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KUALA LUMPUR (April 5): Chief Justice (CJ) Tan Sri Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat (pictured) has urged judicial officers to consider the risk of contagion when sentencing offenders to jail during the COVID-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): Will the movement control order (MCO) be extended beyond April 14? The Health Ministry will have to provide data on April 10 to help the government make a decision, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah revealed today during a media conference on the latest COVID-19 situation in the country in Putrajaya today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): The government has waived the 14-day quarantine rule for Malaysians working in Singapore who plan to re-enter the country, but with conditions.

PETALING JAYA (April 4): A joint memorandum calling for property management services to be listed as an essential service during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period has been submitted to Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin by the National House Buyers Association (HBA), the Malaysian Institute of Property and Facilities Managers (MIPFM), the Board of Valuers, Appraisers, Estate Agents and Property Managers (BOVAEP), the Association of Valuers, Property Managers, Estate Agents and Property Consultants in the Private Sector Malaysia (PEPS) and the Property Surveying Section of the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia  (RISM).

KUALA LUMPUR (April 3): The number of healthcare workers in Malaysia who are confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 has jumped by more than two-thirds in the past week to 138, from 80 recorded as at March 26.

PETALING JAYA (April 3): Banks and most households in Malaysia can withstand severe house price and income falls, according to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), based on a series of housing price shock simulations carried out to determine the resilience of households and banks to survive in the event of such hypothetical housing market correction.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 3): Boutique property developer Trinity Group Sdn Bhd recently donated essential medical supplies to hospitals in the Klang Valley and Penang for frontline healthcare professionals battling the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia.

PUTRAJAYA (April 3): Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa said the proposed development plan for Kampung Baru is still up in the air as only 61% of the landowners have agreed to it, Free Malaysia Today (FMT) reported today.

There is hope the Covid-19 pandemic might be under control by end-April, according to China’s top respiratory disease expert.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 2): Kossan Rubber Industries Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary Ideal Quality Sdn Bhd (IQ) is selling an estimated 39ha (390,397 sq metres) vacant freehold industrial land in Kuala Langat, Selangor for RM153.