UMNO should obey Prophet Nabi Muhammad SAW advice “Seek knowledge even as far as China”
And learn Mandarin also…nothing to lose but gain multi-lingual advantage…
It’s a hard fact that just how important China in global trade…home to 4,000 Billionaires….
Yes 4,000 Billionaires in China now and counting…
That’s why Nabi Muhammad SAW said “Seek knowledge even as far as China”…
Even Dr Mamak repeated this in his speech to tell the Muslims…
Who is UMNO to tell otherwise..???
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China is closing in on having 1 million millionaires
Estimated 4,000 Billionaires in China
China Daily, 13 Apr 2011
SHANGHAI, CHINA – According to an annual wealth report released on Tuesday, the mainland has 960,000 millionaires with personal wealth of 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) or more.
That is up 9.7 percent year-on-year, said the GroupM Knowledge – Hurun Wealth Report 2011.
Rising property prices and a fast-growing GDP have been the key drivers for the rising number of Chinese millionaires, according to the report.
The event, started by a group of four French private investors, takes place at Sanya’s Visun Marina near the town’s center. Almost 150 exhibitors are displaying their yachts, private jets and other luxury toys. Sponsors include Martell Cognac, BMW and Chopard. The show is open to anybody who will pay a 180 yuan fee ($27), but many of the visitors have been invited by the exhibiting brands — some of the elite guests, known as “jet VIPs,” were flown to the resort by private charter plane.
It found that 55 percent of Chinese millionaires derived their wealth from private businesses, and 20 percent are property speculators who have ridden the fast hike in home prices. About 15 percent are stock gurus, while the remaining 10 percent are high-earning salaried executive.
This is the third year of the report, written by publishing and events institute Hurun Report in cooperation with think tank GroupM Knowledge.
In 2009 there were 825,000 such millionaires while last year the number had grown to 875,000.
Housing prices rose across the country by 13.7 percent in 2010 according to government statistics, with luxury property prices rising even faster.
High-end property prices in China’s leading financial metropolis Shanghai, for instance, grew 21 percent last year, according to figures from UK-based Knight Frank, one of the world’s largest commercial and residential estate agents.
Despite the Chinese government’s efforts to curb property speculation and control rampant housing prices, “the overall confidence of China’s millionaires in the property sector and China’s overall economy remains very high,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief researcher of Hurun Report.
“The impact (of the tightening measures) may be on excessive new wealth creation, but I don’t think it is going to affect very much the (rich’s) appetite for luxury products,” said Hoogewerf, known in China by his Chinese name Hu Run.
“For most luxury brands, the Chinese luxury consumers are now No 1: either representing the biggest market share or the fastest-growing,” he added.
Of the 960,000 millionaires, 60,000 have been identified as China’s super rich with 100 million yuan or more in wealth, up 9 percent year-on-year.
Beijing led the way with 10,000 residents boasting 100 million yuan or more, followed by Guangdong province with 9,000 and Shanghai with 7,800.
The three places also led in the number of millionaires with wealth of 10 million yuan or more.
According to the report, Chinese millionaires average 39 years old, a full 15 years younger than their Western counterparts. Thirty percent of the millionaires are female, the same as last year.
The report also put the number of China’s billionaires at 4,000, but only a third were on the Hurun China Rich List 2010.
“(It suggests) there is still a great deal of hidden wealth in the Chinese economy,” said Hoogewerf.
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Najib praises Chinese role in education
Bernama, September 26, 2011, Monday
GEORGE TOWN: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said yesterday he took great pride in the role and contribution of the Chinese in Malaysia towards the betterment of education in the country.
He said it was for this reason that the government supported and gave assistance to the Chinese schools since Independence.
Najib said that when he was the education minister, he took bold steps to remove the power of the education minister to convert national type schools into national schools and that one of the most positive outcomes of this change was the widening of diversity in the Malaysian schooling system.
“Chinese national-type schools have now attracted almost 56,000 Bumiputera students out of the 612,000 students overall.
“Today, more Malays speak Mandarin than ever before — part of transforming Malaysia to help give us the vital business edge in years to come, as China consolidates its economic power.
“My own son is studying Mandarin at Georgetown University (in the United States). Last year, I sent him to Beijing for a month to learn Mandarin. Now, he thanks me for that,” he said at the launch of the ‘1Malaysia Charity Ride for Education’ at the Penang Straits Quay in Tanjong Tokong, here.
Also present were Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon.
Najib said his late father and second Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein took an important step to build a good relationship with China and he (Najib himself) was continuing that effort.
“We need more Malaysians, from every background and heritage, to win business for us with China and, therefore, we need more Mandarin speakers to help us to explore new frontiers in our dealings with China as a global economic superpower,” he said.
He said the Malaysian Chinese community was well known for the values of industriousness, hard work and thriftiness ‘and today we need to add selflessness and dedication to learning’.
“I am reminded of the Chinese saying, ‘no matter how poor we are, we will not compromise on education,” he said.
Najib said the government would continue to focus on education as part of the programme to develop the country.
He said the future of Malaysia depended on all Malaysians, especially youngsters, and that a better future could be built for the country and all Malaysians through education.
“Through education, we can overcome all obstacles. We can have greater prosperity for all Malaysians. Education is the medium that we should look at together.
“Whether it is a Chinese school or an Indian school or an Islamic religious school, we need to help our children to succeed. I believe in education as an asset and investment,” he said.
The prime minister said that apart from China, Malaysia also needed to build a good relationship with India and the Middle Eastern and Western countries, and this he added could be done through education. — Bernama
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Chinese praised for emphasis on education – Taib
Borneo Post, Tuesday, August 14, 2001
KUCHING – The Chinese community today won praise from the Chief Minister for their resolve in wanting to educate their young.
He saluted them for going to great lengths to put up schools wherever they went so that their children could have a better future.
“Because of the strong Chinese emphasis on education, the community would struggle to build schools wherever they go to give opportunities to their children to acquire education,” said Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud.
He was reacting to the community’s effort to raise RM1 million to build the recently completed SJK Chung Hua Asajaya.
Taib who officially opened the school today said former students had chipped in generously, adding it was no mean feat in a small place like Asajaya.
Towards this end the Chief Minister urged former students of schools to contribute to their alma mater for the benefit of the younger generation.
Taib who also laid the foundation stone for a multi-purpose centre in Asajaya said every effort should be made at preparing schoolchildren for the borderless economy, both in terms of technology and language skills.
In rural areas, for instance, it is becoming increasingly imperative for students to acquire information and communication technology skills so that they can work as fast and as efficient as their counterparts in Kuching, he said.
“As the world changes, their proficiency in several languages and adeptness in ICT would be able to assist them to easily establish trade with many countries, particularly China which will become the greatest economic giant in Asia,” he added.
In the same vein the Chief Minister said the development of new products in the State, like computer chips, would require traders with better qualifications and higher competency levels.
To face these challenges, people in the State, regardless whether they are Bumiputras or non- Bumiputras, have to cooperate and work together as ‘anak Sarawak’ to achieve success, he said.
At the function Taib also presented a State government donation of RM50,000 for the school to upgrade its computer facilities.
Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr George Chan called on the Chinese community in Asajaya to continue supporting the present leadership in the State.
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More Bumiputera in Chinese primary schools
by Raymond Tan, Borneo Post, August 3, 2012, Friday
SIBU: Chinese primary schools in inner Kanowit are dominated by Bumiputera students as Chinese families are moving out of the interior.
In a tour to two of the schools last week, members of Sibu and Kapit Chinese Primary Independent School Management Board led by chairman Hu Siew Liong found out that although the schools had less Chinese students, more longhouse families were sending their children there as they see that their children will have a brighter future if they study in Chinese schools.
Hii, who has returned to compile a report on the educational and development tour, said in a press conference yesterday they would not neglect the future and hope of these rural students, regardless of their races.
“Development will continue, and in our tour, we were monitoring the progress of the rebuilding project of SJK Ming Wok in Ngemah; in our visit to Lian Hua School at another part of inner Kanowit, we saw the need for road and jetty upgrading; thus we are appealing to the government for help.”
He said, generally, student population in these schools was small after the Chinese families moved out.
He said in Ming Wok, there were only 27 students, out of which 23 were Bumiputeras and only four were Chinese.
In Lian Hua School, he said there were 33, of which 28 were Bumiputras.
“Before the Emergency Period, the Chinese population in the villages around Lian Hua School was flourishing. But families started migrating in the 1970s when security was threatened; today, there are only four Chinese families left there.”
Despite the small student population, Hu said infrastructure development would be continued for the sake of the rural children.
He said a new school block and a teachers’ hostel was currently being built in Ming Wok, costing RM210,000.
However, as the contractor failed to do his task satisfactorily, he said they had decided to terminate his contract and they would be calling for another tender to complete the project, which he believed would resume within two months and be completed by year-end.
In Lian Hua School, Hu said his association as an umbrella body for all the Chinese primary schools in Kapit and Sibu was appealing to the government to improve the road leading to the school and upgrade the jetty there.
“From the main road, teachers and students have to travel on the mud road for 5 km to reach the school. The ride is bumpy and the road condition is poor.”
He said he was concerned because a pregnant teacher from the school travelled on the road daily.
As most Bumiputera students crossed the river by sampans to reach the school, he appealed that the jetty be upgraded to prevent accidents.
“We are calling on the government to upgrade both this road and the jetty. We hope the people’s representatives in the area will help.”
Meanwhile, in another school – SJK(C) Yuk Ming – a new block was being built by the board, which he said they were monitoring and would visit soon.
“The earth-breaking ceremony was launched by Kanowit MP Datuk Aaron Dagang last month. We thank Aaron for a fund of RM30,000 from the government.”
He said the board had also received RM50,000 from the Education Department and RM160,000 from his association for the double-storey block estimated to cost RM400,000.
He said the fund from his association was part of the RM10 million allocated by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak during the Sibu by-election two years ago.
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Towards The 21st Century: Reformation And Challenges For Muslims In The Region
INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC UNDERSTANDING MALAYSIA (IKIM)
Speech by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed
(extract)
…19. A hadith says: “Seek knowledge even as far as China.” It was pointed out by detractors that this was just a saying of the Prophet and it was not a command from God. When they disagreed with a particular hadith, they were quick to discredit it and refused to acknowledge it as a source of Islamic teaching. But if they subscribed to it, then they would not cease to highlight it repeatedly, even if it’s authenticity is doubted. Surely seeking knowledge in China does not mean Islamic knowledge. During the Prophet’s period, China was also known to have deep knowledge in such fields as medicine, literature and paper, explosives and many others.
…20. Since Muslims then followed the teachings of the hadith, they were clever and efficient, able to comprehend all of God’s gifts for the benefit of themselves and Islam. That was why they could build a credible and big empire and filled it with institutions of knowledge, industries, business and commerce, modernise agriculture through new engineering techniques and many others.
…21. Unfortunately, some personalities who disputed and questioned the Islam practised in the progressive years emerged. They began rejecting all the knowledge which they said were against Islam and Muslims were prohibited from studying them. Those with especially strong leanings on the fiqh began inventing and spreading their teachings so that Muslims were discouraged from studying those which the former claimed to be un-Islamic. Institutions of higher learning were no longer supplied with books on science and philosophy which did not specialise on Islam. Big libraries ceased to be built and those in existence were no longer equipped with books on areas of studies pioneered by other communities and those pioneered by Islamic philosophers in these fields. Many of these books were destroyed by this anti-knowledge group, especially those considered un-Islamic.