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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 8): Malaysia's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged at 3.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 7): Scientex Bhd is looking to accelerate its development of affordable housing units, and plans to build 32,500 units over the next 10 years to meet its 50,000 homes target by 2028.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 7): The Finance Ministry said today foreign online services will need to register with the Royal Malaysian Customs Department to ensure a level playing field between Malaysian and foreign companies.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 7): The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Com­mission (MACC) has questioned former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Tan Sri Muhammad Ibrahim over the central bank’s RM2bil land purchase from the Finance Ministry in January.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5): The multi-tier levy system has been strongly opposed by an employer group and industry players, which said it would increase the cost of business operations.

GEORGE TOWN (Nov 5): State Housing Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo (pictured) has been receiving increasingly more complaints from Penang residents about the problems they face from foreign workers living in their areas.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5): The announcement that exemptions will be granted for specific business-to-business (B2B) service tax from Jan 1, 2019 for registered service tax entities would help lower the costs of doing business by eliminating pyramiding taxation, or the tax-on-tax effect.