Officials would not identify the Malaysian company that the letter had been addressed to.
A Malaysian company is said to be planning to restore the hotel.
(Malaysian companies make most of the gloves used in this country.)
Application can be made through a number of private Malaysian companies, known as "sponsors", which offer application and follow-up services to foreigners.
I already pay a Malaysian company for the rain that falls on Somerset.
The entire project was designed and constructed by Malaysian companies with only 10% of the materials imported.
Scomi, the Malaysian company that supplied the rakes for the project, was in charge of the trial.
Further the deepening works in port are carried out by a Malaysian company to handle bigger vessels.
"In the future, we're a global company, not a Malaysian company," he says.
The company said today that without the new investment from the Malaysian company, its financial future would be grim.