Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is taking a leaf from his boss Prime Minister Najib Razak. He has started to say different things to different audiences.Regarded as Umno's 'backbone' by its right-wing factions, Muhyiddin made comments at the World Chinese Economic Forum in Kuala Lumpur that he would never dare utter at the Umno annual assembly.
The first remark was his admission that Malaysia would not be where it was without the local Chinese businessmen. The other was that he supported the use of vernacular languages such as Mandarin and Tamil, apart from Bahasa Melayu.
"For a long time, local Chinese businessmen have been the main domestic investors and it would be safe to say that without them, Malaysia wouldn't be where it is today. However, increasingly over the past 10 years, more and more domestic investments have been undertaken by GLCs," Muhyiddin said in his keynote address on Thursday.
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