The aspirations of the New Economic Model has made attracting highly-skilled Malaysian talents to return more urgent. So how effective are the government-initiated brain gain programmes?
WHEN Tun Kamalul Zaman left home at 18 in 1980 for further studies in the United States, it never once crossed his mind that he might stay away permanently. But when he was offered a chance to work with the US government, he did not think twice about postponing his return to Malaysia for a few years in order to gain some useful work experience.
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