SME News
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2021-01-11
Malaysia’s November unemployment rate rises marginally to five-month high of 4.8%
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s unemployment rate in November 2020 increased marginally by 0.1 percentage point to 4.8% from the previous month, with 764,400 unemployed persons, according to the latest figures by the Department of Statistics&rsq...
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2021-01-11
Businesses scramble again as Ismail Sabri says new MCO SOPs only out tomorrow at 5pm
Businesses will again be given just hours to respond to fresh standard operating procedures for the renewed movement control order, which Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri said he will disclose at 5pm tomorrow. Earlier today, Prime M...
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2021-01-11
Surviving The Impact of Covid-19: No holds barred spending with virus at large
The Malaysian government, like many others around the world, has not held back on spending measures to revive the economy, which has been torn apart by Covid-19 this year. In total, the government has doled out RM305 billion in stimulus packages f...
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2021-01-11
New MCO in 6 Malaysian states for 2 weeks: PM Muhyiddin
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has announced a new movement control order (MCO), in a special address to the nation on Monday (11 January), in a bid to quell the country’s spiralling Covid-19 infection rate. The MCO will be reimpo...
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2021-01-11
SUPERB aiding Bumiputera youth entrepreneurs
A total of RM157 million has been distributed to Bumiputera youth entrepreneurs through the Bumiputera Entrepreneur Start-up Scheme Programme (SUPERB) since its launch in 2014. Bumiputera Agenda Steering Unit CEO Md Silmi Abd Rahman said the progr...