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PETALING JAYA (Sept 16): Government’s role is crucial in supporting the rollout of new construction technologies in the country and regulation is also important for the industry players to adapt to new building methods, said Hong Kong-based Ho & Partners Architects (HPA) executive chairman Nicholas Lik Chi Ho.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 16): The Covid-19 pandemic may have hit the construction sector but it also opened up a new avenue for the industry players to rethink the conventional construction process and start to embrace Industrialised Building System (IBS) and Modular Integrated Construction (MiC), said Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) president Datuk Ezumi Harzani Ismail.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 16): Malaysia reported today 62 new Covid-19 cases, which bring the cumulative number of infected individuals in the country so far to 10,031, health director general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said via Twittter.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 16): Iskandar Waterfront Holdings (IWH) plans to list in the first half of 2021 to raise at least RM5 billion (US$1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 16): Hotel and resort operator Avillion Bhd’s external auditors have red-flagged the loss-making group's ability to continue as a going concern, as its current liabilities have exceeded its current assets.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 16): A green housing project in Chengdu, China which was meant to be a "vertical forest" with gardens on every balcony has not turned out the way it was supposed to.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 15): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had pressured former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer Mohd Hazem Abdul Rahman (pictured) to request audit firm KPMG to conclude the audit of the state fund’s financial statements for 2013 despite certain irregularities it found, the High Court heard today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 15): Malaysia today reported 23 new Covid-19 cases — of which 10 were imported and 13 were local transmissions — bringing the total positive cases detected so far to 9,969, according to the Ministry of Health.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 15): PetroSaudi Oil Services (Venezuela) Ltd (PSOSL) (Incorporated in Barbados) reiterated its undertaking to the High Court today that it would not move the disputed US$340.