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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 30): Malaysia reported 208 Covid-19-linked fatalities on Wednesday (Sept 29), the sixth consecutive day the daily figure stayed above the 200 mark, but down from 240 on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 29): First-time buyers of affordable residential property continued to support house prices in Malaysia in the first half of 2021 (1H21) despite the housing market reversing improvements observed in 2H20 as the effects of the positive response to various homeownership incentives introduced by the government subsided.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 29): Former deputy finance minister and Pontian Member of Parliament (MP) Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan (pictured) was on Wednesday acquitted of charges of money laundering and giving a false statement against him after he agreed to pay a compound of RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 29): Up to 1,822 Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) participants left the country for good between 2015 and 2019, Malaysiakini reported findings in the Auditor-General's Report 2019 Series 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 29): Coordination between the Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry (MOTAC) and the relevant ministries and agencies have to be enhanced in overseeing the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme, stated the Auditor-General's Report 2019 Series 2 This can be done by setting up an integrated system to boost the “effectiveness of the implementation, monitoring and evaluation” of MM2H, suggested the report, according to a coverage by the Malaysiakini news portal.

KUALA TERENGGANU (Sept 27): The government is considering a new controlled price for Covid-19 self-test kits earlier than the expected date in December, said Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Datuk Rosol Wahid.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 26): Malaysia had fully vaccinated 19.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 25): Malaysia reported 250 new Covid-19 deaths on Friday (Sept 24), more than double the 116 logged the day before.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 24): In view of the uncertainty and fluidity brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, Starhill Global Real Estate Investment Trust (Starhill Global REIT) will continue to stay vigilant and flexible in its approach to preserve balance sheet strength and liquidity to mitigate any potential short term disruption to revenue, said its chairman Tan Sri Francis Yeoh Sock Ping (pictured).

Mass housing development is the mass production of a few standard home designs that often fail to satisfy any actual house buyer’s need, thus inadvertently leading to the emergence of a spin-off industry known as “renovation”.