News about IT

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has released its amended list of essential services which are allowed to operate during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period, along with the standard operating procedure to be obeyed by these businesses.

The Covid-19 pandemic is inflicting unprecedented damage on the health and economic well-being of many countries, from the powerful to the weak.

PETALING JAYA (April 16): With the COVID-19 crisis and worries over an economic recession, housing price in Malaysia is expected to fall by between 10% to 15%, which is a deeper drop than in 1998 during the Asian Financial Crisis, according to NawawiTie Leung Property Consultants director and regional head of research and consulting Saleha Yusoff.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 15): Malaysian actor Ashraf Muslim tested positive for COVID-19, after filming a serial drama "Demi" in Inverness, Scotland, late last month, Berita Harian reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 15): A now-deleted political Facebook post on the Health Ministry's official page has caused a storm, with many saying the ministry should remain neutral and apolitical, Malaysiakini reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 14): The Edge Covid-19 Equipment Fund will be delivering another batch of personal protective equipment (PPEs) to public hospitals in the country over the next two weeks.

Beyond the work-from-home orders to millions of office workers around the world, another major shift has impacted work trends following the Covid-19 health scare — the sudden avoidance and even abandonment of finger- and thumb-biometric scanning to mark staff attendance and ensure workplace security and hygiene.

KUALA LUMPUR, (April 14): Heads of government-linked companies are appointed by the prime minister and the decisions are usually announced by the Prime Minister’s Office through media statements.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 14): The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is suing a subsidiary of Ikhmas Jaya Group Bhd to recover RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 11): Singapore, for months hailed at home and overseas as the “gold standard” for responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, on Friday moved to defuse escalating criticism over how it has handled a surge in infections within foreign worker dormitories that activists had earlier flagged as public health risks due to their cramped conditions, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported yesterday.