Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today invited Malaysia to install full manufacture facilities of their Perodua brand car here in Bangladesh.
The premier made the call when outgoing Malaysian High Commissioner Haznah Md. Hashim paid farewell call on her at her office this morning.
In the meeting, the envoy mentioned that local PHP Motors is assembling Malaysian brand, Perodua here.
Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Md Nayeemul Islam Khan briefed reporters after the call on.
PHP Motors, a concern of PHP Family, has tied up with Perodua, a top Malaysian automobile brand, to assemble their cars and SUVs in Bangladesh and sell them in the local market.
In the meeting, the Premier and the envoy also talked and remembered the longstanding and continuing relationship between two countries from the tenure of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
When the issue of anarchic situation unleashed by BNP-Jamaat behind the quota reform movement of student, Haznah Md. Hashim told the premier that “I’ve confidence in your ability in handling the current situation. You’re handing the situation well and the matter is purely Bangladesh’s domestic affairs.”
“She (envoy) sees everything is under control,” said the Press Secretary quoting the envoy as she saying.
The high commissioner said that Malaysian business entities’ cumulative investment rose to US$ 5 billion in Bangladesh, which mainly propelled by the two telecommunication companies- Robi and Edotco Bangladesh as they reinvested their profits here.
She mentioned that a good number of Malaysian students are persuading their studies in Agriculture universities, medical colleges and other institutions in Bangladesh.
To this end, the high commissioner extended gratitude to the premier for it.
Highlighting their health faculties, the envoy said many of their hospitals are near to Singapore considering the medicare services and cost is lower than them. So, Bangladeshi people can avail the health facilities there as more than 70 of the physicians in Singapore are from Malaysia, she added.
Ambassador-at-Large Mohammad Ziauddin and Principal Secretary M Tofazzel Hossain Miah were present.
