Applications for The UN Women 2021 Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards are now 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).

Greater Kuala Lumpur ("GKL") Live Lab is a strategic programme organised by InvestKL that aims to attract foreign companies to elevate GKL's competitive advantage for quality, innovation-led and knowledge-intensive investments.

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.

The newly established HR Committee for AMCHAM Malaysia hosted their webinar on 28 July to kick-off a series of learning/ networking sessions to discuss key issues related to talent, HR and organizational matters in Malaysia.

On 29 July 2021, as part of the Public-Private Partnership Industry Immunization Program (PIKAS) program, the staff at Jabil Circuit, including employees, in house contractors and business partners/suppliers and vendors, had completed their first dose of vaccination. The mass vaccination of Jabil Circuit staff was successful and is bringing us one step closer to a fully vaccinated Malaysia.

The United Kingdom (UK) is to contribute 415,000 doses of the UK manufactured AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to Malaysia.

This was announced by UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Dominic Raab today in London.

Penang has achieved a 51.1 per cent first-dose COVID-19 vaccination rate as of 11.59pm on July 28.

The state has managed to speed up its vaccination rate for the state's adult population earlier than the initial goal of early September.

A total of 552,701 COVID-19 vaccines were administered nationwide yesterday, 28 July 2021. This is a slight decrease from the 553,871 shots delivered on Tuesday. Of yesterday’s 552,701 jabs, 353,771 individuals received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 198,930 completed their second dose.

Sending support to their local Penang General Hospital, Zebra Technologies Malaysia has made a donation to the hospital during this pandemic. The items included a unit of an electronic bed and 350 pieces of isolation gowns.

The items were handed over to Dr. Wong, Assistant Pengarah of Penang General Hospital.

It has been a challenging time for people across South and Southeast Asia, with COVID-19 cases continuing to rise.

Today, through Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, is providing a USD$1.5 million grant to UNICEF to support urgent COVID-19 response needs across five countries including Malaysia and Pakistan.

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.

Optimism about the global economy has moderated but remains the predominant sentiment among executives, according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey on economic conditions.

Seventy-one percent expect improvement in the next six months, down from 81 percent in June, breaking the streak of increasingly positive views that began at the start of 2021.