KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's wrap-up of the 12th Malaysia Plan mid-term review got off to a heated start in the Dewan Rakyat as he and Opposition leader Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin squabbled briefly over "basic economics".
This came about when Anwar, who is also Finance Minister, disputed that the 8.7% gross domestic product (GDP) growth recorded by Malaysia last year was the country's best showing to date.
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