“Based on statistics, there is a mismatch between demand and supply, especially with developers trying to make the most profits by building more high-end properties.”

“The slight upward revisions in stamp duty and real property gains tax (RPGT) rates announced in the government’s Budget 2019 are unlikely to have significant impact on the market although the growing mismatch in supply and demand coupled with rising financing costs will continue to impinge on price growth as the market finds its equilibrium.”

They will be implemented over three phases of eight months each

"In the wake of the crisis faced by the party, I am taking the decision to place the trust in the deputy president to assume he duties of the president,” he said in a statement.

“The predictable failure of the Mahathir government to hold a successful auction of the yacht Equanimity is another example of a Mahathir regime prioritizing illegal acts over the rule of law in a transparent effort to score political points,” an unnamed spokesman of Low said in a statement issued through Low’s attorneys.

A statement by Attorney-General Tommy Thomas.

He breathed his last at 9.41pm with his family by his side, Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin told reporters at the IJN.

Lim said the special payment, which will cost the government RM1 billion, will for the first time be paid in the same year that the budget was announced, instead of the following year.

While it has in the past paid hefty fines in several countries over wrongdoings and employees have been charged criminally, this is possibly the first time that any country has filed criminal charges against the US investment banking giant itself.

Deputy public prosecutor Lailawati Ali informed the Sessions Court here when the case, involving Datuk Tan Eng Boon, came up for mention before Sessions Court judge  Azura Alwi today.