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KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz (pictured) has been appointed chairman of the board at Sime Darby Property Bhd.

MELAKA (July 23): The status of the RM300 million Off River Storage (ORS) project needs clarification by the state government, according to Syarikat Air Melaka Bhd (SAMB).

KUALA LUMPUR(July 23): The Kuala Lumpur High Court has dismissed an Erinford Injunction application filed by a subsidiary of JAKS Resources Bhd, JAKS Island Circle Sdn Bhd (JIC).

MIRI (July 23): In Betong town, part of the Sri Aman Division in southern Sarawak, a block of double-storey shophouses is on fire.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong said today that the Malaysian government hopes to table the sales and services tax (SST) bill in Parliament next week to replace the goods and services tax (GST).

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): To pay down 1MDB debts held in the US dollar or ringgit, the government will employ soft loans from Japan, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad told Parliament today.

PETALING JAYA (July 23): IJM Land Bhd will launch affordable housing project Suria Pantai, a part of its Pantai Sentral Park mixed-use development at Pantai Dalam in the fourth quarter of this year (4Q18) with units going for RM275,000.

\KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Iskandar Waterfront City Bhd (IWCity) fell 6.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Putrajaya may not have any leeway to cut the corporate tax rate in the short to medium term, but economists say there are other approaches it can consider to ease the cost of doing business.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): A chunk of the increase in costs for the light rail transit Line 3 (LRT3) project — from RM9 billion to RM31.