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Largest Producer Sees Condom Use Fall by 40 Percent Since the Start of the Corona Crisis

10Jan

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Largest Producer Sees Condom Use Fall by 40 Percent Since the Start of the Corona Crisis

The world's largest producer of condoms, Malaysian company Karex, says the use of its products has fallen by 40 percent since the corona pandemic. The company is trying to make up for that with other products. For example, it will also make medical gloves, writes the Japanese newspaper Nikkei. Karex CEO Goh Miah Kiat sees the closure of hotels and the sex industry during the pandemic as the reason for declining condom use. In addition, several governments have stopped campaigns to distribute condoms. Karex makes one-fifth of all condoms in the world. Initially, the company thought that condom sales would rise sharply due to the lockdowns. Instead, Karex makes condoms for brands such as Durex and distributes its own products. It makes 5 billion condoms a year and exports them to ...

Multiple Dead and Missing After Severe Flooding in Malaysia

In Malaysia, torrential rain has caused severe flooding in places over the past few days. Several people were said to have died as a result. Dozens of people are still missing, and more than 40,000 people had to be placed in emergency shelters as a result of the flooding, authorities report. The storm hit seven states and the capital Kuala Lumpur, the national news agency Bernama reported Monday. Cars were washed away, and the water swept entire houses. The situation is especially critical in the Selangor region, the wealthiest state in the country around Kuala Lumpur. There it came to an unprecedented amount of precipitation. The armed forces and the police and fire brigade were deployed to rescue the residents and distribute relief supplies. However, dozens of roads had to be ...

Malaysia Stops the Search for Missing MH370

Malaysia Stops the Search for Missing MH370. The new government of Malaysia will stop the search for the missing plane MH370 next week. The minister of transport says that the contract with the American company Ocean Infinity has been extended until Tuesday and then ends. According to the City News Journal, Flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014, when it was en route from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Probably the Malaysia Airlines aircraft crashed in the Indian Ocean. On the French island of La Réunion and the African continent, several fragments washed up that probably come from the plane, but nothing else has been recovered from the aircraft. The new Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who was elected two weeks ago, had already announced that he wou...