{"id":49385,"date":"2024-09-02T16:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T08:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=49385"},"modified":"2024-09-02T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T08:36:06","slug":"no-compromise-on-penangs-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/no-compromise-on-penangs-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"No compromise on Penang&#8217;s growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2023, Penang&#8217;s GDP growth was below the national average due to contraction of manufacturing sector (\u20130.5%) caused by reduced global demand for semiconductor.<br \/><br \/>Watch this video below &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1280\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 1280;\" width=\"720\" controls src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/an_aqxl54ped27mhjbvr6dxqbk2bosb9aux7-c-otvn-oaukyxf-owjnkcgpbswbxliwwlzhiwglbw2pvgfqo6cd.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, the state&#8217;s construction sector had a sharp increase, contributing to Penang&#8217;s GDP per capita rising to the third highest in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>Penang did right to kickstart the construction of the Silicon Island in 2023 that has created new jobs and stimulated the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesson: Necessary to continue diversifying Penang&#8217;s economy to build resilience for the state to withstand the impact from uncontrollable foreign factors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshua Woo Sze Zeng<br \/>ADN Pulau Tikus <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, Penang&#8217;s GDP growth was below the national average due to contraction of manufacturing sector (\u20130.5%) caused by reduced global demand for semiconductor. Watch this video below &#8211; Fortunately, the state&#8217;s construction sector had a sharp increase, contributing to Penang&#8217;s GDP per capita rising to the third highest in the country. Penang did right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49393,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385\/revisions\/49393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}