Are the recent 1MBD “firesale” of energy deals with China-linked companies in the national interest? Will those sales compromise the long-held neutrality of Malaysia’s strategic posturing? 2015 saw the intensification of United States – China competition in the Southeast Asia region. Malaysia is being courted…
Saya sifatkan Bajet 2016 tidak lebih sekadar ‘Bajet Najib, oleh Najib dan untuk Najib’ semata-mata. Bajet tersebut antaranya menampilkan 3 intisari penting: Pertama, jumlah perbelanjaan bajet menurun buat pertama kalinya sejak tahun 2010 yang lalu. Perbelanjaan bagi tahun 2015 adalah RM 274 bilion manakala RM267…
Budget 2016 is unmistakably a budget essentially “of Najib, by Najib and for Najib.” The Budget has three salient features: First, total budgeted expenditure decreased for the first time since 2010. Budgeted expenditure for 2015 was RM 274 billion while RM267 billion was allocated for…
The freshly-formed Special Economic Committee (JKE), which convened for the first time on 1st September, is a complete waste of time if the trust deficit of the Najib Government is not addressed up front. I therefore call on credible independent figures like Dato’ Seri Nazir…
Media statement by DAP National Political Education Director and MP for Kluang Liew Chin Tong on 3rd April 2015 in Kluang: I call on Finance Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to instruct the Customs Department to halt all enforcement activities and focus on hand-holding small…
Media statement by DAP National Political Education Director and MP for Kluang Liew Chin Tong on 20th January 2015 On 27 October 2014, when the crude oil price was hovering at the US$80-85 per barrel mark, I called on Prime Minister and Finance Minister Dato’…
Budget Speech (Part 2) by DAP National Political Education Director and MP for Kluang Liew Chin Tong One salient feature of Budget 2015 is the Prime Minister’s Department’s excessive control of the already very small development allocation. Prime Minister’s Department (PMD) has sliced away more…
Budget Speech (Part 1) by DAP National Political Education Director and MP by Kluang Liew Chin Tong on 28th October 2014 in Parliament One of the “Black Swan events” that the current budget did not anticipate is the falling oil prices. The black swan theory,…
Albert Einstein was said to have remarked, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In other words, doing more of the same really won’t help. It is insane to think that Malaysia can avoid the next economic mayhem…
Media statement by DAP Political Education Director and MP for Kluang Liew Chin Tong on 18th May 2013 in Kuala Lumpur: GST: the cat is out of the bag, finally With Idris Jala’s latest revelation, the Barisan Nasional Government is finally letting the goods and…