{"id":1990,"date":"2012-04-06T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2012-04-06T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T07:41:17","slug":"penang%e2%80%99s-young-global-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/penang%e2%80%99s-young-global-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Penang\u2019s Young Global Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/39031_451857711319_723556319_6165740_7522197_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1991\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/39031_451857711319_723556319_6165740_7522197_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/39031_451857711319_723556319_6165740_7522197_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/39031_451857711319_723556319_6165740_7522197_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/39031_451857711319_723556319_6165740_7522197_n-233x175.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a>DAPSY Penang Treasurer Steven Sim Chee Keong was honored as a Young Global Leader by the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF) on 7<sup>th<\/sup> March 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sim, who is Senior Executive Officer of state think tank Penang Institute, was one of the two Malaysians among the 191 winners selected by WEF. \u00a0The other Malaysian awarded was Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai, Nurul Izzah Anwar.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Global Leader awardees are chosen from among outstanding leaders below the age of 40 for their professional accomplishments and commitments to society. Sim and Nurul Izzah will join illustrious alumni including Google Founder Larry Page and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>30-year old Sim was a former special assistant to DAP MP for Bukit Mertajam, Chong Eng. He currently serves as a local councilor in the Province Wellesley Municipal Council (MPSP).<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference announcing the Young Global Leader award, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng expressed his pride that Sim, a Penangite, was selected by a top global gathering of world leaders for the award.<\/p>\n<p>Sim noted that the honour was not his alone but a recognition by the global community of the importance of Penang and Malaysia in the world. &#8211; The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAPSY Penang Treasurer Steven Sim Chee Keong was honored as a Young Global Leader by the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF) on 7th March 2012. Sim, who is Senior Executive Officer of state think tank Penang Institute, was one of the two Malaysians among the 191 winners selected by WEF. \u00a0The other Malaysian awarded was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}