Gotta see the silver lining

(From left) HSBCs Kong, SAMEs Foo and Golden Palm Tree Resorts van der Veen.

Whether you’re in the midst of an economic doldrum or enveloped in choking smog, you need to see these unpleasant events as cyclical. They will pass, and you can capitalise on it. LIM WING HOOI reports on SAME’s 12th forum.

THE world had never been short of crisis, from the 1997 Asian financial crisis (AFC) to the 2008 global financial crisis, just to name a couple in recent times, but for Alvin Kong, head of markets at HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd, what is important is to put things in perspective and figure out how to weather them.