News about Convent Bukit Nanas

KUALA LUMPUR (June 3): The Lady Superior of the Society of Saint Maur, which runs Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) (pictured), has halted its legal challenge against the government’s decision on non-renewal of its land lease due to expire on Sept 6 this year.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 3): The Lady Superior of the Society of Saint Maur, which runs Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) will consider to settle its legal action to challenge the government’s decision on the non-renewal of its land lease which is due to expire on Sept 6 this year.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Convent Bukit Nanas (SMK Convent Bukit Nanas), having obtained a further 60-year extension of its land lease, should be recognised as a national heritage site.

KUALA LUMPUR *April 23): The National Heritage Department has been trying to gazette Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) here as a heritage site since 2008, but it could not be completed due to the school’s trustees’ protest.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) today announced that the government has agreed to extend the land lease for Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Convent Bukit Nanas for another 60 years.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): The Ministry of Education (MoE) has not conducted “due process” for Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) (pictured) to be gazetted as a fully government-aided school, The Malaysian Insight reported alumnae president Marina Yong saying today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 21): Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa (pictured) thinks that “CBN should not be touched and should be allowed to continue operating”, The Star reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): In the latest development of the saga over the Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) issue, the Federal Territories Land and Mines Office today clarified that the school will be spared demolition when its lease expires as “the land it sits on will revert to the government so it can be gazetted as a fully-aided government school”, The Star reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 19): Former Minister of International Trade and Industry Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz has urged the government to convert the leasehold title of Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) to preserve the heritage institution.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 19): Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Convent Bukit Nanas (SMKCBN) was today granted leave by the High Court here to mount a challenge against the non-renewal of its land lease which is due to expire on Sept 6 this year.