Johor continued to administer highest number of Covid-19 vaccine doses on Sept 2
Overall, Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 vaccine doses administered fell to 369,280 yesterday, from 398,134 the day before.
Bite the bullet and reintroduce GST, say tax experts
In view of declining revenue collection for the first half of 2021 and it is expected that subsequent collection will continue to shrink due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of the various iterations of the MCO, tax experts and economists have called on the government to look into alternative avenues to increase the revenue.
Malaysia reports 20,988 new Covid cases on Sept 2, less than 30% of them fully inoculated
Daily infections have regularly exceeded the 20,000 mark since the start of August
OPR should be trimmed by another 25 bps to facilitate economic recovery — OCBC Bank
Its economist Wellian Wiranto said next Thursday's (Sept 9) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting will take place at a time when global market sentiment appears well-anchored, with the US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell striking a right balance between paving the way for tapering and divorcing that from rate hike expectation
Umno claims SRC has no reasonable action to recover RM16m 'wrongfully transferred' to party
The party, which is accused of receiving a misappropriated sum of RM16 million from SRC, claims the company had omitted material facts from the suit which are prejudicial to Umno
Property developer BCB appoints ex-chief secretary to govt Ali Hamsa as new chairman
Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa served as chief secretary to the government from June 24, 2012 till Aug 28, 2018
YTL Hospitality REIT in acquisition mode as yield-accretive assets emerge
AmInvestment Bank in a company report today said YTL Hospitality REIT highlighted that its management will remain disciplined in evaluating prospective acquisitions, favouring arrangements that provide guaranteed income such as master leases to mitigate any potential short-term post-acquisition pain as the hospitality and travel industries struggle with the damage inflicted by Covid-19 and subsequent movement restrictions
Court of Appeal dismisses prosecution's eight appeals for forfeiture including RM192 million from central Umno
The forfeiture action was initiated by the MACC in 2019 on the entities, which were part of over 40 individuals and entities named as recipients of monies from former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak
Johor administered highest number of Covid-19 vaccine doses on Sept 1
The southern state inoculated 60,915 individuals, which were 15.3% of the total doses administered across the country yesterday
Health Ministry to focus on five states with high Covid-19 cases, slow vaccination rates
Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin: We will bring the same sense of focus and intensity seen in the Greater Klang Valley Task Force to these few states that are facing high Covid-19 infections
