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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Latest publication
- Sep 12, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Thestar
- Top 5K sites
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- Jul 18, 2026
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Vagaries behind wage rise (opens the original)
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THE Malaysian Trades Union Congress has proposed raising the minimum wage from RM1,700 to RM3,100 a month, but it is much easier said than done. Workers may have strong reasons to seek higher incomes, but employers may also face difficult choices when the legal wage floor moves so far. Cancel anytime. Ad-free. Unlimited access with perks. Billed as RM 11.12 for the 1st month, RM 13.90 thereafter. Billed as RM 118.40 for the 1st year, RM 148 thereafter.
When tourism succeeds, what changes? (opens the original)
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MALAYSIA wants Visit Malaysia 2026 to be a success. After receiving 42.2 million international visitors in 2025 – a figure that includes same-day visitors – the campaign aims to draw 47 million this year, generating jobs, spending and economic activity while delivering lasting benefits to local communities. If those visitors come, the familiar numbers will tell us how well Malaysia succeeded in attracting them, but not what happened to the places that received them. Cancel anytime. Ad-free. Unli
Can filial duty fill the care gap? (opens the original)
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A GOVERNMENT confident in its welfare institutions does not need to legislate family feeling. It builds the institutions and allows obligation, affection and duty to operate freely within them. When it reaches instead for the statute book – as Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi recently proposed with a law compelling adult children to financially support ageing parents – it reveals something about the state’s own readiness that the proposal itself does not say directly. Cance
Hidden subsidy behind cheap labour (opens the original)
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AS Bangladesh and Malaysia discuss reopening labour recruitment and strengthening worker protections, an uncomfortable question remains unresolved. Malaysia’s recruitment fee problem is usually treated as a corruption story. But it is also an economics story, and that is what makes it more stubborn. When workers borrow heavily to secure jobs here, the cost becomes debt, and debt changes behaviour. Cancel anytime. Ad-free. Unlimited access with perks. Billed as RM 11.12 for the 1st month, RM 13.9
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