cases of abandoned babies nationwide and I want to do something to save these precious lives.”
He said he no longer wanted to rue what he could do everytime a new case cropped up.
