News about plan

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 22): A plant expert has dismissed recent social media claims that a popular house plant causes cancer as lacking scientific proof.

THERE are many benefits to having plants around the house.

GEORGE TOWN (Dec 16): The Penang executive council today gave the green light to Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP) project delivery partner SRS Consortium Sdn Bhd for the railway and highway schemes that include a rail line from Komtar to the airport and the Pan Island Link.

PETALING JAYA (Dec 16): The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has urged developer Kwasa Land Sdn Bhd to refrain from making any statement about potential projects at the former Rubber Research Institute (RRI) land when they are inconsistent with the current local plan.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 15): Despite a protest by hundreds of fishermen in the southern region of Penang against a massive land reclamation proposal to fund the Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP) on Sunday, state exco Datuk Abdul Malik Kassim said the plan had been well received by the community.

GEORGE TOWN (Dec 11): Some 1,000 acres (404.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 7): The successful implementation of the RM27 billion Penang Transport Master Plan will be pretty much dependent on the outcome of the due process exercise on the plan, says Gamuda Bhd group managing director Datuk Lin Yun Ling (pictured).

PENANG (Dec 7): Those who attended yesterday’s open session on the RM27 billion Penang Transport Master Plan were generally welcoming of the ambitious project.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 2): Construction work on the Penang light railway transit (LRT) project, which is part of the first phase of the island’s Transport Master Plan (TMP), will start in 2018.

GEORGE TOWN (Nov 30): Gamuda Bhd-led project delivery partner — SRS Consortium Sdn Bhd — for the Penang Transport Master Plan (TMP) estimates the cost of reclaiming two islands measuring about 1,300 acres (526.