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...
The biggest infrastructure project to date has kicked off, bringing major contractors a raft of attractive contracts and knock-on developments. With a price of RM50bn-70bn ($16.1bn-22.6bn), the long-overdue Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) encompasses both the greatest ambitions of the government-led economic transformation plans, as well as...
Continuing on its decade-long trend of GDP growth (6.8% per year on average from 2000 to 2009), the education sector of Malaysia has been the subject of a renewed focus for the government, as well as from private investors both in Malaysia and abroad. The government has identified the sector within its Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) as the...
The logistics segment has seen substantial growth in recent years, due primarily to various government development programmes, strong external trade growth and a steady stream of foreign investments. The industry is expected to grow to RM129.93bn ($41.9bn) by the end of 2012, up 10.3% on the previous year, according to statistics from Frost and...
Naturally endowed with thousands of kilometres of rivers, abundant sunshine, a vibrant agricultural sector producing plenty of biomass and even the odd geothermal hotspot, Malaysia’s renewable energy (RE) segment has the ability to transform the country’s energy sector. According to the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA...
Under the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), the government’s long-term development strategy, the tourism industry is set to bring in RM168bn ($54.2bn) in revenues by 2020, three times as much as in 2010. While a substantial percentage of this new income is expected to come from a steadily increasing number of new visitors over the next eight...
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