Tengku Zafrul got roasted by CEOs on LinkedIn over… Malaysia's DDI and FDI? Apatu?

Recently, we’ve been covering a lot of Twitter drama, like when people discovered MCMC’s old tweets, or when people started saying that Malays can eat pork now that it’s darurat (they still can’t, btw). Well, hope you liked those, because this time we’re doing another drama, but it’s from… LinkedIn. Yes, LinkedIn, probably the only social media you don’t have the app for on your phone right now. Anyways, this drama involved the Finance Minister supposedly getting roasted by the business community over a posting he made: Some people have been sharing the post on Twitter, implying that there’s a burn somewhere from one particular response commonly attached to it. In case you didn’t catch what’s going on here, essentially Tengku Zafrul was all like “How’s that for investors’ continued confidence in Malaysia?”, and one of the CEOs of Eurocham Malaysia was all like “Sorry, not really.“, which is kinda bad since Eurocham is like Malaysia’s link to European businessmen/investors. And it’s not just him, either. Some of the other comments weren’t so supportive: Screengrabbed from LinkedIn. Screengrabbed from LinkedIn. Ooof. These are kind of harsh, but does he deserve this roast session, though? Well, that’s what we’re trying to…
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