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PUTRAJAYA (Feb 1): The target of developing 80,000 homes for the Federal Territories Affordable Housing (RUMAWIP) programme can be achieved this year, Bernama reported Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor as saying yesterday.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 1): A 35m pedestrian link which directly connects the Bandar Utama Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Station to the 1 Utama Shopping Centre has opened today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): RHB Banking Group announced today it is raising its base rate (BR) and base lending rate (BLR) by 25 basis points (bps), effective Feb 2, in line with the hike in the overnight policy rate (OPR) announced by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) last week.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 30): One Crown Place, a mixed-use development in London developed by the Malaysian infrastructure conglomerate AlloyMtd Group, will open a luxury hotel in early 2020 within a restored Georgian terrace built in the 1800s, said adviser CBRE Group Inc in a statement today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): EcoFirst Consolidated Bhd saw its net profit for the second quarter ended Nov 30, 2017 (2QFY18) lifted by over five times to RM27.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): Mastery Academy of Chinese Metaphysics founder Datuk Joey Yap foresees the real estate market in Malaysia to remain sluggish in the Year of the Dog.

Pesona Metro Holdings Bhd (Jan 29, 44 sen) Maintain buy recommendation with a target price (TP) of 70 sen: Pesona Metro Holdings Bhd announced that it had been awarded a RM161.

  PETALING JAYA (Jan 30): The magistrate’s court at Putrajaya has released the chairman of an engineering consultancy who had been remanded for five days since Jan 25 to assist the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in its investigation into a three-highway and undersea tunnel project in Penang, reported Bernama.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): S P Setia Bhd said it has fixed the issue price for its 325 million new placement shares at RM3.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 29): There is still concern about the “sustainability” of the retail sector in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah in 2H17 as there is an absence of proposed new launches for the retail sub-sector, which is similar to 1H17, said property consultancy Knight Frank Malaysia.