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More than 70% or about three in four corporate occupiers and investors stated that insufficient technological infrastructure is a major barrier in achieving their decarbonisation goals, according to JLL Asia-Pacific (APAC)’s report titled “Sus­tainable Real Estate: From Ambitions to Actions”.

SYDNEY (July 1): Australian home prices grew at their fastest annual pace since 2004 in June as strong demand and tight supply outweighed the drag from coronavirus lockdowns in some cities, reported Reuters.

PUTRAJAYA (June 30): A three-member Court of Appeal bench has granted controversial carpet businessman Deepak Jaikishian an interim injunction against Boustead Holdings Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary Bakti Wira Development Sdn Bhd disposing of 19% of his stake in Astacanggih Sdn Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 30): Malaysia's daily Covid-19 vaccination rate climbed to 231,733 doses yesterday (June 29), up from 197,274 doses on the previous day.

SYDNEY (June 29): Close to half of the population of Australia is now in lockdown as the country struggles to contain the outbreak of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant, reported CNN.

WASHINGTON (June 28): The death toll from the partial collapse of a 12-storey residential building in the US beachside town of Surfside, southeastern state Florida, has risen to nine, said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): The Chemical Industries Council of Malaysia (CICM) is urging the Government to immediately grant approval to limestone quarries to continue to operate in order to enable essential industries such as the water treatment and sugar industries to maintain supplies to the general public.

PETALING JAYA (June 24): EcoWorld International has recorded RM283 million sales in 2Q2021 followed by a further RM117 million in May, bringing the year-to-date value of sales contracts exchanged to RM753 million.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): Global solar company Risen Energy Co Ltd's RM42.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): Sunway Real Estate Investment Trust’s (Sunway REIT) SunREIT Unrated Bond Bhd (SUB) has mandated OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd as the sustainability structuring coordinator of an unrated medium-term notes programme of up to RM10 billion in nominal value.