Awg Tengah pays courtesy call on Chinese trade official

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A SOUVENIR FOR YOU: Awang Tengah (fourth right) exchanging mementos with Yang (third left) while witnessed by Nansian (third right) and Julaihi (second right).

KUCHING: Second Minister of Resource Planning and Environment Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan yesterday paid a courtesy call on the Deputy General of Department of Commerce of Yunan Province Yang Yui in Kunming, China.

According to a press statement, Awang Tengah, who is also Minister of Public Utilities and Minister of Industrial Development and was accompanied by delegates from Sarawak, was briefed on the economic development and the business opportunities potential in Kunming during the meeting.

Yang also expressed his department’s interest to explore and extend their business in Sarawak particularly in the rubber, hydropower and tourism industry in the state.

Among those present during the meeting were Assistant Minister of Industrial Estate Development Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie, Assistant Minister of Investment and Promotion Datuk Julaihi Narawi, Ministry of Industrial Development permanent secretary Syed Mohd Fairus Shaik Ismail as well as senior officers from the Ministry of Industrial Development and the Sarawak Timber Industrial Development Corporation.