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The Usahawan MADANI Mega 2026 seminar attracted 6,877 participants nationwide, earning recognition as Malaysia's largest student entrepreneurship event and signalling growing youth interest in business creation.
Datuk Mohd Najib Abdul Hamid, founder of the thriving Serai Group restaurant empire spanning 30 outlets across Malaysia and the UK, reveals how he and wife Datin Qistina Taff manage parenthood while scaling their homegrown food and beverage business into a regional success story.
A Kota Baru resident whose home burned down in 2021 rebuilt his life by launching a nasi lemak business, selling packets for just RM1 to earn his keep.
TEKUN Nasional is piloting a 24-hour approval system for loans under RM20,000, launching within two to three months. The initiative aims to accelerate working capital access for Malaysian MSMEs while a new digital portal streamlines the application process.
More than 4,300 entrepreneurs in Melaka have received nearly RM100 million in financing from the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives as of May, part of a broader push to support MSMEs nationwide.
Twenty selected participants in Penang have received motorcycles as part of the iTEKAD CIMB Islamic-MAINPP Entrepreneur programme, a collaborative initiative aimed at lifting asnaf communities out of poverty through structured income-generation opportunities.