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KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 24): National Audit Department (NAD) director Datuk Nor Salwani Muhammad has denied that she was conferred a datukship solely because of her role in exposing the alleged tampering of the original audit report of the scandal-hit 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

Read also DONE DEAL: Double-storey shophouse at Bandar Baru UDA, Johor Bahru, Johor DONE DEAL: Bungalow house at TTDI Hills, TTDI, Kuala Lumpur Developed by Manda’rina Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of IJM Land in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, the two-phase Bukit Mandarina was fully completed in 2010.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 23): Sunway Construction Group Bhd (SunCon)’s net profit came in marginal lower by 4.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 23): Malaysia logged 2,468 new Covid-19 cases today, marking the second consecutive day new cases stayed above the 2,000 mark, according to the Health Ministry.

PUTRAJAYA (Feb 23): Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd, the company that operates news portal Malaysiakini, had today paid the RM500,000 fine imposed by the Federal Court for contempt of court after Malaysiakini failed to establish that it had no knowledge of five readers comments which were offending to the judiciary.

PUTRAJAYA (Feb 23): Malaysia will receive its second batch of 182,520 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tomorrow (Feb 24) for distribution to states that have yet to receive the vaccine, said Coordinating Minister for National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 23): The Malaysian government through the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) had obtained a judgement in default (JID) at the High Court last week against 1Malaysia Development Bhd's (1MDB) former general counsel Jasmine Loo Ai Swan over her unpaid taxes amounting to RM2.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 23): Genting Malaysia Bhd's Resorts World Genting (RWG) has invested more than US$800 million (RM3.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 23): Rubber glove manufacturer Supermax Corp Bhd founder Datuk Seri Stanley Thai Kim Sim and his wife Datin Seri Cheryl Tan Bee Geok has acquired a 3,438-square-foot luxury condominium in Sunny Isles Beach within the US state of Florida, The Real Deal reported, citing property records.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 23): Higher provisioning is expected to have a weakening effect on Malaysian banks' profitability in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), due to be released this week, given the need to cushion the economic and financial shocks from the Covid-19 pandemic.