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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 6): Minister of Youth and Sports Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman called for development land located near public transport infrastructure to be allocated for affordable housing developments, instead of selling them to the highest bidder from the private sector.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 6): The Highland Towers Redevelopment Committee, which was initiated by the Housing and Local Government (KPKT), has discovered the ownership status of more units within the doomed Highland Towers condominium at Bukit Antarabangsa, Kuala Lumpur, said the ministry in a press statement today.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 6): Putrajaya will table an amendment to the Street Building Drainage Act 1974 which will allow local governments to carry out safety inspections on slopes within their jurisdiction, including those on private properties, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 6): Putrajaya may review policies on foreign property purchases as it investigates the ownership of properties by non-Malaysians in the RM410 billion-Forest City in Johor.

KUALA LUMPUR (September 6): All open air restaurants nationwide will be gazetted as non-smoking areas, starting in December, announced the Health Ministry.

KUALA LUMPUR (September 6): In the wake of the dropped charges against the former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng and businesswoman Phang Li Koon, questions as to the events that lead to the decision have arisen.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 6): MyHSR Corp Sdn Bhd, together with its Singapore counterpart (SG HSR), will be calling off the ongoing international joint tender for the assets company (AssetsCo), following the deferment of the project.

PUTRAJAYA (Sept 6): The S$15 million that Malaysia has to pay Singapore for deferring the high-speed rail (HSR) is meant to settle "abortive costs" that will be incurred in wrapping up existing, contracted works that have been done in preparation for the RM110 billion project.

TOKYO (Sept 6): A powerful 6.

KOTA DAMANSARA (Sept 5): Gabungan AQRS Bhd expects better performance for financial years ending Dec 31, 2019 (FY19) to FY21, buoyed by its construction, property development and precast component manufacturing businesses.