{"id":2460,"date":"2008-10-14T12:55:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/10\/14\/business-and-racial-preference\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:56:25","slug":"business-and-racial-preference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/10\/14\/business-and-racial-preference\/","title":{"rendered":"Business and Racial preference"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m confused over the article published by the Star below. It’s title says “Keep race out of business, says Najib<\/a>“, but the content seems to say the opposite. He stresses that non-bumiputra companies must do something and that GLCs (bumiputra-based) also must do something.So, in order to not be doing business along racial lines, you have to look at race before doing business. Is it just me having a confusion here?<\/p>\n

Why not just do business with those that offer the best deal for your business, or people you feel comfortable working with?<\/p>\n

Anyway, one can’t run away from racial lines because there are many rules and restrictions that requires bumiputra partners or only exclusive for bumiputra companies. This is unavoidable due to the policies set and also the constitution.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the article should be retitled “Race must be considered in business, says Najib”?<\/p>\n

Parliament: Keep race out of business, says Najib
\nBy SIM LEOI LEOI<\/p>\n

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government does not want business in the private sector to be conducted along racial lines.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak however said that all private companies were encouraged to build up a local vendor system to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, all big non-bumiputra companies, particularly those which have received licences or contracts from the Government, should give priority towards the development of local small firms, including those owned by bumiputras.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoverment-linked companies (GLCs) also have a role in giving opportunities and guidance to all bumiputra and non-bumiputra businesses,\u201d he told Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid (BN – Padang Besar).<\/p>\n

Najib, recently appointed Finance Minister, also said that he had recently met with a few small businesses involved in the local furniture industry, particularly those contracted to supply furniture to the Government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have asked for the tender system to be reviewed so that they will be considered later when awarding contracts,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m confused over the article published by the Star below. It’s title says “Keep race out of business, says Najib“, but the content seems to say the opposite. He stresses that non-bumiputra companies must do something and that GLCs (bumiputra-based) also must do something.So, in order to not be doing business along racial lines, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112,115,122],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-discrimination","tag-economy","tag-najib-tun-razak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}