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KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): New Covid-19 cases in Malaysia dropped further to 1,063 today, bringing the country's cumulative coronavirus infections to 326,034.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The High Court here today allowed for the apartment previously belonged to 1Malaysia Development Bhd's (1MDB) former general counsel Jasmine Loo Ai Swan to be auctioned off.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): Cypark Resources Bhd said yesterday it has entered into a cooperation agreement with the Johor state government to participate in a waste-to-energy (WTE) project in Batu Pahat, Johor.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): A lawyer from UMNO yesterday disputed the prosecution's assertion that former CIMB chairman Datuk Seri Nazir Razak had purportedly helped to cash in three cheques totalling RM20 million from his older brother Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who was then the country's prime minister and chairman of 1Malaysia Development Bhd's (1MDB) advisory board, and given the money back to Najib.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): Malaysia is expected to cross the high-income country threshold by 2025 under a baseline scenario, on the basis that the economy continues to expand healthily in the next few years, said World Bank.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The trial of former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng in the US for his role in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal is expected to begin in June or July this year, the High Court here was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) has failed in its bid to take FGV Holdings Bhd private at RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) passenger count across Malaysia more than halved to 318,000 in February, from 754,000 in January, hit by temporary flight suspensions partly due to the resurgence of Covid-19 cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The High Court has dismissed an application brought by National Feedlot Corp Sdn Bhd (NFC), its chairman Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Salleh Ismail and nine others, to sell three plots of land worth more than RM6 million in Gemas, Negri Sembilan, in the federal government’s RM250 million civil suit against them.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 15): Datuk Seri Najib Razak's lawyer maintained today that the alleged 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-linked money recovered during a police raid at the Pavilion Residences condominium three years ago totalled RM160 million, and not RM114 million as claimed by the authorities.