PETALING JAYA: Taxpayers who have missed the Sept 30 deadline for the Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme (SVDP) can still make voluntary disclosure of their unpaid taxes. The good news is that they won’t be immediately slapped with the heavy penalty rate of between 45% and 300% as initially announced, although the penalty rates will be […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE: Malaysian palm oil futures retreated after touching a 19-month high earlier on Thursday, as the ringgit gained and as panic buying emerged due to an expected supply shortage died down. The benchmark palm oil contract for January delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange closed 0.4% lower at 2,485 ringgit ($595) per tonne, ending […]
Read MoreBrunei Darussalam is among the top five countries with the highest tourist receipts in Malaysia at RM1.52 billion. Deputy Director General of Tourism Malaysia Zulkifli bin Mohd Said made this statement at the Networking Dinner for Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council held in conjunction with Malaysia Year of Healthcare Travel 2020 (MYHCT 2020) last Wednesday. Hosted […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Grab, Touch n’ Go eWallet, Boost, and Fave are Malaysia’s most actively used mobile e-wallets applications (app) in the past two years. According to a research conducted by App Annie Intelligence, a mobile data and analytics platform, together with iPrice Group, an information aggregator platform in South-East Asia, the Grab app leads the […]
Read More[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is trying to overcome its reliance on low-skilled foreign workers as it tries to move up the economic ladder. But that’s hurting some key industries in the country. The country aims to reduce the number of overseas workers by more than 130,000 in five years, while getting companies to hire more high-skilled […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: The Master Builders Association Malaysia (MBAM) is confident that the construction industry is still on track to achieve its 1.7% growth forecast for 2019, underpinned by ongoing jobs that will keep contractors busy until the end of the year. President Foo Chek Lee said the growth could be accelerated if local construction firms […]
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