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KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 23): Amid speculation in the social media that the government will be declaring a state of emergency, constitutional expert Prof Dr Shamrahayu A Aziz (pictured) has posted a list of 15 questions and answers relating to emergency on her Facebook account.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 23): There has been speculation since early today about the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government will very soon declare a state of emergency in Malaysia to combat the daily spike of Covid-19 infections.

SCENARIO 1: Cindy is ready to buy a house, but having heard of plenty of abandoned housing projects in Malaysia, she did not want to take the risk of buying newly-launched or still-under-construction properties.

Since the implementation of the movement control order (MCO) on March 18 this year, people are spending more time at home — be it for leisure or work.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): Malaysia recorded another 847 cases of Covid-19 and five deaths related to the virus today, said the Ministry of Health (MoH).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): After the government enforced work-from-home (WFH) rules for employees at the management and supervisory levels across the private and public sectors in areas under the conditional movement control order (CMCO), and later amended the rules to allow only 10% of them to work on-site, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) said the instructions seemed vague, difficult to follow and had generated confusion.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): Ekovest Bhd has secured more time to consider a proposal to acquire a 40% stake in IWH-CREC Sdn Bhd, the main player in the Bandar Malaysia development.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 21): Jaya Grocer KLIA2 has been closed since yesterday until further notice after two of the shop’s “outsourced security guards” tested positive for Covid-19, Jaya Grocer announced in a media release on it Facebook page.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 20): Malaysia recorded 862 new COVID-19 infections today, marking the fourth consecutive day that new cases stayed above the 800-mark.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 16): Restaurants/eateries in Selangor will be allowed to have a maximum of five people per “big” table with physical distancing in place, Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari clarified today via Twitter.