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In another few hours, the long awaited Budget 2022 will be announced by the Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Aziz.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 29): Going by hints dropped by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, Budget 2022 to be tabled at 4pm on Friday will not only be expansionary and sizeable, but also one that puts the need to quickly return lives and livelihoods back to pre-Covid-19 levels first before executing plans to pare down government debt and beef up tax collection.

To still ring up healthy numbers against a depressing market is definitely not by chance.

The numbers speak for themselves – a year-on-year 20.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): Maxim Global Bhd, formerly known as Tadmax Resources Bhd, is buying a piece of leasehold land measuring 9,775 sq m in Setapak for RM25.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): Berjaya Food Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary Berjaya Starbucks Coffee Co Sdn Bhd (BStarbucks), which operates Starbucks coffee outlets in Malaysia, clarified that Starbucks already has presence in Malaysia's three federal territories, namely Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan, and that the group’s plan to open a new store in Perlis by end-2021 will allow Starbucks to have a "full presence" in the country.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 28): Some of the early buyers of the One Jesselton Condominium in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah have found themselves in limbo after years of waiting as their units, which were supposed to have been handed over to them in 2018, are now still under construction.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): Robert Kuok, Malaysia’s richest man, fell off the top 100 list of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as his wealth evaporated slightly compared to six months ago, while banker Tan Sri Dr Teh Hong Piow dropped to number 380 in the same period despite adding to his wealth.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 28): MGB Bhd today unveiled its first Rumah Selangorku Idaman MBI project out of six - Idaman BSP located in Bandar Saujana Putra, Selangor.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): Clinical data showing a third dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine strongly increased protection against symptomatic Covid-19 will encourage countries to progress with booster dose campaigns, said Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research.