Alibaba opens office in Malaysia
ALIBABA Group’s new Malaysia office, also its first country office in Southeast Asia, started operation yesterday as the Chinese tech giant continues its overseas expansion in the region.
Alibaba, having already established the first international eHub under the Electronic World Trade Platform initiative, aims to use the office to better serve the needs of local small and medium enterprises and help the new Malaysian government train more young talents, said Jack Ma, Alibaba founder and executive chairman at the launch ceremony.
In an interview before the ceremony, Ma told Xinhua that Alibaba plans to deepen its localization in Malaysia, and in the process it will hire more local people, perhaps more than 1,000 in the future.
He said Alibaba’s investment in Malaysia in recent years has reached over US$100 million.
Alibaba has been expanding its presence in Malaysia in recent years. Aside from eWTP, Alibaba also established a cloud computing data center, brought its mobile payment service Alipay and has trained thousands of individuals, entrepreneurs and cloud computing professionals.
Before the ceremony, Ma met with Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who took power after winning the May 9 election. “We had a good exchange of ideas on a wide range of subjects,” Mahathir said in a twitter post after the meeting.
During the meeting, which lasted for about an hour, Mahathir said he welcomes Alibaba to come to Malaysia and train more people in the digital age.
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said he appreciated Alibaba’s “eagerness to work with the new Federal Government to help spur new investments, create new jobs and economic opportunities for Malaysia.”
“We consider this a shining symbol of China-Malaysia friendship that is based on mutual respect and benefits that augurs well for the cooperation on the part of governments, businesses and people from both countries,” Lim added.
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