People Economics

Skilling Future Workers – Industrial Penang and its talent requirement scenario
May 20, 2012

Skilling Future Workers – Industrial Penang and its talent requirement scenario

By Poh Heem Heem, Richard Ho & Tan Yin Hooi New manufacturing technologies demand new skill sets; the Penang Skills Development Centre investigates the matter through the 2011/2012 Penang Industrial Talent Requirement Study. The manufacturing sector has been the bastion [...]

Opting out – choice or circumstance?
April 20, 2012

Opting out – choice or circumstance?

Why do women choose to leave the workforce?

Faces of industrial Penang: Hamdan – Doer and Dreamer
March 2, 2012

Faces of industrial Penang: Hamdan – Doer and Dreamer

We chat with Hamdan Abdul Majeed, director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad for Research and Investment Strategy.

Continuing a 125-year-old internationalisation strategy
January 31, 2012

Continuing a 125-year-old internationalisation strategy

Robert Bosch Malaysia’s Michael Kloss chats about moving to Penang and setting up the Bosch Solar Energy solar plant in Batu Kawan.

Managing Malaysia’s first EMC lab
December 5, 2011

Managing Malaysia’s first EMC lab

A “technopreneur” discusses running one of the nation’s premier test services and solutions providers.

Secret to success: Doing your best at what you do best
November 14, 2011

Secret to success: Doing your best at what you do best

In our inaugural Faces of Industrial Penang feature, we chat with Eng Teknologi CEO Datuk Teh Yong Khoon about his company’s regional strategy, and what drives him.

Why compete when you can collaborate?
October 5, 2011

Why compete when you can collaborate?

Private hospitals in Penang have joined forces in an effort to shore up their talent pool in the face of increasing demands and competition.

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