News about COVID-19

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 19): KL33 Properties today unveiled the industry’s first ‘Covid Secure’ office space at Menara KL33, an integrated commercial building located in Kuala Lumpur Golden Triangle.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 19): Malaysian manufacturers remain pessimistic about their business recovery, with over two-thirds of them needing between four months to two years to restore their business to pre-Covid-19 levels, due to the sluggish economic growth projected globally amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

HONG KONG (Aug 18): Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, office markets in Asia Pacific (APAC) will favour tenants for up to three years, according to Collier’s Asia Pacific Office Markets: 1H2020 Review and Five-Year Outlook report released today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 18): Malaysia saw seven new Covid-19 infections as of noon today after reporting cases in the double-digit in the previous six days.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 18): The Covid-19 pandemic, dubbed the worst crisis since The Great Depression in the 1930s, warrants an exit clause in Malaysia's fiscal policy, said Minister of Finance Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 18): The start of former Lembaga Tabung Haji chairman Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim and his brother Datuk Abdul Latif Abdul Rahim’s corruption and money laundering cases were postponed today as Abdul Azeez had made an application with the Sessions Court here to attend Parliament.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 17): Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah dedicated the Tan Sri title to all the frontliners fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in social media.

  SEOUL (Aug 17): South Korea warned today of tighter Covid-19 restrictions as the country’s biggest outbreak linked in nearly six months appeared.

LONDON (Aug 17): Over 37 billion pounds (US$50 billion) worth of properties was put on sale in the United Kingdom (UK), the highest since March 2008, Bloomberg reported citing property website Rightmove.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 16): Malaysia saw 25 new Covid-19 cases today, mainly on account of imported cases.