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PETALING JAYA (Oct 31): The Affordable Housing Group Cameron Highlands (pictured) has called on the government to fund more affordable housing “as the last low-cost flats were built nearly 40 years ago” while the low-income groups “have been priced out of newer projects”, reported FMT today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Online sales for condoms made by Klang-based Karex “shot up by seven-fold during the first half of this year” owing to the numerous movement restrictions to stem the Covid-19 pandemic, reported Channel News Asia (CNA).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Malaysia needs to put in place a more effective social policy framework to provide timely aid to ensure the urban poor do not slip deeper into poverty, with findings of a United Nations-commissioned study pointing to a “partial, uneven and uncertain” recovery for low-income urban families from the COVID-19 crisis.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): The Employees Provident Fund echoed Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s sentiment that EPF savings are for the future, and said that larger problems could arise in the future if its members are allowed to access their Account 1 savings to address the challenges they face due to Covid-19.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Malaysia reported 799 new COVID-19 cases today — an increase from 649 yesterday — with three deaths.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Malaysia, which needs to expand its social aid programs, also has to greatly raise awareness about the help that is available to the most vulnerable people in society.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Retailer Robinsons, one of the anchor tenants in The Gardens Mall, is shutting down its operations in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore for good.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Robinsons, the retailer that has been in business for more than 160 years, is shutting all remaining stores in Malaysia and Singapore for good as it falls victim to the Covid-19 pandemic which has sharply reduced consumer demand.

MELBOURNE (Oct 30): UEM Sunrise Bhd announced settlement of the RM365.

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