Last Saturday, AMCHAM's CEO Siobhan Das was invited to speak on Buletin TV3 regarding the Public-Private Partnership COVID-19 Industry Immunisation Programme (PIKAS).

Click on the 'Read More' tab to watch the clip featuring our CEO.

AMCHAM Spotlight is a unique and interactive event platform for companies to highlight their brand and showcase particular products or services to an exclusive audience within the AMCHAM membership.

Interested? Please email our events team at events@amcham.com.my.

With the recent announcement on changes to the permitted activities in areas undergoing National Recovery Plan (NRP) Phase 1 and 2, an updated set of SOPs have been released. Notable changes include activities and facilities open for fully vaccinated individuals, movement control, and more.

The health screening, COVID-19 screening tests and quarantine procedures for citizens and non-citizens arriving abroad at Malaysia have been updated and is in effect as of 10 August 2021.

Walk-in COVID-19 vaccination for Malaysians in the Klang Valley will be continued only at 13 specific vaccination centres (PPV), said the COVID-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF). The CITF, in a statement said the authorities came to the decision as the number of Malaysians walking-in for COVID-19 vaccination has been on the decline since the initiative began on Aug 2.

Private hospitals will not serve as vaccination centres (PPVs) or participate in mega PPVs by the end of this month, in line with the latest directive from the CoOVID-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF). Private hospitals will now focus outside Klang Valley both in terms of enhancing vaccination and decanting patients into private hospitals.

The International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) is happy to introduce new faculty members from across the globe who have joined the ISKL team! These passionate and forward-thinking educators are experts in their field and are all united in their commitment to providing students at ISKL with the best possible learning experience. Alexis Simpson takes on the lead as our new Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) in Elementary School (ES).

EY has released its latest tax alert issue No. 17/2021. This issue coves:

HSBC Malaysia will be the first bank in Malaysia to launch DuitNow Request for businesses which is a secure, real time payment service that allows all businesses to control their payments especially when it comes to streamlining the collection of repetitive payments from multiple customers.

Export Excellence Awards 2021 (EEA) is on the lookout for Malaysia's top exporters. EEA is a platform for exporters to showcase their capabilities and inspire businesses to promote Malaysian products and services to the world.

Apply today! Tell us your export story and take your place among the best in the arena.

Applications are open until 24 September 2021.

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.

Many OEMs have to do a better job of understanding what customers want and need. Consider the gaps revealed in our recent research. Sixty percent of B2B customers want to buy online, and 62 percent prefer to reorder online. But only 13 percent of industrial OEMs offer digital solutions of any kind, and only 10 percent offer online self-service tools for placing reorders.