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More than three months in, what has the government done right so far? What has it missed? More importantly, how should it move forward?  Focusing on the housing and property sector, EdgeProp.

PETALING JAYA (August 23): Singapore’s bid to add their hawker culture to Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity has caused some backlash amongst Malaysians.

KEPONG (Aug 23): Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng will lodge a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate 19 pieces of land owned by Yayasan Wilayah Persekutuan (YWP).

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 22): From normal workers to top officials, those involved in the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) are still in shock over the scrapping of the mega project.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 21): MRCB-Quill REIT (MQREIT) saw 48 million of its units cross off-market today.

SHAH ALAM (August 16): An 11-year-old boy fell to his death from his family’s fifth-floor apartment unit, located at the Royal Malaysian Air Force (TUDM) quarters yesterday, reports the NST.

KUALA LUMPUR (August 16): Mudajaya Group Bhd said the RM118.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 13): While some building materials will be exempted from the soon-to-be implemented Sales and Services Tax (SST), house prices may not come down due to the increase in other cost components, said Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Deputy Minister Datuk Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 9): Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) holds an optimistic outlook of the property market and believes that real estate investors will make a comeback, due to improving fundamentals under the new government and new policies to address the sector's issues.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 7): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured), who arrived at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) at 4.