PLATINUM SPONSORS

Visit Hwang-DBS here.

Hwang-DBS (Malaysia) Berhad was listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in May 1996. The principal activities of Hwang-DBS Group are stockbroking, corporate advisory, provision of nominee services to local and foreign clients, dealing in options and financial futures, asset and fund management, economic and investment research and venture financing.

The core business of the Hwang-DBS Group is stockbroking which is carried out by Hwang-DBS Securities Berhad. Over the years, Hwang-DBS Securities Berhad has built up a clientele base of more than 220,000 customers comprising a strong base of retail clients, high net-worth individual, local and international institutional clients.

Today, Hwang-DBS Securities Berhad has over 730 dealers and remisiers and are still expanding.

Visit Wah Seong here.

Wah Seong Corporation Berhad (WSC) is an oil and gas group based in Malaysia and listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia with a paid up capital of RM183,523,815 comprising 367,047,630 shares of RM0.50 each.

Their principal business is in the provision of highly specialised pipe coating to the global oil and gas industry. Additionally Wah Seong provides other oil and gas industry support services such as corrosion protection solutions, drilling supplies and pipeline construction. Wah Seong are experts in the field of industrial engineering and design, providing specialised engineering design, fabrication and rental of gas compression and other process equipments for use in the oil and gas, food and agro-based industries. Wah Seong also manufactures high quality spiral welded steel pipes for water transmission and infrastructure use.

GOLD SPONSORS

Since its establishment in Taiwan in 1968, Evergreen Marine Corp (EMC) has secured its place in shipping history. Since those early days, it has not only survived, but positively thrived on hard-work and perseverance, until today it boasts a fleet of over 100 container vessels. Both in terms of the magnitude of its fleet and its cargo loading capacity, EMC ranks among the world's leading international shipping companies.

With more than 240 service locations, EMC covers more than 80 countries with its shipping network. Evergreen's network includes several east-west routes linking southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, Korea and Japan with the east and west coasts of the US. It also provides services from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean. EMC's containerships link Asia with South Africa and South America and Europe with the east coast of the US and are deployed on a range of intensive sailing routes throughout Asia. They travel to India, the Middle East and the Red Sea, as well as sail on the north-south route linking Asia with Australia. Evergreen provides a full container service linking the east coast of the US with the east coast of South America and Panama with the west coast of South America. Besides the main routes, regular feeder services in the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent are also provided, shortening delivery times and thereby benefiting cargo owners.

Visit JobStreet.com here.

JobStreet Corp Berhad is a leading on-line recruitment company in Asia which operates the JobStreet.com on-line recruitment websites covering the employment markets in Malaysia, Singapore, India, the Philippines and Indonesia. The Group currently services over 20,000 corporate customers and 3.0 million job seekers. It is also a leading supplier of Applicant Tracking Solutions in the region. JobStreet is a member of The Network, a unique partnership of career sites worldwide co-founded by leading European job sites, StepStone and Totaljobs. With this partnership, the members of The Network, primarily from 21 countries in Europe, are marketing JobStreet’s job postings in their respective geographical regions. JobStreet’s other international partnerships for marketing job postings include Seek.com.au (Australia and New Zealand) and Careerbuilder.com (North America).

JobStreet, listed on the MESDAQ Market of Bursa Malaysia since November 2004, has won numerous awards including the 2000 Asia-Pacific Multimedia Super Corridor Information Technology & Telecommunications Awards for the Best Software Applications category for its ASP-based SiVA recruitment management application, was twice named as Internet Company of the Year at the @my2000 and @MY2001 Malaysia Internet Awards, bagged an award in e50 Singapore organized by Accenture and Business Times, ranked in the top five among e50 dot coms in Singapore in 2001, chosen as the top job site in India by The Week and won the Webby Judges' and People's Choice Award for the Services category in the prestigious fourth Philippine Web Awards.

Visit Tourism Penang here.

Tourism Penang is the official website of the Penang Tourism Action Council, set up by the Penang state government.