Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is the world’s largest trade agreement. The agreement includes ASEAN states and China, Japan, as well as Korea. It took years for nations to negotiate and there were high hopes that the agreement would spur Asian and ASEAN trade. However,…
Malaysia is honoured to attend the Joint Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Women and Ministers Responsible for Trade. I am representing Malaysia’s Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz, who is traveling with the Prime Minister and therefore can’t join us today. Both Tengku…
In his royal address to the Johor State Assembly on 9 May, His Royal Highness Tunku Ismail, the Regent of Johor expressed his hope: “Adalah menjadi keutamaan saya untuk memastikan semua Bangsa Johor mempunyai makanan di atas meja mereka, tempat tinggal, akses pendidikan berkualiti untuk…
Thank you for inviting me to the launch of the Lam Manufacturing Malaysia Warehouse. I’m really glad to join you in celebrating this key milestone for Lam Research. I am on a three-day visit to the semiconductor sector in Penang and Kulim with MITI, MIDA,…
Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and the world need a new trade agenda. It cannot be the regurgitation of old clichés but rather a fresh approach. The new agenda has to steer nations away from racing to the bottom but to push forward for the race to…
I am deeply honoured to be invited to address the Fifth Cohort of the National Resilience College. The NRC is designed to provide courses for a select group of senior officers of Brigadier General and Colonel in rank or equivalent with the aim of broadening…
Geopolitical tensions and wars are now dominating headlines. Yet three decades ago, the world was a much more optimistic place. The idea of Asia Pacific, and the idea of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), reminds us that there is an alternative vision of a peaceful,…
Semiconductors are the most strategic goods of our time, akin to the new oil. Although one would assume that such a strategic sector would attract a lot more attention, up until recently it was only treated as a private investment, with Malaysia Investment Development Authority…
The urgent need for green transition is pushing for greater demand for critical mineral resources across the world. As a country with significant deposits of critical minerals, Malaysia needs a lot more policy dialogues about the subject, and at a much faster pace. There are…
I shared my view at the Indo-Pacific Economic Forum – Singapore 2024 organised by French premier economics institution Le Cercle des économistes. The theme of the conference was “Indo-Pacific: shaping a new global balance” whereas my session was themed “the Indo-Pacific’s role in value chain…