News about LAP

PETALING JAYA (Jan 21): Mitsui Fudosan Co Ltd, a Tokyo-based real estate company, announced that its flagship project in Southeast Asia — LaLaport Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC) — commenced its operations on Jan 20.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 17): Mitsui Fudosan Co Ltd, a Tokyo-based real estate company, will commence the operations of LaLaport BBCC on Thursday (Jan 20).

KLANG (July 29): The metal scaffolding of the LRT3 construction site in Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Klang has collapsed today, reported Malaysiakini.

MIAMI (June 29): A town inspector had assured the residents of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida that their building was safe a month after an engineering report stated that the building has structural safety issues in 2018, reported Reuters.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 2): A huge and growing sinkhole that “is expanding by dozens of metres each day” is threatening “to swallow a house” owned by the Sanchez family in Santa Maria Zacatepec, Puebla state, Mexico, AFP reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 4): The driver of the trailer that crashed into a pedestrian bridge that was still being built along the MRR2 Highway near Bandar Tasik Selatan yesterday has tested positive for drugs, reported The Star.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 19): Part of the road and outer wall of an apartment along Jalan Taman U Thant here collapsed owing to a sinkhole earlier today, reported The Malay Mail.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 8): A Chinese provincial radio reported at least two apparent fatalities at a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine centre that collapsed yesterday evening in Quanzhou city, in the southeastern Fujian province, with about 80 people inside, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 7): A five-storey hotel has collapsed in Fujian, China this evening, say reports.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 20): A Labour Department probe on the Taman Desa condominium collapse which occured last Friday (pictured) found that the main contractor of the project being built has allegedly made breaches of the employment law, the Malay Mail reported.