This is what the paper claimed. That Malaysia ranked 6th in the world competitiveness for countries with a population of more than 20 million, and that we ranked better than the UK, Germany, Japan and France.
This is what was found direct from the source.
Even if one takes a closer look at the ranking of nations with more than 20 million people, Malaysia has been placed lower than Germany and UK.
And there's not much to be proud in being ahead of Japan in this - Japanese are very meticulous but they love their paperwork too much.
Too much paperwork and lengthy procedures = inefficient = less competitive .
And this is the past 5 years ranking.
We dropped from 16th place in 2004 to 23 in 2007.
Talk about dropping - have anyone noticed how badly UM has been performing lately?
If one follows the THES - QS World University Ranking, UM was ranked 89th in 2004, 169th in 2005, 192nd in 2006 and 246th in 2007.
This piece of info, of course, was blacked out from appearing in mainstream media.
Ah, but then, what can one expect from the country's mainstream media, when we had been ranked at 124 in the Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007? Even UK and US ranked 24 and 48 respectively, supporting those who claim that there is no 'real' press freedom anywhere in the world, but Malaysia's rank has been falling, and that is a cause of worry because free media is
part of a healthy democracy... Isn't it?
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