Opening a door and letting in the light

Ambitious mind: Yeong (right) won second place in GSEA 2017 for her pitch for ReadPublic, which aims to promote reading among Malaysians.

SADIRA Yeong, a third-year Univer­siti Malaya (UM) pharmacy undergraduate, has done Malaysia proud. She was crowned second out of 56 participants at the Global Students Entrepreneurship Awards (GSEA) 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany, on April 29.

The GSEA is organised by Entre­preneur Organisation and is the premier students’ entrepreneurship competition.