After a hiatus of almost five months, Malaysia and Singapore are expected to reopen the border to different groups of travellers beginning Aug 10. In a joint press statement by Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein and his Singaporean counterpart Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said that both governments have agreed to implement the Reciprocal Green Lane (RGL) and Periodic Commuting Arrangement (PCA).

On 13 July 2020, AMCHAM welcomed its first-ever in-house briefing session with a group of 22 Junior Diplomats from the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations (IDFR), under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia. Our CEO, Ms. Siobhan Das gave an enlightening presentation about AMCHAM, the unique part that a business chamber plays in developing local and international relationships, and highlights from the on-going US-Malaysia trade relations.

KPMG International has won the Global SI Digital Transformation 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The organization was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

Gibraltar BSN Life Berhad (“Gibraltar BSN”), one of Malaysia’s fast growing life insurance companies, recently unveiled its latest branding campaign titled “With You Every Step of The Way” at Abdullah Hukum LRT station (“Station”) to raise public awareness on protection and spur life insurance penetration in Malaysia.

In line with the current climate to combat corruption, organisations in Malaysia must navigate the waves of corporate and personal liability on corruption. Join us this August to analyse your organisation’s commitment in implementing effective anti-bribery management. You will be guided in identifying new strategic ways to constructively engage your employees, boards and shareholders in anti-corruption and ethical culture.

If COVID-19 is not contained in six months, 65 million jobs will be lost in Asia, estimates the Asian Development Bank. The International Labour Organization reports that one in six young people worldwide is unemployed since February; others had their working hours cut by around 25%. But not everything looks gloomy as COVID-19 has triggered an acceleration of digitalisation across various business lines. This article provides six job categories individuals can sharpen their skills for in six months.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed overlooked weaknesses in the world’s infectious-disease-surveillance and -response capabilities—weaknesses that have persisted in spite of the obvious harm they caused during prior outbreaks. Many countries, including some thought to have strong response capabilities, failed to detect or respond decisively to the early signs of SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks. Once they did mobilize, some nations struggled to ramp up public communications, testing, contact tracing, critical-care capacity, and other systems for containing infectious diseases.