The government, via the Housing and Local Government Ministry (KPKT), disbursed RM172 million as compensation for 17 cancelled 1Malaysia Housing Programme (PR1MA) projects. KPKT Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said the full settlement of the compensation, which includes the pre-development, labour and delay costs, for all 32 cancelled projects is expected to ... Read More

The Penang Bay International Ideas Competition has received a total of 79 entries from participants in almost 20 countries. The closing date was Oct 19 this year. The competition that was open to architects, landscape architects and urban planners around the world was launched by Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow ... Read More

The Penang Government had expressed its thanks to the National Security Council (MKN) Special Session on COVID-19 for considering the proposal made by the Penang State Security Special Committee (JKKNPP). Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said JKKNPP on Dec 3 had made an application for the implementation of the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) in ... Read More

About Setia Fontaines 1,675-acres freehold township development by S P Setia at Bertam. Strategically located adjacent to Bandar Putra Bertam, less than 25 minutes drive to Penang bridge and Butterworth. It features two residential collections, offering park homes of single and double-storey terrace, cluster, semi-detached and bungalow houses. Lush greenery and ... Read More

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