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At over 1.6 million-strong – or 5 per cent of Malaysia’s 33 million population – the Malaysian civil service is one of the largest in the world and has long been seen as a “safe deposit” of votes for any sitting government and is therefore often the beneficiary of cash handouts.
The Malaysian Federation of Vegetable Farmers Association said at least 10 per cent of their 6,000 members nationwide were likely to change crops or even quit the trade by the end of the year if the government did not intervene to help deal with the price surge.
Even a pay cut to work in the civil service in his home state of Sarawak could not deter Robin Wong from leaving the peninsula to return to his roots, where renewed political and economic clout is now matched by a determination to resist the rise of Malaysia’s Islamist hardliners.
Now he has to stay the course, analysts and political insiders say, and hope a public frazzled by years of destabilising back-room political manoeuvres – and enraged by corruption – rallies behind his 14-month-old administration.
China says it has discovered a massive deposit of lithium, a key material in the country’s flourishing new-energy sector that has emerged as a pillar of economic growth.