KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu Land and Mineral Office has become the first land office in the country capable of carrying out transaction as well as non-transaction registration within a day.

Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said from October last year, the office managed to register 80% of such businesses in one working day compared to five days previously.

KUALA TERNGGANU: The Terengganu government has yet to receive a report on the investigation pertaining to the roof collapse of the Sultan Mirzan Zainal Abidin Stadium last June.

Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the state government would disclose the cause of the collapse when it received the investigation papers.

KUALA TERENGGANU: Ten cars parked under the garage of a construction company were damaged when its roof collapsed after the pillars were hit by a crane today (Jan 13).

The incident occured at the Chendering industrial area at about 10am.

HONG KONG: Beijing's surprise decision to increase bank reserve requirements could signal an end to easy and cheap funding, putting pressure on the earnings of Chinese property and resources companies.

KUALA LUMPUR: The recent previews of Mah Sing Group’s latest residential projects in Cyberjaya and Selayang have drawn overwhelming interest from potential buyers.

KUALA LUMPUR: Developer DNP Holdings Bhd, a subsidiary of Singapore-listed Wing Tai Holdings Ltd, is launching the second block (Tower B) of its high-end residential project Verticas Residensi situated within Bukit Ceylon in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 16, 2010.

The launch of Tower B follows the encouraging 70% take-up recorded for Tower A since July last year.

KUALA LUMPUR: The UK’s retailer heavyweight Tesco is making its presence felt in China with the opening of a 76,000 sq m multiplex housing a shopping mall, hypermarket and restaurants in the seaside city of Qingdao in Shandong province.

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang state government has set into motion various initiatives to ensure efforts towards the heritage conservation of George Town as a UNESCO World Heritage site are on track.

KUALA LUMPUR: UOA Real Estate Investment Trust (UOA REIT)’s revaluation of its properties, UOA Centre, UOA II, UOA Damansara and UOA Pantai has resulted in a revaluation surplus of RM29,149,523, UOA REIT announced Jan 12.

HONG KONG: Beijing needs to tighten its monetary policy to avoid a property bubble and runaway inflation, or face an economy growing at a superheated 16 per cent this year, a top government research institute warns, according to the South China Morning Post.The assessment, by economists He Fan and Yao Zhizhong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, comes in the face of a promise by Premier