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KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SDP) has filed a judicial review application to stop the compulsory acquisition of its 75ha land in Merlimau, Melaka, by a Taiwan-controlled company that claimed it was acting in the interest of the former Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V, to compel it to sell the land at a below market value price of RM35.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 29): MMC Corp Bhd announced today that the Borneo Highway PDP Sdn Bhd (BHP) had on April 22 received a notification from the government to terminate the project delivery partner (PDP) agreement for the Sabah portion of the Pan Borneo Highway.

PETALING JAYA (April 29): Kepong folks are vexed because they have received summons despite having paid their parking fees in Taman Wangsa Permai, Kepong.

PETALING JAYA (April 29): Sime Darby Property’s Elmina Valley Five (EV5), the latest in its Elmina Valley (EV) series (pictured) at Elmina City township, has seen a total take-up of 90% since the launch of EV5's first phase on March 23 weekend and second phase on April 27.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 29): Some KL folk, especially in the Semarak, Seputeh and Bangsar areas are sick and tired of having have to deal with the parking problems and noise as more residential bungalows are turned into “event spaces”.

BEIJING (April 29): Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had to wrap himself up in a long coat with a scarf pulled tight around his neck to keep warm when he arrived last Wednesday night to a rainy and chilly Beijing — with the temperature hitting the low teens in Celcius — despite it being the middle of spring in the Chinese capital city.

  PETALING JAYA (April 27): Although the National House Buyers Association supports the move by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to take action against banks who fail to give out housing loans to those eligible, the consumer body has proposed that action be taken only against banks that fail to lend to first-time homebuyers and those seeking to purchase affordable homes priced below RM300,000.

Malayan Flour Mills Bhd (MFM), is seeking bids on its parcel in Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur, land that industry experts estimate will fetch RM108 million.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 26): The Taman Tun Dr Ismail Residents Association (TTDI RA) has questioned the validity of a statement made by Federal Territories Minister Khalid Abdul Samad describing the scaled-down Taman Rimba Kiara project as a ‘win-win solution’.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 26): The defence in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's SRC International Sdn Bhd trial wants the High Court to stay or quash the seven charges of criminal breach of trust (CBT), money laundering and abuse of power unless they are amended, on the grounds that they are defective and constitute an abuse of the court process.