SME News
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2021-03-18
Better policies, stronger SMEs needed before next pandemic strikes
PETALING JAYA: As Malaysia completes a year of battling Covid-19, economists are calling for improvements in policy planning and enforcement and also measures to boost the resilience of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) against crises. Sp...
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2021-03-18
Fewer companies likely to go bust with higher debt threshold
PUTRAJAYA: The number of companies facing winding-up proceedings this year is expected to decrease after the indebtedness threshold was raised from RM10,000 to RM50,000, said domestic trade and consumer affairs minister Alexander Nanta Linggi. Nan...
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2021-03-18
Malaysian firms more vulnerable to ransomware attacks amid Covid-19 pandemic, says cybersecurity company
GEORGE TOWN, March 18 - Ransomware attacks that are leveraging on the Covid-19 pandemic, is on the rise in Malaysia, according to an American cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks. Palo Alto Networks Head of Systems Engineering Malaysia, David ...
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2021-03-17
Act fast on traders’ cash flow problems, Putrajaya told
PETALING JAYA: Two economists have urged Putrajaya to take heed of a survey showing that most Chinese-owned businesses are experiencing cash flow problems. Geoffrey Williams of Malaysia University of Science and Technology and Sunway Group corpora...
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2021-03-17
Take advantage as we record continued growth in e-commerce
Global e-commerce sale has surged to US$25.6 trillion in 2018, accounting for 30 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), including business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) sales. That's according to the latest estimat...