Are our priorities right?

aliran.

We spent a cool RM20 million for a Malaysian to hitch a ride in a Russian space taxi. Our space hero is busy running a sea-food restaurant.

Despite a lot of hot air about success achieved in eradicating poverty, precious little is done to alleviate the sufferings of the hardcore poor. Is it because some corrupt scoundrels siphoned off the money, from the fund set up to help the hardcore poor?