SME News
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2022-01-24
As Malaysians look to dine out more at restaurants and cafes in 2022, businesses hamstrung by staff shortage
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 24 — The services and hospitality industry is now seeing more business as their customer base increases in the new year, but this hike in business is not translating to an increase in profits and revenues. Instead, som...
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2022-01-24
FMM reiterates call to shelve Act 432 for biz recovery
THE Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) reiterates calls for the shelving of the recently proposed amendments to the Infectious Diseases Act 342 indefinitely, saying that repressive laws would be damaging the post-pandemic recovery period. ...
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2022-01-24
Economist: Need to address skills mismatch
PETALING JAYA: Although Malaysia’s unemployment rate has eased to 4.3% in November 2021 from its high of 5.3% recorded in May 2020, the growing mismatch between skills and jobs is casting a shadow over job security, labour productivity, and att...
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2022-01-24
Crowd Sense launches KITACOVER rakyat-centric CSR campaign
KUALA LUMPUR: Crowd Sense Sdn Bhd (CSSB) today launched its latest rakyat-centric campaign called 'KITACOVER' during the MyFintech Week organised by Bank Negara Malaysia. In a statement today, the peer-to-peer (P2P) operator said the corpo...
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2022-01-24
Govt considering aid in the form of special grants for MSMEs, informal traders affected by flood
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob today announced that the Economic Action Council (EAC) meeting has in principle agreed to consider aid in the form of special grants to ease the burden borne by micro, small and medium enter...