| ‘Liquidator bulldozed through procedures’ 02/02/2009 The Star RESIDENTS of the Majestic Heights project’s phase one in Paya Terubong in 
      Penang are claiming that the liquidator did not go through the standard practice 
      when obtai-ning the Certificate of Fitness (CF) for the units. Their
 
      
      UDA dirayu siapkan perumahan terbengkalai 03/02/2009 Utusan OnlineBUKIT MERTAJAM 2 Feb. - Projek rumah banglo di dua projek perumahan berasingan, 
      Taman Mengkuang Heights dan Taman Orkid Indah di Jalan Maqbul di sini yang 
      terbengkalai sejak Julai tahun lepas masih belum diteruskan.
 
      
      Fraudulent housing withdrawal offenders will be prosecuted 03/02/09 
      NST By Ivy ChangThe Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has hauled up 34 members to court for making 
      fraudulent housing withdrawals. Todate, three offenders have been fined between 
      RM600 and RM2,000 each, with one of them facing a
 
      MM2H 
      programme constantly being enhanced 06/02/09 NST EDITOR'S LETTERSI wish to refer to the article titled "Policy decisions that continue to confuse" 
      by Mr Andy Davison, which appeared in NST Property on Friday, Jan 30, 2009. 
      The feedback by Mr Davison on the Malaysia My Second Home or MM2H
 
      
      Palm Court operators to sue 09/02/2009 Malay Mail By Kharleez Zubin
      Tapak projek terbiar biak 
      nyamuk 10/02/2009 HM Oleh Mohd Azam Shah YaacobSeveral business operators in Palm Court Condominium, who claim to have suffered 
      heavy losses for more than a year since the new management committee put the 
      lid on outsiders patronising the gated and guarded community,
 CHERAS: Peningkatan kes demam denggi yang sering berlaku di kawasan ini sejak 
      beberapa tahun lalu membimbangkan penduduk Bandar Tasik Permaisuri dan kini 
      mereka terdedah kepada satu lagi penyakit bawaan nyamuk iaitu chikungunya. 
      Lebih meresahkan mereka mendakwa penularan kes denggi yang banyak dicatatkan 
      di situ sebenarnya berpunca daripada sebuah tapak projek yang terbengkalai 
      lebih tiga tahun lalu.
 Kerajaan rancang ambil 
      alih projek rumah terbengkalai 12/02/2009 BH Oleh Nasir Abd Wahab Sikap 
      pemaju dikesali 13/02/2009 Utusan OnlineALOR GAJAH: Kerajaan negeri merancang mengambil alih projek rumah terbengkalai 
      di Taman Bidara Palma, di Tanjung Bidara, dekat sini, selepas mengesyaki pemajunya 
      sudah melarikan diri bersama wang tunai berjumlah RM70,000 milik pembeli. 
      Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perumahan, Pembangunan Pekan Kecil dan Pemulihan Projek 
      negeri, Datuk Abdul Ghafaar Atan, berkata selain itu, pemaju terbabit turut 
      disyaki gagal membayar cukai tanah dan mempunyai hutang premium tertunggak 
      kira-kira RM800,000 dengan Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah (MPAG).
 ALOR GAJAH 12 Feb. - Kerajaan negeri kesal dengan sikap pemaju projek perumahan 
      Taman Bidara di Tanjung Bidara dekat sini yang tidak menunaikan janji untuk 
      menyiapkan projek itu yang tertangguh hampir 11 tahun.
 
      
      Abandoned projects mar Seremban's image 13/02/2009 The Star Story 
      and photos by CHARLES FERNANDEZShopowners hope to get strata titles soon 14/02/2009 The Star By Christina 
      LowUNLIKE big cities and towns, there are not many tall buildings in Seremban 
      but unfortunately one of the tallest buildings located in the town is ironically 
      an abandoned project that sticks out like a sore thumb. The building,
 AFTER 16 years of occupying shops without strata titles at the Kepong Entrepreneurs 
      Park, the owners are finally feeling hopeful about obtaining them soon. However, 
      Kepong community service centre head Yee Poh Ping said
 
      
      Ex-major may sue to get landslide report 16/02/09 NSTMinister heckled by irate Subang resident over hillslope threat 16/02/2009 
      NST By Adrian DavidKUALA LUMPUR: Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan Abdul Rahman, who caused a stir at a 
      press conference by Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed on Saturday, is 
      adamant on getting the Bukit Antarabangsa risk assessment
 SUBANG JAYA, Sat: For the second consecutive day, Works Minister Datuk Seri 
      Mohd Zin Mohamed was involved in a drama with the public. This time he was 
      interrupted by a Bukit Antarabangsa resident during a Press
 
      
      Revived project’s housebuyers to move in soon 16/02/2009 The Star 
      By SIMON KHOOKUANTAN: Some 418 housebuyers in Taman Datuk Abdul Rashid Salleh near here 
      can look forward to moving into their new houses by next month, said Semambu 
      assemblyman Datuk Pang Tsu Ming. Pang said the project, which
 
      Help, 
      our houses are sinking! Residents fear being buried alive NST 16/02/2009 
      By Sheila Sri Priya Heng Bung Teik and his wife one of the residents, Chay Chee Sung looking at 
      the cracks in one of the affected houses. — Picture by Nik Rosli Ishak PETALING 
      JAYA: For the past 15 years, residents in Jalan SM1, Taman Sri
 
      
      Experts called in to study Camerons apartments 
      17/02/09 NST By Jaspal Singh CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Two independent consultants will study the structure of 
      three blocks of apartments in Kuala Terla which were evacuated last Friday, 
      after wide cracks appeared on one of the blocks. The Cameron
 
      
      Company asks residents to pay outstanding bills before demanding for maintenance 
      services 18/02/2009 The Star By Stuart MichaelIsaiah Jacob who is secretary of the Taman Sri Murni Selayang residents safety 
      action committee, waiting for the lift
 
      
      Foolhardy to forge on with hillside development 18/02/2009 The StarBuyers left in a lurch by abandoned project 19/02/2009 The Star Story 
      and photos by ELAN PERUMALWE refer to “Furore over lifting of hillside ban” (The Star, Feb 16). The 
      announcement by that Minister of Works that the “green light’ had been given 
      for hillside development carries an innuendo that there is a shortage of land 
      for the
 BUYERS of houses in a project at Taman Jentayu at Jalan Kebun, near Sijangkang, 
      in Kuala Langat have been left in a lurch after the project was abandoned. 
      More than 100 buyers bought the houses in 2004 only to find out that five
 
      
      Developer given two months to submit report on defects
      20/02/2009 www.dailyexpress.com.mySPNB 
      Berjaya Baikpulih 73 Projek Terbengkalai 21/02/2009 BernamaKota Kinabalu: The developer of a residential park in Telipok near here has 
      been given two months to inspect and submit full reports to the authorities 
      on defects to two of its semi-detached houses there.
 KUANTAN, 21 Feb (Bernama) -- Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) berjaya 
      membaikpulih 73 projek perumahan terbengkalai di seluruh negara, merangkumi 
      23,089 unit rumah, sehingga Januari lepas.
 50,000 rumah terbengkalai 
      diselesai 21/02/2009 BH MELAKA: Kira-kira 62.5 peratus atau 50,000 daripada 80,000 kes rumah terbengkalai 
      di seluruh negara sejak lebih 12 tahun lalu, sudah diselesaikan menerusi bantuan 
      Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan.
 Belenggu pinjaman rumah 22/02/2009  
      MA Oleh Samsudin Awang KUANTAN: Kira-kira 6,000 pembeli dibelenggu masalah pinjaman berikutan rumah 
      yang mereka beli gagal disiapkan pemaju di negeri ini sejak 10 tahun lalu. 
      Difahamkan, sekurang-kurangnya 16 projek perumahan terbengkalai kerana pemaju 
      gagal menyiapkan mengikut tarikh ditetapkan.
 SPNB baik pulih 73 projek rumah 22/02/2009 
      BM Oleh Irwan Shafrizan Ismail KUANTAN: Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) berjaya membaik pulih 73 
      projek perumahan terbengkalai merangkumi 23,089 unit rumah di seluruh negara 
      setakat 31 Januari lalu. Pengerusinya, Datuk Azian Osman, berkata sepanjang 
      tempoh berkenaan, 19 projek perumahan berjaya dibaik pulih menerusi bantuan 
      kewangan manakala 54 projek lagi menerusi khidmat nasihat serta kepakaran 
      SPNB.
 
      ’We 
      are not paying you to pass the buck’ 23/02/2009 NST By W. L. J., Vista 
      Angkasa, Kuala Lumpur ON Dec 3, 2008, the telephone cables at three residential blocks of Vista 
      Angkasa were cut and stolen from their respective cable rooms in the middle 
      of the night. Because of this unfortunate incident, the telephone lines of 
      the
 
      Heart-wrenching 
      stories of housebuyers 23/02/2009 NST By Es Tung I SYMPATHISE with the plight of Taman Sri Manja residents in Old Klang Road, 
      whose houses are sinking. Reading their story recently reminded me of the 
      predicament faced by my father-in-law in Malacca 15 years ago, although on
 
      Syabas: 
      Residents' duty to keep tanks clean 26/02/2009 NSTSUBANG JAYA: Syabas Corporate Communications and Public Affairs general manager 
      Abdul Halem Mat Som said the company was not responsible for the maintenance 
      of water tanks. "We have advised the public and the
 
      
      Eat first, buy later for house buyers 27/02/2009 NST Kongster Buyers of abandoned project need help
      28/02/2009 The StarI WAS once hungry for a house, so hungry that I would rather miss breakfast 
      and lunch just to queue up at a developer's office in Subang Jaya for many 
      hours with a big crowd. Those were the bad old days of the early 1990s
 I WRITE on behalf of 700-odd buyers in a project that once promised attractive 
      returns but who are now burdened with servicing bank loans that must be repaid 
      whatever the cost.
 
      Adopt 
      system to safeguard housebuyers 28/02/2009 The StarWE read with despair the report entitled “Buyers left in a lurch by abandoned 
      project” in StarMetro dated Feb 19. Many unwary and unfortunate buyers are 
      suffering such a fate with no one to turn to.
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