STAR, Thursday June 22, 2009
PENANG must continue to improve its infrastructure, communication network and other facilities to meet the increasing demands of investors.
State Gerakan assistant secretary Goh Kheng Sneah said foreign investors would not invest a huge sum of money in the state if Penang failed to meet their requirements.
"Foreign investors have been coming here over the past two decades because of several factors including the state’s sound infrastructure and communications network,” he said.
“The state government could not have attracted RM10bil worth of foreign capital in the past 15 months as claimed by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng if our infrastructure and communications networks were lacking.
“Lim’s statement that infrastructure in Penang had made little progress in the past two decades was clearly politically motivated,” he said in a press release on Tuesday.
Blasting Lim for “irresponsibly and purposely tarnishing” the previous administration’s image,Goh said it is now the duty of the current state government to maintain and improve existing infrastructure and communication network.
He added that Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had emphasised that if Penang wanted to attract investors, it needed better infrastructure and communication links.
“Lee said to secure funding for these projects, the state government should work closely with the federal government to gain its support,” he said.
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