It all began with Malaysiakini’s Sept 23, 2006 news report ‘Study: 30% bumi equity target exceeded’. What follows is a heated national debate on the 35-year-old New Economic Policy - the lynchpin of Barisan Nasional’s political platform. 


Sept 23, 2006 

Study: 30% bumi equity target exceeded 

Sept 27

Reveal bumi equity calculations, govt told 
Bumi equity: Prof disputes study

Sept 28

Asli responds to comments on bumi equity study 
18.9% or 45%, poor Malays will remain poor 

Sept 29

Prof vs Asli: Shamsul clarifies 

Oct 2

NEP will destroy the Malays 

Oct 7

Awang Adek questions Asli study 

Oct 9

Umno veep: Asli's study will 'confuse' Malays 

Oct 10

Halting aid to Malays courts chaos: Dr M 

Oct 11

Lim quits over Asli's report retraction 
Was Asli pressured to back down? 
NEP - more transparency please 
Khairy to Asli: Damage done 

Oct 12

Gov't tries to end racial debate, warning of tensions 
Gov’t cannot tolerate dissent: Gerakan leader 
Mirzan not qualified to debunk equity study 
Racialising research: The Asli report debacle 

Oct 13

Asli row: Govt leaders acting like Nazis 
Dr Toh, Shahrir - a few good gentlemen 
Better if EPU gives more rationales: academic 

Oct 14

Asli debacle: Najib’s gag order smells fishy
Asli row: The people are the losers 
Academic: NEP not hostile to foreign interests
Most Indians marginalised since pre-independence

Oct 16

PM issues stern warning, don't stir trouble 
Of political dwarfs and intellectual giants 
NEP issue: BN politicians doing the spin 
Newspaper ads back Lim’s courage 
Make bumi shares like Malay reserve land 

Oct 20

Equity: Umnoputera vs bumiputera? 
60-40 formula for civil service proposed

Nov 1

Bumi equity hit NEP target 10 years ago 

Nov 2

Reveal bumi equity methodology 
Bumi, non-bumi firms equally hit by crisis 

Nov 3

NEP equity methodology: Let’s have it now 

Nov 6

Stop disputing bumi equity methodology 

Nov 7

Gov't: Bumi share ownership at 36.6% 
Some details of NEP equity methodology unveiled 

Nov 8

Gov’t pressed to discontinue NEP
What about Indian share of corporate equity?
Penan left behind under NEP

Nov 9

Bumi equity: Lim 'not really' vindicated
'Scrap the NEP' pressures continue to mount

Nov 10

Financial giant: Need to fine-tune NEP

Nov 13

Bumi equity: Gov’t retracts 36.6% figure
NEP to stay until national unity is achieved
Gov’t appears to cook NEP figures

Nov 14

Bumi equity: Explanation yes, punishment no
Gov’t methodology can improve: Ku Li
The gravy train called Crony Express

Nov 15

Did the World Bank endorse NEP methodology?
Who’s right - Finance Ministry or EPU?
MCA Youth rejects extension of NEP

Nov 16

PM: We'll continue to pursue NEP objectives
NEP forever and beyond 30%

Nov 20

NEP an Umno gimmick to rob Malays: Anwar
Najib: NEP not a boon for the elite

Nov 29

Why par value measurement is flawed
Equity calculations: Set up expert panel
World Bank: We’re not involved

Nov 30

World Bank denies, Awang Adek 'forgets'

Jan 5, 2007

Nazir: NEP review is critical


OPINIONS AND COLUMNS

What Bangsa Malaysia?
NEP - It's not about percentages
The equity problem will just not vanish
Imagine ... no NEP
Asli’s gift to academicians
Meaningless controversy over Asli study
Truth is not racist
A truth commission by omission?
The young boy and the old lady
Our Orwellian mindset
NEP a ‘Never Ending Policy’
Statistics: Travesty of truth
Flaws in EPU's apparent methodology
Flaws in EPU apparent methodology (Part 2)
Further flaws in EPU methodology (Part 3)
NEP: Time for a change of mindset
Charting a course though rough waters


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