Dr M calls for high-tech investments from UK
Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad delivers his speech during a Roundtable Meeting with The British Business Comminity in London June 17, 2019. — Bernama pic
“We need them to be engineers who will be working with new equipment, new machinery and will be familiar with the need to maintain and repair the machines that do the work,” he said in his opening speech during a roundtable meeting with the British business community organised by the Malaysian Investment Development Authority and Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation .
The roundtable was one of the itineraries of Dr Mahathir’s three-day working visit to the United Kingdom beginning last Saturday. “So we are still growing at a rate of more than four per cent and we hope we can do better this year with 4.4 or 4.6 per cent,” he said.
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