{"id":434,"date":"2007-07-24T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/24\/nep-not-doing-anybody-any-harm-says-tun-m\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T06:33:05","slug":"nep-not-doing-anybody-any-harm-says-tun-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/24\/nep-not-doing-anybody-any-harm-says-tun-m\/","title":{"rendered":"NEP not doing anybody any harm, says Tun M"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tell that to those wage earners who had to buy property without discount while the privileged ones buy better houses at 7% discount at least!<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Tell that to those who want to open fast food or petrol stations.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Tell that to those who want to bid for govt contract above certain amount.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Tell that to those who can&#39;t a get a scholarship even though their results are top of the class.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Tell that to all those who can&#39;t get job because those jobs are only for certain privileged people.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Tuesday\/NewsBreak\/20070724123432\/Article\/index_html\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The affirmative action plan to help Bumiputras under New Economic Policy has not deterred Malaysia from emerging as the world&#8217;s fastest growing developing nation, former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said today.  <\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8220;In any case, the policy to help Bumiputras is not doing anybody any harm,&#8221; he told reporters after delivering a keynote address at the international conference on &#8220;Gold Dinar Economy 2007.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Other developing countries without an affirmative policy cannot do as well as Malaysia, so why are we people questioning the policy,&#8221; he said in response to calls to review the policy. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have reconsidered the policy, made amendments, reduced the affirmative action but in certain areas we still need affirmation action.  <\/p>\n<p>In any case it is not doing anybody any harm,&#8221; he said. <br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell that to those wage earners who had to buy property without discount while the privileged ones buy better houses at 7% discount at least! &nbsp; Tell that to those who want to open fast food or petrol stations. &nbsp; Tell that to those who want to bid for govt contract above certain amount. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115,24,138,225],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-economy","tag-mic","tag-nep","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}