Talent Corp to be based on merit

INTERVIEW Despite mounting pressure from Malay rights NGOs for the Economic Transformation Programme to cling to policies benefitting bumiputeras, one agency is adamant that its operations will be based on merit.

Johan Mahmood Merican, the CEO of Talent Corporation Malaysia Bhd - set up by the government to recruit and retain talent - also said the agency "is in no way against the interests of Malays or any other race for that matter".