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Junghans, the master of the minimalistic design following the Bauhaus styling, releases a collection of 4 new solar timepieces in their Max Bill collection, in two dial designs. As an inexhaustible source of energy, the sun has been an inspiration for Junghans solar-powered watches as far back as the 1980s. The Max Bill MEGA Solar perpetuates this tradition of sustainability in a particularly attractive...

Coronavirus has surpassed all previous crisis’ in terms of its negative impact on the Swiss watchmaking industry, with a 25 per cent downturn anticipated for 2020, according to a report by Bank Vontobel. This is worse than the Quartz Crisis, which saw a 15 per cent decline, and the 22 per cent downturn in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, notes this article in Watchpro....

PETALING JAYA: More than half of the country’s SMEs will either downsize or restructure their businesses when the movement control order (MCO) is lifted. A recent survey by the SME Association of Malaysia found that 23% of SMEs would downsize their businesses after the MCO while 28% said they would restructure – with only 19% believing they would be able to resume operations as...

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia reported 88 more Covid-19 cases on Friday (April 24), bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 5,691. Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced this at the Health Ministry’s daily Covid-19 media briefing on Friday evening. Malaysia also discharged 121 more patients in the same 24-hour span, which means 3,663 patients have recovered from Covid-19 in Malaysia...

PUTRAJAYA: The health ministry is reviewing the classification of Covid-19 cases into green, orange and red zones, based on a two-week snapshot of a district or township. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that previously, the ministry calculated cases in a certain area collectively, whereby an area that had recorded over 40 cases was designated as a red zone. “(This way) at one...