SME News
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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...
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2021-06-01
Malaysia's Covid-19 surge douses hopes of economic recovery this year
KUALA LUMPUR - Forced into a two-week lockdown which Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had just days earlier said would be catastrophic for the economy, Malaysia's hopes of a swift return to pre-pandemic gross domestic product (GDP) level...