OSS hits brickwall

The failure to implement a computer system integrating all government departments has stalled efforts to set up the one-stop-shop (OSS) investment centre.

Seventeen months after the initiative was launched in 2010, the government was yet to bring together all departments dealing with investment.

OSS was launched as part of a raft of measures aimed at re-profiling the country’s business competitiveness and offloading several bureaucratic burdens from potential investors previously exposed to protracted and disjointed regulatory approvals.

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