[MinMin]

Don't compare Malaysia with S'pore, HK: Abdullah

PUTRAJAYA - SINGAPORE and Hong Kong are places with single-ethnic populations and their progress should not be compared directly with that of multiracial Malaysia, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said yesterday.

He told 8,000 top civil servants that the two cities are 'grapes' while Malaysia is an 'apple'.

His message was that Malaysians can do better and they should not despair by comparing Malaysia with Singapore and Hong Kong because a direct comparison was unfair.

'They are grapes...and we are apple. How can you compare grapes with an apple? We can't,' he told the annual gathering between the premier and top civil servants.

He also said Malaysia could not be compared with Taiwan because the population of the island was higher than Malaysia's.

Malaysia's 27 million population consists of 60 per cent Malays along with 25 per cent ethnic Chinese and 8 per cent Indians. The rest are from other minority races.

Datuk Seri Abdullah brought up the subject in his speech in which he said the government's efficiency was rated sixth best in the world last year, compared to its eighth placing in 2000.

Quoting the World Competitiveness Year Book released by the Swiss-based business school IMD, he said that Malaysia was ranked above the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and France in places with a population of over 20 million.

Only China, Canada, the United States, India and Taiwan were ranked better, he said.

He said there were differences between Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

The Republic and Hong Kong were single-race territories and therefore faced different challenges and drew up different human development projects. Their economies should also not be compared with Malaysia's, he added.

Datuk Seri Abdullah said that a better comparison with Singapore and Hong Kong is Malaysia's Klang Valley and not the whole country.

SIN CHEW DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK, BERNAMA

Link:- http://news.asiaone.com/News/The%2BS...129-47071.html

agree, don't compare malaysia with singapore.
because they are a bunch of losers who will never be able to win us..

[Civicguy]

Usual pre-Malaysia Election talk.

Bashing Singapore is the favourite tactic for all parties...

It is okay. Singapore elections are not much better....

[moneygod]

Errr Malaysia can compare with which country then? Hard to find bumis outside Malaysia you know...

[vic viper]

Originally Posted by MinMin

[B]

Quoting the World Competitiveness Year Book released by the Swiss-based business school IMD, he said that Malaysia was ranked above the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and France in places with a population of over 20 million.

ooo..are they saying they r better or on par wif UK, germany, Japan and France?...haha

[skweam]

Originally Posted by tayjjeric

agree, don't compare malaysia with singapore.
because they are a bunch of losers who will never be able to win us..

the problem with majority of singaporeans. winning. win what? got prize?

[bluecoral]

lol seriously how to compare... malaysia way bigger lah ...
if want compare then compare each other dick loh... haha...
everything also want to compare... haha humans ah...
so klang valley is on par with HK and SG ?
does he know how to calculate man ? haha

hmm but he said sg is single-ethnic population ? is that really true ?
i think sg is so much diverse...
perhaps it is a nicer way of saying, this is a muslim country ! and thus we side with the muslim... which most malaysian chinese would tend to complain about...
the differences of a malaysian malay and a malaysian chinese...

[moneygod]

Originally Posted by skweam

the problem with majority of singaporeans. winning. win what? got prize?

Bro, I know where you are coming from but in this context, yes. Coming in on top of World Competitiveness (or Global Competitiveness) will highlight the country to major investment companies and banks. Funds and investments will flow much likely to the top rankings which will benefit the whole country.

In any case, Singapored ranks 2nd behind US in overall rankings of the WCYB2007. Since #1 spot is too big and #2 spot is too small, I wonder which country should Pak Lah benchmark against?

[lanc3r]

singapore single ethnic and malaysia multi racial?

[booest]

true.. but knn stop coming out with more and more anal policies restricting non Malay/Muslim living in general.

[hencpu]

both S'pore & M'sia also multi racial

also, when Pak Lah refers M'sia as single ethnic is also incorrect either...altho Bumiputera means Malay race in general, it actually consists of many ethnic groups such as Javanese, Malay, Negrito, Dayak, etc...

besides, Malay (Melayu) is not even a race, they are one of the 300+ ethnic groups tat make up Indo. they were originated from Borneo, then expanded to Sumatra & later into the Malay Peninsula

M'sia gahmen then group all this ethnic groups & call themselves "Malay" for political purpose

[booest]

bumiputera is loosing its hold liaoz lah.

more and more people are marrying other non bumi blood.
but setting up legislation for women on queues and etc is just stupid lah

Originally Posted by skweam

the problem with majority of singaporeans. winning. win what? got prize?

of cos got prize lahh.. if not why is Singapore always winning malaysia!

[senru]

i think hes a joke...

wat abt the indians, malays, and eurasians living in singapore? single ethnic? malaysia multi racial??

[sWirL]

Malaysia is multiracial and Singapore is single-ethnic? what a joke...