Putrajaya says FBC media helped attract FDI, tourism

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 The supervision said currently picture consultants FBC Media helped raise a station of Malaysia as a tourism as well as investment finish during a RM94 million three-year deal which began in 2007.

Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz told Parliament which a London-based media company, which is confronting bankruptcy, "supported a efforts of supervision leaders as well as ministers" to burnish a country's picture overseas.

"The communications plan was critical in raising a station of Malaysia as a tourism as well as investment destination," a Padang Rengas MP said in reply to a parliamentary question by Kuala Krai MP Hatta Ramli.

Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz told Parliament today, "The communications plan was critical in raising a station of Malaysia as a tourism as well as investment destination." file pic

In 2006 Malaysia drew 17.5 million tourists who outlayed an estimated RM38 billion, figures which rose to 24.6 million tourists spending RM56.5 billion final year.

Malaysia has additionally captivated RM21.3 billion value of unfamiliar direct investments (FDIs) in a initial half of this year alone, compared to RM29.3 billion final year as well as just RM5.7 billion in 2009 as a tellurian financial crisis strike a nation hard.

FDI in 2008 was RM24.1 billion.

FBC, whose stipulate finished final year, is being investigated by a UK's communications attention regulator, a Office of Communications (Ofcom), as well as US broadcaster CNBC for producing headlines content upon Malaysia without divulgence which Putrajaya was additionally its open family client.

PAS election executive Hatta had additionally questioned why Malaysia had engaged a association which has left into administration department department a authorised term which allows a association confronting fa! ilure to carry upon business "now which Malaysia is no longer paying it millions of ringgit."

"Don't we already have embassies as well as Matrade (the inhabitant trade promotion industry) offices in these markets?" he asked.

Nazri replied which many staff in these offices were usually posted in a nation for a couple of years at a time, ensuing in networking as well as contacts being made upon a short-term basis.

"So in a UK, it is better to make use of a organisation from a UK," he said.

The Malaysian Insider had reported which Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has engaged a array of open family strategists, including APCO Worldwide, to burnish both his personal picture as well as which of his government's locally as well as worldwide.

APCO's time in Malaysia was noted by debate after a antithesis supposed a open family organisation was related to Israel.

The many recent sinecure are members of a group behind former British PM Tony Blair's "New Labour" debate who were reported to have started work to reinvent Najib as a moderate reformist.

The group is additionally accepted to be pushing a "Cool Najib" picture to interest to on-going voters as a PM prepares to lead a statute Barisan Nasional (BN) into ubiquitous elections for a initial time.

But Alastair Campbell, once a absolute executive of plan as well as communications during a Blair administration, denied yesterday which he had been to Malaysia in response to suggestions which he recently visited Najib to advise a budding apportion upon his image.

"I see we have been speckled in Malaysia. Therefore we must be advising a government. Must have a double. Not been. Not advising. Fin d'histoire [Sic] [end of story]," he wrote upon his Twitter comment @campbellclaret.

Campbell, a former journalist, quit Blair's staff in Aug 2003 after it was revealed which he had ordered dossiers upon Iraq's supposed possession of weapons of mass drop to be altered to reflect a US government's sta! nd.

The Malaysian Insider :: Malaysia

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