KUALA LUMPUR: According to finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz, the Employment Insurance System under the Social Security Organisation (Socso) has successfully channeled RM366.37 million to more than 107,000 people who lost their jobs in 2020. He claimed that as of March 14, this year, Socso had assisted over 18,000 employees who had lost their jobs by channeling RM85.96 million in …

PETALING JAYA: DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng said today that the government’s new RM20 billion economic recovery plan was insufficient to lift the country out of recession. He said that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s new Pemerkasa stimulus package, which included just RM11 billion in fiscal injections compared to previous stimulus packages, was insufficient. This 50% discount or pay RM5,000 within …

PUTRAJAYA: Because of the latest Movement Control Order (MCO 2.0), the government expects the country to lose RM600 million per day, compared to RM2.4 billion per day during the first MCO between March and May last year, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz said yesterday. As five critical sectors are still available, this MCO is unlike the one in March last …