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RM900 minimum wage well below workers’ demand

 FTAs, Neo-liberal economics, Sustainable development, Workers' rights  11 Responses »
May 012012
 
RM900 minimum wage well below workers' demand

Between 500 and 1000 workers have marched from Central Market to Dataran Maybank to mark Workers’ Day.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 11.38am  Tagged with: minimum wage, workers

How Anwar performed as Finance Minister

 M'sian politics, Malaysian finance/business, Neo-liberal economics  32 Responses »
Feb 232012
 
How Anwar performed as Finance Minister

Whatever you may think of Anwar, he did manage to reduce the country’s budget deficit (as a percentage of GDP) and later even presided over surplus years.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 1.03pm  Tagged with: anwar, budget, Finance Minister, fiscal deficit

Meryl Streep does a Rafidah

 Arts, culture and sports, Economy, Europe, M'sian politics, Neo-liberal economics  9 Responses »
Feb 152012
 

Now this reminds me of the time when Rafidah Aziz broke the heel of her shoe while scrambling frantically on stage to ask Mahathir why he was stepping down.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 8.29pm  Tagged with: mahathir, Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep, Rafidah Aziz

Anwar will ‘accelerate privatizations’?

 Neo-liberal economics  9 Responses »
Jan 302012
 

Anwar needs to clarify a Wall Street Journal report that says he wants to “accelerate privatizations” if elected. What exactly does he want to privatise?

 Posted by Anil Netto at 5.36pm  Tagged with: neoliberal, privatisation

After Proton, will KTM be next?

 Malaysian finance/business, Neo-liberal economics, Public transport  14 Responses »
Jan 182012
 

After Khazanah sells its 43 per cent stake in Proton to DRB-Hicom (owned by Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary), will the government privatise KTM next?

 Posted by Anil Netto at 12.42pm  Tagged with: Al-Bukhary, KTM, mmc, proton
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