Ripple effect of stimulus package to local economy
KUALA LUMPUR: The Covid-19 outbreak started as a health crisis in China before turning into a global pandemic, which is now wreaking havoc on economies, including Malaysia’s, damaging supply chains and causing businesses to face prospects of closures and job losses. With more than two million jobs said to be at stake, businesses from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to large […]
Eagerly anticipated day for pranks
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. – Robert Frost, American poet During my days in rural secondary schools, this was the time when teachers started anticipating what would happen on April 1, April Fools’ Day. After having served […]
