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Malaysia Prestigious Industry Awards 2021 (MYPIA2021) – A List of Nation’s Prominent Figures Recognized for Their Achievement in the Industry
20Mar By Webmaster IKON MalaysiaNo Comments
News, The IKON

Malaysia Prestigious Industry Awards 2021 (MYPIA2021) – A List of Nation’s Prominent Figures Recognized for Their Achievement in the Industry

  8th of March 2022 marked IKON Malaysia’s first event for the year - Malaysia Prestigious Industry Awards 2021 (MYPIA2021) is a prestigious award event that recognizes individuals, corporates, and non-governmental organizations that have achieved huge milestones in business industry since 2019. The event took place this year at Majestic Hotel, Kuala Lumpur to commemorate the achievements of the selected individuals that were recognized through 2021 for this admirable strive in the world of business. The award ceremony took place is the elegant ballroom, dressed and draped for the evening by professionals who tied together the essence of the event to be crowned by awards recognized by the Ministry of Entrepreneurship Development and Cooperatives (MOCAD). YB Dato’ Haji Rosol bin Wahid...
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Malaysia – Singapore to reopen borders from November 29 through VTL
10Nov By Webmaster IKON MalaysiaNo Comments
Lifestyle, News

Malaysia – Singapore to reopen borders from November 29 through VTL

Malaysia and Singapore will reopen their borders for both countries through the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) between Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Singapore Changi Airport.“Malaysia and Singapore will launch a VTL between Changi Airport and Kuala Lumpur International Airport from Nov 29,” Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob and his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong said in a joint statement on November 8.The decision was made based on the significant progress on vaccination activities and Covid-19 management of both countries.He said in the statement that VTLs would allow travel between the two countries to gradually open responsibly in balancing the needs of the economy and the safety and health of people from Covid-19.Both prime ministers look forw...
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IKEA warns on increase of price in 2022
10Nov By Webmaster IKON MalaysiaNo Comments
Business, News

IKEA warns on increase of price in 2022

IKEA Chief Financial Officer, Martin Van Dam has warned that the price of furniture of the renowned Swedish furniture company would most likely increase in 2022. This is highly due to the shortage of supply chain and the high demand besides labor shortage that they faced throughout the pandemic. The increase of demand is due to customers worldwide especially throughout the pandemic as people have been working from home to buy necessities for their home office. "Keeping IKEA stores and warehouses stocked has been a challenge. Supply-chain disruptions led to a substantial drop in the availability of products that we have yet to recover from. We expect this will continue far into FY22," the company said to Reuters. "The scarcity and pricing of raw materials, and then the logistical probl...
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FROM PIONEER OF NATION’S HASSLE-FREE SCARVES TO ACADEMY FOUNDER, SHASYA HABIB HELP TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S LIFE THROUGH PASSION
7Oct By Webmaster IKON MalaysiaNo Comments
Business, Leadership, News, The IKON, Women’s Corner

FROM PIONEER OF NATION’S HASSLE-FREE SCARVES TO ACADEMY FOUNDER, SHASYA HABIB HELP TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S LIFE THROUGH PASSION

Shasya Habib is a local entrepreneur and founder of her self-titled retail brand, Shasya Habib. She started the company in 2014 and today, she’s paving up her way in modest fashion industry. She was the one who initiated the first hassle-free scarves for career women in Malaysia and recently, opens up an academy to help those affected by the pandemic. IKON Malaysia was very honoured to interview Shasya Habib or her real name, Syarifah Shasya Datuk Paduka Habib Zam Zam for Malaysia’s Book of Records for IKON Malaysia under Fashion Category. She is an ambitious, career-driven woman and all about women involvement in business. As someone who with no business background, what drives you to open up a business? What makes you want to start up your own company? I’ve started this ...
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Astro and TM to Collaborate in Providing High Quality Digital Experience
1Oct By Webmaster IKON MalaysiaNo Comments
Business, Innovation/ Technology, News

Astro and TM to Collaborate in Providing High Quality Digital Experience

MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd (Astro) collaborates with Telekom Malaysia (TM) in delivering the best internet experience for Malaysians. This signifies their commitment to support the Jalinan Digital Negara (JENDELA), in providing extensive and better broadband coverage. This partnership has been signed by Imri Mohktar (Group CEO of TM), Amar Huzaimi Md Deris (Executive Vice President of TM WHOLESALE), Henry Tan (Group CEO of Astro), and Shafiq Jabbar (Group CFO of Astro).Through this collaboration, TM via TM WHOLESALE will give Astro the infrastructure and connectivity solutions including high speed broadband (HSBB), bandwidth, backhaul and also internet access. This would give high quality besides reliable connectivity to the customers.TM will also deliver bro...
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Elon Musk Talks about AI, Data Security and Tesla’s Development at 2021 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit
29Sep By Webmaster IKON MalaysiaNo Comments
Business, Innovation/ Technology, News

Elon Musk Talks about AI, Data Security and Tesla’s Development at 2021 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit

Elon Musk is a very successful businessman and is widely known for his achievements in founding companies that develop futuristic and sustainable inventions such as Tesla, Starlink and The Boring Company. As for this year’s World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, he was invited as one of the most reputable speakers. He gave his opinions on artificial intelligence and connected vehicles boosted by digital technologies. However due to the pandemic, he attended the summit virtually. He was asked a few questions regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and the developments about his company, Tesla.He gave his opinion on AI as he said that AI is probably pushing human to go towards digital civilization. He said that human will most likely be having a symbiotic or cooperative re...
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2021 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit
29Sep By Webmaster IKON MalaysiaNo Comments
Business, Innovation/ Technology, News

2021 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit

2021 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit were being held for three days from 26th to 28th September 2021. The event was held at the Wuzhen, a water town situated at the south of the Yangtze River in China. It was launched in 2014 by the Cyberspace Administration of China and Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government. This largest internet industry event in China and the world is held annually for the nations around the world to join hands to build roadmap for the internet industry future development. Around 2000 attendees from more than 80 countries joined the summit and been attending it either physically or virtually.“Towards a New Era of Digital Civilization – Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace” is the theme for this year’s WIC. The forums ...
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MEDAC to Draft Plans to Help Entrepreneurs and Drive Them towards Economy Digitalization.
29Sep By Webmaster IKON MalaysiaNo Comments
Business, News

MEDAC to Draft Plans to Help Entrepreneurs and Drive Them towards Economy Digitalization.

Ministry of Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development (MEDAC) have set the KPI in helping affected entrepreneurs due to the pandemic.MEDAC minister, Tan Sri Noh Omar said that he has planned to help more than 190,000 entrepreneurs within 100 days of him in the office. He said that MEDAC have decided on four target groups which are the small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, those who have been retrenched or laid-off, unemployed students who want to start a business and affected cooperatives.He said that agencies under MEDAC will help to provide loan facilities and not to depend much on the Central Credit Reference Information System (CCRIS) and CTOS Data Systems Sdn Bhd (CTOS) for the eligibility for the entrepreneurs to apply for loans. The amount of loan that can be given ...
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