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Affirmative action for Malays

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17 years ago

6 July 2009

We don’t talk about quotas, that’s not our approach. We don’t talk about…so many places for Malays, so many places for Indians, so many places for Chinese. That’s a wrong way to go. It has got to be meritocratic. But assuming 10 people make the cut-off, try and look for some who are also from the Malay community.

Law Minister K Shanmugam, when asked on his earlier suggestion on “affirmative action” for Malays