United States ambassador to Malaysia Brian D. McFeeters said Malaysia has long been and continues to be a key trading partner with the United States. U.S. companies consistently rank among the largest employers in states like Penang and most U.S. company subsidiaries are managed by Malaysians and employ over 90% Malaysian employees.

A total of 21.94 million people or 67.2% of Malaysia’s population had received at least their first dose as of yesterday, including 18.3 million or 56% who were fully inoculated.

The national average stood at 6.6 deaths for every 100,000 people.

This brought the nation’s cumulative tally of Covid-19 cases to 2.097 million.

Meanwhile, daily recoveries stood at 17,205 today, down from the 22,970 recorded yesterday (Sept 17).

Malaysia My Second Home Consultants Association: MM2HCA hopes the MoHA will arrange a dialogue and engagement with us and related industry players to consider multiple objectives in mind, to revise the programme with better terms to attract genuine and good-quality applicants, and make our MM2H programme the best and most attractive in the market

The three appointments are Mohd Ali Abd Karim (independent non-executive chairman), Lukman Abu Bakar (independent non-executive director) and Datuk Shireen Ann Zaharah Muhiudeen (non-independent non-executive director).

One of the issues “that divided” top management and the board was a March 2018 deal with real estate agency Heritage Shield Sdn Bhd to sell apartment units at the Union Suites devlopment in Bandar Sunway.

“Some quarters contend that the stricter MM2H rules on could result in an outflow of funds. Even if there was any outflow, the amount in question is less than RM1 billion. It would not cause a dent in the financial system,” said the columnist.

64 were brought-in-dead (BID), bringing the nation’s BID tally to 4,327.