News about Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 1): Someone in Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) “obviously knows” what happened to the RM2 billion paid by the central bank to purchase a parcel of land from the finance ministry, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 1): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), which is under the purview of finance ministry (MoF), has yet to close the chapter on the RM2.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 31): The Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) supports the call for the creation of a separate board made by the Malaysian Institute of Professional Property Managers and Facility Managers (MIPFM) president Sarkunan Subramaniam recently.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Malaysia still maintains the right to review the price of water sold to Singapore under the Water Agreement 1961 and 1962, said Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Marzuki Yahya.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has arrived at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex for the hearing of his application to transfer 25 graft-related charges involving some RM2.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Four Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) officials have been told to go on leave pending investigations into the January purchase of land valued at RM2 billion.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 31): The Association of Valuers, Property Managers, Estate Agents and Property Consultants in the Private Sector Malaysia (PEPS) has rebuked a proposal to separate board to register and regulate property, facility and strata managers as property management is interrelated with other professions.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): The Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) revealed today that its reinvestigation on 1Malaysia Development Bhd, which was supposed to have started on Monday, Oct 29, has been delayed on the advice of Attorney-General Tommy Thomas.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Malaysia will legally challenge a consent award granted in 2017 to Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, International Petroleum Investment Company, following a debt dispute with its state investment fund, 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Former defence minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has denied claims that he was offering to help find fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho to avoid being investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).