News about RAs

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Kuala Lumpur’s lawmakers have been asked by Federal Territories Minister Khalid Abdul Samad to monitor contractors employed by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) for general cleaning, road sweeping, tree and grass cutting work in their constituencies, The Star reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): A chunk of the increase in costs for the light rail transit Line 3 (LRT3) project — from RM9 billion to RM31.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 20): Expectations of higher income, greater employment and low inflation catapulted Malaysia’s consumer sentiment index (CSI) to a 21-year high of 132.

  PETALING JAYA (July 18): Effective Oct 1, 2018, AirAsia will expand its Johor Bahru domestic network, adding Alor Setar and Ipoh as new destinations, reported Bernama.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 17): The light rail transit Line 3 (LRT3) project is a mini 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal due to the opaque nature of the transactions pertaining to the megaproject, said Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 16): Prasarana Malaysia Bhd, which has been blamed by the finance ministry (MoF) recently for poor management which resulted in a jump in the Light Rail Transit 3 (LRT3) project cost, said it had known the initial projected RM10 billion cost for the project was “inadequate”.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 12): There were loads of gnashing of teeth as different parties bandied about how much can be slashed from the bill to build the light rail transit 3 (LRT 3) project.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 12): The government has decided that Prasarana Malaysia Bhd will not be taking over the light rail transit line 3 (LRT3) project from the appointed project delivery partner (PDP), nor will it be calling it off.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 11): Sabah’s Infrastructure Development Ministry will form a committee to replace appointed consultants to monitor the building of the Pan Borneo Highway project in the state.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 11): Prasarana Malaysia Bhd said today it will work closely with the Ministry of Finance and both its Project Delivery Partners to bring down the total cost of the light rail transit line (LRT3) project.