If you still remember your Sejarah lessons, you’d know that Malaysia is known for its natural resources, one of them being natural rubber. Back in those days, it seemed like everyone, especially the US wanted a piece of Malaya’s rubber to the extent that the state had to import workers to work in estates.
The industry grew so much that Malaysia eventually became top makers of rubber gloves and even condoms. We’ve written how Malaysia became the top producer of condoms and you can read more here.
However, we recently found out that the local rubber industry is not as great as it used to be. Subang Jaya MP Wong Chen in his Facebook post recently pointed out that many local glove companies are only using 8% of domestically produced raw materials (read: latex).
Assuming you’ve read what was written in the screenshot above, you’d know that…
