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Kang Siew Li
New Straits Times
08-29-2009
Profiteers masked by a free-market system
Byline: Kang Siew Li
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Business Times
Column: Weekend notes
Type: News

AS THE nation celebrates its 52 years of independence on Monday, we pride ourselves on our democratic way of life and freedom of thought, which some countries around the world are still fighting hard for.

We feel fortunate to live in a country that embraces the principles of democracy and a market economy, which operates on the basis that the market is most efficient when it is allowed to work freely, where common sense prevails, and people know what's right and wrong when they wheel and deal.
Of course, this is ...

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