News about domestic

KUALA LUMPUR (April 14): A lack of shelters during the movement control order has forced some domestic violence survivors to resort to sleeping in their cars, said the Women's Aid Organisation, Malaysiakini reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 20):  The government has actually already banned the export of face masks effective March 18 in light of the COVID-19 situation in the country, says the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry.

KUALA LUMPUR (March16): The COVID-19 outbreak has now come under the purview of the National Security Council (MKN), said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pictured).

SINGAPORE (Feb 28): A concrete slab fell broke off from the ceiling of a Toa Payoh flat in Singapore and smashed into a toilet bowl just as a foreign domestic helper in her 20s was just about to clean it on Wednesday, Today reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22): With the revised Guidelines on Foreign Participation in the Distributive Trade Services 2020 kicking in on Jan 1, the rules have now “been relaxed” for foreign operators of large-format grocery stores.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 13): The government should explain how the double-digit spike in raw building materials has come about if cement prices have not risen, MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong says.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 30): The government is postponing the implementation of the targeted fuel subsidy programme, which was slated to begin in January 2020.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 19): FundMyHome is taking part in the InvestSmart Fest 2019 at the Mid Valley convention centre here.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 8): The government will look into an opt-in and opt-out option for the targeted fuel subsidy.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 19): The ceiling price for five types of masks against the current haze “has been set” and traders have been warned not to raise their prices.