Stakeholders in Penang, championing for a better public transportation system, and Penangites at large are still looking forward to the Bayan Lepas Light Rail Transit (LRT) project to be materialised. The RM9.5bil project has been dealt a blow after Putrajaya withdrew its RM2bil government guarantee for the state government to finance ... Read More

Penang will not give up on its proposed Light Rail Transit (LRT) project despite Putrajaya withdrawing its guarantee, said Chow Kon Yeow. The Penang chief minister said the state will continue with its LRT project as it generally has several other financing options to fund projects under the Penang Transport ... Read More

State Housing, Local Government, Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo, said that as of 30 September, there were 3,866 applicants in the Southwest District waiting for the allocation of low-cost housing, but there were only 1,175 low-cost housing units (RM42,000) available waiting to be allocated. He said that the above project ... Read More

Putrajaya has decided not to proceed to grant a government guarantee for a US$500 million (RM2.04 billion) loan application by Penang to partly finance its RM9.5 billion light rail transit (LRT) project. Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said the decision was in line with the revised ... Read More

GUH Realty Sdn. Bhd. (a subsidiary of GUH Holdings Berhad)  and Centralised Dormitory Sdn Bhd will be jointly developing 5 blocks of 5-storey foreign workers dormitory in approximately 7.5 acres of land at Valdor, Penang. It is located along Jalan Nafiri, adjacent to North-South Expressway. This development comprises a total of ... Read More

The government has instructed banks to automatically approve applications to freeze loan repayments by applicants in the bottom 40% income group (B40) as well as micro-enterprises with debts of below RM150,000. Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz (pictured) announced this today during his winding-up speech on Budget ... Read More

Penang has been named as one of the "11 Best Islands for Retirement Abroad" by International Living, a website that covers global retirement or relocation opportunities, earlier this month. The other islands which made into the list were Mallorca in Spain, Ambergris Caye in Belize, Ireland, Roatan in Honduras, Isla ... Read More

Ivory Properties Group Bhd (IPGB) said it has received the shareholders’ approval for the acquisition of two pieces of adjoining freehold land, totaling 1.98 hectares (ha), located opposite Penang Queensbay Mall. The announcement was made following IPGB’s virtual Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) today, in which shareholders and proxies participated in the meeting via ... Read More

Some RM20bil worth of residential properties remain unsold due to an overhang, says Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin (pic). "Based on the First Quarter 2020 Property Market Report by the National Property Information Centre (Napic), a total of 31,661 completed units remain unsold with a value of RM20.03bil," ... Read More

Stern actions will be taken against joint management bodies (JMBs) and management corporations (MCs) that fail to comply with the COVID-19 standard operating procedures (SOP) to curb the spread of COVID-19 in stratified buildings. State Housing, Local Government and Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo said that ... Read More