SME News
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2021-06-01
Extend Pemerkasa Plus aid until end of 2021, says SME association
KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 — The Small and Medium Enterprises Association (Samenta) Malaysia urged the government to consider extending the wage subsidy programme throughout all phases of the movement control order (MCO) and conditional or to the end...
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2021-06-01
Pakatan urges Putrajaya to spend RM45b on Pemerkasa Plus, says RM5b not enough
KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 — The Pakatan Harapan presidential council has urged the Perikatan Nasional government to use a cash injection of RM45 billion in order to adequately deal with the economic fallout resulting from movement control order (MCO...
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2021-06-01
Worker, health advocates foresee bigger disaster as law enforcers start hunt for undocumented migrants in ‘total lockdown’
KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin’s recent announcement that the Immigration Department will begin cracking down on undocumented migrants in these two weeks even as Malaysia returns to a “total lockdown...
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2021-06-01
Set a base price to sustain the local courier industry
KUALA LUMPUR: The courier service has become a vital connector for Malaysians in a time of movement restrictions that have been in force since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. During festive seasons such as Hari Raya Aidilfit...
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2021-06-01
Banks to include SMEs under full lockdown in loan moratorium, assistance offer
KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 — The Association of Banks in Malaysia (ABM) has announced that it is expanding the Targeted Repayment Assistance (TRA) programme to include all small-and-medium enterprise (SME) businesses that are not permitted to operate...