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Chitchat Malaysia needs to learn from Singapore Government how to avoid blame

scroobal

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This is good example of why sponsoring 18 year kids pays good dividends. Looks at DPM Teo Chee Hearn who became a state scholar in his teens and how he has developed the skill to place the blame on the printer. Here we have Malaysia where the Sports Minister as well as Foreign Minister within the same day offered their apology. The failed to pin the blame on someone else. Why?

Gan Kim Long another cabinet minister who go this state scholarship in is his teens also decided to hide the errant public servants many of them high ranking and one the wife of his cabinet colleague by claiming he did not want to develop the blame culture. It the worst case of hospital negligence that led to the death of 8 people. The hospital showed a shining example by lodging a police report claiming sabotage.

Malaysia could have also claimed that it was printer but they did not have guile, smarts or the intelligence to think thru. They rushed to accept the blame. In our case, we did not rush despite articles by various media outlets had highlighted the error. Nothing was done until it was raised in Parliament.

Kudos to Singapore and the PAP Government.

http://jakartaglobe.id/news/malaysian-fm-apologizes-indonesia-flag-blunder/Malaysian FM Apologizes to Indonesia for Flag Blunderi
Jakarta. Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman issued a statement of apology on Sunday (20/08) regarding the misprint of the Indonesian flag in the promotional materials distributed at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games opening ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.

"On behalf of the Government of Malaysia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would like to express regret for the inadvertent error made by the Malaysian Organizing Committee [MASOC] for the wrong publication of the Indonesian flag," the statement said.

The mistake was spotted by Indonesia's Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi, who then took to Twitter to express his disappointment.

Imam's tweet received a prompt response from his Malaysian counterpart, Khairy Jamaluddin, who apologized through the social media platform and said "absolutely no malice was intended."

The error on Saturday also triggered netizens to voice their discontent via Twitter, with #ShameOnYouMalaysia posts.

According to Malaysia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jamaluddin met with Imam on Sunday "to explain the regrettable error and convey his apology on behalf of the MASOC."

In the statement, Aman emphasized that "all measures have been taken to address this unfortunate situation" and reassured that "Malaysia places importance to its close and deeply rooted fraternal relations with Indonesia."

This year, Indonesia and Malaysia celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Aman also expressed hope that the countries will continue to "interact closely together" and "strengthen the ties between us and within the region as a whole."

As close neighbors, Indonesia and Malaysia have one of the most important bilateral relationships in Southeast Asia. Over the years, however, relations between the two countries have been strained by various issues, including claims over each other's cultural features and diplomatic frictions due to haze caused by wildfires in Indonesia.
 

creampie

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When u join the silver serpents at 18, u end up having little or no skills in your 40s and 50s. So u will do whatever it takes to remain in power because the private sector will not welcome u.
 

The_Hypocrite

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For matters like this...it's easier to apologise and move on...for the pap and it's defensive argumentative n blame others approach...very often it just makes things worse.
 

scroobal

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Thats the part I don't get. A simple apology is all that is needed but it seems that it will kill them to acknowledge a mistake.

For matters like this...it's easier to apologise and move on...for the pap and it's defensive argumentative n blame others approach...very often it just makes things worse.
 

Scrooball (clone)

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The best way to avoid critcism is make sure the general population has a job. And make sure u drill in the proper Chinese values of fillial piety, work hard to succeed etc.
 

The_Hypocrite

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Price of failure is too great in Singapore. Even for the ministars.

Their failures are for all to see....but they don't admit n don't rectifiy which makes things worse for the long run...and the cracks are now appearing...look at the MRT... another load of failures which is taking longer to rectify due to the ignorance of the past
 

scroobal

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Sadly it has come to that. They have held this line for years. I always wondered what their kids made of their minister parents knowing full well what is going on.

Price of failure is too great in Singapore. Even for the ministars.
 

scroobal

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Can't argue with that. It worked well for first 25 years of our existence. I remember the old days when factory workers were going around HDB blocks to look for housewives to join them in factories due to the vacancies.

The best way to avoid critcism is make sure the general population has a job. And make sure u drill in the proper Chinese values of fillial piety, work hard to succeed etc.
 

Semaj2357

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Can't argue with that. It worked well for first 25 years of our existence. I remember the old days when factory workers were going around HDB blocks to look for housewives to join them in factories due to the vacancies.
those days of texas instruments, printed circuits int'l, nat / charted semi etc are gone as new tech from taiwan and the bayan lepas ftz competed with us both in cheaper labour and land. but it was good while it lasted :wink:
 
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