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The Human Resource Ministry has received over 5,000 complaints through the Working For Workers application on various labour issues, especially not allowing employees to work from home. Image Credit: niekverlaan | PixabaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vegetable farmers at villages in the Cameron Highlands are seeing their crops going to waste because of their inability to harvest them during the enhanced movement control order (EMCO) period. Image Credit: YuriAbas | ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AirAsia Group’s digital unit, AirAsia Digital, has acquired Indonesia’s ride-hailing Gojek business in Thailand for RM208 million in an aim to accelerate its digital expansion plans across the region. Image Credit: StockSnap | Pixabay See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Ministry (MEDAC) has warned that the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector could imminently collapse, should the current nationwide lockdown continue indefinitely. Image Credit: Pexels | PixabaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The hospitality and tourism sectors have had blow after blow during the course of the pandemic; but some are remaining ever optimistic in the face of uncertainty. Image Credit: Tooykrub | ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The six-month moratorium for all individuals, micro-enterprises and affected small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) begins today, according to Bank Negara. Image Credit: Nor Sham Soyod | Shutterstock See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Many of the women entrepreneurs from the B40 household income group who pivoted to selling their products online during the first lockdown last year have grown disheartened as business flagged this time round. Image Credit: Kristin Greenwood | ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Malaysian Association of Advertising Filmmakers (MAAF) has urged Putrajaya to allow them to work, stating that by not allowing the advertising film industry to operate, it is "letting us die". In an open letter to Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, the minister of communications and multimedia, the association said its members are “running out of money to support our employees if we have no shoots, they have no food.” Image Credit: Gorodenkoff | Shutterstock See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A web-based application to crowdsource and centralise white flag reports nationwide has been created by a team of computer science students. Image Credit: Krisy | Shutterstock See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Businesses welcome the targeted aid announced under the fourth Prihatin Special Grant (GKP 4.0), with many looking forward to the National Recovery Plan entering Phase Two in Penang. Image Credit: iQoncept | ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.