Topic: Malaysia

Malaysia's government has confirmed the country's first death linked to swine flu in nearly half-a-year.Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai says the 22-year-old woman died of respiratory problems at a hospital Sunday after testing positive for the H1N1 virus.The minister's statement Tuesday did ...
Malaysia will scale down its National Day celebration next week to curb the spread of swine flu, as the death toll from the virus rose to 69, the health ministry said Monday.Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said children's participation in the main ...
Malaysia's health ministry says six more people infected with swine flu have died bringing the death toll related to the virus to 62.The Health Ministry says in a Sunday statement two boys and a man have died of pneumonia. All three have ...
Malaysia's health minister says eight more people infected with swine flu have died, raising the country's death toll related to the virus to 26.Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said Sunday that the patients died at various hospitals over the past seven days.Malaysia ...
Malaysia's health ministry has reported the country's first swine flu-related death, a 30-year-old Indonesian man who suffered a heart attack.The ministry says the man was a student at a finance education center in Kuala Lumpur who developed flu-like symptoms after returning from ...
Budget airline AirAsia said Sunday it has quarantined five crew members from a domestic flight that carried Malaysia's second confirmed swine flu victim.The crew of flight AK5358, which flew from Kuala Lumpur to the northern city of Penang on Wednesday, was taken ...
Malaysia's benchmark stock index fell 1.06 percent to 969.72 points by 0726 GMT on Tuesday. **SUNRISE, SUNWAY CITY SLIP ON PROFIT-TAKING . Shares of property developers Sunrise and Sunway City fell the most in a broadly lower market as investors took profits ...
Malaysia's benchmark stock index fell 0.9 percent to 983.9 points by 0305 GMT on Monday. Shares of Top Glove, the world's largest listed rubber latex glovemaker, jumped as much as 8.2 percent to 5.95 ringgit ($1.66), on expectations on higher demand for ...