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KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): The Works Ministry has started discussions and negotiations with the Economic Affairs Ministry and the Finance Ministry on the third phase of the East Coast Expressway, said its minister Baru Bian.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): Datuk Seri Amrin Awaluddin (pictured) will step down as group managing director of Sime Darby Property Bhd on May 3, with Township Development chief operating officer Datuk Wan Hashimi Albakri Ahmad Amin Jaffri to be appointed as acting group CEO.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor claims the RM676 million suit filed by carpet businessman Deepak Jaikishan does not disclose the conspiratorial agreement involving them or any predominant intention on their part to injure him.

RAWANG (April 4): A years-long dispute between Prasarana Malaysia Bhd and Scomi Engineering Bhd has come to an end with the signing of a new contract worth RM303 million between the two parties today.

PUCHONG (April 4): Bandar Puteri may host the commercial nexus of Puchong, Selangor, but with unsightly back lanes, dirty drains, illegal structures and rampant double parking, it still falls short of a more premier status.

PETALING JAYA (April 4): Remember The Loaf, the bakery once owned by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad? It now has a new owner -- construction firm Ekovest Bhd, according to a report by Free Malaysia Today (FMT).

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): The sale of 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) superyacht Equanimity is historic, by any measure, said Attorney-General (AG) Tommy Thomas.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): Genting Bhd said yesterday its indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries Resorts World Las Vegas LLC and RWLV Capital Inc had on Tuesday priced their US$1 billion (RM4.

    PETALING JAYA (April 4): The Center to Combat Corruption & Cronyism (C4) has called for greater scrutiny over sale of government land, saying there were suspicious land deals that have led to the encroachment of the Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve (BNFR).

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 4): Banks and other financing institutions should look at non-linear data to better respond to the financing needs of low-income customers.