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KUALA LUMPUR (March 25): The two brothers of the Shamsuddin family, Tan Sri Shahril Shamsuddin and Datuk Shaziman Shamsuddin of Sapura Holdings, have come forward to donate RM1 million to help fight the COVID-19 heath crisis.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): The Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce (MCCC) and Malaysian Islamic Chamber of Commerce (MICC) is asking the government to allow active contributors of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to withdraw their 11% contribution to the fund over the past six months.

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KUALA LUMPUR (March 20): The Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce (MCCC) and Malaysian Islamic Chamber of Commerce (MICC) have called for strict enforcement to make the country’s movement control order (MCO) work with the prescribed 14 days to curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.

PETALING JAYA (March 19): Hotels are now focusing on mere survival as the industry faces a gloomy outlook for the rest of the year, with the Visit Malaysia 2020 (VMY2020) campaign now cancelled.

PETALING JAYA (March 18): In a bid to contain COVID-19, President of Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) Kamaruddin Baharin advises hotel operators to limit the movement of people in line with the Restricted Movement Control order until March 31.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The Malaysian Bar has called on the federal government to institute a lockdown of the nation due to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): A group of local medical experts representing seven professional societies has urged Putrajaya to implement “quick and firm measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak and avoid an uncontainable surge in cases”, reported The Malay Mail today.

PETALING JAYA (March 10): The ‘Malaysian Women Unite’ campaign, a public and private initiative of Extraordinary People Impacting Communities (EPIC) and the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development is aiming to raise at least RM850,000 to build homes for 17 Orang Asli families in Kampung Sungai Kelubi, Rawang, Selangor.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 6): The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has delayed returning to Malaysia another US$240 million (about RM1 billion) of recovered money allegedly stolen from the 1MDB sovereign fund, two sources told Reuters today.