Arifin Awang resigns as Ivory Properties executive director
KUALA LUMPUR (July 12): Datuk Arifin Haji Awang has resigned as an executive director of Penang-based Ivory Properties Group Bhd, due to a health issue.
Land Code amended to address Sarawak native land issue, says Uggah
KUCHING (July 11): The landmark outcome of the Land Code (Amendment) Bill, 2018 is to enable native communal title in perpetuity to be issued over an area to be described as native territorial domain.
Sabah to have committee to monitor construction of Pan Borneo Highway
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.
Govt looking into hiking minimum property prices for foreigners
KUALA LUMPUR (July 11): Putrajaya is studying the possibility of increasing minimum property prices for foreign buyers Housing and Local Government Ministry secretary general Datuk Mohammad Mentek told a local business publication that “a new threshold will be set based on the condition of the local currency”.
Nawawi to resign as KTMB chairman by end of this month
KUALA LUMPUR (July 11): Datuk Nawawi Ahmad has said that he will resign as chairman of Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd (KTMB) by the end of this month, reported Bernama yesterday.
Selangor sees Port Klang as ideal for second DFTZ
SHAH ALAM: The Selangor state government yesterday said Port Klang, the country’s largest port, is ideal for the development of the second Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ), which could boost the port’s ranking to 10th largest container port in the world.
All RTO-scheme units in Ramah Pavilion snapped up less than two months
PETALING JAYA (July 9): All 50 units of Ramah Pavilion condominium in Teluk Kumbar, Penang island, under the developer’s rent-to-own (RTO) scheme were taken up by interested buyers within two months after the scheme was introduced in mid-April.
Ex-PM Najib pays remaining RM500,000 bail amount before deadline
KUALA LUMPUR (July 9): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today paid up the remaining half a million ringgit of his RM1 million bail over his case involving three counts of criminal breach of trust and one count of abuse of power relating to RM42 million belonging to SRC International Sdn Bhd, reported Bernama.
Developer ‘addressing issue of flash floods’ along Jalan Bukit, Kajang
KUALA LUMPUR (July 9): A builder has told residents whose homes are on the hill slopes of Jalan Bukit in Kajang that “all due care will be taken in the construction of a three-block 1Malaysia People’s Housing Scheme (PR1MA) apartment project nearby”, reported The Star today.
‘RM6.3b Penang project to start soon with undersea tunnel’
KUALA LUMPUR (July 9): Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd (CZC), the contractor of Penang’s RM6.
