The potential electoral payoff for these populist promises makes it risky for either side to advocate for more prudent fiscal management. However worrying this election cycle has been from a fiscal perspective, one policy prescription has emerged that could drastically alter Malaysia's financial future if actually implemented.
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The expose by ‘Global Witness’ of the corruption connected with logging virgin forests in Sarawak will have devastating consequences to those in power in Malaysia’s largest state as well as in the federal capital. The viral video is also prompting NGOs that scrutinize tax evasion activities to take a keen critical interest in Singapore as a financial centre.
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In the Internet era, even a 64-year-old retired math teacher can become a threat to a large company.
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One of the special features in Malaysia’s multi-ethnic society is the still predominantly race-based party system. UMNO, the long term dominant ruling party was founded in 1946 as a reaction against the granting of citizenship to Chinese and Indian immigrants upon independence.
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Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s Proton badging has become a mirror of the NEP implementation in being overpriced, under-performing and a waste of resources. The hidden agenda behind the ex-PM’s pet project must surely have been to roll out a halal car. The same determination to make kosher extended to the populace as well during his 22-year tenure, and beyond.
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