Brunei's WBC taking part in Women Leaders Networking seminar in Korea
By Huraizah Ahmad

Women Business Council (WBC) representatives led by its president, Datin Hjh Edah Hj Md Noor, yesterday left for Daegu Korea to attend the 10th Annual APEC Women Leaders Networking (WLN) seminar.

Also participating in the event are WBC Vice President Datin Paduka Hjh Rokiah, Hjh Rosmah and Norhayati Abu Bakar.

The WLN seminar, which will run from August 23 to 27, will be focussing on the issues of micro-credit and incubation. The WBC president is one of the speakers at the WLN seminar where she will be presenting a talk on 'Future Direction and Rebuilding of WLN'.

According to the WBC representatives, the main objective of their participation at the seminar were to update business information in the APEC region specifically for women, to expand business networking with other regions as well as to observe new studies on economic plans of APEC.

WBC of Brunei Darussalam was established in 2000 and currently has over 80 registered members who are mainly women entrepreneurs in the local SME market industry.

The 10th APEC WLN seminar will serve as a platform for the presentation on the promotion strategies and current trend of SME policy for the APEC member economies.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin