Chow Kon Yeow: 曹观友

Following e-mail sent to the DAP.

COMPLETE INTERNET SYSTEM REQUIRED FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN
PENANG, MALAYSIA
Internet can be regarded as one of the modern education technologies that
could promote the teaching and learning of new science and mathematics
subjects. Certain science fair projects could be allowed to be published
online as complimentary to the current science fair competition organized
for the schools in Penang, Malaysia. The proper usage of internet for
publication and exhibition purposes could improve the quality of science
fair and scientific research education particularly in the state.

Unfortunately there are some more efforts to be placed on the information
technology and science laboratory facilities for the schools in Penang,
Malaysia when it is stressed that scientific research education is deemed
as one of the major factors that will move the state of Penang towards
advanced states in Malaysia. Even Penang State Education Department
itself does not have its online complete database and some of the links
are even broken or outdated for more than five years. (more…)

An interesting post in a blog on foreign policy.

Imagine that First Lady Laura Bush had died in the fall of 2005. (I realize this is morbid, but stick with me.) Now imagine that U.S. President George W. Bush, a scant 19 months later, announced to the nation that he would be getting remarried—not to just anybody, but to the ex-wife of Laura’s younger brother. How would that play in the red states? Probably not well.

For the citizens of Malaysia, no imagination is necessary. The country’s widower prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, has fallen in love again. He’ll soon wed Jeanne Abdullah, a longtime friend and, incidentally, the ex-wife of his late wife’s brother.

By all accounts, the Malaysian people are elated. Malaysian Minister of Works S. Samy Vellu has gone so far as to pen a poem in celebration of the happy couple. An excerpt follows:

A mountain needs a valley to be complete;
the valley does not make
the mountain less, but more;
and the valley is more a valley because
it has a mountain towering over it.