{"id":171056,"date":"2022-04-07T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=171056"},"modified":"2022-04-07T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:42:22","slug":"malaysias-e-commerce-income-can-breach-us237-billion-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=171056","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s e-commerce income can breach US$237 billion this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\u2019s\u00a0e-commerce income\u00a0is again expected to surpass the RM1 trillion (US$237 billion) mark this year, after hitting\u00a0RM1.1 trillion (US$260.7 billion) last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chief executive of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)&nbsp;Mahadhir Aziz said the projection is in line with the country\u2019s aim&nbsp;of achieving an e-commerce market size worth RM1.65 trillion (US$391.1 billion) by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBased on our data and trend, we are confident (e-commerce income) of achieving more than RM1 trillion (this year). This is premised on the situation of the movement control order previously which led to a spike in the e-commerce business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut there is already a&nbsp;momentum and therefore it is important for us to bring more new programmes that are broader and cover all aspects such as demographics and others,\u201d he said in a media briefing through the Zoom application Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, the Department of Statistics revealed&nbsp;that e-commerce income hit&nbsp;RM1.1 trillion in 2021, an increase of 21.8 per cent from 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\u2019s\u00a0e-commerce income\u00a0is again expected to surpass the RM1 trillion (US$237 billion) mark this year, after hitting\u00a0RM1.1 trillion (US$260.7 billion) last year. The chief executive of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)&nbsp;Mahadhir Aziz said the projection is in line with the country\u2019s aim&nbsp;of achieving an e-commerce market size worth RM1.65 trillion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":171057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171058,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171056\/revisions\/171058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}