Yesterday, Pua had set KL20’s tone with a speech titled “Malaysia’s Time is Now”, followed by joining a roundtable titled “A Trillion Dollar Industry: Meeting the Growing Demand for Semiconductors”.

Pengarah Komunikasi Korporatnya Hasril Abu Hassan memaklumkan kerjasama termasuk melanjutkan kajian terhadap teknologi mikroorganisma dalam bidang pertanian untuk jangka masa panjang.

Ng berkata, SIBS juga menampilkan speaker utama termasuk Menteri Besar Selangor, Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari, Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Chow Kon Yeow, Menteri Kementerian Pelaburan, Perdagangan dan Industri (MITI), Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz.

Mahmud said PKNS has many project sites under development, and Akademi PKNS sees this as a good opportunity to conduct education-based businesses in these development areas, including in Cyberjaya, Kota Puteri and Antara Gapi.

Therefore, he said, the government still bears up to RM10 billion for diesel subsidies despite saving RM4 billion a year as a result of the retargeting exercise.