Goodie bags and… anything else? Nobody can resist goodie bags. And there were lots of them in Budget 2012! Many were happy, some ecstatic. But some groups like the middle-income earners and special needs people felt short-changed. Their goodie bag was almost empty. Sabah and Sarawak are also feeling neglected. Spending millions on mega projects [...]
The truth is, we are all just out to cari makan. But at what expense? The abundance of foreign labour, mostly unskilled, at very low wages snatches away opportunities for Malaysians to improve productivity and upskill. Employers hold the trump card – they need not worry about keeping employees happy, or even safe. There are [...]
The pie smells. Our country’s economy has soared by 82 percent in the last ten years, but income disparity casts a large shadow. The bottom 40 percent of Malaysians struggle to earn a mere 15 percent of the national income pie and have to scrimp and borrow to get by. The bulk of the growth [...]