Recent efforts to upgrade Malaysia’s agricultural sector that include increased incentives for farmers to learn new techniques and adopt advanced technology are expected to lead to greater harvest yields and help meet rising domestic demand for food products. While the sector contributes around 12% of GDP and provides employment to some 16% of...
What is the explanation for such high investor interest in plantation companies in 2012, and what will be the key value drivers going forward?
As the global population cruises past the 7bn mark, the demand for health care goods and services continues to grow through bull and bear markets. With the annual global market estimated by the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) at $300bn and growing at a rate of 10%, the medical devices industry provides a competitive yet attractive...
of foreign legal professionals. The Legal Profession Act 1976 was amended in June 2012 to allow for this. With this development, expected to come into effect in 2013, businesses will have increased access to legal expertise. This presents challenges as well as opportunities for Malaysian lawyers. There will be more competition, especially for high-end and sophisticated...
Under Malaysia’s 2012 budget, the health services sector was allocated RM15bn ($4.8bn) for operating expenditure and RM1.8bn ($580.6m) for development expenditure. The total budget for 2011 was RM15.2bn ($4.9bn) and for 2010, it was RM14.8bn ($4.7bn). Malaysia spends 4.1% of its total annual expenditure on the public health care sector, making it...
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.
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