The north-west of Malaysia is home to the states of Penang, Perlis and Kedah, which, along with Northern Perak, together make up the territory covered by the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER). With an established manufacturing sector, internationally famous tourist spots and wide swathes of agricultural land, the NCER has many...
The past 12 months have been good ones for the most established and developed of Malaysia’s growth corridors, Iskandar Malaysia (IM). Indeed, hitting some key growth targets in 2011-12, IM has been busy consolidating its standing as one of the fastest-growing regional development projects in the country.
Uniting the states of Terengganu, Pahang, Kelantan and the Johor district of Mersing under its remit, the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) covers the entire eastern half of Peninsular Malaysia. Despite its size, this is a comparatively underpopulated and spread-out region. At 66,000 sq km of territory, the ECER covers some 51% of the land area...
From distant beginnings as a key South-east Asian trading settlement, Melaka has since grown into a vibrant, multicultural, global entrepot – in many ways, a distillation of modern Malaysia. Like the country too, the state is also now looking towards the future, with its sights firmly set on the power of the sun, travel and space – as well as on...
Despite its high exposure to trade, Malaysia continued to enjoy a relatively strong rate of expansion in 2012. Soft global demand for manufacturing exports and volatile palm oil prices failed to dent domestic consumer confidence. The local corporate sector and households powered ahead with spending, while government investment plans were supported...
Along with its neighbours, Malaysia has remained a beacon of economic optimism, maintaining a positive trajectory as Western economies have faltered in recent years. While the country’s GDP growth has been sustained over the last few decades, the engines of growth continue to be expanded, improved and reinvented to adapt to a changing global...
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