COMMENT The Economic Planning Unit's (EPU) reply to the two recent Malaysiakini articles, ' Has 30pct bumi equity target been achieved ' and ' Major flaw in computing bumi equity target ' , was to be expected.

Instead of addressing the substantive issue of government massaging of the corporate equity data through methodology subterfuge, and selective and disputable definition, there is a meaningless declaration of good intentions and how "the government is intent on reducing the socioeconomic imbalances and improving income of all Malaysians irregardless (sic) of race."

The EPU should revisit the messy history of the corporate equity controversy which goes back to 2006. It needs to inform the public of the progress it has made in improving the methodology for measuring the respective racial shares...