Quit calling them ‘foreigners’


Williams said that overall investment approvals had been increasing in the recent months.

KUALA LUMPUR: Continuous inflows of investments are necessary to create more job opportunities and enlarge the country supply chain, says Malaysia University of Science and Technology economics prof Geoffrey Williams.

As such, he said investments and where they come from should not be a “nationalistic” issue.

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