S’pore home prices rise at moderate level amid cooling measures and apartment glut
SINGAPORE (Oct 3): Last quarter, amid slowing sales and an apartment glut, Singapore home-price growth moderated.
Hearing for Semantan Estates land dispute with govt postponed to Dec 11
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 3): The hearing for the civil suit by Semantan Estates (1952) Sdn Bhd against the Malaysian Government over a dispute involving land in Jalan Duta (now Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim) has been postponed to Dec 11.
Bolsonaro-backed highway would trigger an explosion of deforestation, say Amazon researchers
REALIDADE, Brazil (Oct 3): Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon almost always begins with a road, which brings logging, ranching and eventually commercial farming and towns in its wake.
HR Minister to meet rubber glove makers after US bans WRP Asia
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 3): Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran will meet with all rubber glove makers tomorrow to explain the repercussions of forced labour in their operations after the US banned the import of disposable rubber gloves of WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd.
MoF has repaid RM1.73b of SRC's KWAP loan
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): The Ministry of Finance (MoF) said it made another RM43.
Mah Sing banks on its 'affordably-priced' product offerings
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): Mah Sing Group Bhd will continue to develop affordably priced products going forward considering the challenging market environment.
Margma: Only rubber gloves from one Malaysian company banned in the US
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): Only disposable rubber gloves produced by one company in Malaysia are banned from the US, clarified the Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers Association (Margma).
US bans WRP's Malaysia-made gloves amid forced labour allegations
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): The US has banned the import of disposable rubber gloves produced in Malaysia by WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd, which is alleged to have manufactured these items using forced labour.
Kerjaya Prospek lands RM22.6m piling job
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): Kerjaya Prospek Group Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary has landed a piling contract worth RM22.
Six Malaysian firms behind open burning, says Indonesia
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): Indonesia has identified six Malaysian-linked companies operating estates in Indonesia out of 56 companies that are responsible for the open burning which is causing the region-wide haze.
