KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (Bernama) -- The First Meeting of the Fourth Session of the 15th Parliament, which concluded yesterday, saw the passing of two economy-related Bills within the 12-day session.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Increasing the supply of affordable, mid-tier hospital beds and providing incentives for the expansion of not-for-profit hospitals can help mitigate spiralling medical insurance and medical costs.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 (Bernama) -- The Malaysia Co-Investment Fund (MyCIF)’s total funds raised through equity crowdfunding (ECF) and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms grew to RM2.6 billion in 2024 from RM2.2 billion in 2023.
PUTRAJAYA, March 13 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has emphasised that the RM1.1 billion injection into Sapura Energy Bhd (SEB) is a loan, not a sunk cost, and must be repaid.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 (Bernama) -- The Credit Counselling and Management Agency (AKPK) has benefited nearly 1.4 million individuals through free financial advisory services, as well as assisting approximately 495,000 borrowers through the Debt Management Programme (DMP) as at December 2024.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 (Bernama) -- Local consumer 'buy now, pay later' (BNPL) transactions surged in the second half (2H) of 2024, reaching RM7.1 billion, up from RM4.9 billion in the first half, said Finance Minister II, Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 (Bernama) -- The National Association of Malaysian Life Insurance and Family Takaful Advisors (NAMLIFA) has urged the government to address the significant price disparity between insured and cash-paying patients at private hospitals, warning that such discrepancies could make medical insurance unsustainable.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (Bernama) -- The government does not intend to lower the corporate income tax rate to attract more foreign investment to Malaysia, said the Ministry of Finance (MoF).
SHAH ALAM, March 1 (Bernama) -- The Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) future investments will be guided by its Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA), which follows a three-year investment cycle and is reviewed every three years.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (Bernama) -- The Ministry of Plantation and Commodities expects the RM100 million assistance for the palm oil replanting programme to be fully utilised by smallholders by June this year.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 (Bernama) -- The progress in replanting oil palm trees is still lagging, with Malaysia managing to replant 114,000 hectares, or 2.0 per cent of its total planted area in 2024, down from 132,000 hectares (2.3 per cent) in 2023.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- The Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) today inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) and the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) to strengthen the accuracy in the usage of business codes via the SSM BizCodEX portal.
