IN the push towards high income status, parallels can be drawn from the country’s past efforts at nurturing technology-based industries. And questions need to be asked if those efforts had borne much fruit.
From the 1970s, Malaysia, particularly states like Penang, had experienced foreign investments concentrated on chip manufacturing, mainly testing and assembly of microchips for electronic products such as computers.
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