I would like to welcome all delegates from around ASEAN and beyond to Kuala Lumpur to attend the inaugural ASEAN Policymakers Conference on Steel and 2025 ASEAN Iron and Steel Forum. This ASEAN Policymakers Conference on Steel is hosted by the South East Asia Iron…
I am glad to see different entities coming together, building something in common in ASEAN. I hope this initiative will also be geared towards achieving public purposes. ASEAN cannot just depend on purely a Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), which has been the case for the…
I would like to thank Organising Chairman Ng Jan Tzen and the team for making this happen. I would also like to thank the co-organisers FMM, JCI, MICCI, Pelita, as well as the venue provider University of Reading Malaysia, for doing this together. And, of…
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