Malaysia has secured a total of RM63.02bil in proposed investments in the United States, mainly from technology giants, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The Prime Minister said out of the total, RM8.33bil were from the trade and investment mission to the United States organised before the start of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec), while the remaining investments were from the various one-on-one meetings held by Anwar here.
The investments from the trade mission are from Abbott Laboratories, Mondelez International, Amsted Rail, Hematogenix, PerkinElmer, Ford Motor Company, Boeing, Amazon Web Services, Enovix and Lam Research. "The remaining (investments) have been secured from one-on-one meetings with technology giants such as Google, Enovix Cooperation, Microsoft, TikTok as well as TPG," he told the Malaysian media at the end of his official visit to the United States, here on Saturday (Nov 18). TikTok's investment is quite big, he said, adding that it all boils down to how fast Malaysia approves these investment