{"id":77284,"date":"2020-06-04T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T06:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=77284"},"modified":"2020-06-04T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T06:40:33","slug":"temporary-measures-bill-on-covid-19-is-on-the-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=77284","title":{"rendered":"Temporary measures bill on  COVID-19 is on the card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The government is drafting a Temporary Measures Bill to mitigate the social and economic impacts of COVID-19, said the International Trade and Industry Ministry (MITI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry said the survey and valuable suggestions for the Bill, which&nbsp;has been made public at&nbsp;Malaysia Productivity Corporation\u2019s online consultation platform called&nbsp;Unified Public Consultation (UPC), would be closed on June 5, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBe part of this effort and provide your suggestions for the Bill,\u201d it said in its recent post on&nbsp;Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the respondents at UPC, suggested for the government to create an e-commerce platform under the responsible ministry for all small and medium enterprises (SME) as the&nbsp;existing platform might have a mixed level of business, hence, focusing on growing the SMEs is not so impactful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another respondent said the federal and state government, as well as&nbsp;private organisations,&nbsp;should consider making&nbsp;enacting a&nbsp;law or rules to cut all bonus\/initiative\/ financial aid (additional to the usual salary) to be credited to this e-commerce platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSubsidies also can be channelled through this platform.&nbsp;This will ensure that all chance of getting extra fund\/income is focusing on the development of SMEs,\u201d said the respondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another respondent&nbsp;suggests there should be a central coordinating body for all agencies, where every ministry and state government must have a central coordinating committee to respond to queries and agency statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The government is drafting a Temporary Measures Bill to mitigate the social and economic impacts of COVID-19, said the International Trade and Industry Ministry (MITI). The ministry said the survey and valuable suggestions for the Bill, which&nbsp;has been made public at&nbsp;Malaysia Productivity Corporation\u2019s online consultation platform called&nbsp;Unified Public Consultation (UPC), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":77296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}