Interest waivers, fiscal injection, regular handouts only way out - Guan Eng

DAP has urged the government to implement a slew of measures to help small and medium enterprises (SME) stay afloat following warnings that nearly half of SMEs risk failing by October if they are not allowed to operate.

In July, the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Ministry (Medac) had warned that 49 percent or 580,000 SMEs are at risk of failing if they cannot resume business by next month.

The Medac minister at the time, Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, said...