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Penduduk dakwa laporan tidak
lengkap BH 02/08/1994
KUALA LUMPUR, Isnin - Persatuan Penduduk/Pemilik Highland Towers (PPHT)
mendakwa laporan enam jilid Jawatankuasa Penyiasat Majlis Perbandaran
Ampang Jaya (MPAJ) yang dikeluarkan pada Jun lalu, tidak lengkap kerana
tidak menyatakan dengan jelas pihak yang terbabit menyebabkan keruntuhan
kondominium itu tahun lalu. Sehubungan itu, PPHT mahu MPAJ menyatakan
dengan jelas pemilik dua buah bukit di belakang kondominum itu yang
dikatakan menjadi punca utama kepada keruntuhan itu.
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Siasatan Highland Towers
selesai
BH 21/01/1995 By Hazlee Mohd Salleh
SHAH ALAM, Jumaat - Polis sudah menyelesaikan siasatan mengenai tragedi
Highland Towers di Hulu Klang yang mengorbankan 48 nyawa pada 11 Disember
1993. Berikutan itu, polis mengemukakan beberapa cadangan kepada Pejabat
Peguam Negara untuk tindakan selanjutnya.
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Police submit Highland
Towers report BT 21/01/1995
SELANGOR police have handed over to the Attorney-General's Chambers the
report on their investigation into the Highland Towers tragedy. Selangor
Deputy CID chief Supt Mat Zain Ibrahim said yesterday the report was
submitted on January 14 but he declined to disclose whether police had
found any element of negligence in the collapse of the condominium block
in December 11 1993, which took 48 lives.
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Highland Towers: Peguam
Negara teliti laporan HM 21/01/1995
SHAH ALAM: Keputusan sama ada terdapat atau tidak mana-mana pihak yang
akan dipanggil untuk dibicarakan selepas didapati bertanggungjawab
mengenai tragedi kondomunium Highland Towers yang runtuh pada 11 Disember
1993 akan diumumkan selepas pejabat Peguam Negara dan pejabat pendakwaraya
membuat penelitian terhadap laporan siasatan polis dalam kes itu. Ini
berikutan, siasatan yang dijalankan oleh sepasukan anggota dan pegawai
polis Selangor selama 12 bulan sudah siap bulan lalu, manakala laporannya
dihantar ke pejabat Peguam Negara dan pendakwaraya.
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Laporan siasatan Highland
Towers siap HM 21/01/1995
SHAH ALAM: Keputusan sama ada terdapat atau tidak mana-mana pihak yang
akan dipanggil untuk dibicarakan mengenai tragedi kondomunium Highland
Towers yang runtuh pada 11 Disember lalu, akan diumumkan selepas pejabat
Peguam Negara dan pejabat pendakwaraya membuat penelitian terhadap laporan
siasatan polis. Ini berikutan, siasatan yang dijalankan oleh pegawai polis
Selangor selama 12 bulan sudah siap bulan lalu, manakala laporannya
dihantar ke pejabat Peguam Negara dan pendakwaraya.
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Highland Towers probe:
Police await A-G's decision NST 21/01/1995 By Saodah Elias
SHAH ALAM, Fri. - Selangor police are awaiting a decision from the
Attorney-General on the outcome of their year-long probe into the collapse
of Block One of the Highland Towers apartments in Hulu Klang which killed
48 people. "The investigations were completed last month, and the
investigation papers submitted to the Attorney-General last Saturday,"
State Criminal Investigation Department deputy chief Superintendent Mat
Zain Ibrahim said today.
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Highland Towers: Pledge to
act against the culprits
NST 23/01/1995
PETALING JAYA, Sun. - Attorney-General Datuk Mohtar Abdullah said today
action would be taken against any party found to be implicated in any
wrongdoing in the Highland Towers apartment block collapse "without fear
or favour". He, however, urged the public to bear with him as his officers
were still studying the investigation papers submitted by police to his
Chambers.
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Highland Towers tragedy:
Engineer still practising NST 24/01/1995
KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. - The engineer identified by the Ampang Jaya Municipal
Council inquiry team as one of the principal parties responsible for the
Highland Towers building collapse that claimed 48 lives on Dec 11, 1993,
is still practising. This is because the Board of Engineers, which formed
a committee of inquiry to investigate the role of structural engineer Wong
Yuen Kean, has still not completed its task and has not issued any order
for the engineer to stop work.
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Maybank lupus baki pinjaman
BH 23/02/1995
KUALA LUMPUR, Rabu - Maybank akan melupuskan baki pinjaman pelanggannya
yang membeli rumah di Blok A pangsapuri Highland Towers yang runtuh pada
Disember 1993. Pengarah Urusannya, Amirsham Aziz dalam satu kenyataan di
sini hari ini berkata, langkah berkenaan adalah tanda muhibah selaras
dengan komitmen bank terbabit untuk membantu mangsa tragedi berkenaan.
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Highland Towers - Maybank
writes off loans BT 23/02/1995 By Lashvinder Kaur
MALAYAN Banking Bhd has written off outstanding loans of owners of
Highland Towers Block A units with immediate effect, the bank announced in
a statement yesterday. Maybank managing director Amirsham Abdul Aziz said
the decision is in line with the bank's commitment to assist those
affected by the tragedy.
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Highland Towers: Maybank
brings cheer NST 23/02/1995 By Tony Emmanuel
KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. - Maybank today announced it would write off the
outstanding housing loans taken by owners to buy apartments in Block One
of the Highland Towers in Hulu Klang which collapsed on Dec 11, 1993,
killing 48 people. The welcome cheer came from Maybank managing director
Amirsham A. Aziz who said it was in line with the bank's commitment to
those affected by the tragedy.
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Stanchart writes off
Highland Towers loans too BT 24/02/1995 By Shirene Shan
MORE banks are caving in after the move by Malayan Banking Bhd to write
off outstanding housing loans owed by owners of Highland Towers' Block A
units. Standard Chartered Bank (Stanchart) has decided to write off all
loans relating to Block A of the condominium in Ulu Klang while the Bank
of Commerce is meeting today to decide upon the steps it will take to ease
the plight of the victims.
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Highland Towers loans:
Stanchart follows suit ST 24/02/1995
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad (Stanchart)
today became the second bank to write off the outstanding loans of owners
of the ill-fated block A of the Highland Towers apartments. Stanchart
deputy chief executive officer Razman Hashim, who announced the bank's
decision in a statement, said it had also agreed to grant a one-year
moratorium, effective up to Dec 31 this year, on loans affecting owners of
blocks B and C.
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Bank of Commerce writes off
Highland Towers loans
BT 25/02/1995 By Shirene Shan
A DOMINO effect has emerged. The Bank of Commerce (M) Bhd yesterday
announced it is writing off the outstanding loans for owners of apartments
in Highland Towers Block A, making it the third bank to do so this week.
The decision was made at the bank's credit committee meeting which had
considered three alternatives - extending the interest-free period until
the court hearing, writing off all loans or writing off half the loans.
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Bank of Commerce to write
off loans for owners of ill-fated condo NST 25/02/1995
KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. - Bank of Commerce today announced it would write off
the outstanding loans taken by owners to buy apartments in Block One of
Highland Towers. The bank's announcement closely followed the decison made
recently by Maybank Berhad and Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad (Stanchart).
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Maybank Bhd writes off ... )
BT 27/02/1995
MAYBANK Bhd writes off outstanding loans of owners of Highland Towers
Block A units, and extends the moratorium on housing loan payments to
customers who were owner-occupiers of Block B and C apartments until the
end of the year.
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BBMB's decision on loans
soon BT 28/02/1995
BANK Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd (BBMB) will make a decision soon on the status
of outstanding housing loans to owners of the Highland Towers apartments.
Three banks to date have announced their plans to write off such loans.
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MBf to write off Block A
loans BT 01/03/1995
MBf Finance Bhd has announced plans to write off outstanding housing loans
for owners of apartments in Block A of Highland Towers, making it the
fourth financial institution to do so over a one-week period. Block A, one
of three Highland Towers blocks in Ulu Klang, had collapsed on December 11
1993 resulting in 48 deaths.
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MBf Finance writes off loans
NST 01/03/1995
KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - MBf Finance Bhd today joined a growing list of
financial institutions in writing off outstanding loans taken by owners of
the collapsed Block A of Highland Towers in Ulu Kelang near here. The
company's senior vice-president, Catherine Yip, said MBf's move was in
line with its strong commitment to help those affected by the tragedy
which struck on Dec 11, 1993.
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Feet-dragging local councils
get Ministry's ticking off NST 13/03/1995 By Chong Set Son
IPOH, Sun. - Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Dr Ting Chew Peh
today expressed dissatisfaction over the delay by local authorities in
providing the ministry with more details on the conditions of the flats
they owned. "Some local authorities are slow and we have, in fact,
reminded them to provide us with more details on the conditions of their
flats," he said.
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Geodis sedia maklumat
geologi kawasan BH 15/03/1995
KUALA LUMPUR, Selasa - Jabatan Penyiasatan Kajibumi akan mewujudkan Sistem
Maklumat Data Geologikal dan Geoteknikal (Geodis) yang menyediakan
maklumat lengkap mengenai geologi kawasan yang hendak dimajukan. Ketua
Setiausaha Kementerian Perusahaan Utama, Tan Sri Dr Othman Yeop Abdullah,
berkata maklumat itu dapat membantu jurutera dan perancang merancang
projek pembangunan dengan mengutamakan aspek geologi.
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Lawyers for parties to
discuss settlement NST 29/03/1995
KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - Lawyers for the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (AJMC)
have agreed to call for a meeting between interested parties of the
Highland Towers' apartment tragedy in two weeks to discuss a settlement.
The other two interested parties are Arab-Malaysian Finance and MBf
Property, which own the hilltop and hillslope, respectively.
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Court postpones case brought
by Highland Towers residents NST 29/03/1995
SHAH ALAM, Tues. - The High Court here today postponed to June 29 the
hearing of an application by the Highland Towers Residents and Owners
Committee to quash notices issued by the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (AJMC)
ordering the repair or demolition of Blocks 2 and 3 of the Highland Towers
in Hulu Klang. Justice Datuk Faiza Tamby Chik postponed the hearing after
the counsel for the committee, developer Highland Properties Sdn Bhd, AJMC
and tenant Yap Kim Hee and Sons Sdn Bhd, agreed unanimously that they
needed time to study the report called "Highland Towers Condominium - A
report on the conditions assessment of Blocks 2 and 3" prepared by
Minconsult Sdn Bhd based in Petaling Jaya.
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Development activities major
factor contributing to landslides NST 17/05/1999
KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - Apart from torrential and incessant rain, development
activities are one the major factors contributing to landslides, with the
collapse of the Highland Towers in December 1993 that killed 48 people
remaining the worst incident. In the pursuit of progress, the natural
drainage of hills has been disrupted by ill-planned development,
encroachment, illegal land-clearing and indiscriminate agricultural
activities.
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Plan for more checks
MM 20/05/1995 By Efi Hafizah Hamzah
CITY HALL will consider employing independent structural engineers to
check on the safety of the existing unipole advertisements in the city.
"We might have to do this as was done during the Highland Towers tragedy,
which was to engage the expertise of an independent consultant," said
Datuk Bandar Datuk Dr Mazlan Ahmad when asked if City Hall would re-
verify the reports submitted by the structural engineers of the
advertising companies.
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June verdict on Permai flats
MM 31/05/1995 All reports on "Ampang Jaya full board meeting" by Rosma
Omar
THE Ampang Jaya Municipal Council received a final report on the Keramat
Permai flats in Hulu Klang where part of the hillslope eroded on April 21.
Council president Abdul Karim Munisar, who chaired the full board meeting
yesterday, said a technical committee comprising Hulu Klang State
Assemblyman Fuad Hassan, Datuk Paduka Raja Wan Mahmood Pawan Teh and
representatives from the council's engineering deparment will meet again
on June 9 to determine the future of Block C of the flats.
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LAM diarah bertindak
terhadap pelukis pelan
BH 16/06/1995
PETALING JAYA, Khamis - Kementerian Kerjaraya mengarahkan Lembaga Arkitek
Malaysia (LAM) mengambil tindakan terhadap pelukis pelan berdaftar yang
melanggar peraturan dengan melukis pelan bangunan melebihi syarat
dibenarkan. Menterinya, Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu, berkata LAM perlu
mengambil tindakan termasuk membatalkan pendaftaran pelukis pelan bahagian
kedua terbabit jika mereka gagal mematuhi peraturan yang ditetapkan.
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DOE system to map out entire
nation BT 26/06/1995 By Shirene Shan
THE Department of Environment (DOE) is planning to use its geographical
information systems (GIS) to map out the entire country in terms of land
use compatibility under the Seventh Malaysia Plan (1996-2000). GIS is a
powerful tool for handling spatial data and integrating different types of
data and thematic maps.
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States to get maps showing
soil erosion danger areas
NST 26/06/1995 By Esther Tan
KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - The Department of Environment (DOE) is drawing up
geographical maps containing information on potential soil erosion areas
and distribution of natural resources for all States to assist the
respective Governments in their development plans. The DOE hopes to embark
on the project, which uses the computer-based technology called
geographical information system (GIS), under the Seventh Malaysia Plan
beginning next year.
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Bid to get refund MM 29/06/1995 By Rosma Omar; Nurazah Ismail
FEAR of tragedy similar to the Highland Towers incident cost FRANK of
Subang Jaya RM2,000 when he cancelled his booking for a high-rise
condominium unit in Sentul two years ago. Now, he wants a full refund of
his booking fee although the developer claims that the fee is not
refundable.
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MPAJ diperintah beri hujah
BH 30/06/1995
SHAH ALAM: Mahkamah Tinggi di sini semalam memerintahkan Jawatankuasa
Penduduk dan Pemilik Highland Towers serta pemaju dan Majlis Perbandaran
Ampang Jaya (MPAJ) mengemukakan hujah bertulis mengenai permohonan
jawatankuasa dan pemaju untuk membatalkan notis MPAJ yang mengarahkan dua
buah blok Highland Towers dibaiki atau dirobohkan.
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3 pihak perlu kerjasama
HM 30/06/1995
TIGA pihak terbabit dalam usaha menyelamatkan Blok 2 dan Blok 3 Bangunan
Highland Towers mesti bekerjasama jika mereka mahu menyelamatkan dua
bangunan lain daripada diruntuhkan. Tiga pihak terbabit ialah Jawatankuasa
Penduduk dan Pemilik Highland Towers, Arab Malaysian Development
Corporation dan Highland Properties Sdn Bhd.
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Mahkamah perintah hujah
bertulis HM 30/06/1995
SHAH ALAM: Mahkamah Tinggi di sini semalam memerintahkan Jawatankuasa
Penduduk dan Pemilik Highland Towers serta pemaju dan Majlis Perbandaran
Ampang Jaya (MPAJ) mengemukakan hujah bertulis mengenai permohonan
jawatankuasa dan pemaju untuk membatalkan notis MPAJ yang mengarahkan dua
buah blok Hingland Towers di Hulu Klang dibaiki atau dirobohkan.
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Work together, MPAJ urges MM 30/06/1995 By V. Vasudevan
THE three parties involved in the effort to save the Highland Towers Block
2 and Block 3 must work together if they want to save the two other
structures from demolition. The three parties are the Highland Towers
Residents and Owners Committee, Arab Malaysian Development Corporation and
Highland Properties Sdn Bhd.
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Counsel told to give written
submissions NST 30/06/1995 By Annie Freeda Cruez
SHAH ALAM, Thurs. - The High Court here today directed the counsel
involved in the Highland Towers hearing to give written submissions
pertaining to the case in lieu of negotiations with relevant parties
before the final oral submissions in open court on Sept 12. The hearing
was called following an application by the Highland Towers Residents and
Owners Committee to quash notices issued by the Ampang Jaya Municipal
Council ordering the repair or demolition of Blocks 2 and 3 of Highland
Towers in Hulu Klang.
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Bangunan 5 tingkat wajib
diperiksa BH 04/07/1995
KUALA LUMPUR, Isnin - Semua bangunan melebihi lima tingkat wajib diperiksa
keselamatan dan kestabilannya setiap 10 tahun bagi memastikan ia kukuh dan
tidak membahayakan penghuni. Peraturan itu yang termaktub dalam pindaan
Undang-undang Kecil Bangunan Seragam 1984 bertujuan memastikan kejadian
bangunan runtuh seperti tragedi pangsapuri Highland Towers tidak berulang.
