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Published EVERY FRIDAY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020 . issue 3143/2020 . PP19055/06/2016(034530) DIGITAL Is your building THE BEST MANAGED & SUSTAINABLE PROPERTY in Malaysia? • Am I elIgIble? • WhAt should I submIt? • heAR WhAt JUDGES hAVE TO sAY! Calling all property developers, building & facilities managers, managment corpora- tions & JMBs! Sign up for a FREE briefing session here! J 2 FRIDay NOVEMBER 13, 2020 ENDORSED BY MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Enter now! AWARds obJeCtIVE Promote sustainable real estate in Malaysia through recognition of: • Malaysia’s best property management practices • Property in Malaysia designed and built for sustainability INteRested to fINd out moRe? sIgn NoW oPeN foR eNtRIes uP foR A bRIefINg ( NO FEES REQUIRED) sessIoN heRe! • All Residential, Office, Mixed Development, Specialised and Retail properties managed in-house/by property building managers • Strata and Non-strata buildings hoW TO ENteR • NEW CATEGORY! 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EP 4 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2020 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS from www.EdgeProp.my Energy and Natural Resources Minister Datuk Dr ACEBOOK Shamsul Anuar Nasarah said the hanging blocks of F rock on the slopes of the limestone hill in Tambun Danger of another are still in danger of crashing down the hill. zumu’s A He noted that the Department of Minerals AIZAL and Geoscience (JMG) had conducted a field landslide at resort F assessment and found that the limestone hill that experienced a landslide on Nov 10, 2020 was still unstable and small landslides were occurring. in Tambun FROM PHOTO “There is still water flowing from cracks along the slope facing the row of villas in the resort. In this regard, all parties are urged to take precautionary measures,” he said in a statement on Nov 11, 2020. The Edge Property Sdn Bhd On Nov 10, two guests of the Banjaran (1091814-P) Hotsprings Retreat in Tambun were killed. They Level 3, Menara KLK, No. 1 Jalan PJU 7/6, Mutiara were known as Ooi Chee Wei, 39, and Lee Tze Juin, Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, 32, who were both from Kuala Lumpur and came to Selangor, Malaysia Ipoh for work. Meanwhile, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri EdgeProp.my Ahmad Faizal Azumu, who visited the site on Nov Managing Director/Editor-in-chief 11, said the initial investigation showed that the Au Foong Yee construction of the Banjaran Hotsprings Retreat EDITORIAL Assistant Editor Tan Ai Leng was done in compliance with all the general Deputy Chief Copy Editor construction requirements set by the relevant James Chong Senior Writer authority. Rachel Chew Writers “According to the JMG, the limestone hills at Natalie Khoo, Chin Wai Lun, the scene have vertical cliffs and usually have Chelsey Poh Senior Designer Jun Kit cracks and layered planes… This causes the hills For New Launches/Events/ to potentially experience landslides or rockfalls Press Releases/News Tips email: [email protected] and this is a geological phenomenon whose timing Tel: (03) 7721 8211 Fax: (03) 7721 8280 cannot be predicted,” he added. ADVERTISING & MARKETING Associate Account Director, Nevertheless, Banjaran Hotsprings Retreat was Advertising & Marketing Heidee Ahmad (019) 388 1880 ordered to temporarily shut down their operations Senior Account Managers and all their guests were evacuated. Ian Leong (012) 359 1668 Cecilia Too (012) 319 7666 Marketing Support & Ad Traffic Madeline Tan (03) 7721 8218 email: [email protected] BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Four individuals in Manager Nimalen Parimalam (014) 324 3193 remand for river AGENCY SALES Sales Manager pollution Stannly Tan (012) 538 1687 Four individuals, including two directors of a UNIQLO MALAYSIA PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & CUSTOMER ADVISORY road construction company, are in remand for Associates seven days from Nov 11, 2020 in connection with Omar Nawawi (012) 537 1687 Nazrin Hakimin (017) 368 6061 the odour pollution in Sungai Selangor, which For enquiries and listings has resulted in water supply disruption to sever- email: [email protected] Tel: (03) 7733 9000 al areas in the Klang Valley since Nov 10, 2020. EdgeProp.my e-Publication The remand order against the four sus- is published by The Edge Property pects, aged between 33 and 44, were issued by Sdn Bhd. Download it for free at Magistrate Nur Hafizah Rajuni at the Selayang www.EdgeProp.my Magistrate’s Court here, following an applica- tion by the police. The two company directors are a 40-year- Uniqlo to open first old woman and a 43-year-old man, while the other two, both men, included a Bangladeshi roadside ‘megastore’ national. They are being investigated for an offence in Malaysia under Section 430 of the Penal Code for com- We’re on Uniqlo is set to open its first roadside The Edge Malaysia mitting mischief that caused diminution of wa- ter supply for human and animal consumption, Telegram! “megastore” in the country, which is also Publisher and Group CEO which provides an imprisonment for up to 30 the first store outside a shopping mall. Ho Kay Tat EDITORIAL years, or a fine, or both, upon conviction. It will “be a roadside, community- Editor-in-chief Azam Aris CORPORATE based store”, “surrounded by residential Chief Operating Officer Amend two acts to townships, schools and office buildings”, Lim Shiew Yuin ADVERTISING & MARKETING empower PLANMalaysia Uniqlo Malaysia said in a statement on Chief Commercial Officer The Housing and Local Government Ministry its Facebook page on Nov 10, 2020. Sharon Teh (012) 313 9056 (KPKT) sees the need to amend two acts to General Manager To be located at DA Square @ Damansara Fong Lai Kuan (012) 386 2831 empower the role and enforcement of the Town Senior Sales Manager and Country Planning Department (PLANMa- CLICK Avenue, the store “has been carefully designed Gregory Thu (012) 376 0614 laysia). Head of Marketing to ensure enough space and accessibility for The acts were the Town and Country Plan- HERE Support & Ad Traffic all, including families with children, elderly Lorraine Chan (03) 7721 8001 ning Act 1976 (Act 172) and the Local Govern- to join the ment Act 1976 (Act 171). “EdgeProp people and people with disability, and will Its minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said PLAN- Malaysia” news feature its own car park for customers”. Malaysia must be given enforcement power so The roadside megastore is scheduled that the plans made by the department at the channel on federal level could be implemented to ensure Telegram to receive to open in December. Malaysia will be the a more stable national development to avoid daily alerts on fifth country outside Japan and the third in adversely affecting long-term plans. Southeast Asia to have such a roadside store. She said town plannings by PLANMalaysia property news! have often been neglected currently or not se- riously considered by state governments or the local authorities before approving development How do I get past issues of this weekly e-Publication? projects. Go to www.EdgeProp.my to download for free! EP 5 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2020 NEWS HIGHLIGHTSNEWS from www.HIGHLIGHTSEdgeProp.my from www.EdgeProp.my Construction not previously registered to apply for the upcoming cash assistance. sector advances BPR, with an allocation of RM6.5 NSTAGRAM I 58.6% in 3Q2020 billion that is expected to benefit 8.1 The value of construction work done million individuals, will replace the advanced 58.6% in the third quar- Bantuan Sara Hidup (BSH), which ERNANDES F ter of 2020 (3Q2020), amounting to had an allocation of RM5 billion and RM31.4 billion compared to 2Q2020 4.3 million beneficiaries. ONY T at RM19.8 billion, says the Depart- ment of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM). Chief statistician Datuk Sri Dr Covid-19 Mohd Uzir Mahidin said on a year- on-year comparison, the value of mediation centre construction work done improved starts operation -13.1% in 3Q2020 (2Q2020 was -44.9%). He said special trades activities THE EDGE sub-sector registered a growth of 1.6%. “Meanwhile, the three sub-sec- tors – namely residential buildings, civil engineering and non-resi- dential – recorded an uptrend by -12.0%, -13.6% and -16.0%, respec- tively, compared with the same quarter in 2019,” he said in a state- The government has opened a spe- ment on Nov 10, 2020. cial mediation centre in Putrajaya to Tony Fernandes making food help resolve disputes if contractual obligations cannot be met due to the Covid-19 pandemic. deliveries to your doorstep Minister in the Prime Minis- ter’s Department Datuk Takiyuddin The tourism and aviation sectors have been badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, Hassan (pictured) announced in a prompting low-cost carrier AirAsia to speed up its business diversification into statement on Nov 11, 2020 that the move was in line with the Tempo- food delivery business.