DONGGONGON: Malaysia learnt a bitter lesson when Khazanah Nasional Bhd turned down two enterprising Chinese Harvard students who sought funding for their start-up a decade ago.
Dejected, they turned to Singapore which saw the global potential of the MyTeksi app.
They divulged to solve Malaysia’s unreliable and sometimes unsafe taxi services.
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