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KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 29): CapitaLand Malaysia Mall Trust's (CMMT) net property income (NPI) fell 17.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 27): About 30% of the Covid-19 clusters reported in the country since the start of the pandemic in January are linked to the workplace, said Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 27): Five months have passed and the Armed Forces Fund Board (LTAT) is still making up its mind on the privatisation of its debt-laden flagship group, Boustead Holdings Bhd, since the army fund first expressed consideration for the corporate exercise.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 24): Budget 2021 will still be announced even if Parliament is suspended as widely speculated, a source said.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 23): The Temporary Measures for Reducing the Impact of Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (Covid-19) Act, which was gazetted today, has offered some solutions to the property industry stakeholders and property buyers.

SCENARIO 1: Cindy is ready to buy a house, but having heard of plenty of abandoned housing projects in Malaysia, she did not want to take the risk of buying newly-launched or still-under-construction properties.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 21): The Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) has come to a decision that “no further action” (NFA) will be taken against Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali (pictured) over his flouting the mandatory home quarantine rule after returning from Turkey in July, The Star reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 21): An Asian subsidiary of Goldman Sachs will plead guilty to charges in the US to resolve a foreign corruption and bribery case over the looting of billions of dollars from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, The New York Times (NYT) reported, citing a person familiar with the agreement.

MELBOURNE (Oct 20): Australia-based property developer Crown Group is gearing up for its first Melbourne residential development launch next month despite the overall slow market owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

SINGAPORE (Oct 20): British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner James Dyson and his wife are letting go of their three-storey penthouse for S$62 million (US$189 million), for a price cut of close to 16%, Reuters reported.