{"id":9678,"date":"2021-01-18T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3118194\/coronavirus-malaysia-unveils-us37-billion-aid-package-cases"},"modified":"2021-01-18T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:18:14","slug":"coronavirus-malaysia-unveils-us3-7-billion-aid-package-as-cases-surge-japans-suga-vows-to-get-country-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/coronavirus-malaysia-unveils-us3-7-billion-aid-package-as-cases-surge-japans-suga-vows-to-get-country-back-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Malaysia unveils US$3.7 billion aid package as cases surge; Japan\u2019s Suga vows to get country \u2018back to normal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Malaysia unveiled a 15 billion ringgit (US$3.7 billion) Covid-19 aid package on Monday to help the economy weather the impact from a fresh surge in virus cases.The plan \u2013 the first stimulus the government has announced this year \u2013 helps bolster the measures in place to help people blunt the economic impact of the pandemic, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said in a televised address.The measures come a week after Malaysia declared a state of emergency, allowing the government to enact immediate\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3118194\/coronavirus-malaysia-unveils-us37-billion-aid-package-cases\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia unveiled a 15 billion ringgit (US$3.7 billion) Covid-19 aid package on Monday to help the economy weather the impact from a fresh surge in virus cases.The plan \u2013 the first stimulus the government has announced this year \u2013 helps bolster the mea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9679,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions\/9679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}