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KUALA LUMPUR (April 11): Singapore, for months hailed at home and overseas as the “gold standard” for responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, on Friday moved to defuse escalating criticism over how it has handled a surge in infections within foreign worker dormitories that activists had earlier flagged as public health risks due to their cramped conditions, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 10): There were 416 foreigners among the 4,228 Covid-19 cases in Malaysia as at noon yesterday, according to the Health Ministry.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 31): Beijing has not given the greenlight for Malaysia to use military transport planes to evacuate our citizens stuck in Hubei province and Wuhan as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Foreign Affairs Minister Saifuddin Abdullah (pictured) said, reported Malaysiakini.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 26): Foreign Affairs minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah has rubbished claims that Cabinet ministers were provided with a monthly RM5,700 parking allowance.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 23): Putrajaya's decision to increase minimum wage to RM1,200 in major cities would result in an estimated RM2.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 30): The Selangor branch of Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) is in favour of the state reducing the threshold price for foreigners buying high-rise properties, and is currently in discussions with the state government, according to its chairman Zulkifly Garib.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): A Hong Kong daily has reported that Malaysia is “luring foreign buyers” of unsold homes, “targeting wealthy mainland Chinese and Hong Kong residents”.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 24): Economist Muhammed Abdul Khalid said the government should not adjust the price threshold for foreigners to buy houses and let the property market adjust itself, according to a report today in Free Malaysia Today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 13): The government says its move to lower the foreign ownership threshold for condominiums and apartments in the city area to RM600,000 from RM1 million is aimed at reducing the oversupply of such units, which stood at RM8.

  PETALING JAYA (Oct 11): The government today has proposed to lower the minimum price threshold for the foreign purchase of high-rise property specifically condominiums and apartments in urban areas, from RM1 million currently to RM600,000 effective 2020.