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PETALING JAYA (June 22): Hotel operators are seeing a slight recovery in the industry following the reopening of domestic tourism and after drastic cost-cutting measures by hotel operators, said Malaysian Association of Hotels CEO Yap Lip Seng.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 22): Genting Malaysia Bhd is targeting to open its outdoor theme park — which will be named "Genting SkyWorlds" — in the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21).

KUALA LUMPUR (June 22): Sabah Infrastructure Development Minister Datuk Peter Anthony’s charging for criminal offences in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court has been postponed to July 10 as he was admitted in a hospital for vertigo.

SINGAPORE (June 22): Life has returned over the weekend following the reopening of project sales galleries on Friday, June 19.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 20): The number of active Covid-19 cases in Malaysia has dropped further to 289 as of noon today, the health ministry said.

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.

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.

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.

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.