Please allow me to first of all express my appreciation to the President and the Executive Committee Members for entrusting me to take over the good editorial work from founding Editor, Cik Hamidah Tun Ghafar who retired at the last Annual General Meeting of MASSA.

The MASSA newsletter has indeed become a communication tool for the Association filled with information relating to trade and investment in the developing countries. Our newsletter can be found in all the Malaysian Missions in the developing countries. Likewise, it is also sent to all the Ambassadors and High Commissioners of developing counties who are based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We encourage members to strike a mutually beneficial deal with MASSA to promote your respective business propositions for the developing countries.

In this edition, we have featured two countries, namely Tunisia and Libya. Located on the northern end of the African continent, these two countries present emerging opportunities for business.

Also featured is Bancoex – Venezuela’s Foreign Trade Bank tasked with resource-rich Venezuela the responsibility to finance, support and promote Venezuelan exports.

We welcome MASSA’s latest member, Qualitas Medical Group Sdn Bhd, and look forward to their presence at our network events. The Prime Minister’s Department has also obliged us with an article on “BLESS” – we do hope members will not only acquaint with this new business facilitation but also inform their overseas business partners on the ease of doing business in Malaysia.

I take this occasion to wish all our Muslim members and readers, “Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir Batin”.

Fatimah Sulaiman 
Editor