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PUTRAJAYA (Oct 31): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's (pictured) application to intervene in the review application of the conviction and death sentence of former chief inspector Azilah Hadri, for the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu 14 years ago, will be heard together with the review application on Dec 8.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Melbourne’s citizens tasted a “first weekend of relative freedom” after an almost four-month lockdown to combat the Covid-19 epidemic, Reuters reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (pictured) is mulling another national lockdown next week, The Times reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai (pictured) said he personally had "nothing to do with" a report on alleged China business links of a son of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Reuters reported Lai, however, said “funds from his private firm had been used to fund it”.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): The above is a video was made public by a mother of doctors serving as front liners in Sabah.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 31): The Affordable Housing Group Cameron Highlands (pictured) has called on the government to fund more affordable housing “as the last low-cost flats were built nearly 40 years ago” while the low-income groups “have been priced out of newer projects”, reported FMT today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Online sales for condoms made by Klang-based Karex “shot up by seven-fold during the first half of this year” owing to the numerous movement restrictions to stem the Covid-19 pandemic, reported Channel News Asia (CNA).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Malaysia needs to put in place a more effective social policy framework to provide timely aid to ensure the urban poor do not slip deeper into poverty, with findings of a United Nations-commissioned study pointing to a “partial, uneven and uncertain” recovery for low-income urban families from the COVID-19 crisis.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): The Employees Provident Fund echoed Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s sentiment that EPF savings are for the future, and said that larger problems could arise in the future if its members are allowed to access their Account 1 savings to address the challenges they face due to Covid-19.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Malaysia reported 799 new COVID-19 cases today — an increase from 649 yesterday — with three deaths.