Applications for The UN Women 2021 Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards are open until 31 July 2021!

The WEPs Awards honours Asia-Pacific private businesses that champion gender equality in the workplace, marketplace, and community in alignment with the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs).

As a participating organization in Dell’s MentorConnect 2021 Program, AMCHAM CEO, Siobhan Das hosted the first meeting for mentees assigned to her today. The eight mentees in her group were allocated from AMCHAM members - AIG, Dell and Microsoft.

Join us on 6 August 2021, 7.00am - 8.00am (MYT), for a panel discussion focused on the E&E industry in Penang, Malaysia.

During the session, you will be able to gain insights on the industry outlook for Malaysia and investment opportunities within the sector. You will also hear from American corporates about how they have benefited from the support provided by HSBC Malaysia and industry associations in the country including Invest Penang.

AMCHAM's CEO Siobhan Das will be featured as a panelist.

TheMySejahtera app has been updated with enhanced features in the ongoing fight against the spread of COVID-19. Users will now see three new icons on the app’s homepage - COVID-19 Self Test, Emergency, and Health Facilities. Clicking on the COVID-19 Self Test icon displays three different self-testing kits available for purchase.

Since last Tuesday when COVID-19 self-test kits first went on sale at Sunway Pharmacy, about 5,000 kits have been sold. Sunway Pharmacy’s Syarifah Nazira Said Ramli said both companies as well as individuals have purchased these kits. COVID-19 self-test kits can help reduce infection rates.

The daily COVID-19 vaccination recorded more than 500,000 doses for the past four consecutive days, with 556,404 doses administered yesterday.

The number of vaccine doses administered yesterday was the highest since the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) was launched last February 24.

Solution Group Bhd’s (SGB) wholly-owned subsidiary, Solution Biologics Sdn Bhd (SOLBIO) has signed a finished product and a bulk product agreement today with CanSino Biologics Inc for the supply of the Recombinant Ad5-nCoV vaccine for use against COVID-19.

Malaysia's economy is expected to face challenges in maintaining its recovery momentum amidst the continuous COVID-19 outbreak, said the Department of the Statistics (DOSM) today. It has been an uphill battle for Malaysia to curb the spread of the COVID-19 due to the onslaught of a more contagious variant which worsened the health crisis.

HSBC Malaysia’s newly established Digital Black Belt Development Programme was launched to the first group of HSBC employees as part of its larger commitment to support the country’s workforce to develop skills for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

The digital upskilling initiative is in line with the bank’s focus on preparing employees in Malaysia to be ready to embrace the workplace of the future.

The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) has launched the second edition of its Let’s Learn Digital programme, a part of its #mydigitalworkforce initiative. This programme aims to upskill Malaysians in the workforce to be equipped with in-demand digital skills for an increasingly digitally-dependent workforce, MDEC said in a press release on Wednesday (28 July). This year's programme will see MDEC collaborating with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn.

Hospital Kuala Lumpur is currently in urgent need of hospital equipments due to overwhelming number of COVID-19 patients. AMCHAM is seeking support from any of our member companies who is able to contribute.

If anyone is able to assist, please contact Kevin at kevin@amcham.com.my or Elaine at elaine@amcham.com.my

Hospital Ampang has close to 150 COVID patients now in, and for the past few weeks the hospital has been expanding the wards in terms of manpower, equipment, and proper isolation spaces.

Both patients and clinicians need equipments urgently to be able to do their work.

If anyone is able to assist, please contact Kevin at kevin@amcham.com.my or Elaine at elaine@amcham.com.my

Hospital Kepala Batas has set up the new Hospital Medan to cope with the rising numbers of ICU patients since May 2021. They are currently in urgent need of medical equipment. AMCHAM is seeking support from any of our member companies.

If anyone is able to assist, please contact Kevin at kevin@amcham.com.my or Elaine at elaine@amcham.com.my

AMCHAM is HIRING! Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding career in corporate affairs and policymaking? Are you enthusiastic and passionate about business and policy matters, especially related to Malaysian and U.S.?

If this is you, apply today to join the team as a Government Affairs Manager.

It’s always dangerous to forecast the next six months based on the year’s first half, but private equity deal value, exit value, and fund-raising are all on pace to approach or cross $1 trillion by year-end. If that bears out, the industry will have essentially tripled in size over the 10 years starting in 2011, powering through what turned out to be a brief COVID-19 shock.