KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 — MIDF Research has revised down its 2020 forecast of Malaysia’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) performance to a contraction of 5.4 per cent from its initial estimate of a 2.8 per cent reduction.

WASHINGTON, May 28 — The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, according to a Reuters tally yesterday, even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged businesses to reopen and Americans to emerge from more than two months of lockdowns.

PARIS, April 30 — Criminals are using food delivery services as a cover to transport drugs and other illegal goods during the coronavirus crisis, which has seen countries around the world go into lockdown, said the Interpol police organisation on Thursday.

BANGKOK, April 29 — Thailand recorded nine new Covid-19 cases, including two involving healthcare workers, and zero deaths today.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Some 220 Malaysians still residing in Italy have chosen not to return to Malaysia following the spread of Covid-19, said Malaysia’s Ambassador to Italy Datuk Abdul Malik Melvin Castelino.

MADRID, April 27 — On foot and with bicycles, skateboards and scooters, Spanish children went outside at last on Sunday, emerging from their homes for the first time after six weeks of living under one of Europe's strictest coronavirus lockdowns.

KOTA BHARU, April 21 — Leave for Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) personnel has not been frozen but tightened throughout the movement control order (MCO) period to deal with the spread of the Covid-19 infection.

BANGKOK, April 15 — Thailand has extended a ban on incoming passenger flights until the end of April in a bid to curb the coronavirus outbreak, the country's aviation body said today.

BEIJING, April 15 — China reported today a decline in new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the mainland, although an increasing number of local transmissions in its far northeast bordering Russia remained a concern for authorities.

SHAH ALAM, April 12 — The Selangor government has denied that Section 6 here has been placed under lockdown as alleged in several social media pages since last night.

BANGKOK, April 9 — Thailand has granted automatic visa extensions for foreigners stranded in the kingdom following travel restrictions and cancellations of flights due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

WUHAN, April 8 — With long lines of cars streaming through expressway toll gates and passengers boarding trains, the megacity of Wuhan in central China started lifting outbound travel restrictions from Wednesday after almost 11 weeks of lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19, reported Xinhua news agency.

SINGAPORE, April 8 — More than 7,000 written advisories were issued to members of the public who breached the elevated safe distancing measures, mostly in hawker centres and markets, according to Singapore's Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources.

WASHINGTON, April 5 — President Donald Trump told Americans to brace for a big spike in coronavirus fatalities in the coming days, as the country faces what he called the toughest two weeks of the pandemic.

PUTRAJAYA, April 3 — The government will cover the cost of the accommodation and food for its sponsored students overseas who have graduated but unable to leave their host countries due to the Covid-19 pandemic, said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri.

JAKARTA, April 3 — The total number of Covid-19 deaths in Indonesia have gone up to 181 people since the first fatality was recorded on March 11.

SINGAPORE, April 3 — Singapore will close schools and most workplaces, except for essential services and key economic sectors, for a month, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Friday, as part of stricter measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

OAKLAND, April 3 — Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday published reports for 131 countries showing whether visits to shops, parks and workplaces dropped in March when many governments issued stay-at-home orders to rein in the spread of the novel coronavirus.

HONG KONG, March 31 — The lockdown of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, was effective in containing the Covid-19 spread during the early stages of the outbreak and significantly helped cut the infection rates in other places, a report recently published by a Hong Kong university said.

By Afix Redzuan SHAH ALAM, March 16 — Selangor Mentri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said the state government does not have the power to implement a lockdown in Selangor to contain the spread of Covid-19. He said such decision lies in the hands of the Prime Minister and Home Affairs...