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GENERAL NEWS REPORTS
(2000)
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1. Pembeli rumah teraniaya 01/05/2000 BH By Insan Teranaiya
   SAYA dan keluarga berasa dianaya oleh pemaju perumahan. Sebenarnya bapa saya membeli sebuah rumah di kawasan Seremban. Taman perumahan itu sudah lama terbengkalai. Akibatnya kami dan pembeli lain menjadi mangsa. Bapa saya membeli rumah itu ketika beliau masih berkhidmat dalam tentera lagi. Kalau tidak silap saya bapa saya membeli rumah itu pada 1985 atau 1986. Apa yang mengejutkan, ketika bapa saya pergi melawat rumah itu pada 27 Februari lalu pemaju memberitahu kami sudah boleh duduk di rumah itu selepas membayar wang pendahuluan air dan elektrik.

2. Act to be amended to address woes 03/05/2000  NST
   SEREMBAN, Tues. - The Town and Country Planning Act will be amended to create a long-term structural plan to overcome flooding and to prohibit all future housing projects on flood-prone low-lying areas. Housing and Local Housing Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said tonight with the proposed amendment, rivers would also not be allowed to be filled up and diverted as this would hinder the river flow.

3. Penghuni Flet Sri Tioman diminta sabar 06/05/2000 HM
   KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) meminta penduduk rumah pangsa Sri Tioman 11 di Gombak, dekat sini bersabar mengenai tindakan susulan Jabatan Arkitek dan Projek Khas DBKL terhadap struktur dinding pada tiga blok bangunan itu yang semakin merekah dan pecah. Pegawai akhbar DBKL, Zakaria Mohamed Lazim, berkata jabatan memerlukan masa untuk menjalankan kajian terperinci bagi memastikan kejadian seumpama itu tidak berulang

4. Sisa najis masuk rumah 08/05/2000 HM
   KUALA LUMPUR: Sistem pembetungan saluran najis yang tidak teratur dan terlalu kecil dipercayai menyebabkan sebuah rumah di flet Sri Labuan, Bandar Tun Razak, Cheras, di sini, dilimpahi sisa najis, semalam. Penghuni rumah berkenaan, Mohd Noor Jamaludin, 29, berkata limpahan sisa dan air najis daripada pembetung terbabit berlaku sejak jam 7.30 pagi

5. Status rumah retak diumum 10/05/2000 HM
   SUBANG JAYA: Semua pemilik 20 unit rumah di USJ 19, di sini, dijangka menerima surat secara rasmi daripada pemaju perumahan, Sime UEP Sdn Bhd (Sime UEP) mengenai status rumah masing-masing selewat-lewatnya minggu depan. Pemilik yang menghadapi masalah keretakan rumah akan dimaklumkan mengenai keadaan keselamatan rumah mereka selepas pemeriksaan dijalankan dua pemaju terbabit termasuk Sanjung Utama Sdn Bhd (Sanjung Utama).

6. Up against a wall of problems 10/05/2000 MM
   RESIDENTS of Taman Abadi Indah Apartments are fed up with water leakages, shortage of parking lots and dimmed corridors. They want the apartment's management company, Abadi Mannien Property Management Sdn Bhd, to do permanent repairs instead of taking temporary measures.

7. Joint pact to gazette open areas 12/05/2000 NST
    KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - State Governments have agreed to gazette "open areas" in residential areas to prevent unscrupulous developers from converting them into commercial areas. Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said the Cabinet viewed the matter seriously as it did not want residents to be deprived of open areas in housing estates.

8. Ensuring builders have the means 13/05/2000 NST
   THE paid-up capital required of applicants for a housing developer's licence is expected to be increased under the forthcoming amendments to the Housing Developers Act. Minister of Housing and Local Government Datuk Ong Ka Ting, in disclosing this, however declined to name the amount to be set under the amendments.

9. Ong cracks the whip 15/05/2000 City & Country
   His plate is full and he knows it too well. Housing and local Government Minister Dato’ Seri Ong Ka Ting has finally settled into his five-month-old post comfortably enough to talk shop.

10. Abandoned project revived 18/05/2000 MM By Meor Shariman
    THREE years, six chances and after paying more than half the project's cost of RM2.5 million. That was how long it took to convince the Hulu Langat Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) to take a fresh contractor to revive the abandoned RM2.5 million longhouse project in Ampang Campuran.

11. This pool's not for swimming 18/05/2000 MM By Azlan Ramli
    UNWANTED "swimming pool" - this huge pool of water, the size of a football field, is a potential danger to the public (above right). Located at the abandoned Mont'Kiara Specialist Centre, it is actually the centre's foundation.

12. Short-lived joy for house owners 19/05/2000  MM
    THEY bought modern houses in a new housing estate but have to endure terrible infrastructure and backward amenities. There is no children's playground, hardly a row of streetlights that are working and they have to travel 12km just to go to a clinic or pump petrol into their cars

13. Perak allocates land for sidelined house-buyers 19/05/2000 BT
    PERAK has agreed to set aside 15ha as alternative residential plots for 156 buyers of low-cost homes auctioned off without their knowledge by a developer of a failed project in Bandar Baru Slim River. According to a committee set up to claim the homes they had paid for 13 years ago, Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali promised the alternative plots during a meeting with committee members in Ipoh last month.

14. Pemaju diberi amaran keras 19/05/2000 HM By Nazura Ngah
    PETALING JAYA: Pemaju di Kampung Baiduri, Taman Medan, di sini, diberi tempoh sehingga akhir bulan ini untuk menyiapkan pelan pembangunan di kawasan berkenaan yang membabitkan pembinaan 30 peratus rumah kos rendah daripada keseluruhan projek perumahan. Sekiranya pemaju gagal berbuat demikian, kerajaan negeri akan mengambil alih pengurusan tanah kawasan itu untuk dibangunkan kediaman selesa bagi 1,200 keluarga di situ.

15. Denda kepada pemaju gagal siapkan projek 20/05/2000 BH
    PETALING JAYA, Jumaat - Kerajaan akan mengenakan denda lebih tinggi kepada pemaju yang gagal menyiapkan projek perumahan mengikut jadual, kata Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting. Denda lebih tinggi itu antara cadangan pindaan dalam Akta Pemaju Perumahan 1966 yang kini dalam peringkat kajian. Serentak itu, semua pemaju perlu menghantar laporan kemajuan projek menerusi Borang 7F kepada kementerian setiap enam bulan sekali.

16. Better protection for house buyers in the works 20/05/2000 BT
    THE Housing and Local Government Ministry plans to revamp the Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 to better protect the rights of housebuyers and ensure stiffer penalties for errant developers. Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said a committee formed to amend the Act has almost reached completed its task, and the ministry is expected to announce details before the end of the year.

17. Checks on developers' financial background 21/05/2000 NSUNT
    IPOH, Sat. - A committee has been set up to check the financial background of developers applying for Government projects to build low-cost houses, following several abandoned projects. The committee, chaired by Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali, will ensure that buyers are not cheated.

18. Lesen untuk pemaju perlu diperketat 21/05/2000 BM
    KUALA LUMPUR: Kerajaan perlu memperketat lesen pemaju perumahan dengan memastikan hanya mereka yang memiliki kemampuan kewangan dan pengalaman secukupnya di bidang pembinaan, diberi lesen beroperasi sebagai pemaju. Ini penting bagi mengelak pelbagai masalah seperti projek terbengkalai, rumah lewat disiapkan serta penggunaan bahan mentah yang tidak berkualiti akibat pemaju tidak mempunyai wang secukupnya.

19. Checks on developers' financial background 21/05/2000 NSUNT
    IPOH, Sat. - A committee has been set up to check the financial background of developers applying for Government projects to build low-cost houses, following several abandoned projects. The committee, chaired by Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali, will ensure that buyers are not cheated.

20. DBKL dalam proses lantik kontraktor 23/05/2000 HM
    KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) dalam proses melantik kontraktor pakar untuk melakukan kerja pembaikan bagi mengatasi kejadian tampalan simen terjatuh di rumah pangsa Sri Tioman 2, Gombak, di sini. Pegawai Akhbar DBKL, Rozielawati Rahmat, berkata Jabatan Arkitek dan Projek Khas DBKL menyedari masalah penduduk terbabit dan susulan daripada aduan mereka, pihak berkenaan mengadakan beberapa mesyuarat membincangkan tindakan yang perlu diambil.

21. Condo ad to clarify leasehold period 24/05/2000 MM
    THE Prima Setapak Condominium project advertisement will see an additional clause. The present ad says the leasehold is for 99 years. The developer Kumpulan Sejahtera Sdn Bhd, will now make it clearer - 20 years have already lapsed and there are only 79 years to go.

22. Refunded for shorter leasehold 27/05/2000 MM
    ONE of the two housebuyers of the Prima Setapak Condominium project had his RM5,000 booking fee refunded in full when he found out the 99-year lease had only 79 years to go. The other buyer did not mind the shorter leasehold period, and after listening to the sales personnel, went ahead with the purchase.