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NAP 2012: The question is how far will full market liberalisation take place
DO we have an auto industry? A real one that earns good chunks of foreign exchange? If we compare Thailand and Malaysia, the answer is clear. Thailand makes about a million vehicles a year and exports about half of them. Malaysia makes about 550,000 a year and exports about four per cent. Without going into [...]
Lift to public transport
Sustainable: There is a dire need to subsidise the bus transport service because the efficient transport of people increases their productivity. Trauma specialists in the medical fraternity are loath to refer to car crashes as “accidents”. For doctors like Prof Ernest Yeoh, a surgeon by training, “we call them incidents because all accidents are predictable [...]
Breaching The Great Wall
Many Malaysians ask about what will happen to Proton now that it’s under the DRB-Hicom group. It is very clear. The DRB-Hicom group is currently controlled by a group of hard-headed businessmen and with their hands on such an asset like Proton, an independent carmaker that can design and make its own cars from the [...]
Getting the act together
There is a need for the bureaucrats to understand the gist of the issue in the decision-making process Last week, we observed the simultaneous launch of six models of light commercial vehicles from Hino. The company, a Toyota subsidiary that specialises in commercial vehicles, is confident of getting a 43 per cent control of the [...]
Adopting UNECE R94 and R95 – A Car Plant Is No Nasi Lemak Stall
When a Minister is busy with political work, one would expect that he would choose civil servants that are capable and add value to the nation. Otherwise, why do we elect a government if not to lead us to a better future? Instead, we have a Transport Ministry directive that treats the Malaysian automotive industry [...]
From Phnom Penh
We’re in Cambodia with a football-sized team of Malaysians, one of whom has been in the automotive business for 40 years and counting. It’s the closing of the Asean summit – Wednesday was the closing session – of foreign ministers in Phnom Penh and the capital city looks fresh and energetic. The government buildings are [...]
Trans-Kalimantan 2012
Landies take on the rough terrain and challenging offroad in two-week expedition. With the help of our friends from Land Rover Nusantara and the Land Rover Club of Banjarmasin, we managed to make our dream come true – an old-fashioned Land Rover expedition across rough terrain with camping and offroading over two weeks. We started [...]
The learning curve
Vocational skills: Have a thirst for knowledge. When you are given a job to do, do it and do more than that, learn the job so that you can do it easier and well to stand out. Last week, 450,000 students received their SPM results and most of them will go on for higher studies. [...]
Diesel hanky panky
For the past few weeks, the line of trucks parked by the side of the road, leading up to the fuel stations in Kalimantan, has been growing longer. They are waiting for subsidised diesel at the Pertamina stations. While going through small towns in west, central and south Kalimantan, we could know where the Pertamina [...]
LROM Kalimantan Expedition
The Land Rover Owners Club of Malaysia (LROM) convoy that is currently travelling through Kalimantan has almost hit the mid-way mark in the 2,800km journey and made a short stopover at Muarateweh town in the heart of Borneo, two days ago. “It is the rainy season and we have been crossing several flood patches along [...]
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