AmanahRaya REIT CEO resigns after just 3 months on the job
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 1): AmanahRaya Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)’s chief executive officer (CEO) Zalila Mohd Toon, 58, has resigned just after three months on the job.
Vizione-Vertice JV accepts RM815m Penang Mega Infrastructure job
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 1): Vizione Holdings Bhd announced yesterday that its joint venture company with Vertice Bhd has accepted the RM815 million contract from Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd to undertake construction works for Package 2 of the Penang Mega Infrastructure project.
It’s not a wage problem, houses are just too expensive
PETALING JAYA (Jan 30): To resolve the property supply and demand mismatch in Malaysia, Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) director of research Dr Suraya Ismail opined that housing prices just need to be within the average wage earners’ affordability level.
Living with the water, using green lungs to fight city floods
BANGKOK (Jan 9): The idea was pitched not just as a green space amidst the congested city of 10 million people, but as a flood-busting move that would also help the urban area adapt to climate change.
WZ Satu bags RM133.5m Gemas-JB double track job
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 18): WZ Satu Bhd’s wholly-owned unit WZS BinaRaya Sdn Bhd has bagged a RM133.
PAM welcomes KLCP 2020, hopes new plan to be gazetted by 2020
PETALING JAYA (Dec 10): The Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) has lauded the Ministry of Federal Territories and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) for gazetting the Kuala Lumpur City Plan (KLCP 2020) to protect the interests of the city and its citizens.
Joint working committee mooted to resolve Taman Rimba Kiara development
PETALING JAYA (Nov 24): The Federal Territories (FT) Ministry will talk to Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and Yayasan Wilayah Persekutuan (YWP) about setting up a joint working committee with Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) residents to find a solution for a high-rise, high-density development in Taman Rimba Kiara (TRK) that has sparked outrage in the community, reported The Star.
Don’t plant crops on hill slopes, Ampang Jaya folk told
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 19): Owing to safety and legal reasons, Ampang Jaya residents have been “advised against planting crops or having a garden on hill slopes” as such actions will affect soil stability, The Star reported today.
FT Ministry renegotiating 74 projects contravening KLCP 2020
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 19): A total of 74 projects which did not meet the requirements of or contravened the newly-gazetted Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020 (KLCP 2020) are now in the renegotiation process, said Federal Territories (FT) Minister Khalid Abdul Samad (pictured).
Targeting of house prices should be done at local level, says KRI
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 2): The country cannot have a “one-size-fits-all” affordable housing policy, said the Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) recently.
