The Malaysian Government will not compromise with the smoking ban in all restaurants, food outlets and hawker stalls, Malaysian Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad told the press on November 14.
The Malaysian government on November 2 submitted to the legislature the 2019 Budget, which is expected to help restore the Malaysian economy as an Asian Tiger, according to the New Straits Times.
The Malaysian Government has agreed that cabinet ministers going on short business trips will not allowed to bring their spouses along, a move aimed to cut public expenditure.
The Malaysian government announced on August 29 that it will set up two committees to help reduce the country's fiscal deficit to 2.8 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product, according to Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.
The Malaysian Central Bank on August 17 revised down the country’s growth forecast this year to 5 percent, after its gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter came in sharply below its expectation.
The Malaysian government has pledged to review the existing system for the import of foreign workers to eradicate monopolies by companies, said Malaysian Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran on July 28.
Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has announced that salaries of cabinet ministers will be cut in a bid to control spending as the government is facing a high-level public debt that now exceeds 1 trillion ringgit (around 251.5 billion USD).
The Malaysian government will work with authorities in Switzerland, the US, Singapore and other jurisdictions to recover funds that were embezzled from the state treasury, said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on May 11 announced 10 core ministries of the new government, the first move of Mahathir and his Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) to set up the cabinet after their victory in the general elections two days ago.
The Malaysian Government on March 8 reiterated its commitment to search for the missing MH370 plane of Malaysia Airlines as efforts to clear up one of the largest mysteries in the aviation history enters the fifth year.
Millions of Malaysian civil servants and pensioners on January 8 received special payment from the government, as previously announced in October 2017.
The Malaysian Government has stopped issuing work permits for people from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) after the murder of a DPRK citizen at a Malaysian airport earlier this year, according to Kyodo news agency.
Singapore has imposed fines on Swiss bank Credit Suisse and a local bank for breaching rules on money laundering in connection with the alleged misappropriation from Malaysian state fund 1MDB.
The Malaysian Government on March 21 ordered all schools in Kedah and Perlis to close due to hot weather caused by El Nino, Bernama news agency said the same day.
Malaysia’s government has been ranked eighth in terms of most
efficient performance in the 2014-2015 Global Competitive Report
released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on its website, according to
local New Straits Times.
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