SARAWAK INVESTMENT PROMOTION IN QATAR-PART 3 & FINAL PART

-SARAWAK OFFERS MANY ATTRACTIONS & ADVANTAGES SUCH COMPETITIVE PRICED LAND, LOW ELECTRIC & WATER TARIFF RATES, SUFFICIENT SKILLED MANPOWER & MANY MORE-

(CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST-SARAWAK INVESTMENT PROMOTION IN QATAR-PART 1 & PART 2)

“For Both Upstream and Downstream Halal Industries, investment opportunities in Tanjung Manis’ Halal Hub is very vast tract of land suitable for agriculture and aquaculture activities which offers opportunities for the development in the Halal industries both upstream and downstream activities.”

SCORE is not just for intended for heavy and energy intensive industries as with the For Halal products, the Government of Malaysia has empowered the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia to be the only body to manage Halal certification in Malaysia.

“This Halal certification went through a stringent process, aiming to give added assurance to both producers and consumers, following similar process in Sarawak through the State Islamic Religious Council.”

The Malaysian Government has also established the Halal Development Corporation to assist in the development and promotion of Halal Hubs and Parks and out of the thirteen Halal Hubs and Parks in operation in Malaysia, the Tanjung Manis Halal Hub in SCORE is certainly the largest.

Tanjung Manis is becoming an advanced Halal Hub because of its wide ranging competitive advantages and the Government of Sarawak has designated a gross area of 77,000 hectares to be the place where both upstream and downstream halal industries can thrive successfully.

“Entries of companies dealing with food production, pharmaceuticals, living essentials, life-sciences and biotechnology into Tanjung Manis who are willing to embark upon the production of Halal goods and services therefore, Tanjung Manis is a suitable place and good place to invest.”

Investor-friendly-Sarawak offers many attractions and advantages for investors such as from offering competitively-priced land, electricity tariffs, water rates as well as skilled manpower in addition to the attractive tax incentives provided by the Malaysian Government through the Malaysian Investment Development Authority or MIDA.

Furthermore, the Malaysian Government as well as the Sarawak Government always maintain strong commitment towards protecting and safeguarding foreign investments in the State there as conclusion, I would like to give assurance that the Sarawak Government will continue to work hand-in-hand with investors to facilitate their investments.

The companies that have decided to invest in SCORE are our partners in development and fully understanding the competitive advantages of setting up their operations in Sarawak, and it is my hopes that my delegates can relay the benefits of investing in SCORE to you over the duration of the Forum.

We will continue to encourage the entry of global investors into Sarawak and for that reason, always maintain an open-door policy to our shores for investors willing to participate in the development of Sarawak in the long term.

Heartily welcoming the investors to approach Sarawak’s delegates from Sarawak at our SCORE exhibition booths for any information and clarification with regards to the details on investment opportunities in Sarawak, Taib also said they will host a Sarawak-specific Forum during their stay at Doha.

Source: New Sarawak Tribune

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BN TAK "MAIN-BELAKANG" MACAM PR!

-PEMBANGKANG YANG NYATA MENGAMALKAN AMALAN "MAIN-BELAKANG" NI .. BN TIDAK MENGAMAL "PERMAINAN KEJI" ITU .. KEKEKE!-

DATUK LEN-BN TAK "MAIN-BELAKANG"

Ahli-ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional (BN) Sarawak tidak mempraktikkan sebarang bentuk amalan “main-belakang” yang sepertimana sering diamalkan oleh pembangkang.

Menteri Muda di Pejabat Menteri Ketua Menteri (Promosi Pendidikan Teknikal) Datuk Haji Len Talif Salleh berkata bahawa kita (orang BN Sarawak) tidak mengamalkan amalan politik sebegini (melompat parti).

“Ahli Parlimen BN Sarawak berprinsip dan tidak ada seorang pun dengan mudah mempengaruhi atau mengajak  mereka untuk melompat ke sebelah pembangkang .. kita pasti tidak akan berbuat demikian sepertimana yang telah didakwa oleh pembangkang.”

Len, yang adalah juga Menteri Muda bagi Kementerian Alam Sekitar Perancangan Sumber telah diminta oleh UnReportedNews™® untuk mengulas mengenai kenyataan ketua Parti Keadilan Rakyat negeri Baru Bian yang mendakwa segelintir Ahli Parlimen BN Sarawak tidak lama lagi akan menyertai pihak pembangkang.

Beliau ditemui pemberita pada sidang akhbar selepas pelancaran rasmi baru Chevrolet Colorado yang telah diadakan di kawasan kapalterbang kargo di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuching (KIA) berhampiran bandar pagi tadi.

“Pihak pembangkang boleh mengatakan atau menuntut apa sahaja yang mereka mahu (ia adalah ciri-ciri mereka), mereka sentiasa mahu mencipta isu walaupun tidak ada isu tetapi apa yang penting sekali, BN adalah selesa di mana kita berada kini dan tidak ada drama melompat-parti seperti yang didakwa akan berlaku.”

BARU BIAN-DAKWA ADA "MAIN-BELAKANG"?

“Sudah tentu pembangkang mahu membuat kacau kerana mereka ingin mengambil kesempatan daripada kekecohan itu mencapai kepenting mereka sendiri,” kata Len menasihati pengundi akar umbi tidak mendengar pembohongan dan percaya fitnah yang disebarkan oleh pembangkang.

“Anda tahu siapa itu pembangkang,bagaimana perangai mereka .. (saya akui), mereka petah berbicara (terutamanya beberapa pemimpin pembangkang) namun mereka tidak mempunyai kredibiliti terutamanya dalam perkara menunaikan semua janji-janji mereka.”

“Sebaliknya BN mempunyai rekod yang terbukti berusia 50 tahun menyampaikan pembangunan dan menunaikan  janji-janji dan di samping itu, ini pasti bukan masa untuk kita eksperimentasi ke atas sesuatu yang tidak ketentuan terutamanya kepada mereka yang ketara kekurangan kredibiliti.”

"MAIN BELAKANG"? MANA? SLURP!

Mengingatkan bahawa dunia semakin sengit dari segi persaingan ekonomi, Len menggesa rakyat untuk menjadi lebih proaktif dan berkesan ke atas cara mereka melakukan perkara-perkara dan bukannya bergantung kepada janji-janji retorik.

Pada gesaan pembangkang itu untuk BN untuk segera menjalankan yang Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 Am, Len mempersoalkan motif pembangkang berbuat demikian kerana mereka sendiri (pembangkang) sengaja melambatkan Pilihan Raya Negeri itu di Kelantan, Kedah, Selangor dan Pulau Pinang yang berada di bawah pentadbiran mereka.

“Jika mereka begitu berminat untuk mengadakan pilihan raya secepat mungkin mengapa tidak mereka sendiri tidak menjalankan di peringkat negeri masing-masing .. begitu jelas, mereka cakap tidak serupa bikin,” katanya lagi.

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CM LAUNCHES TEGAS

-TABUNG EKONOMI GAGASAN ANAK (BUMIPUTERA) SARAWAK (TEGAS) WILL CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OF BUMIPUTERA ON TECHNICAL & VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AS PRIMARY OPTION 

THE establishment of Tabung Ekonomi Gagasan Anak (Bumiputera) Sarawak (TEGAS) is to ensure that Sarawak moves into the right direction of producing the first young generation to be the really solid technical workforce for Sarawak Corridor Of Renewal Energy (SCORE).

"As SCORE will need about 1.3 billion of either skill and semi-skill technical workers within the next 20 years, TEGAS will projected as an additional platform in ensuring that this state will enabled to initially produce 50,000 degree-holder, 50,000 diploma-holder and 250,000 certificate skill workers for SCORE."

Chief Minister Pehin Seri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud said this adding that during the TEGAS official launching ceremony which was held at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) near the city here yesterday morning.

"Compared to the past 20-years, we are only enabled only to produce only half of the total of skill and semi-skill technical workers (half of 1.3 billion workers) that we need for SCORE, therefore, the establishment of TEGAS is done at the right time and moment."

"TEGAS will changed the present perception of Bumiputeras on the technical and vocational education which as a secondary option to their main choice of education having a wider working scope and bigger job opportunities with an even higher pay that the conventional jobs."

Taib explained that TEGAS' main priority is to promote the technical education training programs to the youths among Bumiputera, particularly those in the rural and outskirt urban areas so that more would be interested thus producing more skill or semi-skill Bumiputera workers accordingly to SCORE's needs.

"The direct participants by the State Legislative representatives in TEGAS is a new approach to ensure TEGAS programs and agendas will reach the targeted young generations with the respective YBs themselves going down to the grassroot explaining TEGAS objective to the people."

To ensure that TEGAS will achieve its target, the State government will find an annual allocation of RM10 million for each year, announced Taib and urged the young generation to grab the opportunity to obtain the technical education to earn bigger income.

Taib, who was accompanied his wife Puan Seri Ragad Kurdi-Taib the officiating ceremony later presented a RM5 million mock cheque from the State Government to TEGAS as " a starter" and on the recieving end was TEGAS Chairman and also Assistant Minister in Chief Minister Office (Technical Education Promotion) Datuk Len Talif Salleh. During the ceremony, Nirwana Education Group managing director Manan A.K Kanan also presented RM5 million to TEGAS.

Admitting that SCORE is quite hard to implement, Taib however is confident that with all the initiative and effort taken by the government as preparation for SCORE to run in full-speed all this while and in addition, with the cooperation from all quarters, from the top leaders down the grassroot, Sarawak and SCORE achieve its target of becoming a fully developed and high income state with the stipulated period.

TAIB SEEN FROM ONE OF THE GIANT SCREENS AT BCCK AS HE DELIVERS HIS SPEECH

More than 5,000 people, mostly students from secondary schools, students from colleges, higher learning institutes and other respective skill-training related establishments came for the launching ceremony with 38-learning institute booths set-up near the premises.

Also present Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Patinggi Alfred Jabu and his wife, Speaker of State Assembly Hall Datuk Amar Mohd Asfia Awang Nasar, state secretary Datuk Amar Morshidi Ghani, state cabinet ministers, Sarawak Members of Parliament and other distinguished guests.

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