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Guan Eng trial: Chinese company had advantage over other bidders as its input was included in undersea tunnel RFP, says Penang state official

The prosecution's fourth witness, Muhamad Azrai Mohamad Zaini, who was assistant director of infrastructure in the Penang State Economic Planning Unit at the time, testified today that representatives from the Chinese company attended several meetings with the Penang state government to discuss the feasibility study and preliminary detail design work for the project following their memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2011

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Booking fees: Legalising the prohibited?

“It is therefore clear that the Parliament no longer saw fit for housing developers to collect booking fees before the signing of SPA. This has put to rest any notion that the collection of booking fees is still permissible.”

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