MIDA in collaboration with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) recently signed an Agreement to develop a hybrid talent development programme known as the MIDA Assessment Development Center (MADC) HyTalent Programme. They are organizing the “MADC HyTalent Program: International Chambers Chapter" webinar on 17 November 2021. This webinar aims to obtain feedback from the International Chambers to the MADC HyTalent program. Click on the 'Read More' tab to register.

The State Government of Selangor, through Invest Selangor Berhad, is organizing the Selangor International Business Summit 2021 (SIBS 2021) on 18th – 21st November 2021, held at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, as one of Malaysia's largest local and international trade gateways for exhibitors, buyers, and delegates to match business communities across the globe.

Malaysia will reopen its borders to international visitors by January 1 at the latest, a government advisory council said on Thursday, as the country seeks to revive its ailing tourism sector. The South-east Asian country has gradually reopened its economy in recent weeks as coronavirus infection rates have slowed amid a ramped-up vaccination programme.

Persolkelly Malaysia has released its 2021/22 Malaysia Salary and Employment Outlook, in which the company said the past year has seen a wave of change in the Malaysian employment landscape, as the nation continues to battle the impact of COVID-19. These changes centred on the adoption of digital solutions that enable remote work to maintain business continuity amidst nationwide movement restrictions.

The government needs to introduce more options under tax incentives other than tax exemptions and tax shelters in order to better help unicorn startups and entrepreneurship get through their initial challenges. Deloitte Asia Pacific tax partner Mark Chan said the initial challenges are not very profitable, so profit shelters and allowances are not going to do much in the short term to help these businesses grow and develop, and the critical issue is still how to get funding in order to achieve their desired level.

The Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance (MICG) is organizing the "9th Governance In Procurement Conference” on 8 December 2021.

This Conference will bring thought provoking and diverse insights and perspectives from experienced professionals and practitioners across a wide range of industries, on how organizations can be better prepared to step up Governance in their procurement areas.

Your business’s use of AI is only going to increase, and that’s a good thing. Digitalization allows businesses to operate at an atomic level and make millions of decisions each day about a single customer, product, supplier, asset, or transaction. But these decisions cannot be made by humans working in a spreadsheet.