Kenanga slashes forecasts on banks, challenging loans growth ahead

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian banks are expected to face challenging loans growth and further downside on asset quality, although recent central bank measures could help to alleviate some pressure.

‘Money meant for house renovation’

PETALING JAYA: The missing RM250,000, said former youth and sports minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, was the family’s savings meant for renovation of their property here.

Going under the hammer

Xi demands resolute efforts to curb accidents, disasters following forest fire

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping on Tuesday (March 31) has demanded resolute efforts to curb the frequent occurrence of accidents and disasters and ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

Singapore banks offer to freeze mortgage, SME loan payments

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s central bank said on Tuesday (March 31) local lenders will offer additional relief for consumers and companies battered by the sharp economic slowdown and the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, including a freeze on mortgage and business loan payments and cuts to credit card rates.

Singapore banks offer freeze mortgage, SME loan payments

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): Singapore’s central bank said local lenders will offer additional relief for consumers and companies battered by the sharp economic slowdown, including a freeze on mortgage and business loan payments and cuts to credit card rates.

Australia's NSW state calls end to brutal fire season

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - New South Wales, the Australian state most severely affected by last summer's wildfires on Tuesday marked the official close to its worst ever bushfire season, which burned more than 6% of the state's land area and killed 25 people.

Strict compliance needed for MCO to slow Covid-19 spread

In order to minimise the spread of Covid-19, we all need to follow these measures strictly.

In scrappy Cambodian casino town, Chinese plan future beyond coronavirus

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) - *Photo essay: https://reut.rs/3avL9X4

Fears extend from recession to depression

AN eerie depiction of baby coronaviruses gleefully on a world tour bus “Corona Express” which is speeding downhill, points to the rapid destruction caused by this pandemic.