Illustration: Tim McEvenue
Opinion
Opinion
Mahathir’s new Malay dilemma: tackle poverty among the majority without excluding others, particularly the Chinese
Forty-eight years after his book diagnosing the problems ethnic Malays faced, Mahathir Mohamad is once again leading a country where Malays are still mostly poor, despite a decades-old economic policy that has favoured them and angered other groups
Illustration: Tim McEvenue