I refer to the malaysiakini report Poll: Chinese more likely to vote opposition .

The recent poll revealed that Chinese will most likely swing their votes to the opposition. This is because the Chinese - who had given Pak Lah a resounding victory at the last general election - have got their faces slapped around by component parties of the Barisan Nasional while the MCA leaders look on helplessly.

There is an obvious silent rule to marginalise ethnic Chinese businessmen in Malaysia and to realign capital and liquidity held under Chinese companies and banks. They can deny this till the cows come home but the Chinese feel it and it is written on the walls. There was at one time the Ban Hin Lee Bank and Southern Bank but now they are no more. How long will Public Bank and Hong Leong Bank continue to run under a Chinese ownership?

Even Genting's Goh Tong is moving his capital out and diversify through Southeast Asia's biggest entertainment project in Singapore. A number of Malaysian companies have also been forced to list their companies on foreign stock exchanges where there are less controls for non- bumiputera companies.

Then there are the overt racist expressions from Umno leaders who clearly make it known that they dislike the non-bumiputeras and look upon them as migrants. What an insult. All this and the MCA and other BN component parties remain docile. So tell me if it is any surprise why the Chinese are not in favour of the 50-year-old BN government.