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NEW ENVOY TO BRAZIL EYES STRONGER ECONOMIC & TOURISM TIES
By Tham Choy Lin
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 15 (Bernama) -- Boosting bilateral economic cooperation and promoting tourism will be high on the agenda for Malaysia's new envoy to Brazil, V. Sudha Devi, who departs for Latin America's biggest economy at the end of the month to take up her first posting as ambassador.
"Brazil is a regional power and it is also a BRIC country, there will be
potential opportunities to watch out for," she told Bernama here.
BRIC groups Brazil, Russia, China and India -- the world's fastest growing
economies which held their first leaders' summit in June this year.
The pace of economic activity is also expected to hot up as Brazil and its
population of 195 million gear up for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and
the 2016 Olympic Games.
Malaysia's Scomi Engineering Bhd has teamed up with a Brazilian partner, CR
Almeida, to bid for the first phase of a US$6 billion (US$1.8 billion) monorail
project in Sao Paulo, the largest city there.
"It would be excellent for bilateral relations if they are to get it," said
Sudha, an economics graduate from University Malaya.
Apart from the embassy in capital Brasilia, the only other Malaysian
government agency there is the Malaysia External Trade Development corporation
(Matrade) office in Sao Paolo.
Sudha Devi also plans to don the hat as tourism ambassador as there is no
Tourism Malaysia office in Brazil.
"I hope to introduce Malaysian food there as part of efforts to attract more
Brazilian tourists to Malaysia," she said.
"Cooking up a char kway teow and nasi lemak are not a problem but I need a
bit more practice on the roti canai," laughed the 49-year-old mother of two who
was posted to Switzerland, Singapore and Germany before.
While diplomatic ties stretch back to 1981, trade between Malaysia and
Brazil has been recording double digit growth for most of the past decade.
Last year, bilateral trade reached US$1.88 billion from US$1.58 billion in
2007.
Malaysia's main exports are electronics and electrical items, clothing and
crude rubber and its imports from Brazil include metal ores, sugar, iron and
steel as well as pulp and waste paper.
-- BERNAMA
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 15 (Bernama) -- Boosting bilateral economic cooperation and promoting tourism will be high on the agenda for Malaysia's new envoy to Brazil, V. Sudha Devi, who departs for Latin America's biggest economy at the end of the month to take up her first posting as ambassador.
"Brazil is a regional power and it is also a BRIC country, there will be
potential opportunities to watch out for," she told Bernama here.
BRIC groups Brazil, Russia, China and India -- the world's fastest growing
economies which held their first leaders' summit in June this year.
The pace of economic activity is also expected to hot up as Brazil and its
population of 195 million gear up for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and
the 2016 Olympic Games.
Malaysia's Scomi Engineering Bhd has teamed up with a Brazilian partner, CR
Almeida, to bid for the first phase of a US$6 billion (US$1.8 billion) monorail
project in Sao Paulo, the largest city there.
"It would be excellent for bilateral relations if they are to get it," said
Sudha, an economics graduate from University Malaya.
Apart from the embassy in capital Brasilia, the only other Malaysian
government agency there is the Malaysia External Trade Development corporation
(Matrade) office in Sao Paolo.
Sudha Devi also plans to don the hat as tourism ambassador as there is no
Tourism Malaysia office in Brazil.
"I hope to introduce Malaysian food there as part of efforts to attract more
Brazilian tourists to Malaysia," she said.
"Cooking up a char kway teow and nasi lemak are not a problem but I need a
bit more practice on the roti canai," laughed the 49-year-old mother of two who
was posted to Switzerland, Singapore and Germany before.
While diplomatic ties stretch back to 1981, trade between Malaysia and
Brazil has been recording double digit growth for most of the past decade.
Last year, bilateral trade reached US$1.88 billion from US$1.58 billion in
2007.
Malaysia's main exports are electronics and electrical items, clothing and
crude rubber and its imports from Brazil include metal ores, sugar, iron and
steel as well as pulp and waste paper.
-- BERNAMA
