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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's palm oil sector stands to lose an estimated 11.83 billion ringgit ($2.89 billion) in revenue for each year that pandemic curbs restrict the supply of workers, an industry grouping said on Monday. The world's second largest palm producer relies on foreigners for 70% of its plantation workforce, but the flow of workers from nations such as Indonesia and Bangladesh has dried up since border closures in the middle of March last year. "The labour-intensive plantation sector has been registering a net outflow of foreign workers, especially over the past one year, as and whe...

Updated on February 24, 2021 at 5:05 pm NBC Universal, Inc. The novel coronavirus has changed lives, economies and health care systems as we know it.  On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a pandemic. The respiratory virus that originated in China has since infected tens of millions of people worldwide, and killed more than 2 million. Get the answer to your most-asked COVID vaccine questions on our mobile NBC 5 Chicago app. Download it here for iOS or Android. Since the WHO's classification, the United States and other countries have taken drastic steps to ...

Alleged border jumper’s court request Diana Lasu (left) and Olivia Muranga (right) were part of a trio charged with fraud and producing false or misleading documents after re-entering Queensland from Victoria in 2020. News by Darren Cartwright Premium Content Subscriber only One of three Brisbane women charged with breaching COVID border orders after travelling back to Queensland from Melbourne last year has requested to have her case heard separately. Diana Lasu, 21, Olivia Muranga, 20, and Haja Timbo, 21, were accused of lying to border author...

One of three women charged after travelling back to Queensland from Victoria during the southern state’s 2020 virus crisis has made a request in court.

One of three women charged after travelling back to Queensland from Victoria during the southern state’s 2020 virus crisis has made a request in court.