{"id":253922,"date":"2024-02-07T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=253922"},"modified":"2024-02-07T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:28:33","slug":"malaysia-africa-chamber-of-commerce-to-organise-workshops-trade-missions-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=253922","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia-Africa Chamber of Commerce &nbsp;to Organise Workshops, Trade Missions to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212;&nbsp;Malaysia Africa&nbsp;Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MACCI) has planned several workshops and trade missions in&nbsp;different parts of Africa this year to boost business activities between Malaysia and Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACCI chairman Professor Dr Abdul Kabur Ibrahim&nbsp;said the objective of these&nbsp;workshops and trade missions is to enable Malaysian businessmen to explore opportunities in&nbsp;Africa and&nbsp;make investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdul Kabur said at the moment there is not much involvement of Malaysian businesses in the African continent&nbsp;compared with other countries from Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMalaysian&nbsp;businesses are&nbsp;not really exploring Africa, and all this while, they just stick to traditional markets like the US (United States),&nbsp;&nbsp;Europe&nbsp;and China,&#8221;&nbsp;he told Bernama when met at the Africa Business Information Day here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forum attracted more than 100 participants, including representatives from foreign missions in Kuala Lumpur and business organisations from Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Nigeria, Madagascar&nbsp;and Guinea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about the reason why Malaysian&nbsp;businesses are not exploring Africa, he said negative perception is one of the factors, and reported scam cases associated with African people may have also contributed to such perceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called on the Malaysian business community not to generalise,&nbsp;as there&nbsp;are 54 countries in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212;&nbsp;Malaysia Africa&nbsp;Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MACCI) has planned several workshops and trade missions in&nbsp;different parts of Africa this year to boost business activities between Malaysia and Africa. MACCI chairman Professor Dr Abdul Kabur Ibrahim&nbsp;said the objective of these&nbsp;workshops and trade missions is to enable Malaysian businessmen to explore opportunities in&nbsp;Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":237049,"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\/253922"}],"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=253922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253923,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253922\/revisions\/253923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}