Mum ‘fled out of flat in
terror’ 01/02/2005 The Star-North
A mother rushed down screaming from her fourth floor
apartment in Jalan Bukit Panchor, Nibong Tebal, with her two children when
the building started to shake on Sunday night. Sri Ramona Ahmad, 27, who was
staying in Block C of the Education Department staff quarters said she heard
a loud noise while watching TV in the hall at about 10.30pm.
One-bedroom flats
earmarked for conversion
01/02/2005 MM
KUALA LUMPUR: City Hall will do away with one-bedroom low-cost flats to help
curb social problems among Federal Territory flats dwellers. Towards this,
some 10,000 units of decades-old City Hall-maintained one- bedroom flats
have been earmarked for conversion into two-bedroom units.
MPSJ kuat kuasa
tanda lot Bumiputera 01/02/2005 BH-SENTRAL
SUBANG JAYA: Bermula 1 Januari
lalu, Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ) menguatkuasakan penandaan lot
untuk Bumiputera dalam projek perumahan dan hartanah di Selangor. Yang
Dipertuanya, Datuk Ab Hakim Borhan, berkata penandaan lot itu adalah untuk
memastikan pembahagian lot Bumiputera dibuat secara adil selain menggalakkan
pegangan kaum itu dalam kedua-dua sektor berkenaan.
City Hall mulls a
two-generation loan scheme for low-cost flats
01/02/2005 MM
KUALA LUMPUR: City Hall is studying the viability of selling Project
Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) low-cost flats to needy tenants under a proposed
two-generation scheme. Under the scheme, those who opted for City Hall's
`rent and buy' flats can work out a repayment scheme spanning two
generations - father and child.
MPPJ arah henti pembinaan tepi tasik 02/02/2005 HM
KUALA LUMPUR:
Majlis Perbandaran Petaling Jaya (MPPJ) akan meneliti semula masalah
membabitkan penduduk SS7, Kelana Jaya yang berkeras mahukan pihak berkuasa
tempatan (PBT) itu mengekalkan tasik di kawasan berhampiran. Yang
Dipertuanya, Datuk Ahmad Termizi Puteh, berkata pihaknya akan mengambil
tindakan segera dengan mengkaji semula dokumen berkaitan yang terdahulu
sebelum memutuskan tindakan yang perlu diambil bagi menangani masalah itu
yang berlarutan sejak 1992
Pembeli kecewa rumah dekat
kubur
02/02/2005 BH ABDUL RAHMAN GAFFOOR,
Taman Bukit Permata,
Batu Caves, Selangor.
Penduduk bantah projek dekat tasik 02/02/2005 BH-SENTRAL
PETALING JAYA: Penduduk SS7 Kelana Jaya di sini membantah projek pembinaan rumah
kedai dan banglo di sekitar Tasik Kelana Jaya seluas 12 hektar itu. Penduduk
risau pembangunan itu menjejaskan persekitaran tasik sekali gus mengganggu
ketenteraman mereka.
Sri Selangor projek perintis 02/02/2005
BH
KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) akan menjadikan Rumah
Pangsa Sri Selangor (Flet San Peng) sebagai projek perintis untuk kerja
pengubahsuaian bagi menggabungkan dua unit rumah pangsa menjadi satu tidak
lama lagi. Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan, Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad,
berkata pada masa ini pihaknya menilai kos keseluruhan yang terpaksa
ditanggung DBKL sebelum kerja menggabungkan dua unit rumah pangsa menjadikan
satu unit dapat dilaksanakan.
3 tahun tunggu
talian telefon 03/02/2005
BH-SENTRAL
Lebih 3,000 penduduk di rumah pangsa Petaling Utama Blok C
dan D di Petaling Jaya Selatan (PJS) 1, di sini belum menerima kemudahan
talian telefon dari Telekom Malaysia Berhad (Telekom) sejak mula mendiami
perumahan itu kira-kira tiga tahun lalu.
Akta halang pemaju bina bangunan haram 03/02/2005
BH-SENTRAL
Majlis Perbandaran Kajang (MPKj) akan menguatkuasakan Akta 172
Perancangan Bandar dan Desa 1976 bagi mengawal dan memastikan semua
pembangunan di kawasan itu mengikut perancangan ditetapkan.Yang
Bayan Baru flats in
Penang declared unsafe 03/02/2005 The Star
The Penang Development Corporation (PDC) which issued
the warning has advised the 180 residents to move out after receiving a
report a few days ago from the Malaysian Public Works Institute (Ikram)
which had been commissioned to carry out checks since 2003.
Penang flats declared unsafe
03/02/2005 The Star
PENANG: A five-storey walk-up block of flats in Bayan Baru has been declared
unsafe for occupation after the building was found to have tilted more than
one degree.
100
keluarga terancam rumah alami keretakan
03/02/2005 Utusan Malaysia
Keselamatan kira-kira 100 keluarga di Taman Melewar,
Gombak, dekat sini
terancam akibat kerja-kerja projek tebatan banjir berhampiran kawasan
perumahan mereka.
Condemn flats,
council urged
03/02/2005 The Star
The Penang Municipal Council is seeking more information
from the Penang Development Corporation before considering condemning the
tilting five-storey walk-up flats in Lorong Mahsuri, Bayan Baru.
Council plans to use
Act on errant builders 03/02/2005 The Star
The council will be implementing the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 to
go down hard on errant developers who start construction before obtaining
approval from MPKj's Town Planning Department. Under Section 24 (7) of the
Act, those who start construction before obtaining approval will be taken to
court.
We have nowhere else to
go, say flat residents 03/02/2005 The Star
Residents are unfazed and carrying on with their daily
lives despite the warning that their five-storey walk-up flats in Bayan Baru are
unsafe for occupation.
Most of them interviewed said they were not leaving as it was impossible
to move out of their units overnight.
Tilting flats declared unsafe, resident told to vacate by May
03/02/2005 The Sun
A five-storey
block of 60 units of flats in Bayan Baru, which has
tilted by 25cm, has been declared unsafe, and the residents have been told
to move out by May.
The block, on Lorong Mahsuri 10, was built by Penang Development Corporation
(PDC) in 1981. Cracks began to appear in 1989 because of the differential
soil settlement, which caused structural defects.
Pusat komersial
terbiar
04/02/2005 BH-SENTRAL
Taman Komersial Pandan Indah yang dibina lebih enam tahun
lalu sebagai pusat perniagaan kini tidak dapat dibanggakan penduduk,
apatah lagi untuk dianggap sebagai kawasan selamat.
Pusat komersial yang menempatkan 1,075 unit kedai, pejabat dan kediaman,
kebanyakan diceroboh, manakala unit kosong dijadikan kawasan penempatan
warga asing, selain kegiatan menagih dadah, pelacuran dan stor barang curi.
Where's my refund? asks
housebuyer 04/02/2005 Malay Mail
It has been nine months and a surveyor has yet to get a
refund from a housing developer for his deposit for an apartment in Selayang.
Pembeli kesal
MDM lewat keluarkan CF 04/02/2005 Berita Harian
Pembeli rumah di Taman Sri Daik mendakwa
menjadi mangsa kerenah birokrasi Majlis Daerah Mersing (MDM) yang lewat
mengeluarkan sijil layak menduduki (CF) walaupun rumah sudah lama siap.
50 projek perumahan terbengkalai dikenal pasti
04/02/2005 BH-SENTRAL
SEREMBAN: Kerajaan negeri mengenal pasti terdapat 50 projek perumahan di
negeri ini yang terbengkalai dan gagal dimajukan oleh pemaju dengan tempoh
paling lama ialah kira-kira 22 tahun.
Second
sinkhole stuns residents 04/02/2005 The Star
Residents of Sungai
Pari Tower flats here are feeling a sense of deja vu after a second
sinkhole appeared in their area – just a month after the Public Works
Department filled up the first sinkhole.
Penduduk Bukit
Mewah bantah pembinaan gereja
04/02/2005 Kosmo
Persatuan Penduduk Taman Bukit Mewah Fasa 8A di sini membantah
cadangan pembinaan gereja di tanah berhadapan dengan pangsapuri taman
berkenaan atas alasan majoriti penghuni kawasan berhampiran ialah umat
Islam.
Flats
near sinkholes ‘safe’ 05/02/2005 The Star
the Sungai Pari Towers, around which two sinkholes appeared in a
span of one month, are safe for dwelling.
State Urban Development and Local Government Committee chairman Datuk
Chang Ko Youn said Ipoh City Council engineers had inspected the flats and
found the structure to be strong.
A ‘healthier’ housing industry
05/02/2006 The Star
PENANG: More positive changes are in the pipeline to make the housing
industry healthier.
Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said the
ministry was in the midst of reviewing certain details in the Housing
Development Act.
MPAJ sedia ambil
alih pusat komersial terbiar 07/02/2005 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Majlis Perbandaran Ampang
Jaya (MPAJ) bersedia mengambil alih daripada pemaju serta menyelenggara
Taman Komersial Pandan Indah di Ampang Jaya yang terabai dan menjadi kawasan
jenayah. Yang Dipertuanya, Ahmad Shafii Saidin yang melawat kawasan terbabit
semalam bersama pegawai MPAJ dan wakil pemaju mengakui pusat komersial itu
sangat kotor dan tidak selamat didiami.
Fast facts on
squatters in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur 07/02/2005 MM
* IN the 1998 census, there were 46,994 local squatter families in 341
locations in Selangor but the number has dwindled as many had moved into
low-cost flats since the relocation started that year. * UP to August 2004,
22,972 squatter families have been relocated to low-cost flats at 180
locations in Selangor. There are another 24,022 families who have yet to be
relocated and are expected to be moved into their low-cost units by the
middle of this year.
Rumah terbengkalai hampir 12 tahun 07/02/2005 Harian Metro PEMBELI TRAUMA, Sungai Ara, Pulau Pinang
Yuran penyelenggaraan Sri
Penara membebankan 08/02/2005 BH
SAYA dan ramai lagi pembeli
rumah kos rendah Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), Sri Penara di Bandar
Sri Permaisuri meminta DBKL memantau syarikat pemaju perumahan yang
menguruskan yuran penyelenggaraan. Yuran itu dikenakan pemaju terlalu tinggi
dan amat membebankan. Bayaran RM55 yang dikenakan setiap bulan itu adalah
sama yuran penyelenggaraan penghuni rumah pangsa kos tinggi yang lengkap
dengan pelbagai kemudahan seperti kolam renang dan gimnasium.
Pemaju gagal patuhi peraturan MPK: Saksi 09/02/2005 BH
KANGAR: Mahkamah Sesyen di sini semalam diberitahu, syarikat kontraktor perumahan
bercampur Taman Singgahsana di Padang Besar, Sonati Development Corporation
Sdn Bhd tidak memberi kerjasama serta gagal mematuhi kriteria Majlis
Perbandaran Kangar (MPK). Penolong Setiausaha MPK, Azhar Hassan, berkata
pemaju perumahan itu gagal memberi pelan yang menepati kehendak MPK sehingga
saat akhir, sebelum keputusan menamatkan kontrak yang ditandatangani antara
MPK dengan syarikat itu diambil pada 4 Jun 1999.
MPK tamat kontrak RM10j selepas pemaju gagal kemuka pelan - Saksi
09/02/2005 Utusan
Mahkamah Sesyen di sini hari ini diberitahu, Majlis
Perbandaran Kangar (MPK) telah menamatkan kontrak sebuah syarikat pemaju
perumahan selepas gagal mengemukakan pelan lengkap projek Taman
Singgahsana bernilai RM10 juta di Padang Besar, pada tahun 2000.
Penduduk flat
Taman Miharja dakwa masalah tidak pernah diselesaikan
10/02/2005 Kosmo
Lif terus rosak dan keadaannya uzur! Inilah nasib penghuni
Pangsapuri Taman Miharja, Cheras di sini yang mendakwa masalah kerosakan
lif di pangsapuri itu telah berlarutan hampir 10 tahun. Tinjauan KOSMO! mendapati setiap blok pangsapuri dilengkapi
empat atau lima lif, malangnya hanya satu unit lif yang boleh digunakan.
Gempar bumbung
runtuh 11/02/2005 HM
Seramai 135 penghuni di Apartmen Juara Suria, Taman Juara Jaya,
di sini gempar seketika apabila bumbung perhiasan di tingkat sembilan
bangunan itu runtuh malam tadi.
Pemaju perlu
rujuk perhilitan 11/02/2005 Kosmo
Dapatkan pandangan Perhilitan terlebih dahulu! Inilah nasihat
Jabatan Perlindungan Hidupan Liar dan Taman Negara (perhilitan) kepada
semua pemaju perumahan di Negeri Sembilan sebelum membangunkan sesebuah
kawasan hutan supaya tidak memusnahkan habitat hidupan liar.
`Kami tak tahan
bau busuk'
11/02/2005 BH-SENTRAL
PETALING JAYA: "Belum sempat menikmati
suasana kehidupan baru di sini, kami terpaksa berdepan dengan masalah bau
busuk tidak kira siang atau malam. "Jika berterusan, mana boleh tahan.
Tunggu lelap mata baru bau hilang," begitulah rintihan lebih 400 penduduk
Pangsapuri Kelompok Bidara berhampiran Kampung Perangsang Permai, Jalan
Klang Lama, di sini.
Guards, dogs ease fear
of residents 12/02/2005 The Star
RESIDENTS of Bandar Botanic in Klang have been enjoying
peace of mind these days. Security in the neighbourhood has been boosted
with guard dogs and armed guards the last couple of weeks.
In the
name of speed 12/02/2005 NST-PROP National House Buyers Association
80 families unable to secure housing loans
14/02/2005 The Star
ABOUT 80 families living at the KTM longhouses in
Balakong are facing problems in securing housing loans to buy low-cost
flats that have been offered to them.
Apartments end
reign of peace and quiet for bungalow owners
14/02/2005 The Star
THE serene surroundings that eight bungalow owners in
Lorong Sambau, Taman Chi Liung, Klang, have been enjoying for the past 20
years has been shattered.
Bumbung
pangsapuri runtuh lagi 14/02/2005 Berita Harian
Penduduk pangsapuri Juara Suria, di sini, gempar dengan kejadian
bumbung tingkat sembilan bangunan itu runtuh, baru-baru ini.
Nowhere to lodge
complaint
15/02/2005 NST
AZMI I ATAN Balakong
Building homes
that keep cool naturally 15/02/2005 The Star
IT IS just past two in the afternoon in Bukit Senggeh,
Malacca, but the unsheltered concrete slab beneath our feet feels only
slightly warm, as it would just before sunset.
Rumah di sebelah kubur
15/02/2005 Berita Harian
Ketika membeli rumah dua tingkat dan dua setengah tingkat di Taman
Bukit Permata, dekat sini beberapa tahun lalu mereka dimaklumkan kawasan
tanah lapang seluar 6.3 hektar di taman perumahan itu adalah hak milik
persendirian yang akan dibangunkan oleh pemiliknya kemudian.
Flat owners want
more
15/02/2005 The Sun
Residents of the Bayan Baru flats which were declared unsafe want
Penang Development Corp (PDC) to pay them three times the cost of the
units.
PPR Pantai Dalam masih
terbengkalai 15/02/2005 Utusan Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR 14 Feb. - Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) di Pantai Dalam yang
sepatutnya menempatkan sebanyak 1,856 keluarga di kawasan rumah panjang
Bukit Kerinchi di sini didapati terbengkalai sejak lima tahun lepas.
Council
briefed on high-rise management
16/02/2005 The Star
THE Petaling Jaya Municipal
Council (MPPJ) received a 20-minute briefing on the need to form
management corporations (MC) for high-rise apartments. Selangor Housing and Property Board executive director
Alinah Ahmad, who conducted the briefing, said the MC would comprise
representatives of owners, tenants and the developer and would be in
charge of the apartment's day-to-day operations.
Residents left high
and dry by water cut 16/02/2005 The Star
THE 326 families occupying Block D, Jalan PJS1/52, Taman
Petaling Utama, most of them Indian, were outraged when they found out
that taps were dry on Thaipusam day.
Boleh
runtuh bila-bila masa 17/02/2005 Harian Metro
Kebimbangan 42 penghuni di Jalan 20 dan 21, Taman Bukit Mewah, di
sini yang mengalami masalah keretakan rumah di tahap serius dan tidak
selamat diduduki mendapat perhatian Biro Pengaduan Awam, Jabatan Perdana
Menteri (JPM).
Rumah Fasa 8 Puncak Jalil
bergelap 4 bulan
17/02/2005 HM
SAYA mewakili pembeli rumah di Fasa
8, Taman Puncak Jalil, Bandar Putra Permai, tidak puas hati terhadap pemaju
kerana lepas tangan dalam menyediakan kemudahan asas. Apa yang menjadi
kemusykilan ialah bagaimana pemaju boleh memperoleh sijil layak menduduki
(CF), walaupun projek itu belum siap sepenuhnya.
TNB regrets
inconvenience to Taman Saujana residents 18/02/2005 The Star
HJ AMIR NORDIN ABDUL AZIZ State
General Manager (Selangor) Distribution Division, Tenaga Nasional Bhd.
After five
years, help comes for 32 house owners 19/02/2005 The Star
THIRTY-TWO owners, whose
houses in Taman Bukit Mewah in Kajang have been declared unsafe, are
getting the help they badly needed – five years on. Their homes are to be
rebuilt with assistance from the Public Complaints Bureau, which is under
the Prime Minister's Department.
Stop-work order slips
past ears of builder
19/02/2005 The Star
LAST weekend's mudslide in Taman Jasa
Utama, Batu Caves, was not the first that interrupted residents' daily
lives.
MP acts to end woes
at Puchong flats
19/02/2005 The Star
RESIDENTS of the Seri Damai low- cost
flats in Taman Saujana Puchong are looking forward to better days following
a dialogue with representatives of developer Expand Factor Sdn Bhd and
management company LT Sdn Bhd.
Buyers
nix self-certification?
19/02/2005
NST-PROP
A.D.T. Raj Kuala Lumpur
HBA's vociferousness is commendable
19/02/2005
NST-PROP
S.R.Nathan Petaling Jaya
Issue
has far-reaching consequences
19/02/2005
NST-PROP Said Ali,
Shah Alam
Granny can’t settle
loan and other fees
20/02/2005 The Star
Grandmother M. Walliyamah thought she would be living in her dream home at
Taman Bestari in Kamunting here when she used all her Employees Provident
Fund money to pay RM10,000 for the low-cost house.
Manager loses claim
over lost cellphone
20/02/2005 Sunday Star
In another case, the tribunal ordered a
developer to pay nearly RM15,000 to two claimants when it failed to have a
representative present at the hearing.
Hussain ordered Celt Sdn Bhd to pay RM8,888 to Norizan Zuraida Mat Nor and
RM5,988.80 to Sallehuddin Mat within 14 days of the award.
SPNB dapat RM300j pulih rumah terbengkalai
20/02/2005 BM
TAIPING: Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) sudah memperoleh
peruntukan RM300 juta bagi memulihkan projek perumahan terbengkalai di
seluruh negara. Pengurus Besar Bahagian Projek Perumahan Terbengkalai SPNB,
Ahmad Azizi Ali, berkata pihaknya kini diberi tanggungjawab oleh kerajaan
untuk memulihkan 24 projek terbengkalai di Selangor, Johor, Terengganu dan
Sabah.
Cukai RM906 setahun kekal
20/2/2005 BERITA HARIAN
KUALA LUMPUR: Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya (MPAJ) menolak rayuan penduduk
Taman Bukit Segar Jaya, Cheras supaya meneliti semula serta menurunkan cukai
taksiran yang dikenakan ketika ini berjumlah RM906 setahun.
Residents upset over stench
21/02/2005 NST
KOTA BARU, Sun. - Residents of Perumahan Jalan Bayam are crying out
against the stench coming from two overflowing manholes in the area. What
irks them most is that the problem has been unresolved for five years.
Sikap tamak punca pemaju terus
perdaya pembeli 21/02/2005 Harian Metro
PUTRAJAYA: Sikap terlalu berlembut dengan pemaju perumahan mendorong mereka
terus bersikap tamak dan menipu pembeli menyebabkan rumah terbengkalai 10
hingga 20 tahun.
Squatter woes in Johor to be resolved by 2008
22/02/2005 NST
JOHOR BARU, Mon. - Squatter woes in Johor will be fully resolved by
2008. The assurance was given today by Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani
Othman, who said the State Government had a plan of action to ensure all
squatters were resettled in proper housing schemes with basic public
amenities and facilities.
Pekeliling
Flats residents fear collapse
22/02/2005 The Malay Mail
Residents of Block G162 of the Pekeliling Flats here fear
for their safety after cracks developed on the walls of the building.
Rumah retak di Bukit Mewah
diatasi 22/02/2005
Utusan Malaysia
Dua masalah utama yang membelenggu pembeli rumah di Taman
Bukit Mewah di sini iaitu - masalah keretakan serta sijil kelayakan
menduduki (CFO) yang dipersoalkan - akan diatasi dalam masa terdekat.
Eight of of 10 cases settled out of court
22/02/2005 The Sun By Liew-Ann Phang
PUTRAJAYA: Eight out of 10 cases filed in the Consumer Claims Tribunal are
settled out of court. Newly appointed tribunal chairman Rungit Singh said,
since last October, of the rest of the cases which were heard and judgment
given, half faced enforcement problems while the others were complied with.
A total of 5,076 cases were filed last year.
Pay arrears or face water supply cut'
24/02/2005 NST
`GEORGE TOWN, Wed. - Residents and owners of some 13,000
Penang Development Corporation flats and apartments may have their water
supply cut if they do not settle their maintenance fees. The move is being
considered by the corporation as one way to recover maintenance arrears
totalling more than RM10 million.
Parking woes for
condo residents 25/02/2005 The Malay Mail
It is a daily 'fight' for parking for
residents of D'Aman
Ria and D'Aman Crimson Condominiums.
The shortage of parking space at the condominium in PJU 1A/41 Jalan Subang
Lama has created some tension between the residents occasionally.
Strata titles issued
25/02/2005 The Star
A total of 12,214 property owners out of
13,776 in Bayan Baru, Seberang Jaya and George Town have obtained their
strata titles from the Penang Development Corporation (PDC). Penang Public
Account Committee chairman Datuk Hilmi Abdul Rashid said this when visiting
the PDC yesterday. Hilmi said another 1,463 applications had also been
submitted to the Land and Mines Department for approval. “Out of PDC’s 49
projects comprising 13,773 units, only 99 property owners’ applications have
yet to be submitted to the department for strata titles,” he said.
Pembeli bantah harga
rumah 25/02/2005 BH
KUALA LUMPUR: Kira-kira 470 pembeli rumah
kos rendah Taman Danau Kota, Setapak membantah tindakan pemaju perumahan itu
menaikkan harga rumah sebanyak RM8,000 menjadikannya RM33,000 seunit
berbanding harga asal ditawarkan yang hanya RM25,000. Mereka mendakwa,
tindakan pemaju yang tidak bertimbang rasa itu menyebabkan pembeli yang
kebanyakan berpendapatan rendah berasa tertipu dan teraniaya.
Letupan kuari
ancam penduduk Kubang Ulu
25/02/2005 HM
Beratus-ratus penduduk Kampung Kubang Ulu,
Penanti diancam kegiatan meletup batu kuari yang menyebabkan gegaran
kuat selain beberapa rumah retak.
RUMAH RETAK MAKIN TERUK
26/02/2005 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Mendapan tanah yang menyebabkan
rekahan dan retakan di beberapa rumah penduduk Taman Indah Perdana Kepong di
sini, sejak 10 tahun lalu didapati semakin serius. Berikutan itu, beberapa
penduduk keberatan terus tinggal di situ malah segelintirnya tidak mendiami
rumah berkenaan kerana terlalu kecewa dan bimbang mengenai keselamatan
mereka.
Arbitration way to solve disputes
27/02/2005 Sunday Star
“Arbitration has existed since time memorial. It came about from two
people agreeing to get a third party to settle a dispute, and it’s
normally done in accordance to some established rules or law,” explained
Sundra Rajoo, a chartered arbitrator.
Not taking
it sitting down
27/02/2005 NST
Ahirudin Attan
Homes on ex-mining pool
cracking and sinking
28/02/2005 The Star
IN the 10 years she has
lived at Taman Indah Perdana, Kepong, Yap Cheng Wat, 50, has watched large
cracks appear on the walls and ceiling of her home, in addition to
subsidence of the floors.
Rumah retak,
mendap
28/02/2005 Berita Harian
"Mereka yang berkemampuan sudah berpindah ke kawasan lain,
yang tinggal seperti keluarga kami terpaksa hidup dalam kebimbangan
terutama ketika waktu malam kerana takut rumah akan runtuh pada bila-bila
masa," keluh Wong Kuan Moi, 37.
Samy clarifies
sound barriers issue
28/02/2005 The Star
Developers who
plan to build houses near highways should refer their project plans to the
Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM), said Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.