Former finance minister Lim Guan Eng questioned why the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government has gone silent on the cabotage policy that has upset tech giants operating in the country.

He noted that the government had on April 14 instructed six ministries to study the cabotage policy's impact on the digital and shipping industries and was supposed to report back to the cabinet in two weeks.

However, Lim (above) said there had been no update on the matter since then.

"The PN cabinet is sleeping on the job for failing to meet its self-imposed two-week deadline that expired more than a month ago on...