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KUALA LUMPUR (June 22): Sabah Infrastructure Development Minister Datuk Peter Anthony’s charging for criminal offences in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court has been postponed to July 10 as he was admitted in a hospital for vertigo.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 20): The government today announced electricity bill rebates and discounts totalling RM942 million for domestic users for the months of April, May and June.

PETALING JAYA (June 20):Actor and director Stephen Chow has reportedly mortgaged his mansion in The Peak, the exclusive and expensive hill-top neighbourhood in Hong Kong, amid possible financial woes, The Straits Times reported.

PETALING JAYA (June 20): A 13-day-old baby with no known underlying health conditions has died with Covid-19 in the UK, NHS England has said in a BBC report today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) said today it has established an inquiry team to investigate the alleged discrepancies relating to the group’s former president and chief executive officer Abdul Jalil Rasheed’s academic qualification.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): Health director-general (D-G) Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today the Covid-19 outbreak in immigration detention depots remains under control.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): UEM Sunrise Bhd has acquired a prime development site at Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia for A$43 million (RM126 million) from Jowett Properties, the developer announced today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) is urging the government to immediately replace the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) i-Lestari withdrawal scheme with RM500 monthly cash aid for workers in the B40 income group, after it was revealed that some fund members had already exhausted their Account 2 after two months.

PETALING JAYA (June 19): PKR today said the it will not support Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pictured) as Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) candidate for prime minister, said reports The central leadership council announced today that the party will maintain the PH consensus for PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to be the coalition’s PM candidate if the opposition takes over Putrajaya again.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): UEM Sunrise Bhd, which swung to a first-quarter net loss largely due to foreign exchange (forex) losses, has warned that its earlier sales and gross development value (GDV) targets of RM2 billion respectively for the current financial year ending Dec 31, 2020 (FY20) are likely to be impacted by the economic uncertainty.