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Malaysian antitrust law amendments, merger control targeted for year end, competition chief says

By Jet Damazo-Santos
  • 01 Apr 2021 01:40
  • 01 Apr 2021 01:40
After more pandemic delays, Malaysia expects to table its competition law amendments — which includes merger control — in parliament by the end of the year, according to the country’s antitrust chief. 
“Because of Covid-19 last year, we rescheduled it to [the] end of this year,” Iskandar Ismail, the chief

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Jet Damazo-Santos

Correspondent, Jakarta


Jet Damazo-Santos has been covering antitrust, data protection and other compliance issues in key jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for MLex full time since 2018. She has almost two decades of journalism experience in the Philippines and Indonesia, where she was the associate editor for the Jakarta Globe and the Jakarta bureau chief for Rappler Indonesia prior to joining MLex. She holds a master's degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

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