{"id":29391,"date":"2025-04-07T02:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.net\/?p=29391"},"modified":"2025-04-07T02:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:50:55","slug":"asean-countries-the-middle-east-africa-are-new-potential-for-local-entrepreneurs-nordin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/asean-countries-the-middle-east-africa-are-new-potential-for-local-entrepreneurs-nordin\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN countries, the Middle East, Africa are new potential for local entrepreneurs &#8211; Nordin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">KOTA KINABALU: Local entrepreneurs need to explore alternative platforms and markets to maintain business continuity following the United States (US)&#8217;s action of imposing reciprocal tariffs of up to 24 percent on this country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The President of the ASEAN Chamber of Commerce Sabah Chapter (ACCI) Sabah, Datuk Nordin Ening agreed with the suggestion of ACCI Malaysia President, Datuk Sohaimi Shahdan that the identified markets have great potential for local entrepreneurs to explore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said this includes ASEAN countries involving Africa, Central Asia and West Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe need to look towards more open and stable markets which are ASEAN countries, the Middle East (West Asia), Central Asia and Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis is because they offer a huge space for Malaysian products, especially in the halal, food, technology and services, tourism and education sectors,\u201d he said in a statement today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nordin said that ACCI Sabah is planning bilateral trade between Kazakhstan and Sabah together with the Sabah Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cKazakhstan is a Double Landlocked country and its people are very thirsty for the beauty of the islands and beaches in Sabah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCurrently there is a direct flight from Kuala Lumpur to Almaty, Kazakhstan to realize this proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe government needs to look at new markets to help Malaysian entrepreneurs,\u201d explained Nirdin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to him, currently the United States market is no longer a market that can be relied upon for Malaysia.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Local entrepreneurs need to explore alternative platforms and markets to maintain business continuity following the United States (US)&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ekonomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29392,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29391\/revisions\/29392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}