Open for business to progress

GONE are the days where we lived in the comforts of our bordered geographies, choosing to buy and sell only when it serves our purpose. In today’s highly globalised world, we have no choice but to be more interconnected and interdependent if we want growth and economic resilience.

Malaysia has an exceptional history in trade and commerce. We were a trailblazer when it came to trading with outsiders from the early onset of our country’s young history. From strategic and economic perspectives, the Straits of Malacca was one of the world’s geopolitical hotspots. For centuries, the straits acted as the main shipping channel between the Indian and Pacific oceans, ferrying one quarter of the world’s traded goods.