Well most possibly we can see a solid reform in the goverment policy, a rejuvenation in barisan nasional (most likely a change in leadership) and hopefully more liberal leaders in the goverment.
Apart from the uncertainty from the opposition pact and the differences in their ideology which conflicts on one another as well on how they try to prove to the rakyat from the 5 states they had captured would makes our political climate a very interesting to be observe at and every action that were made by both party are likely to be crucial to their survivability for the next election..
i wonder what are the impact to the economy and our well being? is this a good thing for us? does reform change everything? or is it just so over rated? the big picture here is the increasing of oil prices which contributed to the higher inflation.. do we have an answer for this?

I don't think there are significant impact on our economy. Both alliance needs to do their best to bring our economy to a higher level in order to get our votes, so in the long run, I believe this is good for all Malaysian.



A resounding YES! It is definitely good for us in the long run. Do you really want to see BN rules Malaysia for another 100 years without any changes? Now, we have more choices, we can kick those useless people out of the parliament.



A lot of thing change after the election, Malaysians in general are more aware of our country's politic, we are more aware of those misconduct by BN. More and more Malaysians are getting more liberal and open minded. This is a good sign for our country in the long run. If we want to progress forward, we need to be fair and democratic.

I think the oil prices is an international problem, Malaysia is not the only country affected. However, I think the BN government is not doing enough for its citizen. There are too much corruption in Malaysia, and we all know who is the mastermind. We need a clean and effective government to rule Malaysia.

Who is the mastermind of the corruption????

It's just 1 election, guys.

The BN just got ambushed, n they got hit quite bad. That's all. They'll recover, they'll bounce back, n they'll hit back.

Pakatan Rakyat is just hinged on one man's personality. Even that one, we don't know how long the shimmer will last.

So you can stop dreaming of a massive, groundshifting tsunami in short to medium term Malaysian politics.

Even if 15 March itself was one tsunami.

I hope we will be better country in the future. With Badawi still in power, I hope he will introduce more openess before he closed his chapter as prime minister. His days are numbered and I hope we got better PM than him.

I also hope that Najib can be as good PM just like his father because Anwar (the best prime minister malaysia never had) still claiming it his. BTW, Tun Razak was Malaysia best PM not Mahathir.

^ im not convinced pak lah will reform his administration nor najib, as long UMNO-BN still in power they will carry on corruption and draconian law, mob malay rights and disrespect of islam, insulting chinese and threat indian as 3rd class race,

we need change not just to rectify demages, so we need new leader, new dawn!

ANWAR FOR PM

Yeah.....I love you.

Reforming Malaysia
FROM TODAY'S WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA
April 24, 2008

Malaysia's economy has long been open to competition, but its political system has not. Last month's opposition-party electoral victories changed all that. Now, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has started to compete for voters' hearts, based on what the people want.

Mr. Abdullah's announcements over the past two weeks are nothing short of remarkable. Last Thursday, he acknowledged "perceived corruption" in the judiciary and announced an independent committee to vet prospective judges. On Monday, he promised to beef up the nation's Anti-Corruption Agency, implement laws to protect whistleblowers, and make changes to government procurement practices – long a source of patronage for his party, the United Malays National Organization, and the coalition it leads, the National Front.
[Abdullah Ahmad Badawi]

None of these ideas are new. In fact, Mr. Abdullah himself promised better, cleaner governance when he took office in 2004. Malaysia's voters gave him four years to implement his promises. Last month, voters delivered their verdict: They handed opposition parties control of five out of 13 states, up from one – their biggest parliamentary gains since the country's founding.

With that reprimand, Mr. Abdullah now seems to realize that democracy in Malaysia matters. And he's ripped reform ideas straight from the opposition parties' playbooks. Anwar Ibrahim's National Justice Party, for instance, has long advocated judicial reform and the protection of whistleblowers. The new chief minister of Penang, a member of the Democratic Action Party, called for an open tender system for government procurement last month.

A wise leader will always appropriate good ideas, especially ones recently endorsed at the ballot box. Doing so is also a savvy political move for Mr. Abdullah. His standing as head of UMNO was put in question after his party's electoral losses last month. It still is – on Sunday, a former finance minister, Razaleigh Hamzah, said he'd contest for the party leadership.

If the Prime Minister can reposition himself as a reformer who enjoys public support, it will be harder for his internal challengers to unseat him, come the party congress in December. Showing that UMNO can reform is also a chance for Mr. Abdullah to slow the opposition's political momentum at a time when it is still enjoying the aftermath of last month's election victories.

The Prime Minister may also be thinking about his legacy. The first to hold that office after over two decades of rule under Mahathir Mohamad, Mr. Abdullah was seen as a transitional figure who would bring greater freedoms to his country. At first, he did, loosening controls on the press and cracking down on a few corrupt officials. But largely – as last month's vote showed – he has so far failed.

Malaysia needs the reforms now on offer, and fast. Corruption undermines the country's economic competitiveness and its attractiveness as a place to do business. That depresses investment, and employment opportunities for Malaysians. Without a strong judiciary or a free press, the only way citizens feel they can show their discontent is to protest on the streets. Giving Malaysians a justice system they trust would help alleviate some, if not all, of those grievances.

None of these reforms can be implemented overnight, and most will be strongly opposed by UMNO's political machine, which has benefited for years from its opaque patronage system. But the threat of being unseated from office should be a good motivation for the party to take Mr. Abdullah's ideas seriously. It's about time.

well, sometimes politicians forget who voted for who into the parliment, this will be a gd lesson for BN

this still happens with our neighbour, singapura where the PPP government is playing hardball on voters.......

It is definitely a good thing for us. Our leaders are now more attentive to our needs and are more willing to listen (but does not necessary translate into actions). Like in Selangor, what I have heard is that the civil servants have to clear their files in 3 months, otherwise, they would have to write a report on it. When the state and federal government are being run like corporations with the implementation of KPIs and etc., I believe that our system would be more efficient and effective.

I think as everybody know, the current CPI level does not reflect the truth. Without accounting for a possible oil increase, I think our current CPI level is about 4%. Honestly, I don't even know what's the best solution to counter for inflation... either increase interest rate or let our currency strengthen. (Edit: When it is supply issue, I don't think either way works).

The increase in oil prices is not the only thing which has caused the rising inflation... the commodity prices are rallying... Maybe the only solution is for a commodity bubble burst? And let the economy repair itself?

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Sad to say without the Chinese and other non-malay races in Malaysia and Indonesia, the region will be the backwater of Southeast Asia.

The malays cannot stand on their own feet. Just compare the GDP contribution of non-malays present and past against the malays.

Sadly, the most Middle Eastern civilization are Islamic based on their God Allah and they are a failure compared to Western civilization based on human ideology. This is partially why Malaysia 'tak boleh maju', as its policies are based on religion and race.

Oh wait, to that malay who says 'majority is always right'. Certainly, you still have a long way to go. You are not 'sons of the soil'. The Orang Asli, not the malays, are the rightful owner of Malaysia.

You guys stole the land from them, just like your Arab brothers who tried to force their religion on others by military conquest in hopes of dying for your God and copulate with the 72 virgins in Muslim paradise! Cheers.

yes, perhaps u were right about this mr no good racistfish.. even though this statement is very much debatable..


sadly, i do agree with you as im a muslim myself.. our past glory on modern civilisation will only be history if there is no unity among the muslims..


oh wait.. this is a total foolish statement by a bias racist chinese with their typical fact about a small minority of people as the sole rightful owner of tanah melayu.. do u racistfish seems to forget that bumiputra which include (malays,orang asli,those people in sabah and sarawak) are also the rightful owner of malaysia?


dont u ever manipulate ur statement with baseless fact just to fulfill ur agenda which meant to provoke muslim by insulting their religion.. those middle eastern people are very much different than the malay, they are a community of one race with many religion.. the fact is that they do not start any war n never did they force anyone to convert to islam..

Konek is a troll fadlee! No need to respond, just leave him alone, it'll be good for us! He's eveywhere in in Malaysia Chat! He's such a d!ckhead, that's why he calls himself 'konek'!!!

lol, i just cant help myself..

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Life is precious to be given away....we're closing in on you..

Its time for all the malaysian to learn from tan hong ming and Ummi Qazrina

In Indonesia, there are Indonesian Muslims, Hindus, Christians. In West Asia, there are also Arab Muslims, Christians, and even Jews. But in Malaysia, malays must be Muslims to be called malays.

Religion especially Islam, is very effective in controlling the thoughts and minds of a people, and makes it easy to govern them.

However, still most Muslim malays are such a embarrassing and disappointment themselves by practising intense racial sentiment. Very very very few are open minded, and most of these good hearted malays are from educated priviledged and motivated background.

Too sad the leftover Muslim malays are hypocrite rubbish and will always be rubbish.

It is easy to blame malays (for whatever issue) since there are just too many examples out there for the minorities to exploit. Yes that holds some truth to it, so let us forget about the useless racist uneducated malays. Let us examine the 'smart' malays, the new breed malays.

When a smart malay who had the opportunity to get great education (e.g. from Oxford), uses racial sentiment which is a very cheap way to get around pleasuring own's nipples across the political arena, is not that another example of typical malay? Just that in this example it involves a new breed malay, the smart one.

Again, I am rude but these are real.

Every single person born in this Malaysia should have the same equal rights.

If the Muslim community want to respect Islam, they should give the right and protection to the non-Muslims. Not the other way round. For Islam is fair and is beautiful. It is the racist card players who changed the rules and adopted racism as part of their agendas.

It is not true that outside Malaysia the migrants have lesser rights than those living in Malaysia. This is a fallacy and you know it. Migrants (non-malays) are mistreated in Malaysia more than in other countries - go check your facts.

Umno racist sympathizer yet trying to sound reconciling - no constructive comments - all sound as if Umno racist is the one that deserve the chance and have the ability to fix……….all others opposition party are useless!

You expect us non-malays to just accept unfair justice, racism or corruption for 50 years and keep quiet about it? Thank God, he did not create robots. Humans are retaliate, free to belief and choose - ask Umno racist to do its best to block freedom - watch the fall out!

The world is looking at Malaysia - the decision is simple and against human freedom will have to face the world and God too……….one day!

As many have correctly pointed out, Malaysia is the only place in the world where there is institutionalised racism (NEP defined apartheid).

I guess any person who has followed closely developments in Malaysia can already see the brain drain from our country……….so I will not elaborate.

For your information, a large pool of overseas talents and professionals are from Malaysia or were once Malaysians. I even have a fellow PhD colleague pioneering technologies for NASA at MIT, just because they gave him a scholarship. He was rejected straight away by UM of course.

At least in overseas, talents are valued, appreciated, and given a fair go as opposed to the semi-oppressive and exploitative nature of NEP (and its spin offs).

Equal rights for every citizen of Malaysia and that is how it ought to be. The malays seem never enough to be satisfied with they have - such an inferior race with lack of intelligence.

The Malays, Indians and Chinese fought for independence from the British together. Malaysia is born from the strength of Malays, Indians and Chinese. In Indonesia or America, they obtained their independence in a different way. So please don't compare with the rest of the world.

History teach us that the first inhabitant of Malaysia came from China Yunan. The malay originated from the Polynesian. Malay history start from Parameswara who escape from Indonesia and settle in Melaka. During his time, Laksamana Cheng Ho visit Melaka seven times.

Melaka need the protection of the China from the invasion of the Siamese. Without Cheng Ho, there won't be malay history, instead you have Siam history.

Mass influx of Indians and Chinese was during the rule of the British. That was before the creation of Malaysia. Today we have Malaysia, who can claim to be 'tuan'?

God save all of us.

Indeed the real bumis are the Orang Asli, they too are migrated from other places many many hundred years ago!

By the way, if Islam is so tolerable, strong and beautiful, why in Malaysia apostasy is not allowed? If this is a worry, then it only shows how weak Islam is!

I pity Malaysian Muslims, you probably are the least free people in this world! Even Indonesian Muslims are allowed to practice apostasy when they become adults!

USA, UK, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, etc - what make them different from Malaysia?

Why are they successful, well most importantly they practised meritocracy system and secondly they don't have law that discriminate against skin colors or religions or minorities.

Sorry facts are facts. Sorry in spite of all, you malays still cannot compete. By the way - some are so wrong that Chinese do not look towards China.

Where there is money to be made, and where we can improve other Chinese well being be it Malaysian Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese etc, we are looking towards it. You bet. The next world is not Malaysia, a tiny little dot in this world.

Where opportunities exist, we look elsewhere just like Singaporeans they are going everywhere.

Always love the ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o1CzrmQP8U
But this is really cute.