Bloomberg Malaysia’s parliament will sit for the first time this year on Monday, providing lawmakers an opportunity to grill Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin over his government’s handling of the pandemic and the economy. The five-day sitting will see Malaysia’s emergency declaration and bills on fake news and penalties for breaching Covid protocols finally laid before the house for legislators to ...

Bloomberg London’s jobs market has sprung back to life, becoming a hot spot for the first time since the pandemic closed vast sections of the economy, two separate surveys showed. The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) said London had six of the top 10 areas in the UK for new job postings in the week ending July 18. Consulting and ...

Bloomberg Canadian retailers started to recover from the third major Covid-19 shutdown, which stunted shopping earlier this year. Receipts fall 2.1% in May, when many provinces had restrictions on businesses to combat the virus, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa. But retailers bounced back in June with sales rising 4.4% as rules eased, a preliminary estimate from the agency shows. Even ...