5 Feb: Relevant News Bites
- Cartoon Firestorm - Our PM has made a statement on the issue - denouncing the cartoons, yet urging calmness.
“They should cease and desist from doing so,” Abdullah added, though he stressed that Malaysians should remain calm and not take any irrational measures to protest the caricatures.
- Chinese vs Public Schools - Should we not aim to send our children to public schools, instead of differentiating through vernacular schools? A poster on the Star’s Citizen Blog blogs on this.
I mean, she basically needed money to send them to a chinese vernacular school. However, in her situation, where money is scarce, shouldn’t she just consider sending them to a normal government school, which is free?
Indeed, anyone has to admit that such an action would be a logical one. But the real issue here isn’t the money, the donations, our education system or class differentiation. It is our freedom of choice. The mother is free to choose which school to send her child to and the public is free to choose whether or not to donate (a right that the blog post’s writer has exercised).
- Asian Youth Championships: 1-2 Finish - Congratulations to Aaron Kong and Zulmazran Zulkifli for their 1-2 finish at Fairlanes Bowling Centre yesterday.
