{"id":6004,"date":"2021-08-14T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2021-08-14T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:46:00","slug":"mrca-to-lobby-for-changes-in-covid-19-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/08\/14\/mrca-to-lobby-for-changes-in-covid-19-act\/","title":{"rendered":"MRCA To Lobby For Changes in Covid-19 Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysia Retail Chain Association (MRCA) will lobby the government to make changes to the Covid-19 Act to help with the challenges faced by F&B outlets. <\/p>\n

Chief of this newly minted F&B Division, Datuk Garry Chua said this was in line with F@B Division’s vision to make it more professional especially in facing numerous challenges ahead.\"\"<\/p>\n

“I believe it’s time for the F@B Division to be set up as a platform to voice out the plights of the F@B industry players,” he said in a special interview with the BFM Radio.<\/p>\n

Garry said the F@B Division of MRCA, was among others, aimed at championing the much-needed change for F&B players nationwide.<\/p>\n

In this respect, he hoped the government would give more subsidy to the F@B players, particularly those who were adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

“Our problem now is rental. Many retail outlets have closed down their business because of the MCO.<\/p>\n

“Apart from that, many retailers are struggling to survive and we hope the government will provide funding to help them survive in this trying time,” he said.<\/p>\n

Garry also urged the government to expedite the vaccination process for retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysia Retail Chain Association (MRCA) will lobby the government to make changes to the Covid-19 Act to help with the challenges faced by F&B outlets. Chief of this newly minted F&B Division, Datuk Garry Chua said this was in line with F@B Division’s vision to make it more professional especially in facing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6007,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}