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PETALING JAYA (Oct 14): Coatings provider Nippon Paint Malaysia has contributed over 1,000 litres of its first antiviral and anti-bacterial paint, Nippon Paint VirusGuard, to Sungai Buloh Hospital in appreciation of the frontliners’ dedication and efforts to fighting Covid-19.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 13): Opposition leader and PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has had an audience with the King, in which he claimed the support of a number of Members of Parliament (MPs), according to Istana Negara's comptroller of the royal household, Datuk Indera Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 9): Businesses have needed to adapt and rethink their strategies in the face of a constantly evolving environment, including planning workspace commitments, especially in light of the coronavirus pandemic that has impacted the manner in which organisations have had to reorganise work arrangements.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 9): US federal prosecutors have charged a California businessman who was a top fund-raiser for President Donald Trump in connection with a foreign influence operation that included lobbying the administration to help Malaysian and Chinese interests.

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will charge several individuals over Mara’s Australian property scandal.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 7): The Ministry of Health (MoH) said a total of 268 individuals who had travelled to Sabah — which is currently experiencing a spike in Covid-19 cases — have tested positive for the coronavirus in the two weeks from Sept 20 until yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 7): The Ministry of Health (MoH) has carried out Covid-19 screening on about 90 close contacts of Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri (pictured) as of noon yesterday.

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PETALING JAYA (Oct 5): More incentives needed to encourage developers to embrace the industrialised building system (IBS) which could help reduce dependency on foreign labours, urged LBS Group managing director Tan Sri Lim Hock San (picture).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 3): The Ministry of Health (MoH) announced three new Covid-19 clusters today, of which two were found in Kedah and one in Selangor, with a combined 16 confirmed infections.