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KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): DBE Gurney Resources Bhd, soon to be known as Lagenda Properties Bhd, will be significantly scaling up its affordable housing development arm by acquiring the developer of two housing projects.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): Knight Frank Malaysia expects the Covid-19 pandemic to exert downward pressure on rental and occupancy levels in the oversupplied Klang Valley office market as the gap between supply and demand continues to widen amid weaker office demand and shrinking pool of tenants, it said in its latest Real Estate Highlights for 1H2020.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): Batu Kawan Member of Parliament (MP) Kasthuriraani Patto is urging newly appointed Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun (pictured) to make a firm ruling on the deemed sexist and racist remarks made by the Baling MP yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): There are some issues of ineffectiveness, weaknesses and non-compliance in managing programmes, projects and activities, according to the Auditor General’s report.

GEORGE TOWN (July 14): The cardiologist in Penang who hit the news after being caught by the local authorities for jogging on the second day of the movement control order back in March 19 has changed his please to guilty at the Magistrate’s Court here today, reported FMT.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): Malaysia’s unemployment rate increased to 5.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): Before the parliamentary sitting kicked off with the Minister's Question Time, newly appointed Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun addressed the commotion yesterday amid alleged racist and sexist remarks by Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim (BN-Baling).

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): The prosecution had on Friday filed a notice of motion for forfeiture action against Tareq Obaid, PetroSaudi International Ltd, PetroSaudi Oil Services (Venezuela) Ltd, Clyde and Co LLP and Temple Fiduciary Services Ltd.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 13): The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) has urged the government and Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to extend the bank loan-repayment moratorium by another six months for the tourism industry because the sector is the hardest hit by the Covid-19 outbreak and studies indicate that it will only recover from the crisis much slower than other local industries.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 13): The motion of removing the speaker has been passed as a total of 111 MPs voted for the motion to remove Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof (pictured) as the speaker, versus a total of 109 votes against the the motion.