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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.

PUTRAJAYA (June 19): Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were six new Covid-19-positive cases as of 12pm today, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 8,535.

PUTRAJAYA (June 19): The authorities will teak the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for restaurants and eateries so that they can have full capacity for dine in, Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said today.

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.

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.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): GDB Holdings Bhd's net profit for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020 (1QFY20) fell 18.