News about Kuala Lumpur

PETALING JAYA (June 14): Johor opposition leader Datuk Hasni Mohammad has hailed Pakatan Harapan administration’s decision to postpone the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) instead of cancelling it outright.

PETALING JAYA (June 13): The Federal Territories Ministry – which governs Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan – should be abolished, said Seputeh MP Teresa Kok who is reportedly the frontrunner to head the portfolio.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 13 — Yayasan Wilayah Persekutuan (YWP) said it owns only one plot of Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) land and not all the 64 lots, as claimed by Kepong Member of Parliament Lim Lip Eng.

PETALING JAYA (June 13): Seputeh MP Teresa Kok has refuted a report that she will be sworn in as Federal Territories Minister.

PETALING JAYA (June 13): The next hearing for the judicial review of the development at Taman Rimba Kiara (TRK) has been fixed at Sept 26 and 27 at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

KUALA LUMPUR: Investigations into the Kuala Lumpur Vertical City (KLVC) development are being held up by uncertainties about project owner Federal Land Development Authority’s (Felda) board of directors, according to sources, following the change in government after the May 9 national polls.

PETALING JAYA (June 12): Kuala Lumpur is the 182nd most expensive city in the world, according to the latest cost of living survey published by international information and data provider ECA International.

PETALING JAYA (June 12): In what appears to be a softening of his stance, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) is postponed, and not axed entirely.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): The knife has fallen on Raj’s Banana Leaf in Bangsar.

PETALING JAYA (June 9): Will property prices drop if Bangsar South (pictured) in Kuala Lumpur reverts to its original name of Kampung Kerinchi? Definitely, said real estate agent Janet Chong of Hartamas Real Estate (OUG) Sdn Bhd.