News about Dewan Rakyat

KUALA LUMPUR (July 20): While Mass Rapid Transit Corp Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp) has said it is trying to reduce the RM32 billion construction cost for the MRT2, government lawmaker Tony Pua says the project’s overall cost could balloon to RM50 billion.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 6): A lawmaker has attacked Selangor’s delay in furnishing data on the number of buildings still without strata titles to be included in the Strata Ownership Special Fund.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 5): The Sarawak portion for phase 1 of the Pan-Borneo Highway project is 14.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): The Dewan Rakyat yesterday passed the Limitation (Amendment) Bill 2018, which extends the time limit of up to three years to house buyers to lodge a complaint over latent defects in their properties, Bernama reported.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 28): The graft trial of Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng’s (pictured) was yesterday postponed to April 9.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 27): There were no such things as “cables” in the distribution and sale of the Federal Territories Affordable Housing (RUMAWIP) homes, Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku ()  Mansor said today.

PETALING JAYA (March 22): The government has proposed to amend the Small Estates (Distribution) Act 1955 (Act 98) to enable the distribution of hereditary land without inheritance agreements, instead allowing the land administrator to decide according to the “majority rule” method, reported Bernama.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 7): A total of 253 abandoned private housing projects, comprising 64,290 units, were reported in Peninsular Malaysia between January 2009 and Oct 11 this year, said the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): The Selangor government’s housing policy will not succeed in controlling the price of homes in the state, said Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar, Bernama reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 25): A total of 1,010 new permanent homes for flood victims in Kelantan have been completed by the government as at Sept 30.