Malaysia can ``do better'' than Singapore if only it would treat its minority Chinese and Indian populations fairly, the city-state's founding leader has said in unexpectedly blunt comments about the rival neighbor.

Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's comments are likely to touch a raw nerve in Malaysia where ethnic tensions are never far below the surface over minority complaints about discrimination by the Malay Muslim dominated government.

Lee even suggested that Singapore wouldn't mind rejoining Malaysia if the latter accepted meritocracy instead of sticking to an affirmative action policy favoring the Malay majority.

``If they would just educate the Chinese and Indians, use them and treat them as their citizens, they can equal us and even do better than us and we would be happy to rejoin them,'' Lee told two academics in a recent interview.

``We are a standing indictment of all the things that they can be doing differently,'' he said


From my point of view:
Let the ugly hidden truth be seen and heard.

Being a good neighbour, LKY is trying to give a good advice free of charge to the sleeping Malaysian leaders and politicians on how to make it big, how to succeed and survive in the real world out there.

Our government is too busy with all their 'syok sendiri' or feel good achievements that have become the laughing stock of other countries. A waste of taxpayers' money. To make matters worse we have a bunch of BN politicians who are robbing the people's money. As a result of that, our rakyat suffers!

In form5 sejarah we learnt that our country opposed dasar apartheid in south africa. However, the authorities themselves are discriminating the chinese here.. joke, Joke, JOKE! In south africa is 'only for whites', over here is 'only for malays!(bumiputera)'. Nonsense.

The government welcomed a huge number of immigrants from Indonesia(same skin colour) to our country, just because they wanted to increase their 'own population'.So now the rising crime acts who is to blame? A proposal of employing maids from china were rejected, eventhough 80% of the households employees' were chinese. What does this speak of? They definitely dont want an increase in chinese population.

What do you think?