KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Malaysia’s wholesale and retail trade recorded a sales value of RM142.6 billion, up 6.2 per cent year-on-year in November 2023, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — Malaysia’s construction sector rose 8.1 per cent year-on-year in the value of work done in the second quarter of 2023 to record a total of RM32.4 billion, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 — Malaysia’s total trade surged by 27.8 per cent to RM2.8 trillion in 2022 versus RM2.2 trillion the year before, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — Malaysia’s export and import unit value indices grew 1.0 per cent month-on-month (m-o-m) and 0.4 per cent m-o-m respectively in December 2020, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 — Malaysia's Producer Price Index (PPI) for local production slipped 2.8 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in August 2020 to 101.7 compared with 104.6 in the same month last year.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 — The following is the morning update from the Communications and Multimedia Ministry (KKMM) Quick Response Team on countering fake news related to Covid-19 on social media.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 — The Malaysian Population and Housing Census 2020 will be implemented in two phases from July 7 to September 30 and October 7 to 24, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

PUTRAJAYA, June 3 — Environmental protection expenditure for 2018 registered an annual growth of four per cent to RM2.7 billion compared to 2017, according to the Environmental Protection Survey Report 2019.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 — The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) has released the Malaysian Economic Statistics Review report which could help the government and stakeholders accelerate their strategic policy to effectively address the economic crisis in confronting the challenges facing the rakyat.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 — The Producer Price Index (PPI) for local production decreased 5.1 per cent in April 2020 to 99.9 from 105.3 in the same month last year, recording the lowest rate of change since November 2015, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 — Retailers and wholesalers have shown a promising trend of incorporating the usage of digital and e-commerce into their business plans over the past year, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Malaysia’s labour productivity per employment declined 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 (Q1 2020) from 1.4 per cent in Q4 2019 following the implementation of the movement control order (MCO) to contain Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 — Providing jobs for more than half a million unemployed Malaysians should be made a priority in the government’s economic recovery plan which intends to roll out soon.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 14 — The country is projected to record an unemployment rate of between 3.5 per cent and 5.5 per cent this year due to the impact from Covid-19, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 — The services sector generated an estimated revenue of RM83.29 billion during the first three phases of the movement control order (MCO) up to April 28, representing a drop of 38.6 per cent in its estimated average monthly revenue.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 — The unemployment rate in Malaysia rose to 3.5 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of this year from 3.2 per cent in Q4 2019 -- the highest since Q2 2017, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 ― Malaysia's manufacturing sales grew by 7.0 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in February 2020 to register at RM110.6 billion from RM103.4 billion in February 2019, said the Department of Statistics today.

PUTRAJAYA, April 9 — Nearly half or 46.6 per cent of self-employed respondents in a special survey conducted by the Statistics Department to gauge the impact of Covid-19 said they have lost their livelihood while nine out of 10 employed respondents see a reduction of their normal wage.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 14 — A total of 104,000 new jobs were created out of the total 8.7 million jobs in the private sector in 2019, according to the Employment Statistics Fourth Quarter 2019.