Vision of Asean Community, member stand ‘on brink of tremendous opportunity’


Three CEOs: Maybank Investment Bank Bhd CEO John Chong, Bursa Malaysia CEO Datuk Tajuddin Atan and Maybank group president and CEO Datuk Abdul Farid Alias at the Asean Cap10 CEO Summit in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is committed to realising the vision of the Asean Community (AC), which will open up new and enormous opportunities for people and businesses through freer movement of goods, services, skilled labour and capital, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Describing the AC as a collective act of closer economic, political and cultural integration that would be launched this year, he said that all the Asean members stood “on the brink of tremendous opportunity”.

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