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[UPDATED VERSION] MCA vice-president Chua Jui Meng and Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin will appear on TV3 tomorrow, from 7.30pm to 8pm to discuss the call for the revival of the New Economic Policy (NEP).

The discussion will be featured on the station’s business programme, The Exchange.

Three questions that will be asked:

#1: Whether the NEP [...]

Former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim said it was time to end 35 years of Bumiputera privileges, saying that it breeded a culture of corruption.

Via Malaysiakini:

Anwar, who was jailed after a fallout with veteran premier Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, said the affirmative action to indigenous people known as bumiputeras was unfair to Malaysia’s minority Chinese.

"Our economic policy [...]

Yesterday, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi launched the Government-linked companies (GLCs) Transformation Manual with the aim to transform GLCs into high-performance entity.

It encompasses part of a larger national development strategy, focus on enhancing performance and takes full cognisance of matters relating to governance, shareholder value and stakeholder management.

He also calls on GLCs to continue offer [...]

[UPDATED VERSION] Month of August is all about elections!

Penang chief minister Koh Tsu Koon, who is also the Gerakan vice-president announced his intention to contest the party deputy presidency, ended months of speculation that he is not so keen to go against the incumnebt party deputy-president Kerk Choo Ting.

He insisted that the outcome of the [...]

TV3 Berita Terkini at 4pm reported that Rafidah Aziz will hold a press conference and responds to every query once she completes her studying every details regarding Approved Permits (APs) issues.

She was saying so when asked by reporters at Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in Jalan Duta.

A not-so-new business strategy, but it’s still applicable till now.

Nails are dissipated on the Penang Bridge by irresponsible people from both sides of the bridge. Then, someone will appear and offer you the patching up service for a fee that is definitely higher than normal market rate.

Worst still, a mechanic registered with Penang Bridge Sdn. [...]

Even the deal with HK remain unknown, the all-time-ready AirAsia will fly to Brunei in September as confirmed by the CEO Tony Fernandes. Quote:
“Brunei is like home to us. The people want us to come and we come here.”

It won’t be a long wait before AirAsia goes global.

This will be a joke if he misses [...]

“No, no, no, no“, “God is my witness” and “Go ask Pak Lah!“.

Those are the only words by Rafidah Aziz when asked about the issues raised by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad yesterday.

Meanwhile, International Trade and Industry secretary general Mohd. Sidek Hassan rebuffed Dr. Mahathir AP claims that the released Approved Permit (AP) list was incomplete.At the [...]