Total trade value between China and Malaysia reached 176.8 billion USD in 2021 with an year-on-year increase of 34.5 percent amid the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, a Chinese official has said.
Director General of the Malaysian Health Ministry Noor Hisham Abdullah said on January 6 that the Drug Control Authority (DCA) of the country has given conditional approval for Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty jab for children aged between 5 and 11 years old.
Malaysia’s palm oil industry is expected to maintain its 2021 performance this year backed by various marketing and promotional efforts to be conducted by the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities and its agencies.
About 15 percent of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Malaysia were temporarily closed due to a lack of funds stemming from the COVID-19 epidemic.
Vietnam has fulfilled several economic targets 2021 despite COVID-19 pandemic, becoming one of the world’s 20 leading economies in terms of global trade, according to an article recently published by Malaysia’s Bernama.
The Health Ministry of Malaysia has shortened the interval period after the second dose for people receiving booster shots of the Pfizer and Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccines to three months from the previous duration of six months.
The Malaysian economy is forecast to expand by 5.8 percent in 2022, as domestic and external demand recovers, the World Bank (WB) said in a report on December 21.
At least seven people have died and more than 50,000 evacuated from their homes as Malaysia faced some of its worst floods for years, officials said on December 20.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has downgraded Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast to 3.8 percent from 4.7 percent for 2021 and 5.9 percent from 6.1 percent next year.
Vietnamese-run enterprises have managed to keep business going in Malaysia despite COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns, according to Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, Vice President of the Vietnam Malaysia Business Association (VMBIZ).
Malaysian media have highly assessed Vietnam after the reigning champions defeated Malaysia 3-0 in their match on December 12 at the ongoing AFF Suzuki Cup 2020 in Singapore.
Malaysia's unemployment rate decreased to 4.3 percent in October, the lowest rate since April 2020, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
A court of appeal in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on December 8 upheld former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 12 imprisonment sentence over his scandal at 1Malaysia Development Berhad sovereign wealth fund that contributed to his government’s downfall in 2018.
