Employees in Selangor are to work from home in a bid to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission during the present conditional movement control order (CMCO), effective Oct 22. This would apply to civil servants, private sector affecting employees who work from the office as well as those in the industry sector.

The Health Ministry has detected two new clusters on Monday(Oct 19). Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that one of the new clusters is the Hentian cluster, adding that it is based at the Hulu Langat district in Selangor. The index case of this cluster tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct 15 from screenings conducted on symptomatic individuals, and was duly admitted to the Sungai Buloh Hospital.

MY AMCHAM CARES would like to bring to your attention an opportunity to be a part of the solution in combating the global crisis we are facing with COVID-19. Our members in partnership with the MY AMCHAM CARES initiatives have come together to provide assistance to hospitals, medical centers, police departments, ministries, and other organizations in need during these trying times.

2020 showed AMCHAM at its best, pulling together for our members and moving the needle on issues at a great time of need. This was only possible because you supported us in the past. We need your support for the future.

As we enter 2021, AMCHAM would like to announce changes in its membership. We encourage you to consider increasing your support towards having a strong and sustainable Chamber by elevating your membership to one of the tiers. This will enable the Chamber to carry out the stronger engagement and advocacy that the times ahead will require.

Please click on the link below for more information on the membership tiers available.

More money has been spent on London properties valued at more than £10 million (RM53.61 million) in the first eight months of this year, compared with the same period of last year, according to Knight Frank's Super-Prime Market Insight — Autumn 2020 released recently. The report revealed that £1.13 billion was spent on London super-prime property from January to August 2020, which was 16% higher than the figure of £977.5 million recorded for the same period of last year.

Kuala Lumpur is gaining global investors’ attention as a preferred principal location to grow their business in the region and globally, said EY in its latest investor guide. The firm said Kuala Lumpur has in recent years become a key destination for multinational corporations (MNCs) to optimize their business models and for “high-value, high-impact” central operating models.

AMCHAM are excited to announce its partnership with LeadWomen and UN Women, as one of the supporting organizations for the upcoming WEPs Malaysia Activator Campaigns.

This program will commence from November 2020 until September 2021 and is expected to engage 300 companies to commit to gender equality by becoming signatories of the Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs).

The shock inflicted by the pandemic on the global economy has been more severe and has occurred much faster than any other in recorded economic history. “The economic fallout from COVID-19 dominates companies’ risks perceptions,” according to the World Economic Forum’s survey of nearly 350 senior risk professionals taken at the height of the pandemic.