Malaysian government has not paid enough attention to local investors

“There are very important lessons to learn from the Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese experience that we didn’t really learn in developing an industrial community and a strong national entrepreneurial community.

“As a result, we have been too heavily reliant on foreign investments and are unable to sustain higher growth,” he told theSun during a brief visit home.

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“In most economies, the domestic investors usually lead and foreign investors follow but in Malaysia, there’s been too much dependence on foreign investors so that when they do not come through, the economy suffers and domestic investors don’t respond.

“Government policies have not paid sufficient attention to what domestic investors are looking for, like what they need, the infrastructural problems they face, the regulations or human resources (needs they may have).

“And as a consequence, Malaysia’s investments, especially private investments are not as high as before,” he said, further pointing out that Malaysia has very few internationally-known companies, compared to South Korea or Japan.

Source: The Sun

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Proton nowhere close to becoming internationally competitive

“The Koreans started manufacturing cars only a few years ahead of Malaysians and still nobody can claim that Proton is anywhere close to becoming internationally competitive.

Source: The Sun

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Chief Justice Tun Ahmad Fairuz denies he promoted judge who has not written grounds of decision, warns against saying things which are not true

Chief Justice Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim today refuted claims that judges who have not written grounds of decision have been promoted and challenged the allegations to be proved.

He said the judiciary has records of judges who have not written their grounds of decision and their preliminary investigations revealed the allegations to be untrue.

Ahmad Fairuz said this when asked by reporters to comment on reports in the media that a Court of Appeal judge who had failed to write about 30 grounds of decision had been elevated to the Federal Court.

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He said in the past, judges who have not written their grounds of judgment are not promoted unless they completed the task.

“We have got to check first. You know it is very dangerous when we say something which is not the truth. In Islam it is called “fitnah” (slanderous). It is very bad, we don’t say anything which is not the truth,” added Ahmad Fairuz.

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Ahmad Fairuz said the judiciary relies on meritocracy when promoting judges but the elevation also depends on other factors, such as socialisation and conduct in private and public, judicial temperament and clearing of cases, among others.

Asked if the failure of judges to provide their grounds of judgment within a reasonable time could be viewed as misconduct, Ahmad Fairuz said the issue revolves around what could be interpreted as misconduct.

“Its (failure to give written grounds of decision) one of the factors. Is failure to write grounds of judgment alone sufficient to say amounts to misconduct. A person who has been a judge for about 15 years, and only on one occasion he didn’t write his grounds of decision, is that a misconduct justifying for removal?” asked Ahmad Fairuz.

Source: The Sun

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UNWRITTEN JUDGEMENTS: Former High Court judge yet to submit in 33 cases

UNWRITTEN JUDGEMENTS: Former High Court judge yet to submit in 33 cases

The Court of Appeal registry’s records revealed that a
former High Court judge did not write grounds of judgment in 33 criminal and civil cases.

The backlog included three criminal cases in Seremban which carried the death penalty.

The judge presided over the cases while serving at the High Court there five years ago.

The rest are civil cases in which he made rulings while there and in Kuala Lumpur between 1999 and 2002.

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The New Straits Times had on July 23 revealed that the judge had not provided written grounds of judgment in at least 30 criminal and civil cases.

CJ disputed allegations that he had erred A copy of a document from the Court of Appeal registry showing a backlog of cases due to the absence of written judgments. On Aug 16, it was reported that two men were languishing on Death Row in Kajang prison because the judge who convicted them at the High Court in Seremban had not provided grounds of judgment.

Another person was also ordered by the same judge to be held at the Sungai Buloh prison at the pleasure of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan on grounds of insanity.

On Tuesday, Chief Justice of the Federal Court Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim disputed allegations that he had erred in promoting judicial officers who had not written judgments. He had also asked for proof that he had elevated undeserving judges.

Meanwhile, lawyer Karpal Singh questioned the basis on which Ahmad Fairuz had promoted former High Court judge Tengku Baharuddin Shah Tengku Mahmud to the Court of Appeal.

“A delay of nine years and three months with the grounds of judgment not supplied is more cause for Ahmad Fairuz to spring into action” he said.

Source: New Straits Times

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Chief Justice Tun Ahmad Fairuz denies he promoted judge who has not written grounds of decision, warns against saying things which are not true