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KUALA PILAH (Oct 4): A total of 143,000 students nationwide, except in Kedah and Johor, started face-to-face school sessions on Sunday and Monday after all schools in the country were closed for about six months due to the spread of Covid-19.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 4): Interstate travel which Malaysians have been long awaiting is in sight, following the increase in the Covid-19 vaccination rate of the adult population in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR (October 2): Residents of Taman Sri Bintang in Segambut today protested against a proposed high-density apartment development on a steep slope of Bukit Sri Bintang, reported the FMT today.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 1): Sime Darby Property Bhd has appointed Datuk Hamidah Naziadin and Lisa Lim Poh Lin as Independent and Non-Executive Directors of the Board, effective Oct 1, 2021.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 30): MMC Corp Bhd shareholders on Thursday approved its controlling shareholder Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Albukhary's plan to take the company private.

MELAKA (Sept 30): The three-decade-old Capitol Satay Celup Restaurant (pictured) here will be shuttered permanently in early November, another victim of poor business brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 30): Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s former principal private secretary Tan Sri Shukry Salleh said the former premier had ordered him to instruct the National Audit Department (NAD) to drop certain “sensitive information” from the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report in 2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 27): The Malaysian-owned regeneration project of Battersea Power Station in Central London received a royal visit from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, the Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah and the Yang Amat Mulia Tengku Arif Bendahara on Sept 24, Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 27): The RM400 billion development allocation announced under the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP) is the biggest yet when compared with previous plans as the figure includes allocations for the rehabilitation of government agencies, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed.

KUALA TERENGGANU (Sept 27): The government is considering a new controlled price for Covid-19 self-test kits earlier than the expected date in December, said Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Datuk Rosol Wahid.