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Malaysia: Unemployment rate up slightly to 4.8% in November 2020

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 11): Malaysia’s unemployment rate rose by a marginal 0.1 percentage point month-on-month to 4.8% in November 2020 with 764,400 unemployed persons, the Department of Statistics Malaysia said today. Chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the Conditional Movement Control Order implemented during the month, which saw economic activities continuing to […]

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Malaysia: Economic activities will continue to function during state of emergenc

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12  — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin expounded that the country’s economic activities will continue to function throughout the duration of the state of emergency, but is subject to compliance with the standard operating procedures (SOPs) and the re-implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO). The Prime Minister said the government would ensure that economic activities […]

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"We will settle the remaining census for 24.1mil individuals by face-to-face interviews," said Census 2020 commissioner Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin during a press conference at DOSM headquarters in Putrajaya.
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Malaysia’s Nov IPI contracts 2.2%

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s industrial production index contracted 2.2% in November 2020 as compared to the same month in 2019, despite a 0.2% median growth forecast by a survey of Bloomberg economists. The Department of Statistics Malaysia said in a statement that the country’s mining index fell 15.4% while the electricity index dropped 2.5%. The contraction […]

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Malaysia: MITI ends probe into imported ceramic tiles

KUALA LUMPUR: The government had on Monday terminated the safeguard investigation on imports of ceramic floor and wall tiles that it had initiated based on a petition filed by the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers – Malaysian Ceramic Industry Group. The petitioner had claimed that the increase in imports of ceramic floor and wall tile products […]

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