The government will not be able to favor bumiputra entrepreneurs under World Trade Organization guidelines.
Those long-term objectives of eliminating perceived discrimination in the Bumiputra policies which you mentioned, are indeed long term.
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The second disturbing trend is that Saudi-style Islam is making inroads among the lesser educated of the native Malay population, the bumiputra.
Abdullah, who has called his ideas the new Malay dilemma, continued to complain that the favored bumiputra businessmen were crowding out their smaller counterparts.
Affirmative action that favours the Malay majority (also known as the Bumiputra) in business, jobs and education has resulted in a flight of capital and talent.
In his closing speech, he railed again against foreigners, chided Mr Zahid for not using proper party channels to voice his complaints, and defended passionately the pro-bumiputra policy.
The pro-bumiputra discrimination was laid down in the country's first constitution, in 1957, to ease Malays' fears of being marginalised by the Chinese and Indian migrants.
In Malaysia, this problem is exacerbated by a national policy of positive discrimination in favour of the majority bumiputra (largely Malay) population and against the ethnic Chinese who dominate business.
Malaysia's 50th birthday comes at a time of rising resentment by ethnic Chinese and Indians, together over one-third of the population, at the continuing, systematic discrimination they suffer in favour of the majority bumiputra, or sons of the soil, as Malays and other indigenous groups are called.
Teik Ngan may try to look for a friendly party, perhaps a Malay businessman with ties to the government. (Tunku Abdullah, the brother of the current King of Malaysia, is executive chairman of MBf Finance and chairman of MBf Holdings and MBf Capital.) But many such bumiputra entrepreneurs already have problems of their own.
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