Penang to create 15,000 jobs amid pandemic
The George Town skyline. Penang received RM13.3 billion in total approved manufacturing investments between January and September 2019. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 21, 2020.
THE Penang government expects to create some 15,000 jobs through foreign direct investments and domestic direct investments it received last year, said Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow. He said almost 3,000 people are set to lose their jobs after two textile companies in Penang shuttered amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and that these investments would replace the lost jobs.
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