Year-on-year, the May 2020 labour force recorded an increase of 71,700 persons

The RGL will enable cross-border travel for essential business and official purposes between both countries. Meanwhile the PCA will allow Singapore and Malaysia residents, who hold long-term immigration passes for business and work purposes in the other country, to enter that country for work.

The international competition theme this year was “Forward: A Sustainable Future”, posing a unique challenge to its participants to showcase designs immersed with functional and social sustainability elements. 

State Investment, Entrepreneur Development, Cooperative and Human Resource Committee chairman Mohd Izhar Ahmad said this was following talks held by the Johor and Singapore governments, as well as several employers, the majority of whom owned major industries in the island republic.

NSTP interim chief executive officer Mustapha Kamil Mohd Janor, when contacted, confirmed the relocation decision but was not sure if the tenancy agreement will be terminated prematurely. Mustapha, who is also Media Prima news and editorial executive director, said the move is part of the group's "rationalisation exercise".

In 2022, Yam will become the 119th president of the CIOB, the first Malaysian and the second Asian to be elected to this position in CIOB’s 188 year history.

Sim noted that despite rising land prices in Shah Alam, there are still factors incentivising logistics players to look into the locality. "These include Shah Alam’s central location providing opportunities for more delivery runs per day, as well as the advent of construction going into multi-storey to balance the real estate costs," he said.

“During the first half of the year, the central areas of Kuala Lumpur saw fewer residential project launches and lower levels of transactional activity. Still, against this backdrop, we observed active bookings of rightly positioned residential products of reputable developers in city fringe and popular / upcoming suburbs. The reintroduction of the HOC featuring stamp duty exemptions and the uplifting of margin of financing limit for the third housing loan onwards for property valued at RM600,000 as well as Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT) exemption unveiled in the short-term Economic Recovery Plan (PENJANA) will help to simulate the property market," said Sarkunan in Knight Frank's 'Real Estate Highlights 1st Half 2020' research report today.

The motion of removing the speaker has been passed as a total of 111 MPs voted for the motion to remove Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof as the speaker, versus a total of 109 votes against the the motion.

Hong Leong's Malaysia property sector top picks are Sunway Bhd and Matrix Concepts Holdings Bhd.