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Young newly-weds told not to depend on handouts
YOUNG couples struggling to make a living in the city have been advised to be more creative and pro-active in sustaining their livelihood.Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s (DBKL) Housing Management and Community Development director Wan Mohammad Ghazali Nor said it was getting more challenging to live and...
Restaurant vexes residents by hogging parking bays
BY SHALINI RAVINDRANBooked spots: A restaurant along Lorong Datuk Sulaiman 7 blatantly disregards the law by placing their tables and chairs on the road at night.FOR the past four years, residents living near Lorong Datuk Sulaiman 7 in Taman Tun Dr Ismail have had to endure loud music blasting into...
DBKL’s housing merit system needs revamping, says advisory board member
BY BAVANI M.(From left) Nurul Syafiqah Azrina Che Ros, 14, Mohd Asri Che Ros, 29, and his wife nur Aliyah Zainal Abidin, 23, having a dinner at the kitchen’s floor at midnight as the other family member sleep in the living room. There are 23 of them living in one PPR unit.A KUALA LUMPUR City Hall...
Apartment dwellers living in filth
SANITARY pads and durian skin were among the filth found strewn all over the ground floor of an apartment building in Desa Tun Razak, Cheras, reports Sin Chew Daily.A resident who wanted to be known as Gao, 55, said it was common practice to just throw rubbish, including egg shells, rotten...
Slow sales eat into developer’s profit
Impressive: Naim sales and marketing general manager Tony Lau during the launch of the Sapphire on the Park last year.KUCHING: Naim Holdings Bhd says it will adopt a cautious approach, especially on product launches and product types, as the group’s earnings have been dragged down by slower sales...
New home to be proud of
BY YASMIN AHMAD KAMIL Two volunteers sanding down the veranda’s wooden railing.A GROUP of 35 volunteers showed that youth is not wasted on the young when they built a house for an orang asli family in Kampung Ulu Geruntum, Gopeng, Perak.Aged between 18 and 34, the volunteers endured challenging...
Project may not meet deadline
BY YEE XIANG YUN JOHOR BARU: The delay in the expansion works at a bridge on the Pasir Gudang Highway near Plentong here may not be ready according to its schedule.Works Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof, who visited the site on June 8, said that phase one of the highway expansion project did not...
Dry out the tracks
BY PRIYA MENON Rising tide: The KTM Batu Tiga station experiences frequent flashfloods as its old drainage systems can no longer cope with downpours. — Photo: ART CHENLONG-STANDING flood woes at the Batu Tiga KTM Komuter Station in Shah Alam may only be resolved with a cash injection from the...
Developer wins two awards for its projects
An artist’s impression of D’Sara Sentral’s SOVO component.MAH Sing Group Bhd celebrated a double win at the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2015-2016 last month for its projects D’Sara Sentral and The Loft@Southbay City.The company received awards in the Commercial High-Rise Architecture...
Ideal Group to inject property assets into IUBB
BY DAVID TANdavidtan@thestar.com.myOoi: 'These properties will have to be injected into IUBB over a period of time.'GEORGE TOWN: Ideal United Bintang Bhd (IUBB), a heavy machinery and equipment trading company, said its parent company Ideal Property Group will inject a RM1bil property project into...