JOHOR BAHARU, Oct 31 -- Johor aims to reduce its dependency on the 75,000 foreign workers currently working in the state by enhancing the skills of locals and using more modern technology in the industrial sector.State Unity, Human Resources, Science and Technology and Innovation Committee chairman, M. Asojan told Bernama here today that the state government also wished to have the total reduction to the minimum level possible by 2013.For a start, he said, the state government would require all public and private training institutes statewide to increase their trainee intake.
Time To Help Strengthen Economy, Not Bicker About Nep, Says Ali Rustam
MUAR, Oct 30 -- All political parties whether from the Barisan Nasional (BN) or the Opposition should be trying their level best to help Malaysia face the current economic crisis and not bicker about the New Economic Policy (NEP), said Umno vice president Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam.The Melaka Chief Minister stressed that they should be finding new ideas to increase economic growth for the benefit of all Malaysians."Disputing the policy (NEP) is not going to benefit anyone, whether Umno, MCA or the MIC," he told reporters when asked to comment on remarks by MCA vice president Datuk Liow Tiong Lai on Monday that his party wanted the 30 per cent bumiputera equity requirement in public listed companies as called for by the NEP to be done away with.Mohd Ali, who was met at Muar Umno chief Datuk Mohd Ismail Mohd Shah's Aidilfitri open house here Tuesday, further described those disputing the NEP as "trying to seek cheap publicity just to pursue their own agendas".
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