News about Malaysian

KUCHING (Oct 10): The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Sarawak has completed about 50% of its probe into an illegal warehouse storing smuggled chicken wings that has been in operation in Miri for the past 30 years, says its director Razim Mohd Noor.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 8): The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has summoned Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for questioning at its headquarters in Putrajaya on Wednesday (Oct 10), according to Malaysiakini.

PETALING JAYA: Leasehold properties generally see slower price growth than freehold properties especially after 30 years into the lease.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): Planners, architects and engineers have to sell their good ideas to others and make them accept that planning is the only way forward for waste management, Malaysian Institute of Planners president Ihsan Zainal Mokhtar (pictured) told The Star recently.

PETALING JAYA (October 5): The Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) has said China companies must develop smart partnerships with locals in Malaysia.

IPOH (Oct 4): It can get quite quiet in parts of this sleepy Perak capital and when a loud bang and tremor was heard and felt this morning, some folk here got a tad curious/worried.

PUTRAJAYA (Oct 3): The wife of the former prime minister, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor (pictured), was arrested while giving her statement at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters at this afternoon, reported Bernama.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 3): Former prime minister Najib Razak and wife Rosmah Mansor are both being questioned today, in the investigation into alleged graft linked to state fund 1MDB.

KUALA LUMPUR (October 1): The fact that most property developers’ unbilled sales — sales which are already locked in but not yet captured in the books — have been declining does not seem to come as a surprise to many analysts given the lack of catalysts moving the property sector.

  KUALA LUMPUR (September 28): Just as the government announced that there will be no change after all in the terms of the levy for skilled foreign workers, the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) is insisting that the RM10,000 per worker annual payment will be too difficult for employers to bear.