TN50 Malaysia

A Happy Nation In The Making

The youth of today want to see a happy and progressive Malaysia by 2050, where its people live in harmony and look forward to having a say in its development.

Ahead of the introduction and first dialogue of the 2050 National Transformation (TN50) tonight, young Malaysians laid out their future vision of Malaysia.

Nature lover S. Reshme said the country would go far if it did more to protect and conserve its natural treasures…

A Happy Nation In The Making

The youth of today want to see a happy and progressive Malaysia by 2050, where its people live in harmony and look forward to having a say in its development.

Ahead of the introduction and first dialogue of the 2050 National Transformation (TN50) tonight, young Malaysians laid out their future vision of Malaysia.

Nature lover S. Reshme said the country would go far if it did more to protect and conserve its natural treasures…

A shared vision

The Star Malaysia (2017-01-20/Sport) - As the nation enters its 60th year of independence, it is now time to set the direction for ...

PM Najib Announces TN50

(A new 30-year Vision For Malaysia)

NST/Nation/21 October 2016

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is set to embark on a new 30-year transformation plan, titled Transformasi Nasional (TN50), which will set a new ‘vision’ for the nation.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, announcing this at the 2017 Budget tabling in Parliament today, said TN50 aims to transform Malaysia into a nation of calibre, with a new mindset.

He said TN50 will serve as a national discourse series geared towards charting the nation’s direction via a new canvas.

“The New Economic Policy under the late Tun Razak was planned to create a successful New Generation within 30 years. So is TN50, which will span three decades, to form a calibre nation state as well as with par excellent mindset,” he said.

He said youths of all races will form the core of the TN50 vision. The discourse series will be handled by the Youth and Sports Ministry under his patronage.

“Let TN50 bear witness; (let it) be recorded in history that we are responsible citizens and forefathers, to leave behind the best and he greatest legacy to be inherited by future generations.

“From now on, TN50 is our lucky charm. Let the old legacy pass. The future of Malaysia, we will recreate,” he said…

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Dialogue (University Malaya)/19 January 2016)
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TN50 – journey to the top 20 begins today

By Razak Ahmad/Neville Spykerman

 TheStar/NationThursday, 19 January 2017

KUALA LUMPUR: The first step to a new vision begins today – with a town hall meeting involving 500 young Malaysians who will outline their view of Malaysia’s roadmap for the next 33 years.

At the event in Universiti Malaya, the young Malaysians from a cross section of society will express what they want the country to look like in the year 2050, three decades after the end of the Vision 2020 policy.

Their voices and those of 1.5 million other youths will be sought by the Government to draft the 2050 National Transformation (TN50) policy document, in one of the country’s biggest policy formulation exercises to date.

The TN50 policy document will outline the economic, social, cul-tural and environmental targets Malaysia aims to achieve by 2050.

“TN50 will seek to transform the country’s economy, citizen well-being, environment, technology, social interaction, governance and public administration,” said the Youth and Sports Ministry, which has been tasked with managing the conversation with the country’s younger generation via face-to-face and online sessions.

Details on the TN50 rollout provided by the ministry outline a busy calendar of events this year under what it calls the “TN50 Conver­sations” – a process to discover the subjects and aspirations that matter to youth and other Malaysians.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will kick off the process at the TN50 Dialog Perdana town hall session tonight, where he will give a policy speech and engage in a dialogue with participants…

Shared Vision To Shape Future

TheStar/Nation/Friday, 20 January 2017

PETALING JAYA: The 2050 National Transformation (TN50) policy will be a shared vision that will give everyone, especially young Malaysians, an opportunity to shape the nation in the years to come.

This, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, is because 2050 belongs to young Malaysians.

“I do not want to get up on a platform and just deliver a speech and ask the people to accept that as their vision. I want this new vision to come from the people, so you have a sense of ownership and belonging.

“It is only a shared vision if it comes from all of us,” he said at the launch of TN50 at the Dewan Tunku Canselor Universiti Malaya last night in front of 500 young Malaysians.

The TN50 is Malaysia’s roadmap for the next 33 years.

Najib stressed that as a leader, it was important to listen to the views of the people who could help shape the future of the country.

He added that many things had changed in the last 60 years since Malaysia attained independence. As such, it was pertinent to look at the next 30 years that would shape the country’s future.

Relating his own childhood experiences, Najib said his late father, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, used to tell him stories of his younger days.

Najib said that despite coming from an aristocratic family, Abdul Razak still had to go to school barefoot and did his arithmetic on sand.

“That’s because we were a poor country then. Even I did not have an easy life.

“When I went to school, I was only given 30 sen as pocket money, I used to cycle from Seri Perdana to Tanglin Hospital to buy nasi lemak.

“I remember the old man who sold nasi lemak under the cherry tree for 30 sen, but if you wanted the sotong and daging (squid and meat), it cost 50 sen.

“But that is in the past. Things have changed today and this is a reminder, we have come a long way,” he said.

Najib explained that TN50 would take time to bear fruit, likening it to the New Economic Policy (NEP) which started in the 1970s and Vision 2020 that followed.

“The world will change radically in the next 30 years, so the time is right for us to look into the future. We begin so with this dialogue tonight (yesterday),” he said, adding that it was a historic and meaningful moment for all Malaysians.

Najib said that when he came into power in 2009, the MRT was merely a plan on paper, but six years down the road, the first phase had been completed and was now running.

Similarly, projects such as the High-Speed Rail, which will link Malaysia and Singapore, the Pan Borneo Highway and the East Coast Rail Line are among the visions for the country.

“This is all in our capacity as a nation. We can do it if we own this vision through proper planning. In the last 60 years, we have delivered,” he said.

Najib outlined two medium-term goals – to grow the economy from RM1.3 trillion today to RM2 trillion in eight years.

The second goal is for Malaysia to be a top 20 nation in the world. However, Najib said the rankings could be measured in terms of the gross domestic product (GDP) or the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP).

He said in terms of PPP, Malaysia is higher, standing at about US$24,000 (RM106,770) while at GDP, it was at US$10,000 (RM44,500) per capita.

“We also want to measure public happiness, but we cannot measure private happiness,” he quipped.

Najib said it could also be measured in terms of innovative or creative indices.

“I only mentioned these for now because I want a bottom-up approach, I want it to come from all of you.

“Our journey has started,” he added.

What the youth say…

As a public servant, I want to see a world class public service in Malaysia, I would like to see a more efficient public service. Our delivery service is almost perfect, but there are many things we need to integrate. There are many spaces which we can improve on, like making it easier to do business or remove regulations. For example, businesses in Kuala Lumpur may have needed a lot of licences to operate but now you don't need so many. Waiting for passports used to take one month, then it was seven days, now it's two hours without compromising security. We can make it easier (for people to do things).

Wan Abdul Hadi Wan Mohd Shafie, 36, civil servant.

I would like our education system to be worthy of nobel laureates or to be world renowned.

Fanitsyara Kam Phon, 23, final year biotech student at UM, from Ipoh.

My aspirations for TN50 is for Malaysia to be a carbon neutral if not carbon negative country, a minimum quota of forest reserves, and for a higher adoption of renewable energy as a main power source. If 60% of our power sources could be from renewable energy by 2050, that would be good.

Rashvin Pal Singh, 29, environmentalist, KL.

There is a need for inclusive growth so that Malaysians on the lower rung of the economic ladder can progress in the next 50 years.

My thoughts are from the perspec­tive of a youth who will be at least a generation older by the time TN50 is realised. Malaysia's model of growth should ensure consolidation of wealth so the benefits trickle down to all levels of society.

Adam Reza, 25, intern with a public affairs consulting firm.

I hope to see Malaysia develop smart cities for the future, by addressing three key areas - connectivity, waste management and safety of people.

Our development should also be sustainable, and technolo­gy should be used to improve protection.

Piek Qian, 23, former student leader in the UK

Malaysia has a good infrastructure system but this should be expanded to include the rural areas, so the people there are not left behind.

Also, we should not be too greedy in our quest for transformation, and analyse how our actions will not just industrialise certain areas but how it will impact the people there.
Dr Azeem Shah Ajaz, 26, rural contractor from Sabah

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Uncovering Young Talents

Costley: The competition is a great platform for Hilton staff to test their skills and push themselves.'

Hotels are finding competitions a good way to unearth new talent within the chain. Hilton's F&B Masters is one such competition that has gone regional.

The Star/Taste/Thursday, 19 January 2017

WORKING in a hotel can be chal­lenging - long hours, endless work and perennial service with a smile (even when you don’t feel like smiling). And when you’re just starting out, moving up the ranks can seem like a goal post too far to even bother with.

“There are many employees and no one could really outshine the other,” says Giritharan Panchaka- ran, or Giri, a mixologist at Hilton Kuala Lumpur.

Then Hilton introduced the F&B Masters in 2013, a now-annual competition designed to uncover young talents within the Hilton group in South-East Asia.

The competition was such a suc­cess that it has now been expanded to other regions like Australasia, China and Mongolia, and Japan and Micronesia.

Last year, Giri was one of three Malaysian winners at the Hilton F&B Masters South-East Asia regional finals - the Malaysians made a near clean sweep of the five categories being contested, namely, culinary arts, pastry, baris- ta, mixology, and sommelier.

The South-East Asian competi­tion is open to junior and mid-level Hilton employees in the region (and India). Last year’s competi­tion saw 724 participants from 40 hotels, who created a total of 1,100 new recipes in their bid to emerge victorious!

In Malaysia, participants have to first compete at hotel level, often beating their own colleagues (and sometimes superiors) to get to the national level, where they have to edge out other Malaysian Hilton employees competing in their category, before eventually making it to the regional level.

After their wins, Giri and fellow winners Loo Sze Hong (who won in the sommelier category) and Abdul Halim Jahari (who won in the culinary category) each bagged educational trips to Scotland, Melbourne and Tokyo respective­ly, to learn more about their craft - the icing on their triumphant cakes.

To prepare for the competition, the participants practised inten­sively - before and after their long working hours, often seeking out the help and advice of seniors who became like mentors to them.

Some even took time off work to train more intensively, such as Halim, who took a week off work to sharpen his routine.

This element of practice works to the benefit of both the hotel as well as employees, who end up boosting their skills and building their confidence.

“When people practise, they get better, and when they get better, the customer obviously benefits,” says William Costley, Hilton’s vice president of operations, South-East Asia and India.

“The participants refine their skills and it also gives them some­thing to do aside from their day job. And a lot of people love that challenge.”

Costley finds the competition a great way to foster team work.

“It’s amazing how people get so much closer as team members, because they have a common objective,” he muses.

An added advantage of this internal competition is the leg up participants get in their own industry. Halim was promoted to sous chef after his win, while both Giri and Loo say they have gotten more recognition in the industry, and have been offered jobs. They however chose to remain in Hilton and say they see a future with the organisation.

“We see Hilton as a really good platform for us to grow and become more recognised because it’s easy to travel within the group,” says Giri.

“This competition provides a platform for staff who may be talented, but perhaps can’t show off those talents within their hotels. In the competition they can really shine, and it is a chance for the bosses to see what they are worth, and to make their career grow from there,” he adds.

Costley agrees that the competi­tion helps identify talent within the hotel chain, and says that they have observed that most of the winners share similar traits which have made them successful, which in turn, means the hotel keeps an eye on these individuals and keep: them in mind for future positions.

“It’s about aligning their expec­tations and giving them opportu­nities to grow in hotels. We’ll keep them in mind for job opportuni­ties and new hotels - there are many ways to reward great work, he says.

Costley adds that given the suc­cess of the competition, there is now the possibility that the South East Asian F&B Masters winners could go on to another level of competition with the winners from other regions, which means a much wider pool of Hilton tal­ents will be competing for glory, and creating a more challenging environment for those looking to compete.

“It’s being discussed, but we haven’t finalised it because of logistics. I’m ever the optimist, si I would like to think that it might happen soon,” says Costley.

Meanwhile, the Hilton F&B Masters 2016/2017 edition has kicked off, and although Giri, Loc and Halim are no longer compet ing, they have taken on mentorii roles to groom others within the organisation to prepare for the competition.

“I had a great opportunity to shine at the last competition and would like others to have a chan to taste some of that glory too,” says Giri.

Children Are Sweet Enough

Are you aware of how much sugar your child is consuming?

Adopt these five simple methods to reduce sugar in a child's diet.

THERE’S sugar everywhere we turn. A typi­cal child’s day starts with either a peanut butter and jam sandwich or sugary cereals for breakfast, and then on to biscuits and fruit drinks for snacks, muffins and cupcakes for tea, ice cream and cake for dessert. And if that’s not bad enough, children are given lollipops, cotton candy, chocolates and fizzy drinks ever so often.

Despite the increasing rates of child obesi­ty in Malaysia, sugar intake among Malaysian pre-schoolers is still high. Parents must realise that sugar is not a food group and should be avoided.

While most sugary foods can be easily rec­ognised, a lot of the sugars consumed by chil­dren are hidden in the food and beverages they take. Even some milk contains added sugars! According to the Malaysian Dietitians’ Association, all packaged beverag­es contain added sugar, even those marketed for specific health benefits, unless stated oth­erwise. Many of the beverages contain very little or no nutrients, and instead have food additives and colouring.

These beverages are not just bad for a child’s teeth but are also empty calories.

Consuming too many empty calories and encouraging a taste for sweets may in the long runlead to childhood obesity.

In a study by Robert Lustig, paediatric endocrinologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, published in the journal Obesity, removing sugar from one’s diet for just nine days can have dramatic results. His research found that the chil­dren’s cholesterol improved and their insulin levels dropped.

The idea is to replace sugary foods in a child’s diet without eliminating carbohy­drates. The sugary food is replaced with nutritional starchy foods while maintaining body weight and calorie intake. Foods with added sugars can be removed from a child’s diet and replaced with a no-added-sugar ver­sion, which can be made up from food that contains only natural sugars.

Keeping a food diary of what your chil­dren eat will probably shock you into reduc- ’ mg the added sugars right away.

Here’s how to get started:

1 Serve healthy drinks

Young children should only be drink­ing water and milk. Reduce and eliminate fizzy drinks altogether and cut down on other sugary drinks. It is always better to make the change gradually, so you can start by giving them fizzy water with a little bit of juice to wean them off. For kids who are already drinking too many sugary drinks, try weaning them off by adding a bit of water to dilute it each time you serve them. However, do expect some tantrums along the way, but perseverance is the key to make this change!

2 Smarter shopping

Some of us may have started our kids on added sugars without even realising - with growing up milk! Check your product label to ensure that it has no added sugars. The added sugars can be spotted on the ingredients list and come in various names such as fructose, glucose, glucose syrup sol­ids, maltodextrin, com syrup and com syrup solids. Learn the names of added sugars and look out for them in the labels the next time you go shopping.

3 Mealtimes

Cooking at home is without a. doubt the best choice but with a rising number of working parents, this can prove to be a chal­lenge. Spend more time cooking over the weekend and planning the menu for the week and freeze portions. Sauces are one of the main sources of hidden added sugars. Once you’ve removed the added sugars from your httle one’s diet, you’ll see how much easier it is to get them to eat whole foods such as vegetables and fruits.

Children should eat four to five servings of vegetables and fruits per day such as apples, carrots, broccoli, and banana's.

4 School snack box

When your children are younger, it is easier to control what they eat as they are not exposed yet to the daily eating habits of other children.

The longer they stay off added sugars, the more they will be able to appreciate healthier foods such as fruits and vegetables. Pack their snack boxes for pre-school with fruits, a cheese sandwich, or boiled eggs if they like it.

Cut out shapes in sandwiches to make them more interesting. Kids love to dip! Veggies with hummus or apple slices with yogurt are

tasty and healthy combos. There are so many interesting ideas for healthy snack boxes on Pinterest for the inspiration you need. As they get older, it will be harder to make that change as your kids will come back sullen with a half-eaten lunchbox when their friends had cookies and fizzy drinks.

5 After school snacks

More often than not, when kids get home from school, they are hungry. It is so tempting to just feed your kids the array of kuih that you can get easily at stalls around, tea time when they get home from school. It is okay to let them have their favourite snack once in a while as long as you’re keeping track of their sugar intake for tha rest of the day. Best is to prepare the snacks ahead of time - a simple sandwich, or in the hot weather, fruit popsicles are a good way to get them to incorporate fruits and vegetables into their diets.

Stay away from processed foods such as ice cream, chocolate bars, and cookies as processed foods usually contain high amounts of sugar, which add more calories and no nutri­tional value.

While it is important to reduce added sugar in have a variety of foods to keep them looking for­ward to meal times. Do experiment with dif­ferent types of foods as each child is differ­ent. Don’t just remove items and limit the variety, instead replace them with something equally delicious but healthy. For instance when you remove ice cream, let them have a fruit popsicle made out of yoghurt and fresh fruits, or better yet, make your own ice cream using the sweetness of fruits.

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