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KUALA LUMPUR (May 9): Construction companies are eager to get back to work after seven weeks of inactivity but are uncertain as to how they will meet Putrajaya’s requirement that the sector’s estimated 1.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 27): It has been over six weeks since Malaysia shut down its RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): The period between March 15 to April 20 this year saw 7,159 employees retrenched, the first five weeks of the movement control order (MCO), according to statistics provided by the Labour Department.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 17): Malaysia has yet to see any significant cluster of Covid-19 infections among foreign workers in the country, according to the Ministry of Health.

PETALING JAYA (April 15): S P Setia Bhd will be submitting applications for several of its projects to resume work following the government's decision to allow several additional economic sectors to operate during the third phase of the Movement Control Order which ends on April 28.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 11): Singapore, for months hailed at home and overseas as the “gold standard” for responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, on Friday moved to defuse escalating criticism over how it has handled a surge in infections within foreign worker dormitories that activists had earlier flagged as public health risks due to their cramped conditions, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported yesterday.

PETALING JAYA (April 9): An association of property developers has urged workers in the construction industry to accept pay cuts to help the companies employing them stay afloat, Free Malaysia Today reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 9): As the number of Covid-19 infected healthcare workers in the country climbed to 181, Ministry of Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reiterated that none of their infections was due to the handling of patients who were tested positive for the coronavirus.

Kuala Lumpur (April 1): A few more large contributions have been pledged to The Edge Covid-19 Equipment Fund and The Edge Covid-19 Health Care Workers Support Fund, bringing the total donations from Corporate Malaysia to RM23.

PETALING JAYA (March 20): The health ministry said a total of 15 healthcare workers, including three from the private sector, have been infected with the COVID-19 virus, Free Malaysia Today (FMT) reported today.