A I S E H M A N . O R G

So if the next person qualified to run MAS happens
to be a Chinese,Indian, Eurasian,etc will Hishamuddin
say that we are being colonised by our 'OWN' kind?
Since when do Pemuda Umno decide who is best to take care of a national interest? What's wrong with this guy lately? First that kris episode, now it's like Pemuda runs the show. Looks like he's building up support for the next election( remember Azeez). Business is business, don't make political statements that makes oneself look stupid. HMnn...perhaps, one needs to.

The US with a population of nearly 300 million have many foreigners as CEO of their top companies and have no problem with it. The Japanese after decades of the anti-Gaijin mentality have dropped this idea. Although the US airline industry is in severe trouble, anybody that has bothered to look into it will realize that the skills of people in US airlines are above and beyond anything we have here including those supposedly fantastic SIA. The leadership skill, the problem identification and solving skills etc. are above and beyond what we see here. Just check something as simple as turnaround time or non-labour operating cost and its quite clear. They are superefficient in a brutal competitive environment. If there is a larger Malay Agenda, its to wake them up to how bad they really are at this point.

If we truly want to be GLOKAL and have Malaysians accepted in the World and offered opportunities worldwide we have to have an approach that says others are welcome in leadership here
For decades Australia blocked NON AUSTRALIANS from senior positions. The UK did the same and it wa only opening up that allowed the North Sea Oil to be found. In opening to others The UK,Australians and others worldwide got more opportunities.
Regrettably the RACE card still works and so The Education minister who says he supports Vision 2020 by his actions works against it. His own ministry declines every initiative to change MINDSET so young Malaysias are taught to be RACE dependent.

Who in authority said we are looking for a foreigner to run MAS? No one!!

I believe some mischievous one planted this story in the media knowing there are many who would take the bait and react as Hishammuddin did. There will be others who will react to HH and thus tension will be created and drive a wedge between Malaysians so close to our Merdeka day.

I do not believe there are no anak Malaysia capable of helming MAS. This has been proven in the past. Whoever is finally chosen must be totally free to make the hard decisions necessary to take the company back to profitability. Only if MAS is run as a commercial entity will it make Malaysians proud of it again.

I wonder if he was carrying the keris again when he said this.

"Do not look only at the commercial side of things; we must take into account the larger agenda that is the Malay agenda,"
---Hishammuddin Hussein (2005)

How grand and noble!

I thought the larger agenda would be the Malaysian agenda?

Some say he would be the PM one day. If that day comes, God (in general) bless Malaysia.

Kazzan.

"What he is essentially saying is this: No white man is gonna tell the Malays what to do again."

No no no, that is not the essence of his topic.
This is his usual tricks. Attach a racial tag onto everything so to make him a hero of the malays. The question is, can he really do something fundamentally good for the malays? Yet to say doing anything good for the larger agenda - Malaysia.

He is buying future votes (from the ignorent) to pave his political path. Only this time, he is waving kris towards the whites.

I am now very curious how this guy view his own father especially for giving up the PM-ship to Dr. M. I have a lingering suspsicion he thought he was either weak or not very smart. His aggressiveness sounds like trying to prove to daddy he is deserving of daddy's legacy

What is so wrong about hiring a foreigner to head MAS if the person is able to turn MAS into a dynamic organisation which brings in the real profit.

Yes, we have capable Malaysian to take over, but question is given the current scenario and how political MAS is, maybe none of our own 'capable' people is interested. Having said that, if a foreigner is hired, then Malaysian will have the opportunity to learn from the real expertise. And what is so wrong to learn from others?

Pemuda Chief is being pessimistic, negative and narrow minded. With Pemuda UMNO being all so powerful, he is fearful of a foreigner to be "penjajah"? By the way, we have millions of foreigner working in this country, legal and illegal worker. How come I never see Pemuda UMNO panicked over this situation?

I feel Hishammudin is very very out of date. All this kind of proclamation isn't going to do much good to the Malay race and the country. Such agendas catering to one's race is very selfish and at the end of the day will not uplift the stature of the Malays.
He instead should look at how to tackle the greatest enemies of his race ie corruption, cutch mentality and drugs.

Is not an uncommon practice for large Corporate entities around the world to 'head-hunt' CEOs to head their operations. One would also hope that 'glocal' Malaysians of Malay heritage or for that matter, any other Malaysians would also seek positions elsewhere other than home. To suggest that Hishamuddin was merely alluding to the fact that we should not "allow a matsalleh to tell us what to do" is hogwash. At best, he's naive and haven't kept pace with what's happening in the business world....at worst, he's playin' the tired old racist card again. Neo-colonial patronage aside, the world has come a long way. Many non-white and abled individuals are now CEOs in those 'matsalleh' countries and they are there because of..?? Ability deliver business outcomes !!

What about hire our local talent, Mr Tony Fenandez, the CEO of Air Asia to be the new CEO of MAS since he had made Air Asia a profitable carrier in such a short year? But, i guess not because he is an Indian. Hishammuddin will say that is the Malay agenda, so no Chinese, No Indian, dont even think of hiring a Mat Salleh.

Who says Orang Asing means Western.
That's how paranoid the UmnoPutraism is. And how shallow either Hishamuddin or his aides are. Or is he being framed?

My post at screenshots poses:
What if:
1. The orang asing is an Arab-American who may be Christian or Muslim. Does it matter?
2. The orang asing is a Japanese who has been familiar with Malaysia for say 20 years and speaks Bahasa Malaysia? Does it not matter?
3. What if the orang asing is Nissan's CEO? Carlos Ghosn? A dream. (Maybe a dream but for argument's sake).

But then what will ketua Pemuda UMNO say?

And why is he not talking about letting a Malaysian lead? Why bring out racial issue again? He is running in contempt of the nation's constitution.

Aisehman, just get Datuk Tony Fernandez to run Malaysia Airlines. He turned around a bankrupt Air Asia and I am sure he can do the same to MAS.

Habis , subject matter closed, over to you Datuk Tony Fernandez. Apa lagi nah kato... if this is not good enough for Hisham ' The Zorro ' or KJ ' The Lone Ranger ' than just call in the MBA 'graduate' from Preston University, siapa lagi.. Azeez lah dari Academy POTra AHEM NO ..

The whole world knows Hisham is a ' Swash Buckler ' ala UMNO , so he will remain but his days as Edu Minister are numbered. He should be send to head Kementerian Menjaga warisan Orang Utan at Sepilok ...

After 48 years of independance , yet we still read discounts for Bumis in house purchasers, how many more years do we Bumis need to upgrade lah. The poor estate workers had been uprooted from the estates first, squatters second and now thrown in pigeon holes.. that also kena bayar..

If Datuk TF not good enough , just get Mr. Bean to head lah, at least there will be a bunch of jokers ... sorry hah , no hard feelings... my 2 cents worth... Abdul Azeez Rahim MBA., you are my Idola... I just cannot ' Get you off my mind ' as ' Smoke gets in my Eyes '' You Are My Everything ' and best of all MJ's ' DANGEROUS '

Orang Melayu, Cina, India or orang putih to head MAS is OK to me. The only prerequisite, is the head MUST be a Malaysian.
Anyway, how this issue crop up in the first place?
Is there really no Malaysian good enough to head MAS ?