<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>（吉隆坡3日讯）大马机场控股（Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd）前董事经理Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad Abdul Majid，受委为捷运公司（MRT Corp）主席。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Bashir是接替于3月7日辞去主席和董事职的Datuk Wira Azhar Abdul Hamid。后者是在2021年5月出任捷运公司主席。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Bashir于1972年作为管理培训生加入马航（MAS），展开航空职业生涯。他在马航服务了29年，并晋升至执行副总裁。</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>2001年，他获政府委任为交通部航空顾问，任职两年。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>随后，他于2003至2014年担任大马机场控股的董事经理，之后受委为顾问至2017年。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>捷运公司今日在文告中指出，Bashir依然活跃于全球航空领域，目前是管理印度和海外机场的GMR Airports Group顾问。GMR由Aeroport De Paris部分拥有。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>他还是国际机场理事会世界管理委员会区域顾问，以及国际机场理事会亚太地区分会特别顾问。</p></div>

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<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>（编译：陈慧珊）</p></div>

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<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p><em>English version：</em><a href="https://www.theedgemarkets.com/node/661848" target="_blank">Former MAHB managing director Bashir Ahmad is MRT Corp's new chairman</a></p></div>


（吉隆坡3日讯）大马机场控股（Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd）前董事经理Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad Abdul Majid，受委为捷运公司（MRT Corp）主席。

Bashir是接替于3月7日辞去主席和董事职的Datuk Wira Azhar Abdul Hamid。后者是在2021年5月出任捷运公司主席。

Bashir于1972年作为管理培训生加入马航（MAS），展开航空职业生涯。他在马航服务了29年，并晋升至执行副总裁。

2001年，他获政府委任为交通部航空顾问，任职两年。

大马机场前董事经理Bashir Ahmad 出任捷运公司主席

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<p>Who knows what will befall mankind by 2034? Donald Trump will be gone; the planet will be warmer and probably whackier. As for football, Saudi Arabia will stage the Fifa World Cup final on a lofty perch some 350m above ground. Players will have chips implanted and VAR will be reading their minds....

<p>Pre-war shophouses in Malaysia add a certain charm and depth to its cityscapes. In Kuala Lumpur, many of them are concentrated around the confluence of the Klang and Gombak Rivers, where the town is said to have started and grown in the mid-19th century as a trading post, spurred by tin mining.</...

<p>NEW YORK (Jan 29): Global arabica coffee prices hit record highs above US$3.60 per lb (pound) on Wednesday as Brazil, by far the world's largest producer, has few beans left to sell, and as worries over its upcoming harvest persist.</p>
