KUALA LUMPUR, 16 June 2009: The number of non-bumiputera students offered the Public Service Department (PSD) scholarships has increased significantly compared with 2000, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Statistics by PSD showed that 924 non-bumiputera students were among the 2,100 students offered the scholarship to pursue overseas studies this year, compared with only 150 […]
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Ethnic outsiders vs bumiputera-ism
By Wong Chin Huat(© Konrad Mostert/sxc.hu) THERE are two issues around the appointment of Low Siew Moi as general manager of the Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS). The first, as raised by laywer-cum-blogger Haris Ibrahim, is whether this state agency should act like an ethnic institution that serves only Malays or bumiputera. The second is, if indeed PKNS’s […]
