COMMENT | Why Heineken/Carlsberg should be given some MCO exemptions

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COMMENT | Why Heineken/Carlsberg should be given some MCO exemptions
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‘Supply is going to become scarce and prices are going to rise. All of this is needless.’

COMMENT | Well, Covid-19 has not changed one bit the often misplaced religious polemics in Malaysia with a lot of froth being stirred in the beer glass for nothing. The point to note is that Heineken and Carlsberg are a food and beverage business.

What is disturbing is that the end result is that the government submits to these ridiculous, irrational, thoughtless demands by those intending to score political points during such difficult times and orders that the permission to work – not full time, but to maintain operations with minimal staff – is revoked.

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