PETALING JAYA: A 19-year-old’s efforts to leave a positive impact on youth entrepreneurship and financial literacy – while remaining on top of his studies – has won him a spot as one of the 50 finalists for the Global Student Prize 2021.
Leong Yiq Zhenn (pic) said he was motivated to help other young people because of his own “traumatic experience” with bad financial planning and irrational business decisions that affected the lives and livelihoods of others.
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