The Penang Chinese Girls’ School centennial celebration, which more than 10,000 students and alumni from all over the world were supposed to attend, was called off in the wake of the outbreak.
“We are affected as several annual dinners, corporate launches and grand openings were postponed or cancelled. “My company conducts corporate team-building programmes for participants from Malaysia and abroad and just this month alone, we have had three cancellations. “Some promotional events at shopping malls and banks got cancelled, especially after Chinese New Year, so our orders dropped quite badly.