GEORGE TOWN: Jumlah kutipan Tabung Harapan Malaysia setakat 9.30 pagi Ahad mencecah RM27 juta, kata Menteri Kewangan Lim Guan Eng.
Beliau berkata jumlah besar bagi kutipan tabung itu yang merupakan inisiatif pendanaan masyarakat yang dilancarkan bagi membantu kerajaan melunaskan hutang, akan ditentukan pada 3 petang ini.
Guan Eng berkata demikian pada satu majlis penerimaan derma ikhlas itu di pejabat Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang di Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak (Komtar) di sini, Ahad yang turut dihadiri Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Chow Kon Yeow.
Pada majlis itu, beliau turut menerima derma sumbangan bagi tabung itu masing-masing sebanyak RM1 juta daripada syarikat Ewein Berhad, Magni-Tech Industries Berhad dan Tan Sri Tan Kok Ping.
Dalam pada itu, Kon Yeow berkata, sejak penubuhan Tabung Harapan itu 31 Mei lepas, pelbagai pihak di negeri ini mula memberikan respons baik dan menanyakan perihal derma berkenaan.
"Dua hari lepas kita ada menerima derma daripada satu pertubuhan bernilai RM50,000 dan hari ini kita menerima sumbangan berjumlah RM3 juta," katanya.
Sebelum ini, kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang turut memutuskan untuk memotong 10 peratus gaji ketua menteri dan 10 anggota Exco untuk disalurkan kepada Tabung Harapan.-- Bernama
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KUCHING: The federal Ministry of Finance’s Tabung Harapan Malaysia (THM) has been labelled as “nothing more than just a political gimmick” by Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing.
Masing, who is Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president, said the fund “tries to mimic what Koreans and Japanese did” during the financial crisis in the 80s and 90s.
According to him, during that time South Korean and Japanese businessmen sold off their overseas properties and returned home to help their countries cushion the economic crisis.
He said if Malaysian businessmen, who had invested overseas, could not follow suit, THM would appear to be merely “a political gimmick”.
“Properties in the Australian Gold Coast were sold, I was told, and money was brought back and invested in Japan and Korea,” he said in a statement sent through WhatsApp yesterday.
Masing questioned whether Malaysians had the sincerity and loyalty to their nation to do what the Koreans and Japanese did in the past.
“In order to make such effort effective and worthwhile, it must transcend mere publicity. Will our millionaires overseas be willing to do such sacrifices and sell their properties and revenue earned be invested at home?
“If we don’t have it, then Tabung Harapan is nothing more than just a political gimmick often used by DAP (Democratic Action Party) prior to the GE (general election),” he added.
As of 3pm on Friday, THM had received over RM18.6 million in donations from members of the public and corporations.
THM seeks to help the government repay the country’s national debt.
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng announced the account number for THM on Thursday.
Lim has been DAP secretary-general since 2004.
