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KUALA LUMPUR (May 15): The Genting Group wants Miami-Dade to fund a US$770 million (RM3.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 6): A US trooper stopping a car with a suspected “impaired driver” on a US highway on Monday was bemused to find a five-year-old in the driver’s seat, Reuters reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 5): The federal government relaxed the movement control order (MCO), essentially to allow businesses to operate subject to certain conditions.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 4): With the conditional movement control order (CMCO) taking over from the MCO today, people will now be allowed to travel beyond 10km radius from their homes to buy groceries, food or for medical treatment, Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Ismail Sabri Yaakob clarified today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): Amanahraya Real Estate Investment Trust announced the appointment of Abdul Aziz Abdul Rasheed as its new chief executive officer, effective today.

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 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.

PETALING JAYA (April 23): Sentiments on the outlook for real estate markets globally have improved slightly as at April 15 according to a survey by real estate services provider Savills.

PETALING JAYA (April 22): With the gloomy outlook for office and retail, alternative commercial properties such as student accommodation, senior living/retirement housing and co-living could become investments of choice, according to findings of Knight Frank Malaysia’s The Malaysia Commercial Real Estate Investment Sentiment Survey (CREISS) 2020 conducted in February 2020.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): US President Trump said on Tuesday that he would order a temporary halt in issuing green cards to prevent people from immigrating to the United States, but he backed away from plans to suspend guest worker programmes after business groups exploded in anger at the threat of losing access to foreign labor, the New York Times (NYT) reported today.