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...When it was first launched in 2012 in Malaysia, the app was called “MyTeksi”, meaning “my taxi” in Malay....
...Malay Kundu, who developed a facial recognition system to spot terrorists in airports now uses similar technology to catch a growing contingent of self-checkout thieves....
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...Other random highlights included sampling the wide variety of food on the island, such as Indonesian, Indian, Malay, Japanese and Chinese....
...One problem was reliance on less-than-efficient suppliers picked from the ranks of Malay companies pushed in Proton’s direction under misguided pro-Malay affirmative action policy....
...Many economists argue it was held back, at least in part, by the adoption of restrictive policies limiting foreign investment in key sectors and favouring investment by companies controlled by the ethnic Malay...
...Support has also come from a mix of “cornerstone” investors that include a Singapore sovereign wealth fund, as well as buying by ethnic Malays, or “bumiputeras”, who were allocated 11.5 per cent of the shares...
...About 72 per cent of 2.19bn existing and new shares in FGV – also referred to as Felda – have been allocated to a mixture of pension funds; “bumiputeras”, or ethnic Malays; state governments; and “selected...
...A sample of 5.6bn public tweets, gathered from July 2010 to October 2011, revealed that the top five languages in use on Twitter are English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Malay....
...Only 12.5 per cent of an IPO is now required to be offered to Malay investors....
...Malaysia requires ethnic Malay shareholders to hold at least a 30 per cent stake in service businesses as part of a policy, launched in the early 1970s, giving preferential treatment to the Malay majority...
...Mr Najib has sought to counter public fears that his administration might revert to autocratic rule to reverse the declining fortunes of the ruling United Malays National Organisation....
...Mr Abdullah rejected criticism that the long-standing policy of preferential treatment of the ethnic Malay majority, who have lagged behind the richer Chinese minority, was discouraging foreign investment...
...Some of the biggest losers were shares of companies closely tied to the government’s economic policy of preferential treatment of the Malay majority and to its ambitious infrastructure plans....
...Malaysia says it is actually a Malay dance called Barongan, although the country’s ambassador to Indonesia was quoted as saying that his nation never claimed its ownership....
...The sticking point was Malaysia’s refusal to relax affirmative action rules benefiting the ethnic Malay majority when it comes to government procurement....
...Genting, the Malay conglomerate which bought Maxims, the high-end casino in High Street Kensington, was keen on the merger of the two UK companies because of the sizeable stakes it had built up in both....
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