{"id":3162,"date":"2009-01-21T09:03:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2009-01-21T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:03:33","slug":"tan-sri-ramon-on-nep-deviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/01\/21\/tan-sri-ramon-on-nep-deviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tan Sri Ramon on NEP deviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Confirming what many Malaysians already know, one of the persons involved in the drafting of NEP, Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam says this in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/96825\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysiakini article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>The New Economic Policy (NEP) has deviated from its original aim of eradicating poverty in the country and thus, it is imperative that the policy is studied again in detail, not by politicians but by professionals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\">MCPX<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.malaysiakini.com\/track\/?id=cG9vYmFsYW4%3D\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/><\/div>\n<p>At the launch of a new book entitled &#8220;Malaya&#8217;s First Year At The United Nations&#8221; at the Royal Lake Club this afternoon, Ramon Navaratnam (<em>right in picture<\/em>) said, &#8220;I have some knowledge of it, as I was one of those who drafted the NEP. I agree with Tunku Abdul Rahman when he said there&#8217;s nothing wrong with the NEP per se, but (there are problems with) the way it is implemented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At that time, neither Tun Dr Ismail nor any of us thought of APs (approved permits) and special privileges for the rich. We thought of poverty eradication regardless of race and the removal of the association of occupation with race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it has had different turns and twists, and I think it is well worth a study of where it deviates from the ideals and wisdom of people like the late Tun Dr Ismail,&#8221; added Navaratnam, who is also director of the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirming what many Malaysians already know, one of the persons involved in the drafting of NEP, Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam says this in Malaysiakini article: The New Economic Policy (NEP) has deviated from its original aim of eradicating poverty in the country and thus, it is imperative that the policy is studied again in detail, [&hellip;]<\/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":[112,138],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-discrimination","tag-nep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","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=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}