I refer to the highlighting of the news concerning contracts being given to bumiputeras at the expense of Chinese by Star , citing Penang MCA Wanita chief Tan Cheng Liang.

Tan has no credibility. During the last election she was thrashed and lost her state seat. As the chairperson of PPC she has never kept her word, other than to attack the Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng.

And when the CM once announced that the state was considering introducing a ferry service for the public Tan went ballistic and announced that it was her idea, as Penang Port Commission (PPC) which she was chair at the time had already promised to introduce a new mode of transport to reduce traffic jams and provide an alternative means of transport in the form of a ferry service from various points on the island and the mainland.

There was no follow up.  Instead, with the change in MCA leadership Tan was shipped out of PPC.

This woman is a down right racist . Just last Saturday, she and Star went to town with a bold headline ‘Talk of the town’, with the news that a 19-year-old bumiputera had been given a contract, worth a million ringgit and wondered how a 19-year-old bumiputera could be better than a Chinese contractor to win the bid.

Yesterday, Star shamelessly carried a small item quoting the boy’s  father, that, the contract was in fact won by the mother in an open tender. Both the father and mother are contractors in their own right.

As a newspaper that claims to tell the truth and have in depth investigative news gathering team, did Star not bother to check the veracity of the source, in particular from someone like Tan? And the paper has not even apologised for shooting from the hip.

Every other week Star ’s editor in chief Wong is penning articles and wondering as to why there is increasing racism and hatred in our society. Does he not read his own paper? The answer to his question is after all within its pages, playing up racist issues such as these, telling half-truths or even outright lies.

For example, regularly highlighting that there are now more Malays than Chinese in Penang when that is not the truth. Figures cited by the CM from the Statistics Department confirm this.

In any case, why the need to highlight this? What is the agenda of Star and its owner MCA? Are both Chinese and Malays in Penang not Malaysians? Why can’t the Malays be the majority in Penang? Is it because MCA’s support only comes from the Chinese? And if that is so, how then did MCA lose every state and parliamentary seat in Penang?

Honestly, is this  a newspaper or a MCA propaganda machine? Do they have any morals, professional standards or have these chaps sold their poor miserable souls for the mighty ringgit? Look at the lead writers in the paper. They write disgusting, manipulative stories.

The last was on how Ku Li will replace Anwar. Did the writer interview either one? Of course not! They merely cited unnamed sources, who cannot be verified. Even a child knows who the mysterious ‘source’ is.

For God’s sake, Star ’s editors, lead writers and their reporters should be guided by their conscience and not by the disgraced MCA.