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Kedah maintains 50% bumiputera quota

February 25, 2009

ALOR STAR, 25 Feb 2009: The PAS-led Kedah government is maintaining its housing policy which requires 50% ownership by bumiputeras in all housing projects in the state. Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak said the policy, effective 1 Sept last year, would remain in force. Azizan said the state government would also focus […]

Kedah Gerakan wants MIC candidate

By Deborah Loh

February 24, 2009

PETALING JAYA, 24 Feb 2009: Kedah Gerakan Youth wants the Barisan Nasional candidate for the Bukit Selambau by-election to be an Indian Malaysian from MIC. Its youth chief Tan Keng Liang said BN had to honour the agreement made in the 2008 general election. “Any by-election should follow the agreement made during the last general […]

“Minority bumiputeras won’t be neglected”

February 13, 2009

KUCHING, 13 Feb 2009: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has promised the minority bumiputera community that they will not be marginalised in the nation’s march towards development. He said that although the progress and development of these communities had not been monitored, their views would always be taken into account in the drawing […]

Bumiputera quota houses can be sold in open market

November 24, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, 24 Nov 2008: Real estate allocated for bumiputera can be sold to the other communities in the open market through a special mechanism approved by the government. Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Ong Ka Chuan said the bumiputera quota could be lifted if there was no demand from bumiputera for the properties […]

Is Kedah PAS becoming Umno?

Translation by Ng Boon Hooi

November 24, 2008

FOR the week of 15 to 21 Nov, the Chinese media highlighted the Kedah government brushing aside the DAP’s opposition to its 50% housing quota; the fallout from the New Era College dispute; and the MCA’s new disciplinary board chairperson. Sin Chew Daily‘s He Kai Lin took issue with Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan […]

Focus on MCA leadership

Translation by Ng Boon Hooi

November 17, 2008

FROM 8 to 14 Nov, the Chinese media highlighted the MCA’s new line-up in the central committee; the government’s move to relax bumiputera quota in public-listed companies; and the dilemma of high inflation despite lower petrol prices. MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat announced the appointments for the party’s central committee on 11 Nov. […]

Stop politicising rights enshrined in constitution: Sultan Azlan

November 5, 2008

KUALA KANGSAR, 5 Nov 2008: The Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, has called on the people to think rationally and to stop politicising the position and eminence of the Malay rulers, Islam, Malay as the national language, special position of the Malays and genuine interests of other communities, which are enshrined in the Federal […]

Database on bumiputera progress in corporate sector

November 5, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, 5 Nov 2008: A comprehensive database is to be developed at the end of the Ninth Malaysia Plan to monitor the progress of bumiputeras in the corporate sector, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today. He told the Dewan Rakyat the database, aimed at updating government data, was expected to provide […]

Ethnic outsiders vs bumiputera-ism

By Wong Chin Huat

November 5, 2008

(© 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 […]

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