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KUALA LUMPUR (October 2): Datuk Mohd Izzaddin Idris has resigned as non-executive director of property developer UEM Sunrise Bhd, following the completion of his service contract at holding company UEM Group Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (October 2): Households and businesses, across four districts in Selangor will face temporary water disruption on Oct 9 for a maximum period of 72 hours.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 1): The Pakatan Harapan (PH) government in Putrajaya will not cancel all directly negotiated public-private partnership (PPP) projects undertaken by the previous administration, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng assured today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 1): Travellers can now purchase KLIA Ekspres tickets on the Traveloka app, other than at KLIA Ekspres ticket counters, website and its own mobile app, according to Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd (ERL).

SINGAPORE (Oct 1): According to HDB’s flash estimate of the 3Q2018 Resale Price Index, the index has dropped 0.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 1): Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pictured) said he has “secured” a number of projects to uplift Port Dickson.

PETALING JAYA (October 1): The Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) has come up with a suggestion to keep house prices in check — by establishing a Housing Price and Cost Control Committee, to monitor costs involved in housing developments.

GEORGE TOWN (Oct 1): The National Heritage Department badly requires “a fresh infusion” of funds from the federal government to carry on with its functions, the Malay Mail reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 1): Penang’s ambitions to build its Pan Island Link (PIL1) highway could make the state’s planned Light Rail Transit system redundant, a Universiti Sains Malaysia academic told the Malay Mail today.

NEW YORK (October 1): Costing US$171mil (RM708mil), 14,500 acres of farmland in southern Washington was purchased by Bill Gates in what is the most expensive US land sale so far this year, reports Bloomberg, citing Land Report.