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KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's legal team today proceeded with its application in the High Court for an expert witness to be brought in to verify documents bearing the former premier's signatures which were allegedly forged.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): The prosecution in the SRC International Sdn Bhd trial has questioned why the defence did not bring up the issue around the allegedly "forged" documents before the prosecution closed its case, following the defence's application to bring in a handwriting expert to verify Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's signatures on several documents.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Kerjaya Prospek Group Bhd, via its a wholly-owned unit, has bagged a construction contract worth RM331.

  Do you ever find yourself rummaging through an entire room just to look for something? Does the room look like a tornado has just torn through it when you’re done, but you still can’t find it? We are already well into a new decade, for heaven’s sake, so let’s just say no to clutter.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): IOI Properties Group Bhd said today its directors Datuk Lee Yeow Chor and Lee Yeow Seng have given notices of their intention to deal in the securities of the company during the closed period pending announcement of IOI Properties' second-quarter financial results.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): High Court judge Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim has fixed March 2 to deliver his decision on Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's son Datuk Mohd Nazifuddin Najib's bid for a stay of the Inland Revenue Board's (IRB) application to obtain a summary judgement against him for allegedly not paying taxes to the amount of RM37.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Sarawak Report editor Claire Rewcastle-Brown has filed an appeal against the High Court decision last month to allow an application by Terengganu's Sultanah Nur Zahirah not to testify in her defamation suit against Rewcastle-Brown and the publisher on her book about 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): The cabinet's decision to retain the ownership of PLUS Malaysia Bhd is a positive for Gamuda Bhd, as this will be seen as consistent with the government's previously announced plan to take over the four highways held by Gamuda, said Kenanga Investment Bank Bhd Research.

Comment by Liew Chin Tong on toll rates The announcement by PLUS Malaysia Bhd to reduce its toll rates by 18% is in line with Pakatan Harapan’s two-step election promise to (a) renegotiate unfair toll concessions, and (b) to gradually take over and eventually abolish tolls.

BEAUFORT (Jan 18): Barisan Nasional (BN) retained the Kimanis parliamentary seat after winning the by-election today with a 2,029-vote majority.