KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 — The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects overall traveller numbers to reach 4.0 billion in 2024 (counting multi-sector connecting trips as one passenger), exceeding pre-Covid-19 levels at 103 per cent of the 2019 total.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 — Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was discharged from the National Heart Institute (IJN) at 8.40 am today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1 — The number of new daily Covid-19 cases in the country has once again exceeded the 5,000 mark when 5,566 cases were recorded today, compared to 4,774 cases yesterday, bringing the cumulative total to 2,876,324 as at noon.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — The country reported 3,856 new Covid-19 infections today, a slight dip compared to the 4,116 cases recorded yesterday, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 — National Recovery Council Chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin believes that with the rapid reopening of the economic and social sectors, and the continuous government assistance to help industries and businesses to reopen, Malaysia is on the right track to full recovery.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 — Recoveries in Covid-19 in Malaysia have reached a cumulative figure of 2,401,823 cases after 5,579 cases were reported to have recovered in the 24-hour period as at noon today, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 — Budget 2022 is clearly a pragmatic financial blueprint, premised on extensive financing including concessionary loans for stakeholders to ensure growth and comprehensive economic recovery.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 — The restoration of water supply in the affected areas in the Klang Valley has reached 98 per cent as of 6am today, said Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor).

NEW YORK, Oct 12 — UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday highlighted three areas for immediate action to launch recovery from Covid-19 that benefits all, including the most fragile states, said Xinhua.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — The number of recoveries from Covid-19 in Malaysia today has exceeded the number of new cases for two consecutive days in which 22,970 cases of recoveries were reported compared to 17,577 new infections recorded, as of 12 noon today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Malaysia’s Covid-19 recovery cases continue to exceed the number of daily new infections for the third successive day after 24,813 recoveries were reported overnight.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 — Only 1.6 per cent, or 302 cases, out of 19,307 new Covid-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours are from categories 3 (pneumonia and requiring hospital treatment and observation), 4 (pneumonia and requiring oxygen) and 5 (critical and requiring respiratory assistance).

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 —  Malaysia’s per capita income is expected to increase this year, however, this would be subject to the country’s economic recovery, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) today.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 — Malaysia’s economic recovery is expected to be affected by the latest surge in Covid-19 infections that triggered a two-week lockdown, from June 1-14, 2021.

By Alang Bendahara LAST month, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced that the Malaysian economy is projected to expand between 6.0 per cent and 7.5 per cent in 2021 compared to the 5.6 per cent contraction in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The state remains the highest contributor to the...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 8 — Moody's Investors Service says in a new report that the asset quality of Malaysia's largest banks has been more resilient to the coronavirus-induced economic disruption than their peers in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand — the major Southeast Asian emerging markets.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 — Five out of 58 areas affected in Kuala Lumpur and Gombak have received full water supply as at 3pm today, according to Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor).

KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — More than two-thirds of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia expect their businesses to recover from the effects of the pandemic by April this year, according to a Mastercard Impact Study.

WASHINGTON, March 24 — International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said in a statement that she supports discussions about a possible new Special Drawing Rights allocation of US$650 billion (RM2.68 trillion) to support the global recovery from the novel coronavirus pandemic, reported Sputnik.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The process to recover the body of one of three workers killed in yesterday's gantry crane collapse incident at the Sungai Besi-Ulu Kelang Elevated Expressway (SUKE) construction site in Cheras was continuing today.