LAST year, the Merdeka Day spirit was dampened by the actions of the Shah Alam residents who used a severed cow head to protest the relocation of a Hindu temple to their largely Muslim neighbourhood. This year, the run-up to Merdeka saw a school head in Kulaijaya, Johor, who, besides other slurs, told her charges […]
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Liberalisation welcomed with caution
PETALING JAYA, 1 July 2009: The government’s economic liberalisation measures are welcome – as long as they don’t get strangled by red tape, politicians from across the divide and think tanks said today. These individuals and groups supported the removal of the 30% bumiputera shareholder quota for publicly listed companies, the increase in foreign shareholding […]