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PETALING JAYA: What will you do when your tenant requests a rent cut because of financial difficulties due to the impact of the global COVID-19 outbreak? With no questions asked, landladies Jennifer Wong and Cynthia Lim decided to reduce the rental fees to help their tenants get through this difficult time.

PETALING JAYA (March 27): The Health Ministry has detected five "generations" of positive COVID-19 cases that were linked to the tabligh gathering in the Seri Petaling Mosque last month, the Star reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 27): Director-General of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there has been one more death due to COVID-19 that was reported to the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre, bringing the total number of deaths in Malaysia to 24.

PETALING JAYA: From the political turmoil which resulted in a change in government to the COVID-19 pandemic that has placed the country in partial lockdown coupled with the stock market meltdown — recent developments in Malaysia have been far from favourable.

PETALING JAYA (Mar 27): Tenants of Tropicana Gardens Mall, Kota Damansara, Selangor, will see their rentals waived for the duration of the Movement Control Order (MCO).

  KUALA LUMPUR (March 27): A joint-government operation for the vagrant and homeless community in Kuala Lumpur yesterday found 183 individuals loitering in several areas of the city centre, the Malay Mail reported today.

The series of unprecedented events that Malaysia is experiencing have stressed the need for the government, businesses and consumers to be nimble and agile to come up with quick and new solutions in order to maintain some measure of normalcy.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 27): Eleven members of the Association of Banks Malaysia (ABM) will contribute RM10 million to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 27): RHB Banking Group became the first local bank to announce that it will not be compounding interest for its retail and small and medium enterprise (SME) customers during the six-month moratorium period recently announced by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).

KUALA LUMPUR (March 26): Businesses in Malaysia are expected to record losses of between 40% and 80% during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period, according to a survey by the EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUMCCI).