New investment interests arising from the roundtable and one-on-one meetings with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim here are worth a potential RM45.4bil, says Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz. The Investment, Trade and Industry Minister said the potential investments encompassed new as well as expansion and diversification projects.
"The potential investments are from various industries such as semiconductors, aerospace, medical devices, chemicals and services," he told Malaysian journalists after the roundtable and one-on-one meetings with Anwar. A total of 38 captains of industry and businesses from German cities like Stuttgart, Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt as well as from Belgium and France joined the meetings. Anwar also had one-on-one meetings with officials from X-Fab, Melexis, Infineon Technologies AG, Schott AG and Airbus. The Prime Minister, who arrived here on Sunday (March 10), took the opportunity to assure German businesses that Malaysia remains one of the best and preferred locations for investors with business-friendly approaches