TTDI market traders want 30-year-old market spared from redevelopment
PETALING JAYA (June 12): The Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) Market Traders’ Association has expressed their fears that the market may make way for redevelopment in the future.
Cenbet: M’sia ready for local council elections now
PETALING JAYA (June 11): Malaysians are ready for local council elections now after experiencing a peaceful transfer of power following the 14th general elections, said the Centre for A Better Tomorrow (Cenbet) co-president Gan Ping Sieu.
KPKT: 7,000 cases in strata tribunal backlog
PUTRAJAYA (June 12): Minister of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Zuraida Kamaruddin has proposed that the number of strata tribunal presidents and interpreters be increased to clear the backlog of 7,000 cases.
PM: HSR merely postponed, not scrapped
PETALING JAYA (June 12): In what appears to be a softening of his stance, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) is postponed, and not axed entirely.
Najib’s ex-aide denies link to raid at former home in Putrajaya
PETALING JAYA (June 12): Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s former private secretary Tan Sri Mohd Shukry Salleh has denied any connections to the raid on the two-storey bungalow in Presint 10, Putrajaya by police yesterday, reported the Malay Mail.
Malaysia hoteliers want tourism tax abolished, Airbnb regulated
KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): The Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) had today proposed that the government abolish its RM10 per room per night tourism tax to grow foreign tourist arrivals.
Najib’s ‘safe house’ in Putrajaya searched by police
PETALING JAYA (June 11): A two-storey bungalow in Putrajaya – which is believed to have been used by former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) as a “safe house” – is being searched by police officers from the Federal Commercial Crime Investigations Department, reported the Malay Mail.
Penang to oversee all Federal housing projects in state
PETALING JAYA (June 11): The Penang government will oversee all housing projects by the Federal government, said the state’s Housing, Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo.
Funeral plot twist – PJ shop is not a funeral parlour, clarifies owner
PETALING JAYA (June 11): The Trinity Casket shop in Section 22 here has refuted claims by local residents that it is operating a funeral parlour, reported The Star.
ECRL project owner: Information in weekly's report 'incorrect and misleading'
KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): The owners of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project today said that a statement made in a story by an English language weekly yesterday is "completely incorrect and misleading".
