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Penang essential service outlets show full compliance with new business hour
GEORGE TOWN: Essential service outlets in Penang have shown full compliance with the new business hour regulations in the state which took effect on yesterday. Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow on Tuesday announced that all businesses in Penang can only
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China International SME Fair optimizes public services and innovative support to revive business of SMEs
GUANGZHOU, China, March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The COVID-19 epidemic outbreak has thrown inevitably big shocks to the economy, putting a damper on business for many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Over the past month, China has introduced a raft
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VistaJet assists government, medical organisations via global infrastructure
KUALA LUMPUR: VistaJet, the first and only global business aviation company, is helping to ensure that those with critical travel requirements during this time of uncertainty are able to keep moving Understanding the global community’s needs as the world works
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PSM: Health Ministry should take action against Edgenta’s carelessness
SUNGAI BULOH: Teluk Intan Hospital in Perak have been closed after 37 of its staff tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement issued by Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) today, it said the contractor that hired them denied them from Covid
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Italy coronavirus deaths rise by 683 in a day, lifting total death toll to 7,503
ROME: The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 683 to 7,503, the Civil Protection Agency said on Wednesday, a decline in the daily tally of fatalities following a spike the day before. On Tuesday
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Quarantined in India: No soap, dirty toilets, not enough Coronavirus tests
Not enough toilets – and the ones there are often dirty. Beds crammed together. The only way to shower is with water from a bucket that everyone has to share. No soap or hand sanitizer. People who’ve been quarantined in
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XABT donates 2019-nCoV nucleic acid detection kits to Italy
BEIJING, March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On March 19, the 2019-nCoV Detection Kit and Nucleic Acid Extraction Donation & Shipment Ceremony was held in Beijing. Beijing Applied Biological Technologies Co., Ltd. (XABT) was invited to the event at which the biologics
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Asian markets tread cautiously ahead of U.S. stimulus, jobs
SINGAPORE: Asian stock markets made a cautious start on Thursday following two days of rallies, as investors await the passage and details of a $2 trillion stimulus package in the United States to combat the economic fallout from the coronavirus.
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MCO: Public must be smart planning their upcoming days
KUALA LUMPUR: The Movement Control Order (MCO), which should have ended in five days has been extended to April 14, and the public must be smart in planning their days while confined to their homes during this period. Today is
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Nigerian army prepares for coronavirus lockdown, mass burials
ABUJA: The Nigerian Army is preparing to forcibly transfer the sick to hospital and enforce curbs on movement to try to shield the country from the coronavirus, and is leasing equipment for “possible mass burial”, according to an army memo
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