Last year, the government started taking the 1% affirmative action of people with disabilities (OKU) seriously. This policy has been established in the past before, but the enforcement of it is weak as there aren’t penalties for failing to practice it, said Hannah Yeoh in a Malay Mail interview. “Now …
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COVID-19 has badly affected shopping mall Mustafa Centre. In April, the mall was identified as a COVID-19 cluster and was forced to shut down. Its supermarket section reopened a month later in May, but it has yet to resume its regular 24-hour operating hours due to high operational costs and …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused Malaysia to experience limited export growth in Q1 2020 due to its close business partnerships with mainland China. While this will surely impact the economy throughout the first half of the year (and maybe longer), the government’s stimulus package is expected to keep the economy …
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The Covid-19 virus outbreak has dampened the job market, as the economy and hiring activities see a slowdown. Despite this grim outlook, there remains a demand for candidates with niche skill sets, knowledge and experience in fields such as cloud computing, big data, cybersecurity and software engineering, as well as …
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