{"id":342465,"date":"2017-06-01T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T07:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/business-najib-elated-over-malaysias-robust-performance\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T07:48:13","slug":"business-najib-elated-over-malaysias-robust-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/business-najib-elated-over-malaysias-robust-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Business : Najib Elated Over Malaysia&#8217;s Robust Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"newsPic2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsdata2.bernama.com\/bernama\/newspic\/bu\/najib%20eksport.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"300\"\/><br \/><\/span>PUTRAJAYA, June 1 (Bernama) &#8212; Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today said he was elated over Malaysia&#8217;s robust economic performance in the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the National Export Council Meeting here today, the prime minister, who is also Finance Minister, said Malaysia&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at 5.6 per cent with higher private consumption and investment as the main driver of growth supported by better performance in the external sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Malaysia continued to register a trade surplus of RM18.9 billion,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Najib added that both export and import grew at 21.4 per cent and 27.7 per cent, respectively, to RM224.7 billion and RM205.8 billion, respectively, in the first quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Present were International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, Minister in the Prime Minister Department Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan, Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek and Plantation and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong.<\/p>\n<p>Najib also congratulated Second International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan who was appointed a member of the National Export Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><font size=1>PUTRAJAYA, June 1 (Bernama) &#8212; Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today said he was elated over Malaysia&#8217;s robust economic performance in the first quarter of this year.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[67,59,32],"class_list":["post-342465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-bernama","tag-media","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}