Usually, I try to resist the temptation of taking a swipe at our politician talk or rather, mindset, which I think only God knows what are they thinking of.
However, I can’t stop my hand and my brain from not openly complimenting a job well-done by Information, Communication and Culture Minister Rais Yatim.
In a report by The Malaysian Insider, he was reported as saying that all media should return to using "swine flu" instead.
The logic: To ensure that the people realised the danger of the disease and to get the message across to them more accurately and it’s also easier for (radio and television) announcers to state "selsema babi" (swine flu) than H1N1 in Bahasa Melayu.
In early May, the World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to drop using the term "swine flu" for the influenza virus and use the term "influenza A H1N1 flu" after various countries and world animal health bodies protested against using the term "swine flu", which they felt was unfair and a serious misnomer.
So much so of a minister material who is trying to keep abreast of international standard, expecting to set a new precedence by expecting the worldwide nations to follow our Malaysia standard of "selsema babi", in defiance of the new reference decided by the WHO and the rest of the world.
Poor Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai, being made to look so stupid by his colleague.
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Utter crap from someone who write a thesis he himself doesn’t believe in ( that Phd of his is crap ). Don’t expect brilliance from someone who is a mediocre and don’t ever believe a neanderthal can obtain a doctorate…. He even lacks a brain let alone intelligence.
these people are trying to make malaysia outdated "the way it should be" – what are standards if its not my standard kind of thing
The name Melayu is an Indian word to denote hills or mountain range. There is a place in South India called Melayur.
Indigenous people who marry Muslim Indians from Melayur identified themselves as Melayur.
Over time, as the Malay kingdom spead through insular SEA, the word Melayur became simply as Melayu.
If one were to do genetic test on the modern Malay in Peninsula Malaysia, they would invariably carry genetics from Indian to explain the darker complexion and kinky hair of most Malays as opposed to the Mongolid look of some Malays of original Malayo Polynesian, Dusun or Dayak stocks.
The real natives or indigenous people of the Peninsula Malaysia can be found in the Northern parts of Peninusla Malaysia apart from the aborigines.
Yet another joke from Rais Yatim.
Hey, have you seen this news article?
New details about Michael Jackson’s Death Emerge
I was wondering if you were going to blog about this…
90% Chinese in China, Macau & Taiwan didn’t know what AH1n1 means…They will only understand when sombody talk about “Swine Flu” .Is the China Goverment or Taiwan n Macau have make a big mistake becoze they do What Rais Yatim fail to do here…?