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  "id": 19589827,
  "title": "Business : Minimum Wage Hike Should Push Businesses To Improve Productivity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/business-minimum-wage-hike-should-push-businesses-to-improve",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T01:04:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bernama",
    "slug": "bernama",
    "url": "http://www.bernama.com/en/news.php?id=2633127"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "By Siti Noor Afera Abu KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's latest minimum wage increase is expected to benefit workers through better incomes, while encouraging businesses to step up efforts to improve productivity to ensure that higher wages can be sustained without putting further pressure on prices.",
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      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Minimum wage hike should push businesses to improve productivity",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/minimum-wage-hike-should-push-businesses-to-improve-productivity",
        "published": "2026-11-12T02:45:29.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}