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PETALING JAYA (May 7): Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari (pictured) has been reported to be sacking a number of city councillors, with more expected to lose their posts.

PENANG (May 7): The state authorities here have decided to reduce the increase in the proposed assessment rates, Malaysiakini reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): Ageson Bhd said yesterday that its non-executive director Datuk Foo Chu Jong has ceased to be a substantial shareholder in the construction group.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): London Biscuits Bhd, which is currently under liquidation, is selling seven parcels of freehold industrial land in Johor Bahru for RM70 million.

PETALING JAYA (May 6): The Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) Malaysia and Master Builders Association Malaysia (MBAM) are appealing to the government to bear the cost for Covid-19 tests for construction workers.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 6): A large group of foreign construction workers went “into hiding” after swab tests were carried out on such workers who had come into contact with infected staff at the Pavilion Embassy construction site, reported Free Malaysia Today (FMT).

KUALA LUMPUR (May 6): When the soldiers started putting up barbed wire in Taman Wilayah and Taman Desa Bakti, Selayang, on May 5, all thought the enhanced movement control order has arrived but that turned out not to be so.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 6): Parents are still “apprehensive” when it comes to sending their children to daycare centres.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 6): A US trooper stopping a car with a suspected “impaired driver” on a US highway on Monday was bemused to find a five-year-old in the driver’s seat, Reuters reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 5): Ikhmas Jaya Group Bhd, whose external auditor raised a red flag on its financials, has announced that its independent and non-executive director Yeun Choong Lai has resigned from the board.