Guan Eng: Hassan Marican’s Singapore jobs ‘sad day for Malaysia’


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Dateline 2012-02-16:

Lim Guan Eng chastised the Najib administration today for failing to keep Tan Sri Hassan Marican within its ranks, saying the former Petronas CEO’s latest appointment in Singapore showed Malaysia’s failure to plug its talent leak.

The Penang chief minister referred to Hassan as a rare talent and expressed sadness that the latter has been widely appreciated abroad and among big multinational corporations “but not at home”.

“This is extremely sad, especially when Tan Sri Hassan is widely credited as the man who turned Petronas into the leading international oil and gas company that it is today,” Lim  said in a statement.

The Malaysian Insider yesterday cited a report by news portal Energy Asia revealing that Hassan is set to become chairman of Singapore Power Limited (SP) in June, succeeding Ng Kee Choe who will retire on June 12.

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