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KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): The Yang di-Pertuan Agong should be the one who revokes and announces the decision on the proclamation of Emergency Ordinance, Parti Warisan Sabah president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said.

KUALA LUMPUR (July26): The government is mulling over opening up the construction sector supply chain with stricter standard operating procedures (SOPs) soon, said Real Estate & Housing Developers' Association (REHDA) Malaysia president Datuk Soam Heng Choon.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): Malaysia recorded the highest number of daily fatalities at 207 on Monday, pushing the national death toll linked to the coronavirus to 8,201.

BERLIN (July 26): The German government is looking at imposing more restrictions on the people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 to curb the spread of the super-contagious Delta variant, reported Reuters.

SINGAPORE (July 26): Guocoland has placed an offer of more than S$784 million (about RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): Hundreds of contract doctors and medical officers from public hospitals nationwide today joined a strike to express their dissatisfaction with the government’s recent announcement of what it deemed as improved benefits and contracts, reported Malay Mail.

PUTRAJAYA (July 26): Dhaya Maju LTAT Sdn Bhd, the company involved in the Klang Valley Double Tracking Phase 2 (KVDT2) dispute, has today been given an Erinford injunction which restrains Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd (KTMB) from taking any further action against revoking Dhaya Maju LTAT’s licence to occupy and continue work on the KVDT2 project site.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): Southeast Asia has lagged the pace of recovery in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) with the economies in the former still performing below pre-pandemic peaks in the first quarter (1Q21), according to Moody’s Analytics.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): The current lacklustre performance of retail real estate investment trusts’ (REITs) share prices offers investors a good opportunity to invest in quality retail REIT assets whose property values have remained largely intact despite the Covid-19 pandemic, AmInvestment Bank said.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 25): Retail groups are asking the government to allow shops to reopen for business, as long as 70% of public-facing workers are fully vaccinated.