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KUALA LUMPUR (May 4): US President Donald Trump (pictured) said yesterday he “believes as many as 100,000 Americans” could perish in the Covid-19 pandemic after the death toll passed his earlier estimates, Reuters reported.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November, according to a Reuters article today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 27) Calls to poison control centres in at least four US states “have spiked over the past few days” after US President Donald Trump appeared to suggest injecting disinfectant should be studied as a method to treat Covid-19, Newsweek reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): A leading disinfectant producer has issued a strong warning not to use its products on the human body after Donald Trump suggested they could potentially be used to treat Covid-19, the BBC reported today.

Even if the Covid-19 Movement Control Order (MCO) ends, don’t expect construction works to resume and progress as per normal.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 15): US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has instructed his administration to halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic while his administration reviews its response to the global crisis, Reuters reported today.

MANILA (April 2): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned violators of COVID-19 lockdown measures that they could be shot for causing trouble, and said abuse of medical workers was a serious crime that would not be tolerated, Reuters reported today.

PETALING JAYA (March 20): Real Estate and Housing Developers Association Malaysia (Rehda) president Datuk Soam Heng Choon said the current COVID-19 pandemic and economic uncertainties will affect all sectors in Malaysia, including the property development sector.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 2): Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's (pictured) graft and money laundering trial has been deferred to tomorrow.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 1): PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pictured) said today that the Pakatan Harapan coalition has “to move on”, even when “there was clear treachery”.