QUOTE(forever1979 @ Apr 25 2020, 07:25 PM)
true.
but how about set up a fund, which will be channel directly to the staff of those companies that closed down or laid off staff.
i read many factory in northern region and hotel closing down for good
those are people needed help more than M40...
anyway, no point discuss as backdoor gomen sure have their agenda to make decision.
No need for a fund, there’s already EIS, we just need to lessen the red tapes involved in applying and approving the applications.
QUOTE(icemanfx @ Apr 25 2020, 07:27 PM)
Believe it is more productive and important to have conducive business environment e.g cutting down red tapes, lowering cost of doing business, etc than temporary relief.
Facing competition from China, our country have no choice but to change and be more competitive else the recession will prolong.
Agreed on this but reality is our cost of business definitely can’t go below China for obvious reasons.
QUOTE(icemanfx @ Apr 25 2020, 07:58 PM)
Economic recession, downsizing, retrenchment, pay cut, etc are inevitable. The million dollar questions is how to reverse the downtrend.
It really depends on what we want to focus on moving forward, until now Malaysia is still too dependent on oil. We’re also lacking resources to be a real big producer country. Perhaps focusing on making malaysia as a hub would be better? I’m like how SG is a financial hub, we could look into something similar but maybe more on a service hub instead, we do have the advantage of being multiracial and multilingual compared to a lot of our neighbors.