It has been a very exciting week. During the past week, there was plenty of news that caught the attention of the Malaysian media. Most unfortunately would be the incident that happened in Sumatra and Samoa that took the world to surprise after shocking death toll increased. The aftershocks of the earthquake that occurred in Padang was really downright sad and emotional as many lost their loved ones. There were even rumours about tsunami being a possible target heading towards Malaysia. Thankfully it did not. The headlines grab the top spot consistently for a good 3 - 4 days.
On the local front, the Government may allow part-time maids if Indonesia still insisted on local employers paying monthly salaries between RM600 and RM800 for their maids, said Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam. He also stated that reasonably salary would be the key issue to resolve and if there is no agreement, then alternatives such as introducing a system allowing for part-time maids have to be planned out. Datuk Subra also added that the system would include the rates as well as regulations to protect the part -time maids and the employers. Another round of meeting between Malaysia and Indonesia next month is expected to discuss issues relating to maids. The latter said employers could also source maids from seven other countries including Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka and India. This was pointed out due to results amounting about 280,000 foreign maids in this country. However, with 90% of them were from Indonesia because of their close proximity and similar religion and culture.
In the world of business, the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, wants to expand in China and India but has no plans to open hypermarkets in Malaysia. In India, the retailer is “just getting started’’ where there will be great opportunities over the longer term. Investing abroad has not always been an easy exercise for Wal-Mart even though it now operates in 15 countries. It has learnt many lessons but the most important was about being respectful to local customers, conditions and regulations. With easily few thousand retail units, and over million customers a week, employs over various associates worldwide and deals with hundreds of suppliers globally, sales remain tough even though with the turnaround of global economy. With this in mind, was the plan initiated to to make Asia lead the recovery. Although no immediate returns will be expected. Nevertheless, sustainability has become a key part of the company and that effort is driven top down.
Moving on to the world news, German police said they had broken up an international child pornography network that exchanged paedophile images on the Internet and sexually abused children. Police raided homes and workplaces of suspected members of the German-language porn network across Germany on Tuesday evening, arresting nine of its suspected leaders. Authorities in Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Bulgaria, Canada and the United States simultaneously carried out raids on 15 further suspected members. Austrian police said at a news conference in Vienna that 22 people worldwide had been arrested. Members of the network had abused their own children or those of their partners and friends, police said. Police said members of the network exchanged pornography online and discussed their own experiences of abusing children. Several members made films and photos of their sexual abuse of children and shared them on the Internet. Germany this year passed a law making it harder to access child pornography online and easier to prosecute those who use it. Hopefully with this law, this unpleasant disgusting activity can stop and start behaving sanely.
Lastly, Malaysian sports has reached new heights by starting up its own Formula 1 team. Its a multi-million dollar project to put Malaysia contending for next year's formula one grid and also a compilation of the 19-race schedule. The project is also collaborating with Lotus which intends to re-enter the motor sport industry and is financially backed by the aviation mogul Datuk Tony Fernandez. Such risk taken by the government to rely on the private sector groups which is Tune Group and Naza Group can only stress on the confidence towards the business plan and the expectancy turning profitable in the first year of operations is highly possible. Such promising project will definately place Malaysia's as an eye opener to other nations that are developing. Such pride we take as Malaysian knowing how we are an example to other nations. Furthermore, Malaysia's image on the international arena not only will be boosted but also generate profit for the country. This I believe will be very beneficial in so many aspects and as a Malaysian I am proud being part of this achievement.
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