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This marks the seventh day for Yu — the 54th prosecution witness in the trial — in the witness stand, after a long and aggressive round of questioning by Najib's lawyer Harvinderjit Singh over the past week. 

"This follows the High Court being prepared to accommodate the parties' schedules when necessary. The parties [prosecution and defence] are at liberty to apply [for postponement before the trial judge] should the SRC International Sdn Bhd trial fail to conclude," the court ruled.

As a small open economy, Malaysia will not be insulated by the escalating trade tensions, HLIB said in a strategy note today.

The stock of household debt as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) in Malaysia has declined over the years, thanks in part to a weaker housing market, and more deleveraging is likely to continue.

KD District Cooling System Sdn Bhd (KDDCS) was awarded the contract by the Employees Provident Fund Board's (EPF) wholly-owned unit Kwasa Utama Sdn Bhd to supply chilled water to an office building in Kwasa Damansara for a period of 25 years from Sept 1.

"Although our base case scenario calls for the OPR to remain at status quo for the rest of the year, we do not rule out the possibility of another downward adjustment in 2020 if macroeconomic conditions deteriorate," MARC chief economist Nor Zahidi Alias said. 

Laman Lakeside is part of the group’s Spotlight 8 campaign and the second residential product launched in July within the Bandar Bukit Raja township, after the Kyra two-storey link homes that were launched on July 13.

BNM said the joint operation by the three law enforcement agencies were conducted on a network of illegal money services business (MSB) operators, suspected to be facilitating illegal remittance activities, mainly for foreign customers and business traders.

On Jan 31, Tiger's wholly-owned subsidiary Alam Kemuning Development Sdn Bhd had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with land owners Joanna Yong Hui Fun and Datin Sek Chian Nee to jointly develop the residential project.

Minister of Finance Inc's wholly-owned subsidiary MRL said in a statement today that calls for local contractors to submit their tenders will start in the fourth quarter of 2019 following submission of pre-qualification (pre-Q) documents in the end of May this year.