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KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Former Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang (pictured) will testify at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting tomorrow on the claim alterations had been made to the AG’s report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

PENANG (Dec 3): Penang Island City Council (MBPP)’s internal committee established to probe the Bukit Kukus landslide will deliver findings before the year is out.

PETALING JAYA (Dec 3): The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has shut down at 160 eateries up to October this year owing to inspection and enforcement operations while up to 1,612 compound notices were slapped on them over the same period, The Star reported on Saturday.

PETALING JAYA (Dec 3): Kampung Seri Sungai Buloh Village Security and Development Committee (JKKK) has lodged a complaint with Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) that has yest to be addressed, regarding an "unbearable smell".

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Ex-prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) is unhappy about Education Minister Maszlee Malik’s plan to include the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) saga as part of schools’ history lessons.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Education Minister Maszlee Malik (pictured) said The 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal saga will be included as part of local history to ensure that such mistakes will not be made again, reported the news portal Malaysiakini today.

  A public hearing to obtain feedback on a proposal to degazette a part of the Bukit Lagong Forest Reserve in Gombak for a housing development project is under-way.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Ekovest Bhd shares rose 6.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Bogged down by the slowdown in construction and housing activities, building materials manufacturer Chin Hin Group Bhd plans to capitalise on opportunities in renewable energy where the government’s allocations will be enlarged.

  PETALING JAYA (Dec 3): While institutional reforms are needed in the country, the “basic bread-and-butter economic issues” must be prioritised to prevent backlash from the people, said Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.