Socio-Economic Research Centre (SERC) executive director Lee Heng Guie: It is too early for the central bank to re-start the cutting of rates. BNM will likely hold it unchanged unless the development of the virus worsens.

Deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Iskandar Ahmad told the High Court they will prove that she had misappropriated these funds meant for the government which she received in her capacity as director-general of the Research Division of the Prime Minister's Department.

The application for the adjournment was made separately by the Sabah attorney-general office, and also Musa's rival and Parti Warisan Sabah president, Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal.

In a note today, analyst Lum Joe Shen said the deal is slightly more of a positive for UEM Sunrise as it stands to gain from EcoWorld’s strengths in marketing and township planning that could help boost sales, while also reducing earnings volatility from UEM Sunrise’s lumpy overseas contributions.

Reports said the apartment management has liaised with the temple’s management for over 10 years on the landslide issue, requesting the latter fix the land erosion problem. However, nothing has been done with the issue getting increasingly worse.

News of the proposed merger between UEM Sunrise Bhd and Eco World Development Group Bhd (EcoWorld), which will form one of Malaysia's largest real estate companies by market value, set the market abuzz yesterday.

This is also the fifth straight day that Malaysia has reported triple-digit number of new infections since the start of this month, with 260 cases on Oct 1.  

The company said through a Facebook post that the outlet is temporarily closed and will undergo a thorough sanitisation and deep cleaning process, while contact tracing will be performed following the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) guidelines

An official from the Prime Minister's Department (PMD) and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigating officer (IO) in Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor's solar hybrid graft case are the final two witnesses to be called by the prosecution before it closes its case.

BTS Car Park Sdn Bhd — a wholly-owned company and car park operator of Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd, which in turn is owned by Berjaya Assets Bhd — is seeking to extend the tenure of its current medium term note (MTN) programme of up to RM220 million for two years.