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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 12): Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said houses built under the new Malaysia's Housing Project (PPM) will be bigger and have better facilities than the ones built under the People's Housing Project (PPR) which it replaces.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 12): Metronic Global Bhd has won a contract to undertake extra low voltage system works for a proposed mixed development in Kuala Lumpur that will include 616 condominium units.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 12): AirAsia Group Bhd co-founder and group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes says it is “absurd” that low-cost carriers (LCCs) dominate the Malaysian aviation market, but the country does not have dedicated low-cost carrier terminals (LCCTs).

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 11): Tex Cycle Technology (M) Bhd is targeting to kick-start the operation of its first waste-to-energy plant in the UK by end-2020.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 11): Malaysia's National Budget Office (NBO) had last month sought the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs' (IDEAS) inputs on institutional reforms for the Budget 2020 speech.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 10): In view of the controversies surrounding the Federal Territory Foundation (YWP), its chairman Khalid Abdul Samad said it has decided to stop venturing in businesses involving land deals.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 10): Minho (M) Bhd said today a fire incident occurred on Saturday evening at its subsidiary's timber complex at Bandar Tun Abdul Razak in Jengka, Pahang.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 6): We are maintaining our “neutral” view on the property sector as the outlook remains challenging in the next 12 months.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 10): Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin has denied any knowledge that there were concerns raised in 2009 that fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, has been misrepresenting himself as an advisor of then Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin.

The second most populous state in Malaysia, Johor has remained attractive to investors.