Over the past few decades, Malaysia has built one of the highest-quality and farthest-reaching transport networks in South-east Asia. The national transport network, which includes extensive road, rail, air and sea links, has underpinned the country’s economic development over the past decade, playing a vital supporting role in numerous industries...
To meet the government’s social and economic goals of transforming Malaysia into a stable and inclusive high-income nation by 2020, gross national income (GNI) will need to register annual growth of at least 6% until 2020. This would entail lifting GNI per capita from the 2009 level of $7650 to over $15,400, and if it is to be reached the industrial...
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...
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