‘Marketing grads must speak BM’  


Fruitful sharing: Santharuban (with mike) engaging with the participants.

The country’s marketing graduates may be entering the workforce with degrees, but many are missing something far more fundamental — the ability to speak Bahasa Malaysia (BM).

Pepsi Etika chief executive officer (CEO) Santharuban Thurai Sundaram said 70% of the regulated market is Malay, yet many fresh graduates cannot communicate in the national language.

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