KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he was in the midst of putting the final touches to the 2023 Budget.
The remarks from Anwar, who is also the Finance Minister, came a few days before the tabling of the 2023 Budget in Parliament this Friday.
"I am going back to the office. I am working on it," Anwar said briefly to reporters.
He was asked about his preparations ahead of the tabling of the 2023 Budget.
Earlier, Anwar delivered his speech during the closing ceremony of the International Conference on AbdulHamid AbuSulayman: His Contributions to Intellectual and Education Reform at the International Islamic University Malaysia's (IIUM) in Gombak near here today.
Organised by the university's International Institute for Muslim Unity with the cooperation of International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and FairFax University of America, the two-day conference is held to learn about the intellectual, scientific, and practical contributions of the late Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr AbdulHamid AbuSulayman.
AbdulHamid was the co-founder of IIIT and second rector of IIUM.
At the same ceremony, Anwar also launched four books namely "Bringing Higher Education to a Greater Height: A Festschrift in Honour of AbdulHamid AbuSulayman"; "Sixty Years between East and West: Planning, Perseverance and Implementation"; "Bias in Popular Culture: The Power of Visual and Linguistic Narratives" and "Parent-Child Relations a Guide to Raising Children".
Among those present were AbdulHamid's daughter, Muna AbuSulayman, IIUM rector Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak and IIIT president Dr Hisham Altalib.