{"id":105848,"date":"2016-03-18T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=105848"},"modified":"2016-03-18T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T02:35:29","slug":"evening-souq-a-chance-for-students-to-be-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=105848","title":{"rendered":"Evening Souq: A chance for students to be entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Azreen Azirinee Azizi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 14 March 2016: Students have a chance to become entrepreneurs by participating in the Evening Souq held at Convest Hill from 5.00p.m to 10.00p.m on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It is organised by Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) in collaboration with Federal Agricultural and Marketing Authority (FAMA), National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS), and MyAgrosis IIUM.<\/p>\n<p>The Evening Souq helped to enhance students entrepreneurship skills by giving them the platform to do business and to gain experience on how to manage a business. Outsiders also can benefit from this events as it only costs them RM10 to secure a place.<\/p>\n<p>Nik Sabariah from EDC said: \u0153Evening Souq will be organised twice a month and we provide tents for students for free to do business. Students are welcomed to apply for the place provided by EDC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Farisha Emilia, one of IIUM students who participated in the Evening Souq said, \u0153It is a good initiative by EDC by giving a platform to students for free and the sale is good.\u009d Together with her friends, Farisha sells clothes with an affordable price.<\/p>\n<p>One of the customers, Nurafida said, \u0153Evening Souq should be a continuous event as it is a good event. We are also able to support our friends who are selling things here too.\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Local produce such as fruits, vegetables, groceries and students&#8217; products are available at Evening Souq.<\/p>\n<p>The next Evening Souq is scheduled to be held from 1 and 15 April 2016.***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Azreen Azirinee Azizi GOMBAK, 14 March 2016: Students have a chance to become entrepreneurs by participating in the Evening Souq held at Convest Hill&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":105852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_0384.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105911,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105848\/revisions\/105911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}