KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 — Credit Counselling and Debt Management Agency (AKPK) has asked borrowers to take proactive steps in assessing their financial position now and into the future, as the automatic blanket moratorium ends tomorrow.

GEORGE TOWN, Sept 17 — Despite the Covid-19 pandemic affecting businesses, one store in Penang has come out with new tricks to keep its business alive.

WASHINGTON, July 22 — A study published on Tuesday shows that in people with mild Covid-19 cases, their antibodies against the coronavirus drop sharply over the first three months after infection, reported Xinhua news agency.

HANOI, July 9 — An expert from the Thai Ministry of Public Health's Preventive Medicine, Department of Disease Control Dr Anupong Sujariyakul said on Wednesday, the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand has come to an end after the country has not seen any new local Covid-19 case for 44 consecutive days.

HANOI, June 12 — China is ready to collaborate with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in the research and development of vaccines against the Covid-19, Chinese Ambassador to Asean Deng Xi Jun said on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 — Pilgrims whose turn has come to perform the haj this year will be given priority to do so next year.

GENEVA, June 9 — New coronavirus cases had their biggest daily increase ever as the pandemic worsens globally and has yet to peak in central America, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday, urging countries to press on with efforts to contains the virus.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — Malaysia's economy can be expected to be on the recovery path starting from the end of this year and return to growth into 2021, said The World Bank.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 — Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) will reopen 27 Kedai Tenaga in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Selangor and Negeri Sembilan tomorrow to enable customers to get detailed explanation about their bill adjustment at the counters.

MOSCOW, May 29 — Hundreds of thousands of smokers are wanting to quit during the global pandemic of the Covid-19 lung disease, said Ruediger Krech, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) director of Health Promotion, reported Sputnik News Agency.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 — Asean member states, particularly Malaysia, will be in good position to reap benefits from Japan’s economic stimulus package due to its close proximity to Japan economically and historically, besides having extensive Japanese business network, said Japan’s Ambassador to Malaysia Hiroshi Oka.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 — The retail and office space sectors are among the notable casualties of Covid-19 pandemic as people adapt to the new norm of online shopping and working from home that had deteriorated demand and value for both sectors in the short term.

PUTRAJAYA, May 27 — Malaysia’s efforts in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic continue to yield encouraging results when 15 new positive cases reported today, the lowest ever recorded since the implementation of the movement control order (MCO).

NEW YORK, May 27 — Asian shares shed some of their recent gains today as investor concerns about rising tensions between the United States and China tempered optimism about a re-opening of the world economy.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 — Moody’s Investors Service said about 22 per cent of 476 rated non-financial companies in Asia Pacific (Apac) have high exposure to coronavirus disruptions, up from 20 per cent in March, as the effects of the pandemic on companies' credit quality have become more apparent.

GENEVA, May 19 — The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that he would initiate an independent evaluation of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic at the “earliest appropriate moment” and vowed transparency and accountability.

LONDON, May 14 — A mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty and anxiety by the pandemic of Covid-19, United Nations health experts said on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 — Malaysia's economy grew moderately at 0.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 from 4.5 per cent in the same quarter last year, as gross domestic product growth was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of the movement control order (MCO).

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — Bilateral cooperation and the current global Covid-19 pandemic were among the topics of discussion between Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the United States (US) President Donald J.

PUTRAJAYA, April 25 — The Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia is under greater control with no drastic spike in new cases under the third phase of the movement control order (MCO) that began on April 15, the Health Ministry (MOH) said yesterday.