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“The ministry views seriously all development projects, especially those under EIA purview. The EIA is a requirement of law under Section 34(A) of the Environmental Quality Act 1974."

“I am not sure if the minister realises the full implication of his answer,” PKR MP Fahmi Fadzil told a press conference at Parliament lobby today. “Surely many will now ask if they are bound under the Act when publishing videos on social media.”

The list, available on https://mydeclaration.sprm.gov.my, displays the monthly income of the listed individuals.

The deadline for IWH-CREC to settle the upfront payment has been moved to Sept 15 from April 30 "due to the Covid-19 outbreak", said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz.

“According to the airlines, even though the government has relaxed the social distancing rules, flight ticket prices may not drop immediately. They must ensure there is continuous and stable demand before airfares can return to normal as seen before the Covid-19 outbreak."

A new Covid-19 cluster has been detected in an old folk’s home in Kluang, Johor, with 14 confirmed positive cases, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said today.

However, Shahrol defended his decision to proceed with the agreement by arguing that he was given any and all power to do whatever it took to secure the funds to acquire the power plants from Tanjong Energy Holdings Sdn Bhd and Genting Sanyen Power Sdn Bhd.

This caused a commotion to break out among the MPs that lasted for about 17 minutes, with the opposition MPs chanting ‘Undi, undi, undi’ (vote, vote, vote) and booing even when Azhar was being sworn in as the new Speaker.

The motion of removing the speaker has been passed as a total of 111 MPs voted for the motion to remove Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof as the speaker, versus a total of 109 votes against the the motion.

Hong Leong's Malaysia property sector top picks are Sunway Bhd and Matrix Concepts Holdings Bhd.