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Malaysia does not have a money problem

On the twenty seventh of July, in a bank tower in Petaling Jaya, the Malaysian government announced more than five billion ringgit of financing for Malaysian startups.

It has been a week. I still cannot tell you who is giving it.

Not because it is a secret. Because nobody published the list. The minister said fifteen organisations. The fullest account any newspaper ran named twelve, and it introduced them with the word “among”. So somewhere out there are three institutions holding a share of five billion ringgit for Malaysian founders, and not one outlet in the country can tell you their…

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