Dr Ali: We must be willing to learn

Dr Ali (left) with Ong (second from left) and other senior civil servants of both countries visiting the Sarawak Cultural Village.

KUCHING: Malaysia’s public sector, ranked eighth most efficient globally, can learn from Singapore’s, which is ranked second most efficient by the World Economic Forum.

Chief Secretary Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa acknowledged that, as effective as the country’s various transformation programmes were, the civil service in Singapore was better.