SME News
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2022-07-19
Malaysia should set course for IR 4.0, says veteran industrialist
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia should set a course to achieve full industrialised nation status because it already has the right people. All it needs now is the strategy to stem the brain drain and to motivate its people, according to a veteran in the ma...
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2022-07-19
Stop relying on traditional source of countries alone for foreign labour, says PM
KUALA LUMPUR: Employers are urged to consider hiring foreign workers from approved source countries and not merely rely on traditional source nations alone as part of efforts to address the shortage of foreign labour. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ism...
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2022-07-19
Malaysia's ability to increase debt level limited - Tengku Zafrul
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s ability to increase its level of indebtedness is limited compared to developed nations with much lower debt service ratios, said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz. He said the country’s ratio...
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2022-07-19
More than 80pct of businesses raise prices to cope with inflation, some choose to absorb despite margin squeeze: Grant Thornton
KUALA LUMPUR: Businesses are applying different pricing strategies to cope with rising inflation with the top choice is, unsurprisingly, raising their prices. Others had chosen to absorb part, if not majority, of the cost to avoid losing customers...
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2022-07-19
Inflation in Malaysia still manageable thanks to subsidies - economist
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is one of the Asean countries with low inflation rate which is manageable compared with other parts of the world such as the United States, which rose to new peak of 9.1 per cent in June 2022 and Turkiye which rose to nearly 80...