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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): After the negative limelight over the US$100 billion Forest City mega project in Johor, the state government will now come up with clearer guidelines on residential development, especially involving the issue of gazetted international land.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): The Malaysiakini news portal has reported that Sarawak governor and former chief minister Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud’s son Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib is being sued for almost RM2.

SEREMBAN (September 5): A plan to officially declare Seremban a city next January has been deferred, due to delays in refurbishment works at the proposed Seremban City Council headquarters.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 5): Malaysia and Singapore have agreed to delay the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) until May 31, 2020 , inking legal documents to amend the initial HSR Bilateral Agreement to that effect, reported The Malaysian Insight.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): Umno Youth claimed that some homes were “missing” in Johor’s affordable housing scheme (RMMJ) but it looks like they have not even been built yet.

KUALA LUMPUR (September 5): A briefcase full of RM10 notes was pictured on social media, floating on the water in Bristol, the United Kingdom.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): Affin Bank Bhd confirmed today it has awarded a RM505 million contract to IJM Corp Bhd for the construction of its 47-storey headquarters at Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) here.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): Ahmad Zaki Sdn Bhd was fined RM40,000 by the Magistrate’s Court here today for breeding Aedes mosquito at its premises last year.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 5): China Communications Construction Co Ltd (CCCC), the contractor of the suspended East Coast Rail Link, is confident that the project – which was called off last month – will be restarted thanks to bilateral talks between China and Malaysia, reported South China Morning Post.

SEREMBAN (September 5): A woman who claimed to be a Datuk, advertised services of building affordable homes on Facebook, and defrauded one man of RM60,000, has been sentenced to 12 months in jail.