{"id":140,"date":"2007-05-14T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-05-14T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T09:26:00","slug":"netherlands-based-indian-group-to-open-aviation-academy-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/05\/netherlands-based-indian-group-to-open-aviation-academy-in-malaysia.html","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands-based Indian group to open aviation academy in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >T<\/span>he Netherlands-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaempire.com\/\">Beta Empire Group<\/a>  is in talks with three Malaysian companies to open an aviation academy in Malaysia, catering to both local and international students.<br \/>Beta Empire chairman Rajmohan Pillai said it expects to sign an agreement with a local partner as early as next month.<br \/>He declined to reveal the names of the three Malaysian companies, except to say that they are all involved in the aviation sector.<br \/>The Indian group is willing to spend between US$40 million (RM136.4 million) and US$50 million (RM170.5 million) to set up the aviation centre in Malaysia.<br \/>The proposed academy will be an extension of its US$90 million (RM306.9 million) University of Aviation in Hyderabad, India.<br \/>The recently-completed university, which will open its doors next month, is the first of its kind in South-East Asia.<br \/>On whether the Government is receptive of its initiative, Rajmohan said his representative in Malaysia has already met with the Department of Civil Aviation officials and the response has been positive.<br \/>The investment in the aviation academy will either be in the form of equity in a company that already has existing infrastructure, or buil- ding up the infrastructure from scratch with the cooperation of a local partner.<br \/>&#8220;The centre here will be more of an initiative to enable students in this region to study in Malaysia, a country that is much more easier to adapt compared with other countries,&#8221; Rajmohan said.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">14\/05\/07 Business Times &#8211; Malaysia, Malaysia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands-based Beta Empire Group is in talks with three Malaysian companies to open an aviation academy in Malaysia, catering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}