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MSPC’s interaction at Lake Club
Key mission to provide platform and focal points for services providers
By Alexander Lee
ON Nov 22. Choo Kok Beng,
the President of MSPC ,
who is also the Founding
Fellow of the Asean
Academy of Engineering &
Technology(AAET), held a gathering to
recognise its members with an acceptance
certification presentation at the
Lake Club, Kuala Lumpur.
The meeting began with the president
presenting the key objectives, key
missions and visions including events
and contributions from their members
and elaborated on the services industry
scenario.
It was followed with introducing and
networking with members, recognition
with the committees and a good lunch.
The other significant participants
were Shaifubahrim Saleh, immediate
past president of MSPC, and Adviser of
PIKOM, The National ICT Association of
Malaysia, Ar. Amzar Ahmad, Malaysian
Institute of Architects, Datuk Sr. Zakaria
Hashim, past President, MSPC & Council
Member of NAPSEC, Matrade, Dato’ Abd
Radzak Abd Malek, National President,
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and
Transport, Sr Hassan Jamil, President of
Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia,
Datuk Dr. Arumugam, President of
Malaysian Mediacal Association, Ir.
KC Yong, National Vice President,
Australian & New Zealand Graduates
Association in Malaysia and Ir. Dr.
Ooi Teik Aun, Director of IEM Training
Centre.
The key mission of MSPC is to
provide a platform and focal point
for services providers to formulate
common strategies, make recommendations
and submit relevant material of
concerns and proactive suggestions to
the government.
Their mission is to promote and contribute
towards the development of a
more efficient and service friendly environment.
On top of that the committee
and members will assist in facilitating
bilateral, regional and multilateral
framework for trade and services.
Through MSPC, it is envisage that
with their networking strength it shall
be a formidable establishment to foster
business links and services opportunities
with counterpart organizations at
local, regional and global levels. This
would be especially true in 2015 with
Malaysia holding the helm as chair of
the Asean Economic Community that
Seated L-R: Dato’ Abd Radzak Abd Malek, Ar. Amzar Ahmad, Datuk Sr. Hj Zakaria Hashim, Ir Choo Kok
Beng, Ir. KC Yong, Datuk Dr. Arumugam, YM Ungku Anna Mohammed and Shaifubahrim Mohd Saleh.
Back Row L-R: M. Venkatash, Ir. Dr. Ooi Teik Aun, Sr Hassan Jamil, Ms Shelly Shen and Louis Tay CS.
Sr Hasan Jamil, President of Royal Institution of Surveyors
receiving the Membership Recognition Certificate.
involves a total population of 650 million
people in Asean.
The government had announced in
budget 2015 a commitment to implement
initiatives for the services sector
as it aims to achieve 60% of GDP in the
services sector by 2020. It is timely for
the government to be implementing the
services sector blueprint too. The initiatives
announced were:
Setting up a services sector guarantee
scheme amounting to RM5 Billion
for SMEs in the services sector
Establish a research incentive
scheme for enterprises with an allocation
of RM10 million for high technology,
ICT and knowledge-based industries.
Reintroducing the Services Export
Fund (SEF) totaling RM300 million to
encourage SMEs to conduct market
feasibility studies and undertake export
promotion to penetrate new markets.
It has been projected that by 2020
at least 46% of jobs will require technical
and vocational qualifications. An
amount of RM1.2 billion has been
allocated for technical and vocational
education.
Further deduction on training
expenses incurred by an employer for
employees to obtain certificate qualifications
from accredited vocational and
professional bodies.
Also with several infrastructure
projects to be implemented in 2015 for
highways, expressways and LRTs etc
the opportunities made available will
be a boon for professionals in their
specialist fields. 2015 will be a very
potential year and MSPC encourages
its members and all service provider
to utilise its platform to widen their
services and professional opportunities
on both a local and global basis as the
avenue is now made available with the
added initiatives.
MSPC Committee also encourage
the members to apply for the APEC
Business Travel Card (ABTC) as it is a
special business travel privilege card
that facilitate business mobility among
the 19 of the 21 APEC member countries
and economies in the Asia Pacific
Region.
ABTC enables card holders to enter
and remain in for a period (depending
on the economy) without separately
applying for a visa and access to a fast
track entrance and exit lane at major
airports of participating economies. The
card is valid for three years but all holders
must always carry their passports
when they travel.
For more information please refer to
the MSPC portal at www.mspc.my and
look for the ABTC service blog. .
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