The New Straits Times Online…….
..The Member of Parliament for Gua Musang, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, said today he would revamp the New Economic Policy (NEP) to ensure better implementation if he were to become Umno president.The policy was not meant to benefit the Malays alone but the other communities too, said Tengku Razaleigh who had offered [...]
MP: Help non-bumis but don’t mess with quota
THE Government should help non-bumiputra students, who achieved academic excellence but not at the expense of jeopardising scholarships awarded to bumiputras, said Datuk Tajudin Abdul Rahman (BN - Pasir Salak).
“By all means, we help them but not at the expense of bumiputra students. I do not agree [...]
Signs of distress in the market
“Bumiputra quota should not exceed 30%, based on sales regardless of the units being sold to bumiputras were the identified lots or not. Bumiputra discount should be capped at 5% and only applicable for houses priced at RM250,000 and below, excluding low-cost and low-medium cost houses,” said Ng.
Ng said [...]
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The New Economic Policy (NEP) could have probably ended in 1990 if it was implemented properly, said CIMB group chief executive Datuk Nazir Razak.
Lamenting that the NEP had been “bastardised” to benefit a select few through negotiated tenders, Nazir said the policy had to be prolonged because it was not properly implemented.
He said that [...]
The rising inflation rate in the country is unacceptable to Malaysians because it is not due to the price hikes alone but also caused by corruption, Transparency International president Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam said.
He said the Government needed to be more aggressive in its fight against corruption following inefficiency issues that had a greater [...]
The MIC today expressed dissatisfaction over the low percentage of Public Service Department (PSD) overseas scholarships allocated for Indian students and hopes the government will increase the number, party president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.
He said this year only 34 Indian students had been successful in their application.The party received 194 appeals, some [...]
K. Kamine Devi was shocked that the Public Services Department (PSD) had turned down her application to study medicine overseas despite her having scored 10A1s in last year’s SPM.
This after the PSD had issued a statement recently guaranteeing scholarships for students who scored 9As in their SPM.
What was worse was that her application for [...]
…our education system needs reshaping and opportunities to succeed should be colour-blind.
Here we have an eager and brilliant student whose future has been denied by the discriminatory attitude of policymakers. It says loudly that non-bumis should not depend on government assistance to even have an opportunity to develop a career, no matter how brilliant [...]
The Penang Malay Chamber of Commerce is not against an open tender system but is concerned about how “fairness” is defined.
Chamber president Rizal Faris Mohideen said the chamber was not against the new state government’s move for fairness and open tender, but felt some handicap should be given to Malay entrepreneurs to even the playing [...]
The implementation of the New Economic Policy has deviated from its original intentions, Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said.
He said the policy was intended to help all Malays but, in the 1990s, it started benefiting only certain groups.
“You discriminate within the race as you have to be within the inner circle of [...]
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