Country will recover with extensive financial support
BY MIKHAIL RAJ ABDULLAH KUALA LUMPUR: Budget 2022 is clearly a pragmatic financial blueprint, premised on extensive financing including concessionary loans for stakeholders to ensure growth and comprehensive economic recovery. These stakeholders include micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as well as large firms, where sufficient funding would stimulate business activities and generate jobs, putting Malaysia firmly on the […]
Budget 2022 welfare oriented: Fatimah
KUCHING: Budget 2022 is welfare oriented as it benefits every client under the Social Welfare Department (JKM), said Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah. The Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister said the budget not only helped the needy and less fortunate in Sarawak but also the whole of Malaysia. “When announcing the Budget recently, […]
Give more attention to Sarawak, federal govt told
KUCHING: As is customary with every budget, Sarawak hopes for more allocations as it is the largest state in Malaysia.“However, Sarawak, which has a wider area, is still lagging in various aspects of development. It needs immediate attention from the federal government,” said Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) vice-president Dr Abdul Rahman when contacted yesterday.He […]
No audience with Agong yet, says CM
KUCHING: Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg has reiterated that there was no audience with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah to discuss the revocation of the emergency order in the state. “No. There was no meeting (with the Agong). I only met with the Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong […]
Party hopes for gender responsive budget
KUCHING: Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) hopes that the National Budget 2022 will be a ‘gender-responsive’ budget by taking into consideration gender equality and increase spending in sectors that will benefit women and girls to reduce inequality. “I hope the government will transform this budget to ensure that gender equality commitments are realised,” said it Women […]
