KUALA LUMPUR: Construction firm JAKS Resources Bhd and Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd will jointly develop the former Star headquarters in Section 13, Petaling Jaya, into a RM370-million mixed residential and commercial development.

KUALA TERENGGANU: A report on the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium (SSMZA) roof collapse on June 2 last year may be announced next week.

Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the state government had received the report via the state legal officer and the ministry concerned.

KUALA LUMPUR: Boustead Holdings Bhd expects to continue delivering strong results for its current financial year 2010, group managing director Tan Sri Lodin Wok Kamaruddin said on March 3.

Boustead was on track to further fortify its balance sheet following the disposal of BH Insurance (M) Bhd to AXA Affin General Insurance Bhd, Lodin said.

PETALING JAYA: Lum Chang Group, through its associate company Fabulous Range Sdn Bhd, is launching a new bungalow project at its Twin Palms Sungai Long in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, this weekend on March 6 & 7.

PETALING JAYA: The Kota Damansara forest, covering 321.7ha, has been re-gazetted as a permanent forest reserve from Feb 18 by the Selangor state government after eight years of advocacy by the Friends of Kota Damansara (FOKD).

Originally known as the Sungai Buloh Forest Reserve, the forest was first gazetted in 1898 with an area of 6,590ha.

KUALA LUMPUR: Faber Group Bhd, a subsidiary of UEM Group Bhd, plans to launch some phases of its ongoing developments this year, said managing director Adnan Mohammad (pictured).

SHAH ALAM: Property developer SP Setia Bhd has increased its sales target to RM2 billion for FY10 from RM1.65 billion previously on the back of strong sales of RM608 million for the first quarter of FY10, said president and CEO Tan Sri Liew Kee Sin.

HONG KONG: Policy measures introduced last week to raise the cost of buying homes in Hong Kong's booming luxury market have so far had little impact on buying demand, agents say.

SHAH ALAM: Sime Darby Property Bhd is awaiting the approval from the state and federal governments on its plans for its proposed 10,861-acre (4,395ha) Selangor Vision City (SVC) development, said its managing director Tunku Datuk Putra Badlishah Tunku Annuar.

IPOH: Perak Public Accounts Committee chairman Datuk Seri Raja Ahmad Zainuddin Raja Omar on March 2 called on government agencies in the state to make full use of their idle land to prevent them from being occupied by squatters.

He said the agencies could get advice and information from the district and land office on how to utilise the land.