Dirty dealings. Corporate battles. Consumer woes. Here are five things you need to know today.

1. The Prime Minister and members of his Cabinet have agreed to take a two-month pay cut to pad the Covid-19 fund as cases spike. 

2. AirAsia Group Bhd and AirAsia X Bhd said they would temporarily be grounding most of their planes as top management volunteered to take a pay cut. 

3. The International Air Transport Association has written to heads of government of 18 Asia-Pacific countries to appeal for a lifeline. 

4. The government has allowed goods that have been stuck at various ports to finally be delivered. 

5. AmBank Group Research said that a technical recession is all but inevitable.