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KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): US President Donald Trump (pictured) has described the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic as the "worst attack" ever on his country, BBC reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): Researchers in China have revealed that the novel coronavirus causing the Covid-19 disease has been found in the semen of infected men, reported the UK-based The Guardian newspaper yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): South Korea, the poster child of how a country can control the Covid-19 pandemic, is now getting ready for an “inevitable” second wave of the disease after it was discovered that an infected man in Seoul went on club hopping spree recently, reported Asia News Network (ANN).

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): Standard Chartered Malaysia (StanChart) has announced that it will be lowering its base rate and base lending rate by 50 basis points to 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof has allowed a motion for a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): The Federal Territories Ministry will be starting a scheme to train Kuala Lumpur’s homeless (pictured) and provide them with jobs placements, the Malay Mail reported.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): The number of green zones in Kuala Lumpur rose to seven — Alam Damai, Bangsar, Bukit Damansara, Datuk Keramat, Kepong, Mont Kiara and Connaught — from six previously, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

While Parliament in the Republic of Singapore has promptly passed an Act titled: Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) Act, 2020 (ACT) and was immediately assented to by the President and gazetted on April 9, 2020 and operational April 7, 2020, Malaysia is deferring the tabling of the bill to the 2nd Parliamentary sitting between July 27, 2020 to Sept 10, 2020.

The once-crowded shopping centres in the country lie quiet and almost empty as most business operations have been halted since the start of the Movement Control Order (MCO) period on March 18.

The once-crowded shopping centres in the country lie quiet and almost empty as most business operations have been halted since the start of the Movement Control Order (MCO) period on March 18.