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KUALA LUMPUR (July 19): Fajarbaru Builder Group Bhd is on the lookout for more opportunities in the Australian property market following its acquisition in April of 98 shares or 49% of Australian property development company, Beulah Northcote Land Pty Ltd.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 19): Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) chairman Tun Daim Zainuddin (pictured) is in China to try to renegotiate contracts entered into by the previous Barisan Nasional government with Chinese firms, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

PETALING JAYA (July 19): The government’s call for tender proposals for the development of Bandar Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur have attracted no suitors so far, said Ministry of Finance (MoF) special officer Tony Pua.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 19): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the planned Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) will have to be deferred because it will be difficult to reduce the price of the project.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jul 19): The upcoming sales and services tax (SST) will only be imposed on 38% of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket of goods, as compared to 60% by the goods and services tax (GST).

KUALA LUMPUR (July 19): Service tax on credit or charge cards, which was scrapped when the goods and services tax was implemented back in 2015, has made its way back in the proposed new model for the sales and services tax (SST), which is deemed SST 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 19): Royal Malaysian Customs Director-General Datuk Seri Subromaniam Tholasy (pictured) said today that the comeback of the sales and services tax (SST) come Sept 1, deemed "SST 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 19): Putrajaya has conceded that the sales and services tax (SST) system is not as transparent as the goods and services tax (GST), but stressed that the former is able to reduce Malaysian consumption tax by half.

PUTRAJAYA (July 19): Malaysia's Public Sector Home Financing Board, a statutory body under the public sector Home Financing Board Act 2015, is teaming up with MBSB Bank to provide a joint financial scheme to public sector employees for owning their first homes.