Umno was founded specifically to protect malay privileges and has ruled malaysia without interruption since independence .
巫统是专为马来人的特权而建立的,自从独立以来就一直统治马来西亚。
Long-time malaysian prime minister mahathir mohamad was , as a young man , a promoter of malay .
长期担任马来西亚总理的马哈蒂尔穆罕默德(mahathirmohamad)年轻时曾是马来语的推动者。
Singlish is a jumble of the nation 's four official languages -- english , mandarin , malay and tamil -- and vocabulary from several chinese dialects .
A government decision in the 1970s to introduce malay as the common language for teaching led chinese and indian groups to start their own schools to preserve their mother tongues .
Living here means being exposed to a mix of cuisines and cultures , hearing languages from mandarin to malay to tamil , and having access to all of southeast asia .
Most government contracts are given to ethnic malay businesses rather than being awarded through open bidding .
大多数政府合同交给了马来人的企业,而没有通过公开招标。
Singapore had been kicked out of a brief union with malaysia because the ethnic chinese city could not get along with the country 's ethnic malay rulers .
新加坡退出了与马来西亚建立的短暂联盟,因为这个华人狮城与马来西亚的马来人统治者相处不甚融洽。
Under what is known as the new economic policy , foreign investors are required to offer a 30 per cent stake in businesses to a local ethnic malay partner .
Foreign investors complain that they are required in some industries , such as finance , to find a malay equity partner to hold at least a 30 per cent stake .
But there are signs of growing resentment among the country 's minorities to malay political dominance and what they see as " creeping islamisation " .