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KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): The government said the palm oil industry may continue operations during the restricted movement period to ensure steady supplies of the tropical oil to global markets, a producer group told Reuters today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): The National Security Council (NSC) has allowed manufacturing industries to continue to operate under certain conditions during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period, especially for the production of critical products.

JAKARTA (March 18): Thousands of Muslim pilgrims from across Asia gathered in Indonesia today, despite fears that their meeting could fuel the spread of a coronavirus, just two weeks after a similar event in Malaysia caused more than 500 infections, Reuters reported today.

  PETALING JAYA (March 18): The Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) said there is an urgent need for the government to come up with further measures to help alleviate the financial burden of workers as industries reel from the COVID-19 crisis.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): Malaysia Airlines Bhd said that its airline will “significantly reduce its overall network” during the nationwide Movement Control Order from now until March 31.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): As the country imposes the movement control order starting today in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is pleading with Malaysians to stay at home.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): An employee from Standard Chartered Malaysia's Petaling Jaya branch has tested positive for Covid-19, the Star reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): Malaysia's movement restriction order is negative for the construction and basic materials sectors, said RHB Research.

PETALING JAYA (March 18): In a bid to contain COVID-19, President of Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) Kamaruddin Baharin advises hotel operators to limit the movement of people in line with the Restricted Movement Control order until March 31.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): Asia-Pacific economic growth in 2020 will more than halve to less than 3% as the global economy enters a recession, said S&P Global Ratings.