{"id":2968,"date":"2019-07-02T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2019-10-16T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T15:06:05","slug":"johor-was-malaysias-biggest-recipient-of-fdi-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/johor-was-malaysias-biggest-recipient-of-fdi-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Johor was Malaysia\u2019s biggest recipient of FDI in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Malay Mail<br \/>\n02nd July, 2019<\/p>\n<p>ISKANDAR PUTERI, July 2 \u2014 Johor registered RM24 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, a four-fold increase from 2017 that gave the state the honour of being the country\u2019s biggest investment earner, said a state official.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Johor International Trade, Investment and Utilities Committee chairman Jimmy Puah Wee Tse said the figure in 2017 was RM5.102 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that Johor is the number one state in Malaysia in bringing in foreign investments.<br \/>\n\u201cThis also shows that foreign investors have high confidence in Johor compared to other states,\u201d said Puah when replying to questions by Datuk Md Othman Yusof (BN-Kukup) and Abd Taib Abu Bakar (BN-Machap) at the Johor state assembly in Kota Iskandar today.<\/p>\n<p>According to Puah (PH-Bukit Batu), Johor is still seen as competitive despite the current volatile global economy.<\/p>\n<p>He said Indonesia, concentrating in the oil-and-gas industry in Pengerang, topped the list with FDI in the state totalling RM8.46 billion last year.<br \/>\n\u201cIn addition to Indonesia, the Netherlands ranked second with RM7.57 billion, China (RM2.84 billion) and followed by the United States (RM2.36 billion).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe petroleum industry, including petrochemicals, has emerged as the top foreign investment in Johor with a value of RM11.834 billion followed by the electricity and electronics industry with RM8.315 billion and the chemical and chemical products industry at RM2.364 billion,\u201d said Puah.<\/p>\n<p>Puah said he expects the country&#8217;s economy to remain positive this year as the national macroeconomic fundamentals remain strong despite domestic and external challenges.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source :<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/news\/malaysia\/2019\/07\/02\/official-johor-was-malaysias-biggest-recipient-of-foreign-direct-investment\/1767411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/news\/malaysia\/2019\/07\/02\/official-johor-was-malaysias-biggest-recipient-of-foreign-direct-investment\/1767411<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malay Mail 02nd July, 2019 ISKANDAR PUTERI, July 2 \u2014 Jo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgpiaimaritime.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}