• Does gov't really know best?
  • Neil Khor
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  • comment Three issues are slowly coming to head. The Perak state assembly will sit on Thursday. The Economic Planning Unit (EPU) and the Finance Ministry are meeting to decide the master-plan for the Malaysian economy. Five cabinet ministers have met to resolve the long-standing issue of religious conversion but their decision has not received universal approval.

    All three issues share some common factors: they each involve fundamental rights of Malaysians, they involve institutions and they need a wider consensus if they are to achieve tangible results.
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    • Politics, economy and religion
    • Sit down and thrash out issues