February 27, 2010 22:02 PM
Angkasa To Form Consortium To Strengthen Cooperative Movement
KUANTAN, Feb 27 (Bernama) -- The National Cooperative Organisation of Malaysia (Angkasa) is planning to form a national consortium to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country.
Its deputy president, Datuk Abdul Fattah Abdullah said the consortium would enable cooperatives to work together in bigger projects.
He said if cooperatives were to move on their own, the chances of securing big projects might be lower as their capital and expertise were limited.
"Under a consortium, cooperatives stand a better chance to enter bigger markets like the East Coast Economic Region (ECER)," he told reporters after closing Angkasa's Cooperative Diversification Seminar here on Saturday.
For a start, he said Angkasa liaison offices in the east coast states would set up state-level consortia, comprising all registered cooperatives in their respective states.
So far, he said 65 per cent or 7,200 cooperatives nationwide had registered with Angkasa, with 992 cooperatives in the east coast alone.
-- BERNAMA
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Terengganu To Open 'T-Brand Shop' Outlets Next Year
A bit late but still applicable :)
December 22, 2008 17:43 PM
Terengganu To Open 'T-Brand Shop' Outlets Next Year
KUALA TERENGGANU, Dec 22 (Bernama) -- The Terengganu state government through its Entrepreneur Development Foundation will set up a chain of T-Brand Shop outlets operating 24 hours nationwide.
State rural, entrepreneur and cooperative development committee chairman Datuk Mohamed Awang Tera said the state government's intention was to position the outlets as a platform to market products from small and medium scale industries such as dried foodstuff.
"We want the T-Brand Shop outlets to market products made by people in the state," he told reporters after officiating a halal product seminar under the Nestle-Nasmec mentor programme here today.
Also present was the Nasmec project manager Chong Yoon Kee.
Mohamed said the state government was now looking for strategic areas to locate the T-Brand Shop outlets and on a trial basis will open the outlets in Kuala Terengganu and Kemaman in April next year.
He also said that the state government will revive Cakna, a subsidiary under the Entrepreneur Development Foundation, next year with the aim of helping the entrepreneur community in Terengganu.
Mohamed said the state government will spend about RM500,000 to set up product collection centres next year in Kemaman, Dungun, Besut and Kuala Terengganu.
The state government has also approved RM40 million for projects under the rural, entrepreneur and cooperative development portfolio next year, he said.
Chong said the seminar was aimed at training and guiding entrepreneurs in the food and drink industries in the East Coast to comply with international standards and procedures.
"Increasing the standard of food and drink products is important to compete in the local and international markets," he said.
-- BERNAMA
December 22, 2008 17:43 PM
Terengganu To Open 'T-Brand Shop' Outlets Next Year
KUALA TERENGGANU, Dec 22 (Bernama) -- The Terengganu state government through its Entrepreneur Development Foundation will set up a chain of T-Brand Shop outlets operating 24 hours nationwide.
State rural, entrepreneur and cooperative development committee chairman Datuk Mohamed Awang Tera said the state government's intention was to position the outlets as a platform to market products from small and medium scale industries such as dried foodstuff.
"We want the T-Brand Shop outlets to market products made by people in the state," he told reporters after officiating a halal product seminar under the Nestle-Nasmec mentor programme here today.
Also present was the Nasmec project manager Chong Yoon Kee.
Mohamed said the state government was now looking for strategic areas to locate the T-Brand Shop outlets and on a trial basis will open the outlets in Kuala Terengganu and Kemaman in April next year.
He also said that the state government will revive Cakna, a subsidiary under the Entrepreneur Development Foundation, next year with the aim of helping the entrepreneur community in Terengganu.
Mohamed said the state government will spend about RM500,000 to set up product collection centres next year in Kemaman, Dungun, Besut and Kuala Terengganu.
The state government has also approved RM40 million for projects under the rural, entrepreneur and cooperative development portfolio next year, he said.
Chong said the seminar was aimed at training and guiding entrepreneurs in the food and drink industries in the East Coast to comply with international standards and procedures.
"Increasing the standard of food and drink products is important to compete in the local and international markets," he said.
-- BERNAMA
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Six ECER Projects To Be Implemented In Terengganu This Year
January 12, 2010 19:49 PM
Six ECER Projects To Be Implemented In Terengganu This Year
KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- A total of six more new projects planned under the East Coast Economic Region development programme will be implemented in Terengganu this year.
Menteri Besar Terengganu, Datuk Ahmad Said, said under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, 38 projects had been approved for implementation in Terengganu including 14 cross-border projects involving other ECER states.
"From these, 17 projects were implemented in 2008, 15 projects last year, while six more projects will be implemented this year.
"On the whole, I am very satisfied with the implementation and progress of all these projects which are being actively undertaken by the ECER Development Council (ECERDC)," he said.
He was speaking to reporters here chairing the ECER Development Council's Implementation and Coordination Committees meeting here Tuesday.
He had also launched ECER's human capital development programme Tuesday.
Also present at the event were the Chief Executive Officer of ECERDC, Datuk Jebasingam Issace John, and State Government Secretary Datuk Mokhtar Nong.
As for the six new projects, they would include a tourism programme in Teluk Bidara, Dungun and Pulau Besar, Setiu which will see the development of high quality hotels and chalets as well as homestay programmes in traditional fishing villages. The programme also covers the upgrading of the homes involved.
Apart from that, cluster projects involving the production of goat and goat meat will be also implemented as part of efforts to establish the state as the largest centre for goat and goat meat production. The project will occupy 160 hectares of land in Ulu Tersat, Kuala Berang.
"The development of the Heavy Industries Park involving a duty-free zone in Kemaman port will be also implemented this year to enable the Terengganu people to take up opportunities that would come with the main activities in the businesses of trade, logistics, fishing, oil, gas and petrochemical industries," he said.
In mid year, the Agropolitan Besut-Setiu project involving the planting of corn, kenaf as well as the cultivation of ikan keli will take off. This project is expected to help 3,000 poor people in the area.
-- BERNAMA
Six ECER Projects To Be Implemented In Terengganu This Year
KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- A total of six more new projects planned under the East Coast Economic Region development programme will be implemented in Terengganu this year.
Menteri Besar Terengganu, Datuk Ahmad Said, said under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, 38 projects had been approved for implementation in Terengganu including 14 cross-border projects involving other ECER states.
"From these, 17 projects were implemented in 2008, 15 projects last year, while six more projects will be implemented this year.
"On the whole, I am very satisfied with the implementation and progress of all these projects which are being actively undertaken by the ECER Development Council (ECERDC)," he said.
He was speaking to reporters here chairing the ECER Development Council's Implementation and Coordination Committees meeting here Tuesday.
He had also launched ECER's human capital development programme Tuesday.
Also present at the event were the Chief Executive Officer of ECERDC, Datuk Jebasingam Issace John, and State Government Secretary Datuk Mokhtar Nong.
As for the six new projects, they would include a tourism programme in Teluk Bidara, Dungun and Pulau Besar, Setiu which will see the development of high quality hotels and chalets as well as homestay programmes in traditional fishing villages. The programme also covers the upgrading of the homes involved.
Apart from that, cluster projects involving the production of goat and goat meat will be also implemented as part of efforts to establish the state as the largest centre for goat and goat meat production. The project will occupy 160 hectares of land in Ulu Tersat, Kuala Berang.
"The development of the Heavy Industries Park involving a duty-free zone in Kemaman port will be also implemented this year to enable the Terengganu people to take up opportunities that would come with the main activities in the businesses of trade, logistics, fishing, oil, gas and petrochemical industries," he said.
In mid year, the Agropolitan Besut-Setiu project involving the planting of corn, kenaf as well as the cultivation of ikan keli will take off. This project is expected to help 3,000 poor people in the area.
-- BERNAMA
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