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DRB-HICOM Berhad (“DRB-HICOM) is one of Malaysia’s leading companies listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, playing an integral role in the nation’s road to industrialisation. DRB-HICOM was in the vanguard of the nation’s foray into heavy industry and the Group has held fast to its original role of nation building. The Group’s principal activities currently are in the automotive, services and property & infrastructure sectors. The Group’s automotive sector is involved in the manufacturing of components and the assembly and distribution of cars, trucks and motorcycles for the passenger, commercial, mass transport and defence automotive markets. In addition, the Group is also involved as an importer and service provider for CBU and CKD vehicles as well as pre-delivery inspection. 
The services sector provides inspection of vehicles, solid waste management, insurance, full service provider for airlines and distributor for MIDEA, a leading brand in the white goods market. The services sector has been strengthened with the recent acquisition of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad and Rangkai Positif Sdn Bhd which provides operations and maintenance services for Tanjung Bin Power Plant. 
The property business is in development, engineering, infrastructure and construction.

Perdana Leadership Foundation (PLF) is an independent non-profit institution set up in 2003 to archive, research and disseminate materials by and on the past Prime Ministers of Malaysia. The Foundation also documents the nation-building history of Malaysia. To date it has digitised more than eight million pages or three hundred thousand records of speeches, news clippings, journal articles, books and Parliamentary Hansards among others. Visit www.perdana.org.my for more information on the Foundation and its events.

The origins of MPH go back to 1815 when William Milne, a young missionary, set up a printing press in Malacca. In 1890, the press was relocated to Singapore and a new publishing house, the American Mission Press, was set up with the assistance of Captain W.G. Shellabear, to print Christian literature and, later to reprinting of old Malay classics.

In 1906, it was renamed the Methodist Publishing House from which the acronym MPH was derived.

After a succession of owners between 1966 and 2002, MPH Bookstores (Malaysia and Singapore), MPH Distributors (Malaysia and Singapore) and MPH Library Services (Singapore) were bought over by Malaysian businessman Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary and MPH became part of his large conglomerate. For the first time, MPH became a wholly Malaysian-owned company. More business activities were added to the group, including the re-establishment of its printing, publishing and magazine arms.

The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) was created on 27 March 2004 to take charge of higher education in Malaysia which involves more than 900,000 students pursuing higher education in 20 public universities, 33 private universities and university colleges, 4 foreign university branch campuses, 22 polytechnics, 37 community colleges and about 500 private colleges. The MOHE’s mission is to create a higher education environment that will foster the development of academic and institutional excellence. It is in line with the vision of the government to make Malaysia a centre of educational excellence and to internationalise of Malaysian education. There are also other government agencies involved in higher education under the jurisdiction of MOHE; namely the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional – PTPTN) and Yayasan Tunku Abdul Rahman (YTAR).

Since its establishment in 1938, the Group has progressed and consolidated itself into a multiple media conglomerate of the 21st century. Today, the Group’s diverse expansion is still synergistic with its traditional core activities. With over ten companies under its wings, the Utusan Group is engaged in four major business concerns namely publishing, printing, advertising and online services. In a recent poll survey conducted on Malaysian publications by AC Nielson, the Group’s two key newspapers, Utusan Malaysia and Mingguan Malaysia, as well as its top four magazines namely Mastika, Mangga, URTV and Wanita, have consistently achieved and maintained the highest circulations and readerships. Utusan now operates its printing activities from its printing plants situated in Bangi, Prai, Kuala Terengganu and Johor Bharu.