News about plan

PETALING JAYA (Dec 10): The Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) has lauded the Ministry of Federal Territories and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) for gazetting the Kuala Lumpur City Plan (KLCP 2020) to protect the interests of the city and its citizens.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 6): The Parliamentary Caucus on Monitoring Lynas yesterday urged the Australia-based group to “stop bullying Malaysia” and to take away the radioactive waste accumulated at its rare earth plant in Gebeng, Pahang, saying it has polluted underground water at the site.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 5): Radioactive residue from Lynas Corp Ltd’s Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Gebeng, Pahang must be removed from Malaysia, said the ministry of energy, science, technology, environment and climate change.

We have all heard of the ambitious US$100 billion (RM415.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 28): Federal Territories minister Khalid Abdul Samad have clarified that he cannot cancel the development planned at Taman Tun Dr Ismail’s (TTDI) Taman Rimba Kiara.

IPOH (Nov 21): The new Ipoh Local Plan 2035 is aimed at turning Ipoh into a sustainable, competitive and liveable city.

Building a township is no longer as simple as it used to be.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5): Three years ago, when former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who was also the finance minister, unveiled Budget 2016, many labelled it the “Robin Hood” budget — a reference to a fictional character who took from the rich to give to the poor — simply because the personal income tax rate of those in the higher income bracket was raised.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 2): The country cannot have a “one-size-fits-all” affordable housing policy, said the Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) recently.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 2): It might be wishful thinking to expect the government to be able to rein in fiscal deficit while generating decent economic growth in the upcoming budget, which will be tabled by the Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng at Parliament this afternoon.