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KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 29): Eight in 10 Malaysians agree to be vaccinated for Covid-19 and five out of 10 want the jab immediately (49.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 29): A lawyer for Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan (pictured), a stalwart supporter of former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said he would serve his client's suit challenging the emergency proclamation to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the government today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 28): Aeon Co (M) Bhd has announced a partnership with US-based Boxed Wholesale that will see the retailer utilising the e-commerce company’s state-of-the-art technology to accelerate Aeon’s expansion into new retail offerings.

PUTRAJAYA (Jan 29): Come Tuesday (Feb 2), traffic offenders in Shah Alam or Selangor can plead guilty in front of their computers without physically coming to the Magistrate's Court with the implementation of the e-PG (electronic pleading guilty) application.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 29): Joint management bodies (JMB) or management corporations (MC) of apartments and condominiums should seek legal opinion before taking action in requesting tenants of the apartments or condominiums to present their Covid-19 swab test results before allowing them to enter their premises, said Malaysian Institute of Property and Facility Managers (MIPFM).

NEW YORK: After departing from the White House, former United States president Donald Trump has been facing a bigger branding crisis in his business empire as people are shunning Trump-branded properties, reported foreign newswires.

It sounds incredulous, but banks had initiated foreclosure proceedings against homebuyers, not because the latter had failed to pay their instalments, but to recover loans which their developers had defaulted! And this was legal because the developers had secured their loans by using the purchasers’ houses as collateral! The crux of the problem was that the Housing and Local Government Ministry’s (KPKT) prescribed sale and purchase agreement (SPA) allowed developers to build houses with the instalments of the purchase price paid by purchasers from the day the SPAs were signed.

In a recent JLL survey, 66% of millennials in Asia Pacific, more than other age groups, said they missed the office and highlighted the office experience’s benefits: human interactions, professional environment, and place for focused work.

Malaysian Institute of Architects president Datuk Ezumi Harzani Ismail deems that in terms of working space planning, Malaysia is doing fine for now as there are more new buildings with airy green common spaces.

The increasing number of people working remotely doesn’t mean reduced demand for office space, as the function of the workplace will be redefined to suit other needs.