InvestKL CEO Zainal Amanshah spoke to HuffPost Live at Davos about his corporation’s goal to get 100 companies to invest in Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley by 2020, noting they’re “just under halfway.”
Amansha said this is a signal the business opportunities in Kuala Lumpur have not been negatively impacted by the recent crises like the AirAsia plane crash and the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
“In terms of impact on tourism, yes, perhaps [the planes had an impact], because people are human and they are all touched by such instances,” he said.
“The investors look at the fundamentals of the opportunities,” he added.
Below, more updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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“I just think there should be a very hard quota, 50/50, to make sure there’s enough women there,” she said. “[Davos should] also give women a chance who are not in that position yet, that they couldn’t get to because there is a glass ceiling… give them a chance to get more visibility.”
Abousteit said making clothes isn’t about saving money.
“It’s not about the saving,” she said. “It’s about doing something that makes you happy.”
Nora Abousteit advocated for doing a job that you love.
“I studied what my passion was… but then I saw an opportunity at work that made my heart beat faster, and I pursued that, and it was always about a gut feeling,” she said.
She said working in a field she’s passionate about makes it easier to get through hard times.
Nora Abousteit, founder and CEO of Kollabora and the Kollaborator Network, said her company helps people “start making.”
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She said a friend of hers that works at Sony said “they actually melted down the hard drives of the computers.”
“What other private sectors, the banking sectors? What other private sectors are the foreigners going to attack next?” Weymouth said.
“I think it’s a frightening, alarming thing for all American cities,” Weymouth added, saying many could be worried about what would happen if their bank was hacked.
Weymouth said she supports U.S. President Barack Obama’s plans on dealing with the Islamic State.
“I thought the president’s goal to degrade and destroy ISIS is the right, correct goal. And the question is, how do you do that?” Weymouth said.
Speaking on the rise of the Islamic State, Weymouth said the situation is “horrifying.”
“It’s just horrifying, as you know from watching it day by day, I think we’ve never seen anything like ISIS that kills people, kills kids for singing songs, it’s just horrible,” she said.
Weymouth said she interviewed the president of Turkey while at Davos and offered insight into how he feels about the situation.
“Turkey believes the U.S. should have two aims — to defeat President Assad, to remove him from power, and to defeat ISIS,” she said.
Weymouth mentioned Putin’s massive popularity in Russia, saying he’s got great power because of it.
“I think it’s all about what he wants to do and nobody really in the West, I think, knows what Putin wants to do,” Weymouth said.
Lally Weymouth, Senior Associate Editor of the Washington Post, stopped by HuffPost Live at Davos on Thursday, spoke about the situation in Ukraine and Russia, saying she thinks the U.S. government could be doing more to help the Ukrainian people.
“I think they should be giving them weapons to defends themselves — not offensive weapons, but defensive weapons,” Weymouth said.
