KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) — Malaysia’s wholesale and retail trade sales value surged 33.7 percent to 133.7 billion ringgit (28.56 billion U.S. dollars) in August from a year ago, official data showed on Wednesday.
The positive growth was contributed by all sub-sectors, namely motor vehicles which soared 185.3 percent, retail trade that jumped 34.5 percent, and wholesale trade which climbed 16 percent, the