Hong Leong Investment Bank Research said in its recent report, the positive CPO price sentiment would be sustained into 2020, underpinned by looming palm production deficit arising from drought and cutback in fertilisers, lower soybean planted acreage in the United States and higher biodiesel mandate ...
How does Malaysia benefit from the RCEP? Malaysia is expected to be the largest beneficiary of the RCEP trade deal among the ASEAN states. According to the New Strait Times article mentioned above, Malaysian exports are expected to increase by US$200 million under this agreement. A...
As an unparalleled global health emergency, COVID-19 reinforced the need for states to undertake extraordinary measures in line with the norm of health security, to ‘minimize vulnerability to acute public health events that endanger the collective health of populations living across geographical ...
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Its not like we have an ASEAN NATO where we could have bulwark states to help us defend or that we have mutual defence pact to mobilise the whole ASEAN armed forces when any member states are attacked. As I said before each nation has different levels of interaction with Uncle Sam and no...
aThe rapid rebound from the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1999 helped lead the Malaysian government to predict that the annual GDP growth rate in 2001-2010 would be 7.5 percent, up from the 7.0 percent in the 1991-2000 period. This higher growth rate would be generated by Malaysia’s ...
Regarding the respondents’ company location, the largest state in Selangor with more than 1/3, followed by Kuala Lumpur with more than 20% and Penang with more than 12%. The least respondents come from the states of Perlis and Putrajaya and are below 1%. The respondent firm age can be ...
This is a dedicated portal for you to explore Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) performance at the state level using a thematic division of SDGs. We hope you learn the progress and challenges faced by states in achieving the SDGs. This journey startswith overall SDG performance at the national...
” Why the heck we like other maritime states should go around empowering such narrative that’s empowered them more? ‘ By buying Missile-armed corvettes operated by TLDM to counter China Coast Guard, you are exactly empowering the Chinese “they are the victim” narrative!!! Can’t you s...
Malaysian maritime industry cluster model demonstrated the general distribution of the maritime sectors accordance to the states by forming three experts groups covering three main maritime sectors: Shipping; Ship Industry; and, Ports and Terminals (Fig. 1). This industry is an important source of ...