GE13: Supermax owner throws support behind
Opposition
By WONG SAI WAN
Saturday 27th April 2013
KUALA
LUMPUR: The owner of listed Supermax Corp, Datuk Seri Stanley Thai(pic),
has publicly announced his support for Pakatan Rakyat, some two months after
joining the opposition think tank Institut Rakyat as an advisory panel member.
Thai,
who is the executive chairman and group managing director of the company, said
he was siding with the opposition “to protect the future of his children” and
that the Chinese had lost the fear of going against the Barisan Nasional after
the ruling coalition did badly in the 2008 general election.
Supermax is the nation's third-largest medical
glove-maker as it exports 24 billion gloves a year. Thai's holdings in the
company are worth about RM283.65mil.
Speaking
in an interview with Bloomberg last month which was only released yesterday,
Thai claimed the Chinese had been “brainwashed (to support the Barisan) from
Day 1”.
In
February, Thai and several other business and academic personalities joined
PKR's Institut Rakyat.
The
institute is part of the party that is touted to offer independent advice and
policy recommendations to the PKR.
Besides
Thai, other panel members include author and UN economist Dr
Jomo Kwame Sundaram,
Universiti Malaya's Law Faculty associateprofessor
Dr Azmi Sharom and National University of Singapore's
associate professor of its Malay Studies and South-East Asian Studies
Department Dr
Maznah Mohamad.
Chaired
by party president
Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail,
Institut Rakyat's board of directors consists of Senator
Dr Syed Husin Ali,
artist, educator and social activist Wong Hoy Cheong, businessman Tan
Sri Wan Azmi Wan Hamzah,
former managing director of The
Edge Dr
Tan Boon Kean and International Islamic University
Malaysia law professor
Dr Mehrun Siraj.
Suspended Bank Islam chief economist Azrul Azwar and
former research officer to the Selangor Mentri Besar Tricia Yeoh are part of
the think tank's research team.
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My Conclusion:
When you become rich in a country whose good governance has enabled you, the businessman, to enjoy the POLITICALLY peaceful ambience and CONDUCIVE environment for you to do your business and enrich yourself and your clan, all you can say is.... "I support the OPPOSITION....TO PROTECT THE FUTURE OF MY CHILDREN (chinese)".
What a thankless lot, these people.
Hey Malaysian folks in PAS....wake up!!!
Islam teaches us to treat others equally,kindly and without prejudice.With that someday,they would be interested to become one of us due to these exemplary conducts and behaviors they see in us muslims...We're all "Hamba Allah",are we not
ReplyDeleteSo his money equals forever beholden to the government? note i am not a PR fanboy,just not able to fathom your article. so anyone who has made any sort of money must be beholden to the powers that be? Thankless lot for what exactly, just because he's thankful means he has to support them blindly? Let us not relate every thing back to politics,that is where we will fall. By that logic I should be grateful for a badly constructed road for example because road is there bukan tanah merah ke hutan belukar kan
ReplyDeleteTo Anonymous May 23 2013 at 2.57pm, "So his money equals forever beholden to the government?"(sic) And you say do not relate everything to politics. For your due information, a right thinking person will not have any problem understanding the above 'article'. It's just a matter of being grateful for a conducive atmosphere in a country where hard working citizens can amass wealth to their hearts' content. It is not wrong for the blog owner to brand Supermax's big boss as ungrateful. Have you heard of the idiom "Biting the hand that feeds"? So to each his own. As you are free to think it is logical for you to 'be grateful' for your 'badly constructed' road. Perchance you haven't heard of 'Kacang lupakan kulit'?
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