COMMENT | TalentCorp or TalentCorpse?

COMMENT | In August 2018, activist Kua Kia Soong raised an important issue for which was posed in his commentary.

He wrote: “TalentCorp once put together a team to try and convince Malaysians in the Silicon Valley to come home, with special perks thrown in to entice them. At a symposium, the agency tried to give the impression that Malaysia now has a level playing field, and Malaysians regardless of ethnicity would be free to flex their talents in service of the nation.

“Unfortunately, all it took was one query from an observant Malaysian in the audience to deflate the myth of a level playing field: “If as you say, ‘race’ is now a thing of the past, why is it that the composition of TalentCorp’s team in Silicon Valley is entirely Malay?”

But these days, the question ought to be: “Why are talented Malays being dumped by the wayside?”

For the past 10 years, the TalentCorp juggernaut had been going places, flying from continent to continent, to lure home talented Malaysians working in foreign lands...