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PETALING JAYA (Oct 11): Restaurants in Kuala Lumpur may hold Oktoberfest events provided if the events take place within their premises and they have licenses to sell alcoholic drinks, said mayor Datuk Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan.

​PETALING JAYA (Oct 9): Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) will be taking action against assessment and rent defaulters after it revealed RM525 million in outstanding revenue as at August, reported The Star.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 9): The Buildings Department of the Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) will visit  Palma Apartments to identify units where illegal building extensions were constructed, said president Suliman Abd Rahman.

PETALING JAYA (October 8): Residents of Jinjang Selatan Tambahan (JST) were promised to be relocated, but have yet to receive updates on the matter from Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 8): Construction counters this morning reacted negatively to news of the government's decision to retender MRT2's underground work, after terminating MMC-Gamuda KVMRT Sdn Bhd as the contractor.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): Mammoth Empire Holding Sdn Bhd’s (MEH) Empire Remix development in USJ 1, Subang Jaya, Selangor, “is expected to be taken over by a new investor, or a group of new investors”, reported The Edge Malaysia in its latest issue.

PENANG (Oct 5): The state’s transport master plan (PTMP) will have a land tunnel since the Persiaran Gurney-Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu bypass dubbed Package 3 will be 50% elevated and 50% underground or at grade, reported The Malaysian Insight news portal today.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 5): The Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) has urged the Johor government to ignore a suggestion to do away with bumiputera quotas and discounts for properties priced above RM1 million, reported The Malaysian Insight.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 4): Sime Darby Property Bhd will be developing the 379,000-acre Malaysia Vision Valley (MVV) to the south of Kuala Lumpur on its own after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked with two other partners to jointly develop the project lapsed a year ago, reported The Star.

GEORGE TOWN (Oct 3): In a debate on the durability of a Light Rail Transit (LRT) (pictured) system, Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP) project manager Szeto Wai Loong was reported saying that “such a system was likely to last forever, requiring only minimal maintenance such as software upgrades in the long run compared with trams and bus-tram hybrids”.