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StanChart's managing director and chief executive officer Abrar A Anwar said the central bank’s rate cut will help to improve domestic economic conditions weakened by containment measures and border closures that were implemented to curb the Covid-19 outbreak.

The motion was filed by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and former law minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong, according to a statement by Mohamad Ariff today.

Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur has the highest number of active Covid-19 cases at 447, followed by Selangor (222), Sarawak (191) and Johor (156).

Maybank said services which will be unavailable on Monday between 11:30pm and 11:59pm are Maybank2u, Maybank2u MY app, QRPay app, Wealth app, FPX payment and debit card transactions.

"So far, we have sufficient capacity in terms of the number of hospitals, wards, equipment and workforce. We can still (manage) and the number of new cases are also decreasing," said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said his ministry has found a cluster of 10 virus cases as of noon today.

In a filing yesterday, Ageson said Foo ceased to be a substantial shareholder after he sold 22.96 million shares representing a 3.94% stake in the company on May 4.

The land comes together with buildings, plant and machineries, as well as intellectual property rights comprising certain trademarks and goodwill associated with such trademarks, the group said in a filing to Bursa Malaysia.

AHP said as a fund which is directly linked to Permodalan Nasional Bhd, it has provided some rental reduction reliefs to tenants, especially small and medium companies.

The MoF hopes this decision will ease the burden of the people during the current difficult time.