SME News
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2023-01-13
Make sure we get skilled workers too, say industry players
JOHOR BARU: Foreign workers coming into Malaysia under the new Relaxation of Foreign Workers Recruitment Plan must also include skilled workers, say industry players in Johor. They expressed their appreciation for the government over it’s an...
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2023-01-12
Standard Chartered: Malaysia's GDP to ease at 4.0pc in 2023
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP) growth will ease to 4.0 per cent in 2023 from 8.8 per cent in 2022, Standard Chartered said. The firm said the expected slowdown is partly due to an unfavourable base and the normalisation ...
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2023-01-12
Malaysia to stop palm oil exports to EU if negative palm oil campaign escalates, says minister
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia may stop exporting palm oil to the European Union (EU) if the bloc continues to escalate its negative palm oil campaign. Plantation and Commodities minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof said this in light of the EU's new defor...
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2023-01-12
Quest to help Malaysians better manage their finances
PETALING JAYA: Few Malaysians know enough about managing personal finance, and most care even less about it, making them vulnerable to the proverbial bolt from the blue. According to RinggitPlus co-founder and director Hann Liew, the ability ...
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2023-01-12
ESG a bigger priority for corporate Malaysia
PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SDP) plans to review its near-term 2030 targets and longer-term 2050 targets that were submitted to Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) on Nov 10, 2022, by the second quarter of this year for a ...