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Architect to meet council on project
05/01/1995 NST-CITYX
THE owners of an unapproved
construction project in Bukit Rasah have finally
contacted the Seremban Municipal Council after
repeated warnings and compound fines issued by the
local authority. The council's senior engineer Jamil
Ibrahim said the owners of Lots 8573 and 8574 had
written to the council to say they were prepared to
meet the council on the matter.
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Permanent reserves rule ignored by States
09/01/1995 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - Despite pledges to
protect the environment and preserve the forests,
State Governments continued to degazette large
tracts of permanent forest reserves in the
peninsula. Between 1986 and last year they
degazetted 144,406 hectares of permanent forest
reserves, which is almost the size of Malacca.
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Sub-contractor beats the odds to
revive cheap housing project
10/01/1995 NST-CITYX
BATTLING against all odds, a
printer-cum-sub contractor has succeeded
in reviving an abandoned low-cost
housing project in Penang. Among the
hurdles he had to face were stoppage of
loans, squatter problems, lapse of the
various plans and, to top it all, a
tussle between the company's partners.
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Ting: Developers cannot force
renovations on buyers 15/01/1995 NSUNT
IPOH, Sat. - Developers
cannot force low-cost house buyers to accept renovations some of which cost more than the initial price of the house, Housing and
Local Government Minister Datuk Dr Ting Chew Peh said. He said this in response to a complaint by a buyer that a developer here
was selling a low-cost unit in his scheme for RM52,000 when the price in his advertisement was RM25,000. The extra cost was
supposed to be for renovations to the house. "Developers must abide by the Housing Developers' Regulations. They cannot force
consumers into accepting renovations. That is the privilege of buyers
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Setting standards for finished houses
16/01/1995 NST
WE are moving towards an age of quality,
relentlessly, irrevocably and rapidly.
That the quality of product meets
specifications or standards of design,
planning, development, production,
installation as well as post- sale
inspection. We have 200 international
institutes of standards. They have,
since 1946, worked out quality
specifications for 24,000 products. The
International Standard Organisation's
9000 series certificates are now sine
qua non before many products can gain
entry into 125 countries. Locally, the
Standard and Industrial Research
Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM) has issued
certificates to 2,037 products.
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Perak perluas kawasan
industri
16/01/1995 BH By Fazil Arman
SUNGAI SIPUT, Ahad - Kerajaan Perak memperluaskan kawasan pembangunan
perindustrian dan perdagangannya ke Sungai Siput berikutan masalah
kekurangan tanah di Ipoh. Pegawai Daerah Majlis Daerah Kuala Kangsar (MDKK),
Lokman Hakim Mohd Jasan, berkata kawasan seluas 60 hekar di Sungai Siput
sudah diperuntukkan untuk melaksanakan projek perindustrian terbabit.
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Ketua Menteri beri tempoh
16/01/1995 HM By Wan Sabariah Shikh Ali
MELAKA: Ketua Menteri, Datuk Mohd Zin Abdul Ghani, memberi tempoh tiga
bulan kepada Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Melaka (PKNM) untuk menyiapkan 34
unit rumah Taman Kelemak Jaya, Alor Gajah yang terbengkalai 12 tahun lalu.
Beliau berkata, kontraktor baru yang akan dilantik oleh PKNM untuk
menyiapkan 27 peratus kerja yang belum siap mestilah berupaya
menyempurnakannya dalam tempoh sesingkat mungkin.
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Let's have the truth about forest
reserves
17/01/1995 NST
THE State governments had a rude
awakening last Monday. Their tree
chopping spree for the last eight years
to enrich their coffers was finally
exposed. Permanent forest reserves (PFR)
almost the size of Malacca in the
peninsula had been degazetted and what
we know is probably just the tip of the
iceberg. Perhaps such a revelation is
not so much that we ought to be
surprised but rather to see how much the
State governments are willing to own up.
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Measure to keep developers in line 26/01/1995 NST
By Alex Choong
KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. - There is a
built-in safety mechanism to ensure that housing developers open the mandatory housing development accounts, Housing and Local
Government Minister Datuk Dr Ting Chew Peh said today. No housing developer, he said, would be issued with the sales and
advertising permits if they could not produce their bank account numbers.
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Malacca to make land conversion for
housing mandatory
04/01/1995 BT
THE Malacca
Government will take stringent measures to make it mandatory for housing developers to have the land status converted from
agriculture to housing before any project can take off. Chief Minister, Datuk Mohd Zin Abdul Ghani said yesterday the State
Government needs to update the procedures in the implementation of housing projects to avoid loopholes and ensure buyers get the
best deal.
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