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Pendapatan anak watan UAE 3 kali ganda ekspatriat!

Hanya d dunia belah sini, anak watan berpendapatan berlipat ganda dari ekspatriat! D Malaysia (dan umumnya d negara lain), ekspatriat raih pendapatan berlipat ganda dari anak watan. Bagaimana ini boleh d jana? Tiada ketirisan, atau apa?

Lapuran terkini Department of Economic Development (DED) melapurkan pendapatan sebuah rumah anak watan UAE d Abu Dhabi berpendapatan (secara purata) ialah AED47,066 sebulan! 3 kali ganda dari ekspatriat! Lapuran ringkas dari Maktoob Business d petik:

Emirati households in Abu Dhabi earn three times more, on average, than expat families in the UAE's capital city, according to a study by the Emirate's Department of Economic Development (DED).

According to the study, published in UAE daily newspaper Gulf News, the average monthly income of UAE families was 47,066 dirhams ($12,825) last year compared with 15,000 dirhams for expats.

The report said Abu Dhabi was home to more than 50 percent of the country's 880,000 citizens, or about 18.5 percent of the population last year.

DED’s chief economic researcher Khalid Desouky said Emirati households have a higher income as they tend to be larger with an average of 10 members per family.

The gap in spending was also similar, with the average Emirati family spending 25,458 dirhams per month compared with 8,900 dirhams by an expat family.

Apa khabar anak watan d Malaysia?

Kuda: keluarga pemerintah Abu Dhabi vs. Dubai?

Media menyentuh lapuran akhbar milik keluarga pemerintah Dubai, Al Emarat al Youm d gantung akibat berita yang d lapurkan oleh Emarat. Emarat sebelum ini melapurkan bagaimana kuda milik keluarga pemerintah Abu Dhabi (emiriyah terkaya d UAE dan paling berkuasa) d beri dadah dalam perlumbaan yang d sertai.

Dua keluarga terbesar d UAE, An Nahyan (yang menguasai Abu Dhabi) dan Al Maktoum (Dubai) sering d kaitkan dengan "perlumbaan" kuasa. Apakah ini juga salah satu dari "perlumbaan" kuasa kedua keluarga besar ini?

Lapuran dari Arabian Business:

A UAE court ordered the suspension of a local newspaper after it published an article claiming horses owned by the Abu Dhabi ruling family were doped, a local daily said on Thursday.

The ruling, which was issued on Wednesday and can not be overturned, stipulates that Arabic-language Al-Emarat Al-Youm halt publication for 20 days, a verdict effective "within a few days," said the Abu Dhabi-based Al-Ittihad.

Al-Emarat Al-Youm, run by a media company under Dubai Holding, owned by Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed Al Maktoum, in October 2006 published a front-page story accusing the Warsan Stables of using dope on horses.

Warsan Stables is owned by members of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, while Al-Emarat Al-Youm is one of the most widely read publications in the country.

Rosmah = Lady Di?

Petikan dari malaysianmirror:

She does not even need to swear on the Quran for anything. In fact, she can thumb her nose at Umno haters and opposition supporters to show that 1Malaysia runs in her very blood. Najib will be so proud. I would be too.

With that said, Rosmah has so much potential and much freedom to make lives and futures of Malaysians better. All she needs is a little encouragement from the rest of us Malaysians.

Who knows if one day, comparisons are drawn between her and the late Lady Diana Spencer, famous for her grace and generosity? While Diana has been immortalised in song as ‘England’s Rose’, Rosmah can be remembered as an ever blooming flower.

Tak de pulak dengar Lady Di pernah d gelar Perempuan Puaka..

Video: May ALlah be with you, Michael

D petik dari ucapan wakil keluarga Michael Jackson, Jermain Jackson.

Jermain, seorang Muslim sebelum ini pernah menetap d Bahrain.

Badwi d kalangan generasi iPod

Tengah baca buku tentang Social Network. Suka kalimat2 d bawah yg d catat dalam bahagian foreword buku yang sedang d baca:

Technology has given us so many ways of communicating, but are we truly connecting or just corresponding?

Are we adding people into our lives who share our values or merely collecting a list of profiles?

Are we deepening relationships or just maintaining them?

Persoalan yang boleh membuat kita termenung!

Seorg teman local kata social network menjadikan manusia jadi "badwi" abad ini.

Bila d tanya apa maknanya tu?

Kata dia orang badwi hebat d padang pasir. Rumpun mereka tak kurang hebat - dalam survival harian.

Tapi bila d bawa ke bandar, dia kekok nak berinteraksi. Nak jumpa dan sembang pun depa ada pelbagai masalah nak mengadaptasi kehidupan harian.

Gitulah jugak alam cyber kata kawan local ni. Boleh interaksi. Chat sana sini. Tapi muda mudi kini hilang skil interaksi berdepan secara real dalam masyarakat sebenar. Bukan seperti masyarakat virtual.

Maka persoalan d atas mungkin ada kaitan dengan contoh "Badwi" abad ini.

"Badwi" d kalangan generasi ipod!

Demokrasi: Acuan Uncle Sam OK, lain KO!

Banyak sudah contoh dan kisah benar d tunjukkan sejarah. Kemenangan pihak yang tidak d ingini Rumah Putih walau d sahkan bersih dan tiada penipuan dah pasti tidak sah.

Bukan sekadar tidak d iktiraf, malah segala dana dan pelbagai bantuan dari pelbagai sumber habis d hentikan. Kemenangan Hamas d Palestin beberapa tahun lalu contoh paling akhir dapat kita saksikan. Pilihan rakyat d bakul sampahkan Uncle Sam.

Kini Iran pula sedang bergolak, baik atau tidak harus berpandukan panduan dan tunjuk ajar Rumah Putih.

Demokrasi hanya demokrasi d mata Uncle Sam. Sebenarnya merekalah yang meruntuhkan kehendak rakyat tempatan.

Baca d bawah artikel dari laman truthdig:

Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught. It was Washington that orchestrated the 1953 coup to topple Iran’s democratically elected government, the first in the Middle East, and install the compliant shah in power. It was Washington that forced Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, a man who cared as much for his country as he did for the rule of law and democracy, to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. We gave to the Iranian people the corrupt regime of the shah and his savage secret police and the primitive clerics that rose out of the swamp of the dictator’s Iran. Iranians know they once had a democracy until we took it away.