GIVE THEM HELL YB RONNIE. MAY THE BEST MAN WIN.

I first met YB Ronnie Liew many, many years ago at the home of the late Raja Petra Kamaruddin in Sungei Buloh. I believe it was during the Abdullah Badawi regime (about 19 years ago circa 2007)?  At that time a number of articles in Malaysia Today were ghost written by yours truly. There was one issue where about half the articles on the front page of MT were written by me. Well we did take down that corrupt regime. 

YB Ronnie was one of the DAP's strongmen. He is now heading a new party PBM or Parti Bangsa Malaysia.  I believe coming out of Sarawak.

Ronnie Liu’s PBM may be set to ‘punch above its weight’

The candid Ronnie who has never been slow to voiice out peoples’ causes, often had fallings out with the leadership of his former party, the DAP.

Murray Hunter  Aug 23

ONLY a couple of weeks ago, Ronnie Liu announced that he is bringing Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) to peninsula politics with a very strong creed.

In a press conference full of ‘old timers’, Ronnie espoused that PBM would fight to preserve Malaysia as a non-racial, non-theocratic democracy.

PBM wants to nurture an open, free, harmonious, and prosperous society.

The candid Ronnie who has never been slow to voiice out peoples’ causes, often had fallings out with the leadership of his former party, the DAP.

Ronnie retired but remained a staunch supporter of prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, supporting the visions that Pakatan Harapan stood for.

This time around, Ronnie most likely sees himself as emulating peoples’ desires for the nation.

He still upholds the values and principles he did while serving the DAP for 40 years.

No doubt, PBM will be a populist party, and according to Ronnie himself will also be pragmatic to further the peoples’ cause.

Since the PBM launch, many have written off PBM as being just another mosquito-party with the usual fate.

However, reports coming back to the writer indicate that many non-Malays on the ground seem to respond very positive to the message and see PBM and Ronnie as some hope for the future.

Its very clear where PBM’s potential support lays.

It will be in largely non-Malay electorates through Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, and Penang.

One would say that Ronnie’s potential base of support lays in Selangor and the Federal Territories simply because many there know the man.

There is no data to indicate whether its just the ‘Otai’ generation that supports him or whether GenZ and Millennials will also heed the PBM message.

What we do know is that the Ronnie ‘train’ is now on the hustings and receiving very positive messages back.

PBM is going to crowd the non-Malay voter cohort with lots of choices in the coming general election and may become a factor which the DAP leadership didn’t calculate on in their electoral strategy.

PBM may become what Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli’s Parti Bersama Malaysia wanted to achieve.

In fact, PBM may perform much better than Bersama because its is being built from the ground, rather than by using social media from a central office.

Ronnie has that charisma which just may work. As a consequence, PBM maybe able to ‘punch above its weight’. – August 23, 2026

Malaysia’s PM’s office has too much power – and it is costing us. By Dato M Santhananaban

The writer Dato’ M Santhananaban is a former Malaysian ambassador with over 45 years of public sector experience. 

Malaysia’s PM’s office has too much power – and it is costing us

The top office needs checks and balances, even if it is not the whole problem.

In 2009, Malaysia set up the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, scrapping older anti-corruption laws for tougher legislation on white-collar crime and money laundering.

New institutions to uphold accountability and transparency followed soon after.

Seventeen years on, that reform looks like it has achieved little at the very top. A few of our eight former prime ministers are now facing, or have faced, serious criminal charges – and Najib Razak, who set off this reckoning, completes four years as a prisoner this weekend.

That is a shameful record for Malaysia.

Tainted leaders

The former prime ministers now before the courts belong to the post-war, baby boomer generation. All are from the peninsula.

They were taught to be clean, patriotic, trustworthy and transparent during their political apprenticeships. Their own party pushed through the very laws meant to guard against people like them.

Yet these tainted former prime ministers appear to have fallen well short of these standards.

Outsized power

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Tabung Haji, released on 29 July, contains some telling findings about the role of the prime minister.

On page 29, the report recommends an independent panel (badan penasihat bebas, or independent advisory body) to advise the PM on appointments to the Tabung Haji board. It is a polite suggestion, carefully worded.

But the report does not shy away from the obvious. The prime minister of the day ultimately shapes the character and direction of Tabung Haji. This principle should arguably apply to all prime ministerial appointments, including those to government-linked investment companies (GLICs) and government-linked companies (GLCs).

This careful language points to a serious flaw in how Malaysia is governed at the top. The office of the prime minister has become too powerful and too overbearing.

Through nominated directors, the prime minister’s office has an outsized presence across most government-linked firms, especially the investment companies. That grows more pronounced when the prime minister also holds the finance portfolio.

The conduct of the sixth prime minister, based on findings by two separate High Court judges – Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali and Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah – exposed the vast, largely unchecked power of a sitting prime minister.

The Tabung Haji royal commission has since underlined the same point. The prime minister looms unusually large over Malaysia’s governance structure.

Since the late 1980s, Malaysia’s system has grown increasingly prime minister-centric. The office has taken on an authority far beyond what was intended. It was meant to be ‘first among equals’ in cabinet, not a dominant figure above it.

Given this concentration of power, a prime minister who is not exceptionally disciplined can come under enormous pressure. We also now know that even a former PM’s spouse became an influential player, allegedly having a say on appointments and large public projects.

The risk grows sharper still when a prime minister also holds a powerful ministry such as defence, finance or home affairs.

How that power gets abused

In Malaysia, it is well established that those advising or influencing the prime minister, beyond the ruling party’s inner circle, are often compliant civil servants and co-opted technocrats.

They are expected not just to obey but to accommodate the PM’s wishes, sometimes stretching the rules to do so.

One striking example: the former chief secretary to the government admitted he accepted a RM30,000 monthly allowance for a 1MDB advisory role in which he had no actual duties. This is not an allegation; it is an admitted fact, recorded in court.

Today, the prime minister holds significant control over top civil service appointments, along with government-linked firms and investment companies that together control roughly 45% of the equity of listed companies on Bursa Malaysia.

This looks more like the power of a presidential system than of Malaysia’s Westminster-style democracy. Is it right to concentrate so much power in one office?

Parliament, too, has the authority to pass laws – laws that a prime minister with a two-thirds majority can shape to their advantage. A prime minister can also appoint defeated election candidates as senators, then elevate them to senior cabinet posts.

What is clear from the Sequerah and Nazlan judgments, and from the Tabung Haji royal commission, is the scale of financial leakages, fraud and, at times, gross negligence in managing public funds.

These problems enmeshed the highest office in the land. They raise real questions about how far Malaysia has strayed from sound principles of accountability and good governance.

Most of those implicated in incompetence or abuse of office sit at the elite level, often close to the prime minister. Abuse of office has become a troubling affliction, especially among several of Malaysia’s most senior figures.

Two significant damages claims have been upheld by the courts in recent years, against former top executives of Sime Darby and Mara Corp. They point to a wider problem. Some senior executives appear overly confident about bending the rules, perhaps believing their organisations are too big to be held to account.

Taken together, these cases suggest Malaysia has, for now, lost ground in the fight against corruption and white-collar crime. The current government has popularised the word sakau’ (plunder) to describe this culture, and it has stuck.

Malaysia must move on from such tainted former leaders. Political parties hoping to field prime ministerial candidates must insist on integrity and accountability. We have had more than enough sloganeering leaders.

But containing the prime minister’s powers is not the whole answer. In Malaysia, abuse of power is not confined to the top office – it appears to run through the system, from the cabinet room to the clerk processing a licence application in a back office.

What Malaysia needs now

That raises two harder questions.

Would restricting the prime minister’s powers actually change this culture or simply push it elsewhere?

And could tighter checks make a prime minister less effective at the moments when swift, decisive action is genuinely needed?

Malaysia has not yet answered either question. But they should sharpen the argument for containing the powers of the office, not weaken it.

Malaysia needs a genuinely capable leader, not a saint, but someone who could, in time, be remembered as a statesman.

One prime minister who came close was Hussein Onn – soldier, lawyer and statesman – who moved unassumingly into his predecessor’s modest official residence and ran the country on a tight budget. He was known for his honesty, humility and humanity.

Can someone in that mould step forward soon?

Curbing the prime minister’s powers alone will not fix a culture of abuse that runs deeper than one office. But it is a reform Malaysia can no longer afford to postpone. Let us hope Malaysia’s future is a bright one.  

CHATGPT MAKES INSTANT HISTORICAL RESEARCH

NON MUSLIMS CAN SKIP THIS. Unless you can stand the pain.

I am constantly reading up and researching this and that. Now the AI search engines like ChatGpt, Gemini, Grok (I have not tried Claude and I could not get past DeepSeek's signing up) have become my constant companions. To me the value and the usefulness of these AI platforms depends greatly on your own knowledge and understanding of a subject. Because your own knowledge of a subject can help you frame a better question which then can extract a better explanation by these AI platforms. 

If you want sources/references then it is best that you tell the AI to provide credible/acknowledged  sources / references for the material. This is useful for reearch. 

I frequently research the Quran, Islamic history, theological issues etc. I was doing a to and fro with ChatGpt about this person called Abu Hurayrah. This is super long. If you are interested you can just glance through it. Just to give you an idea only. 

The following are comments by CHATGPT. 

Yes—but there is an important distinction between the name “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān” and the patronymic “ibn Ṣakhr.”

1. “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān” is reported as the name given by the Prophet ﷺ

There is a specific report from Abū Hurayrah, transmitted by Ibn Isḥāq, in which he says:  كان اسمي في الجاهلية عبد شمس بن صخر، فسماني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عبد الرحمن

“My name in the pre-Islamic period was ʿAbd Shams ibn Ṣakhr, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ named me ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.”

Ibn Ḥajar records this in al-Iṣābah, and traces it through Ibn Isḥāq.

So the report is quite specific: the Prophet changed “ʿAbd Shams” to “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.”

2. “Ibn Ṣakhr” is different

The same report calls his pre-Islamic name: ʿAbd Shams ibn Ṣakhr

That means Ṣakhr was already his father's name in this account. The Prophet ﷺ is not reported to have chosen “Ṣakhr” for him.

In other words, if we accept this particular report, the sequence is:

ʿAbd Shams ibn Ṣakhr → ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr

The Prophet changed his personal name, not his father's name.

However, there is a major caveat: the historical sources disagree substantially about both Abū Hurayrah's personal name and his father's name. Al-Mizzī explicitly lists numerous competing versions, including ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀʾidh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir, and others.

Al-Dhahabī says that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr is the strongest/preferred identification, but also acknowledges the disagreement.

3. What about “Ibn Azdī”?

Here we need to be particularly careful.   “al-Azdī” (الأزدي) does NOT mean “son of Azd.”

It is a nisbah—a tribal/ancestral affiliation meaning that he belonged to al-Azd, specifically the Daws branch of al-Azd.

So ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Azdī should not be understood as:

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of Ṣakhr, son of Azd.   Rather:  ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr, the al-Azdī

i.e. Abū Hurayrah of the Daws tribe, which was part of al-Azd.

His famous tribal identification is al-Dawsī (الدوسي), because he was from Daws, a branch of al-Azd.

Yes. Restricting the answer strictly to animal-derived kunyahs of people associated with the Prophet ﷺ, I can verify the following:

Abū Hurayrah (أبو هريرة) — “Father of the little cat/kitten.” This is the clearest example, and Abū Hurayrah himself explained the origin of the kunyah through his kitten.

I also checked the major biographical material available for the Companions. For example, Usd al-Ghābah records many Companion kunyahs, but the apparent animal terms often turn out to be personal names, children's names, or tribal names, rather than an animal-derived kunyah.

So, at this point, the only animal-derived Companion kunyah I can verify confidently is Abū Hurayrah.

That distinction is important for the question you're investigating.

There is no exact agreed number of Ṣaḥābah (Companions).

A commonly cited ballpark figure is around 100,000 or more. One traditional estimate says that approximately 114,000 Companions were present with the Prophet ﷺ at the Farewell Pilgrimage in 632 CE. This figure is transmitted in the classical literature, although the exact number is not independently verifiable.

So for a factual ballpark:   Total Companions: approximately 100,000–120,000.

What can be stated precisely is narrower:   Abū Hurayrah (أبو هريرة) is a clearly documented Companion whose kunyah is explicitly associated with an animal—the kitten.

I have not identified another Companion with a securely documented animal-derived kunyah comparable to Abū Hurayrah.

Therefore, among the Companions for whom we have surviving biographical/name records, Abū Hurayrah may be unique in this specific category.

So the precise statement is:   Abū Hurayrah is the only Companion I can currently verify as having a documented animal-derived kunyah.

Abū Hurayrah (أبو هريرة) — “Father of the little cat/kitten.” This is the clearest example, and Abū Hurayrah himself explained the origin of the kunyah through his kitten.

I also checked the major biographical material available for the Companions. For example, Usd al-Ghābah records many Companion kunyahs, but the apparent animal terms often turn out to be personal names, children's names, or tribal names, rather than an animal-derived kunyah.

So, at this point, the only animal-derived Companion kunyah I can verify confidently is Abū Hurayrah.

That distinction is important for the question you're investigating.

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ROHINGYA MASUK, SEKARANG GILIRAN JORDANIAN PULA MASUK. SIAPA TUTUP MATA SEBELAH?

 

• Cops save 17 Jordanian child beggars during raids in KL
• Children were believed to have been trafficked by a syndicate.
• Children saved during 13 raids around Bukit Bintang and Chow Kit
• Eight boys and nine girls aged between three months and 14 years. 
• Daily collection estimated at RM500 to RM1,000

• The group is believed to be a syndicate led by Jordanians
• police arrested 15 other people, believed to be Jordanians
• Five of them failed to produce valid travel documents.
• They entered Malaysia on social visit passes 
• which allowed them to stay for 90 days.
• The suspects – seven men and eight women, aged 21 to 49 
• confiscated 14 handphones, 32 Jordanian passports, four strollers, cash 

MY COMMENTS: Tak masuk akal-lah. Macam mana boleh ada baby  aged between three months  boleh jadi beggar pula? Mesti ada ibu yang jaga baby tiga bulan? Jadi yang jadi beggar adalah si ibu.   

Polis kata syndicate terlibat. Kalau ada syndicate mesti ada connection depa dalam negara. Serupa sindiket yang bawa masuk Rohingya. Sindiket Rohingya mesti ada connection dalam negara.  Takkan 200,000 Rohingya boleh tembus sempadan negara dengan sendiri? Tanpa bantuan orang dalam? 

Sekali lagi mesti ada pengkhianat yang menjual negara sendiri. Untuk sedikit untung. Sekali lagi mesti ada Si Kitol mengkhianati kaumnya sendiri untuk kepentingan peribadi. Nak takut apa? Kalau kena tangkap pun, mana tahu, kalau timing elok, boleh terlepas. Boleh DNAA. Atau mungkin NFA. Malaysia boleh. 

The Question Of Siapa Tipu Siapa?

 

Please read my comments after this.

My Comments:

Saya pernah melihat beberapa versi poster “Tipu Melayu” ini beredar dalam WhatsApp. Saya sama sekali tidak bersetuju dengan mesej yang cuba disampaikan di sini. Sama ada berlaku tipu atau tidak, ia tidak bergantung kepada sama ada semua orang yang disenaraikan di situ ialah orang Melayu atau bukan Melayu.

Persoalannya begini — katakanlah SEMUA orang yang disenaraikan di atas itu bukan Melayu. Apakah itu bermakna orang Melayu tidak akan kena tipu lagi?

Sama ada berlaku tipu atau tidak, ia juga tidak bergantung jika Melayu atau bukan Melayu yang memegang jawatan-jawatan penting dalam negara seperti Ketua Polis, Ketua Hakim, Perdana Menteri dan sebagainya.

Sama ada berlaku tipu atau tidak bergantung kepada orang Melayu sendiri. Tidak boleh dinafikan, memang akan sentiasa ada orang yang mahu menipu orang lain — tidak kira mereka Melayu, Cina, India, Dayak dan sebagainya.

Tetapi yang lebih penting, untuk menyelamatkan orang Melayu daripada kena tipu — bergantung kepada orang Melayu yang lain, yang bukan penipu, yang rela untuk bangun tidur dan melakukan sesuatu terhadap mereka yang menipu mereka.

Jika orang Melayu yang bukan penipu boleh mula bersuara, menjerit dan membantah setiap kali ada orang cuba menipu mereka, maka segala kegiatan tipu-menipu ini tidak akan berlaku lagi.

Tetapi jika orang Melayu terus berdiam diri dan tidak banyak membuat aduan, maka sudah tentulah kaki penipu akan berdiri di atas bahu anda dan kencing di atas kepala anda. Itu memang akan berlaku. Correction:  Itulah yang sedang berlaku sekarang.

Kita telah menukar kerajaan EMPAT KALI dalam tempoh LAPAN TAHUN. Tetapi adakah kegiatan menipu sudah berhenti?  

TIDAK. No way Jose! Ia belum berhenti.

Kenapa tidak berhenti?  

Ada beberapa sebab. Antara sebab yang paling besar ialah kerana terdapat undang-undang di negara ini yang menghalang orang Melayu dan orang lain daripada bersuara tanpa rasa takut. Ini termasuk Akta Hasutan, Akta MCMC, beberapa bahagian dalam Kanun Keseksaan dan sebagainya, akta-akta fitnah (libel, slander, defamation act) serta pelbagai Enakmen Jenayah Syariah yang menyebabkan orang ramai tidak dapat bercakap dengan bebas.

Orang Melayu, lebih daripada kaum lain kerana mereka adalah majoriti, mesti menuntut supaya undang-undang yang tidak diperlukan ini dimansuhkan. Undang-undang zaman kuno ini memang tidak berguna lagi bagi kita. Sama ada abolish them ataupun akta-akta kuno seperti ini perlu dipinda dengan secara drastic. 

Bebaskan ruang untuk wacana awam yang menyeluruh dan terbuka mengenai apa sahaja perkara atau masalah untuk dibincangkan tanpa rasa takut akan ditangkap hanya kerana anda bercakap dengan membuka mulut.

Bagaimana pula bercakap dengan mulut sendiri boleh menjadi satu jenayah?  

Orang Melayu mesti memahami bahawa cara paling mudah untuk MENIPU sesuatu kaum atau masyarakat ialah dengan menghalang mereka daripada bercakap secara bebas.

Saya rasa amat malu bahawa walaupun kita hidup dalam abad ke-21, sebahagian undang-undang negara kita masih kuno dan berzaman batu seperti negara-negara miskin tahun 50an dan 60an.  Atau serupa negara-negara Arab zaman sekarang. 

Jika mereka boleh control kebebasan rakyat untuk bersuara pasti mereka akan control satu negara dan masyarakat.  Kemudian kaki penipu boleh menipu sesiapa sahaja yang mereka mahu. Thats how it works.

Sebab itulah, walaupun kerajaan telah bertukar EMPAT KALI dalam LAPAN TAHUN, poster TIPU MELAYU ini masih beredar.

Surah Ar-Ra‘d, 13:11 :

إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ

“Sesungguhnya Allah tidak mengubah keadaan sesuatu kaum sebelum mereka mengubah keadaan diri mereka sendiri.”

So Malay people, please bangun tidur.

10X BODOH

 

HELLO MENTERI KESIHATAN DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS? PROBIOTIC DIABETES CONTROL.

 Here is the news:

A research team from East China Normal University in Shanghai developed an engineered oral-deliverable glucose-sensing and functional response probiotic (GIFT) living drug for "sense-and-respond"-based control of diabetic blood glucose, marking a brand-new approach for diabetes treatment.

The research was conducted by researchers from the university's School of Life Sciences, and the findings were published in the journal Nature on Aug 12.

Using synthetic biology techniques, the research team engineered a probiotic with a century-long history of safety into an "intelligent virtual organ" that can be taken orally and reside temporarily in the intestine. It can sense blood glucose fluctuations in real time and autonomously secrete glucose-lowering hormones, enabling therapeutic dosing in response to real-time blood glucose levels, and providing a programmable, orally deliverable sense-and-respond platform for metabolic therapy without transplantation.

This approach shifts diabetes blood glucose management from the traditional passive model of injections and medication to a new paradigm of "oral implantation and autonomous regulation", achieving true on-demand drug delivery and physiological-level closed-loop control.

MY COMMENTS: Hello Menteri Kesihatan the Chinese are introducing new treatments and new medicines for diseases, sometimes there is one new drug or treatment every week.  

Is the Kementerian Kesihatan keeping up with these latest developments in China? I suggest the Kementerian set up a Chinese Pharmacology and Medical Sciences department whose main task should be to study and keep track of all the latest medical and health discoveries being made in China and how we can bring these new discoveries into Malaysia for the benefit of our people.

Now the Chinese are also an acknowledged world leader in the treatment of cancers. They are marketing (already available in their pharmacies) brand new cancer drugs that are helping cancer patients.

China's Growing Importance in Global Cancer Medicines.   China has transformed from a generic drug manufacturer into a primary global engine for innovative oncology research and development. Propelled by sweeping 2015 regulatory reforms, massive out-licensing deals, and deep engineering capabilities, Chinese biotech pipelines now supply a substantial share of next-generation cancer therapies worldwide.

So please keep track of what is going on in modern Chinese medicine. If they can cure or control diseases like diabetes and cancers do not waste time with useless red tape and 'siapa dapat kontrak'. Just bring these new discoveries into Malaysia at minimal cost so that we too can benefit from the Chinese advances. 

The American and European pharmaceuticals may not like it but they are history.  Dont worry about them.

The Never Ending Violence In Southern Thailand

Here is a brief video about the never ending violence in southern Thailand.  My comments follow.

MY COMMENTS:

From the late 1990s until 2004 I wrote two fortnightly newspaper columns - one in English in The SUN and the other column was in Malay in the Berita Minggu. Then on October 31st, 2003 Abdullah Badawi became prime minister. Soon after both of my newspaper columns were 'çancelled'. At that time I was pro-Mahathir so in the ethnic cleansing that comes with every new prime minister I lost both my newspaper columns. 

I recall that in my very last column in The Sun I predicted that violence would break out in southern Thailand. At that time things were quiet in southern Thailand. Then exactly as I had predicted, in January 2004 there was a major attack by the Patani insurgents against the Thai government.  That violence has continued until today.

That Thai podcaster is completely clueless as to why this problem is persisting for so long. 

1. DISTANCE:  Pattani is 1,000 km away from the center in Bangkok. Plus the southern Thai Malays number about TWO million people - out of Thailand's 67 million people. That is just about 2% of the Thai population. In a democracy 2% of the population does not add up to anything for the political parties.  Especially if that 2% is difficult to handle. So the 2 million Thai Malays in the south are just too far out of sight and out of mind from far away Bangkok. Plus Thailand also has other Muslim populations including native Thai speaking Muslims who have no problems at all living in Thailand. 

2. RADICAL ISLAM:  Unfortunately the Salafis have become embroiled in radicalising the Patani Malays. This has been going on for some time. And Salafi influence comes from outside Thailand.  Lately the Salafis in the Middle East (the Arab variety) have taken a beating because Saudi Arabia - the mother lode of Salafism - has gone night clubbing and rock concerting (under Muhammad bin Salman). Salafism is quite dead in Saudi Arabia. Meaning the money supply and the radicalisation has suffered a major hit. But too late. Now there are other non-Arab Salafis in town who can keep the fires going.

There is also the Muslim Brotherhood. They are also trying to sink their claws into the grievances of Muslim groups in the region - and see what they can stir up.  They are active in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Benua Asia Tenggalam. I will  be surprised if they are not active in southern Thailand.

3. MONEY:  There is plenty money in southern Thailand, especially along the Malaysian border. Recall our General Ops Force personnel who have been shot along the Thai border. This really means smuggling.

The following is the smuggling business from:

Malaysia → Thailand: diesel, petrol, cooking oil, sugar, wheat flour, LPG

Thailand → Malaysia: rice, fruits, vegetables, food products, clothing, kitchen goods, fireworks, cigarettes, drugs

This smuggling business needs people with guns and bombs. These are the same people you see shooting guns in the video above.  So they are into multi-tasking. 

Smuggling also means turf wars. Exactly like the Mafia. Who controls the smuggling routes. Who are the officials they have to bribe - on both sides of the border etc.

Sometimes things can go wrong. Money is lost, smuggled goods are lost etc. Someone tips off the authorities etc. People will then settle scores.

Its a bit complicated in southern Thailand but it can be solved - if done step by step.  

If they cannot get rid of corruption then we will get rid of them.

 

Strong political will from top leadership key to fighting corruption, says Ayob Khan
By Bernama
August 18, 2026 

• Former Deputy IIGP Tan Sri Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay interview Ruang Bicara
• Strong political will, from highest leadership, crucial to combating corruption 
• top leaders must lead by example and demonstrate firm resolve
• only succeed if those at helm sent clear message of zero tolerance 
• Change must come from the top
• If leaders truly have political will to make it happen
• culture of covering up wrongdoing 
• corruption should not be treated as "internal secrets" 
• If we do not acknowledge problems we are heading towards destruction
• we will move backwards while other countries move forward

MY COMMENTS: 

This is how I read Tan Sri Ayub Khan. What he is actually saying is there is no political will to combating corruption. Leadership by example is also lacking. There is no such thing as zero tolerance for corruption at the highest levels. So change is NOT going to come from the top.

Now this is where we come in. The ordinary people, the voters must keep changing the leaders. Like soiled baby diapers - the more frequently we change them, the better for us. 

If they cannot get rid of corruption then we will get rid of them.

BIG TROUBLE FOR DAP: MAJORITY 2,407 DELEGATES (56%) ACTUALLY VOTED TO QUIT FROM PH

Well the DAP congress ended yesterday 16th Aug 2026.  Also yesterday I received this vote count (issued by the DAP).  I immediately sensed something was not right.   

They kept crowing that 4,264 delegates would attend the DAP gathering. 
But if you add 1,857 + 242 = then only 2,099 delegates  attended and voted. 
What happened to the balance of 2,165 delegates who were supposed to attend?
4,264 - 2099 = 2,165 or 50% of delegates did not attend the congress.

And only 1,857 delegates voted to stay in PH.  242 voted against the motion.
So if you add the 242 to the 2,165 delegates who did not attend the congress, it means 2,407 DAP candidates potentially are against the motion for the DAP to stay in the PH.

2,407 is 56% of the total 4,264 delegates. That is a majority of the candidates.

This is exactly what has been pointed out by P Ramasamy - former DAP member and ex Deputy Chief Minister of Penang.  His numbers are slightly different but close. Here is Free Malaysia Today:

DAP congress was dramatised as do-or-die moment for DAP
it was expected at least 80% to 90% of delegates would attend.
Poor congress turnout suggests things are not well in DAP, says Rama
FMT Reporters
Ex-DAP leader says congress to determine party's direction 
following defeats in three state elections.
P Ramasamy said 2,223 out of 4,264 delegates, just 52%
‘abysmally low’ for special congress to vote on a major party decision
low turnout of delegates at DAP special congress yesterday
nearly 50% of delegates did not attend the special congress
If higher percentage attended, motion could have been defeated.
absence of nearly 50% delegates indicates DAP is not well 
non-support for motion to remain in government
DAP should ponder if congress’ decision reflected majority 
2,223 delegates attended 
2,099 voted 
1,857 delegates voted to remain in government 
242 voted to leave the administration
Anthony Loke said turnout considered high (Anthony Loke higher mathematics)
Rama criticised Loke 
it was no ordinary DAP conference 
Aug 16 congress to determine political direction of party 
after poor performances in Sabah, Johor and Negeri Sembilan 

Anthony Loke just made it worse for the party. They are now sailing into really rough water.

The rocket might explode on the launch pad. 

The DAP's biggest weakness lies outside the party. Anthony Loke adamantly refuses to see that PKR and PH are really pulling the DAP underwater. 

Are there other benefits Mr Anthony? You are sending your party to the Club of Doom.

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