Here’s a very good authority site and articles…

Maybank’s policy that legal firms must have at least 50 percent bumiputera equity in order to qualify for appointment to it’s panel of lawyrs is similar to that being practised by other GLCs over the years.
However the other GLCs do not announce their discriminatory policies. They simply implement such policies. I have not come across Petronas service stations being operated by non-bumiputeras. I am a non-bumiputera professional in private practice without a bumiputera partner and my professional services are not welcomed by Petronas.
Because of Petronas’ discriminatory policies I have stopped patronising Petronas service stations. If only all non-bumiputera Malaysians stopped patronising Petronas service stations, then perhaps the Petronas management will rethink their discriminatory policies.
I used to buy petrol from BP service stations but since BP has been bought over by Boustead, I have stopped patronising them. I don’t even know what they are called now. The reason is that I found out Boustead’s property division also practised discriminatory policies when appointing consultants.
In the early eighties, when Sime Darby ’s property division was headed by a non-bumiputera (an Indian gentleman), I was appointed to provide professional services. As soon as bumiputeras took over, my services were no longer welcomed and required.
Also in the early eighties my company was a customer to bumiputera company. This company was an associate company of Island and Peninsula . However when I approached Island and Peninsula with the intention of getting my company registered as a provider of professional services, I was told clearly that my services were not welcome because my company did not have any bumiputera partners.
I then did some research and discovered that generally the so-called GLC property companies being run by bumiputeras practise discriminatory policies. Since then I have never considered buying any property from such companies.
All the above are facts which I am aware of. All these GLCs may well be practising other discriminatory policies which I am not aware of and which I shall not speculate on.
I have been a customer of Maybank, for both banking and credit card services, for more than 25 years. Since Maybank has decided to openly practise discriminatory policies, I have also decided to take steps to terminate my accounts with Maybank, and I shall definitely let them know my reason for terminating my accounts.
I believe that if all non-bumiputeras let all these GLCs know how they feel about their discriminatory policies, by way of action and not just words, then perhaps they will not be so arrogant.
Gerakan Youth chief Mah Siew Keong’s statement: “In many smaller towns, a lot of lawyers are a one-man show. If the 50 percent bumiputera equity (policy) is enforced, then it means all those lawyers operating alone will not be allowed to do any work for the bank,” only shows that he is weak and dare not condemn outright Maybank’s discriminatory policy.
Is he suggesting that in big towns and cities where most legal firms are partnerships rather than one-man shows, it is then OK for Maybank to practice it’s discriminatory policy? ”

For the above, this is a tip of the icebergs only! This is why the GLCs should consider as bumiputra companies when come the ownership of bumiputra. In some of the examples, like petronas even there was black and white stated as JV company where non bumi can have 30% shares but when they found there is a non bumi worker in that company, the bumi officers from petronas will start harassing the company management! There are many ways the non malays are discriminated in black and white!!! Please talk about unity and wasting money in trying to teach our kids in unity (I am all for unity, peacefulness and harmony). Once they are in the secondary schools they realised they are discriminated by themselves.

To window dress is one thing but to mislead is another. That’s how far we have gone with our integrity. Who cares about transparency??

DPM najis alone is already pro at the UK sports center spin-doctoring while PM aab was equally skilful with the private jet spin.

My question to Pak Lah is: With the ‘flight’ of creative genius and the ’suppression’ of creative talent, do we have the critical mass and motivation to spearhead research in leading-edge technology? How has this become blunted? What are you, as the PM, doing about this instead of the steady stream of ‘feel-good’ lip-service and the unending flow of ’spiritual’ advice and other inanities?

Recently some author wrote a book about the ‘Flight of the Creative Class’. Well, the First World countries and those that aspire thereto will continue to receive those flights of creative genius. And those that are doomed to stay in the Third World will continue to experience the negative impact of those flights.

By suppressing meritocracy and adopting discriminatory standards in employment, education and electoral processes, we are sealing in the rot, the refuse and the rejects. Take a ‘wild’ guess where we are headed?

what is there to shout about when we compare the FDI even with our tiny tiny tiny neighbour Johor’s south Island? shame on Mesia for not giving regional comparison

I have a sinking feeling that what they will end up doing is not answer the question but say things like UN figures is wrong or have different or something. Its crock - its data manipulation to get whatever numbers they want..

Incidentially, I read elsewhere that the MITI fat lady’s son’s company, Nasioncom, has been rapped by the Securities Commission for over-reporting sales for 2005, reporting about RM200 million, of which 2/3 were ‘non-existence” sales.

Runs in the family, so it appears?

In October 2006, Dr Mahathir accused Abdullah of having developed a habit of lying.