No honeymoon for new Cabinet


Important roles: (From left) Zafrul Aziz now helms the Finance Ministry while Mustapa is Minister in the PM’s Dept in charge of economy.

PETALING JAYA: The newly formed triumvirate of Cabinet ministers overseeing the economy would need to hit the ground running to boost the country’s economic growth, which might be in jeopardy coming from recent external and domestic woes.

Threats such as the outbreak of the coronavirus outbreak (Covid-19), plunge in commodities prices including crude oil, the weaker

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