News about Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR (June 13): Aspen Group Holdings Ltd, via its 30%-associate company Global Vision Logistics Sdn Bhd (GVL), has acquired 71 acres of leasehold industrial land in Section 16, Shah Alam, Selangor from Chemical Company of Malaysia Bhd for RM190 million.

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.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 12): Short-term lease platform Airbnb looks forward to engaging with local authorities to develop and appropriate frameworks — including tourism tax collection — that allow home sharing to thrive for Malaysia’s short- and long-term benefit, it said in an op-ed today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 12): Mah Sing Group Bhd has donated RM3 million to Tabung Harapan Malaysia at the Finance Ministry in Putrajaya.

PETALING JAYA (June 12): The Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) Market Traders’ Association has expressed their fears that the market may make way for redevelopment in the future.

PETALING JAYA (June 12): Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s former private secretary Tan Sri Mohd Shukry Salleh has denied any connections to the raid on the two-storey bungalow in Presint 10, Putrajaya by police yesterday, reported the Malay Mail.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): The Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) had today proposed that the government abolish its RM10 per room per night tourism tax to grow foreign tourist arrivals.

PETALING JAYA (June 11): A two-storey bungalow in Putrajaya – which is believed to have been used by former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) as a “safe house” – is being searched by police officers from the Federal Commercial Crime Investigations Department, reported the Malay Mail.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): There were 3,354 fire rescue calls during the Ops Raya 2017 campaign, up by 39% from 2,400 calls recorded in the previous year, said the Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia (Bomba) director-general Mohammad Hamdan Wahid (pictured) today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): A majority, or 82%, of Malaysian consumers are optimistic about the country's economic outlook and perceive the recent government initiatives, such as the reduction of goods and services tax (GST) to 0% on June 1, as being good for consumers, according to a survey conducted by Nielsen Malaysia.