A sign?

I was driving my mum to her dialysis centre today, and right after dropping her off, I turned on the radio, a rarity for me, and was trying to get the headlines for today via 93.9, Bernama Radio.
Ann Edwards was hosting the all angles programme and on air with her was Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin. The topic of discussion was corporate governance. GOOD corporate governance.

Funny enough, at the point I tuned in, he was mentioning that a good CEO has to impart good governance to his employees, as well as to partake in good CSR (COrporate Social Responsibility) programmes, and so on (to that effect).

It got me immediately excited that there he was, a person of stature in society imparting his knowledge in his capacity of chairman of MICG (Malaysian Insitute Of Corporate Governance)
And why would I not be excited? After all, I had met with Audra's lawyer just 3 weeks ago, and he mentioned that we should be prepared to face defeat seeing that the Industrial court had not recorded a verdict for the case even though it was heard a year ago.

I then called in to the programme director, and was patched through, giving me enough time to ask Tan Sri his thoughts on why certain companies (like MAS) can get away with terminating its own employee (Audra - who put in 14 years of her life serving MAS's customers, and was even on then Prime Minister Mahathir's entourage to two continents!) for simpy being pregnant with a third child. No contract, or rule should be just in such a case.
Anyways, this is my thought. And I wondered what Tan Sri had to say about it.

Being a legal man, he was cautious enough to say that since the matter is in the courts, he best not touch on the particular case and would give his thoughts on a more general matter. He proceeded to say that it is imperative for any company to practise GOOD Corporate Governance including responsibility to its own employees. Yes! I thought he said it perfectly well. There is just no two ways about it. Good corporate governance means, to do your part in your social obligation. Does that mean that by putting your own employee out of job, in a time when she most need it is baad governance?

Tell me!

No Wonder

As my friend rightly puts it, editors are humans too, and sometimes make glaring mistakes such as this. The Sultan of Perlis made his speech here and was construed as saying that ALL Malaysians have equal rights. And who would blame my good friend who jumped on it and published his posting here.

Unfortunately, it was the editors who 'pushed' their version and fooled some of us. I said some, because those who really know what the Sultan meant, waited for the correction. Printed on Sunday, in page 2. That was when I was showed it last night at the press club.

Uninspiring. That is, the work of the editors.......I would have put him or her on suspension from duty, for sure!

But, I sense some business are not yet concluded....Inspired / Sponsered Vs Uninspiring!

Excuse Me, Can I please use your sword?

......Its been a couple of days since I actually surfed the blogs. Hence when I read Rocky's It was more of an update of whats been happening.

And when I read Shamsul Yunus's 'My Anger, It May Be Yours Too' latest posting here I can't help but use the title above to reflect mine.
Today's blog analyst are no fools. They actually look for photo evidence, and in transalating articles, they also look for sources and information which can be verified, and verified accurately too.
So much so that when Shamsul noted the connection, and the funding of the paper in question, it came as no surprise that Arnaud saw it fit to publish the said article.

Do some western paper, and editor, just out of the blue pick up on a two (almost 3?) year old story and heap it on its upcoming Prime Minister? I think not.
I won't be too quick to jump my gun and point it to Anwar, but funny, why he published the article transalated so quickly, and so promptly. Most politicians I know 'borrow swords' to make the kill........Here, evidently, borrowing the sword and then after the kill, keeping it for souvenir seems to be his trait.

p.s - Doesn't Arnaud's fb photo look like he is into 'going against traffic too'???