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KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 12): A privately-owned Chinese construction firm announced yesterday it is open to participate in “federal projects that will benefit the people”, as it plans to invest up to RM10 billion in Malaysia over the next decade.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 10): Malaysia should focus on highlighting other productive Chinese investments in the country in assessing its bilateral economic relationship with China, said University Malaya Professor Dr Edmund Terence Gomez (pictured).

GEORGE TOWN (Oct 9): The government is considering introducing staggered school holidays according to region, in an effort to reduce overcrowding at tourist spots.

KUALA LUMPUR (October 9): The Pakatan Harapan government is looking to review its promise of building one million affordable homes as it now feels the country may not need that many units to address the affordable housing issue, said Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): About half of plastic waste coming out of the US for recycling recorded for the first six months of this year was taken to Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, said Unearthed, Greenpeace’s investigative arm, reported British newspaper The Guardian yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): Planners, architects and engineers have to sell their good ideas to others and make them accept that planning is the only way forward for waste management, Malaysian Institute of Planners president Ihsan Zainal Mokhtar (pictured) told The Star recently.

PETALING JAYA (October 2): Malaysia welcomes investments in Malaysia, but foreigners settling in the country "by the millions", was not alright, said Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad on BBC’s Hardtalk programme.

GEORGE TOWN (September 28): A plan to reclaim land along the coast of Pantai Bersih, which had been delayed for nearly 20 years has been revived by the Penang government.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 27): Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng (pictured) said he may end up as the most unpopular finance minister in the nation's history.

BEIJING (Sept 24): The Chinese contractor of the controversial East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) is still hopeful of rescuing the project and has expressed its willingness to take up an equity stake in the ECRL if the project resumes, according to its management when met by Malaysian media in China on Saturday during a trip organised by the Chinese government.