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Beware the risks
01/01/2005 NST-PROP
A joint venture in any
undertaking - whether in trading,
manufacturing, construction or land
development - is like a marriage. While
some joint ventures can be said to be
“made in heaven”, there are others that
can only be described as “consummated in
hell”.
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An environmental tragedy: But who
weeps?
26/02/2005 NST-PROP
By now, many of us
would probably have forgotten what our
fourth Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad, told the Dewan Rakyat on Oct
30, 2003 when presenting the Mid-Term Review of
the Eighth Malaysia Plan.
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Questions over land alienation in the
Klang Valley
05/03/2005 NST-PROP
Thanks to the power of
the Press, investigative journalism and
increasing awareness of the laws of the
nation among people, public horror has
rightly been expressed over the
ecological destruction - carried out in
the name of development - that Shah Alam
has suffered.
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When heads would have rolled...
12/03/2005
NST-PROP
I HAVE been
flooded with e-mail and SMSes for
the past week from friends and
readers around the country who are
keeping a close watch on the
environmental tragedy that has
unfolded in Shah Alam, Selangor.
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Foreign observations
23/04/2005
NST-PROP
Ever since my good
friend and editor, Andrew Wong, invited
me to “join him” (and leave behind us
another daily) to become a regular
contributor for PropertyTimes, I have
always enjoyed the prospect of opening
my e-mail Inbox every morning and
perusing the messages that readers of my
column send me.
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Punishing environmental offenders
11/06/2005
NST-PROP
According to a recent news report, the
Federal Government is setting up a
special task force to detect and
combat environmental crimes.
Admittedly, a salutary move that
deserves public support.
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Compulsory land acquisition 18/06/2005
NST-PROP
The Federal Constitution guarantees
citizens right to ownership of property.
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Challenging land acquisition
26/06/2005
NST-PROP
A little over three
years ago - on April 12, 2002 to be
exact - the High Court sitting in Shah
Alam, Selangor, delivered its verdict
in the landmark land acquisition
dispute between Sagong Tasi & 6 Ors vs
Kerajaan Negeri Selangor & 3 Ors
(2002, 2 AMR 2028).
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Malaysia
as a second home
04/06/2005
NST-PROP
The Malaysia: My
Second Home (MMSH) campaign is rooted in
policy.
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Long shadow of Boonsom Boonyanit 02/07/2005 NST-PROP
Ask a lawyer who
claims to know the National Land Code
like the back of his hands which
provision he would regard as the
single-most important statute, and my
guess is that he would say, “Section
340”.
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Singing the same old song
09/07/2005
NST-PROP
I was in Johor last
week when the State’s Legislative
Assembly was also sitting.
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Spare the beaches, save the shorelines
30/07/2005
NST-PROP
Monday July 25 turned
out to be an important date for the
planning profession in this country.
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The lure of ‘Privatopia’
15/10/2005 NST-PROP
There is a growing
body of literature on gated communities,
not only abroad but also locally.
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How safe is your title?
26/11/2005
NST-PROP
A woman in Penang lost
her land, a very valuable piece of
property in Tanjung Bungah, when a
con-artist, also a woman,
impersonating her transferred the land
to a purchaser, a Malaysian-registered
company.
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Housing heartaches
29/10/2005
NST-PROP
In May 2004, Prime
Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi was quoted by the local media as
saying, "I think it is not right to pay
money first, before you get your house
if they (developers) don't get to sell
all their houses, the money won't be
enough for them to build. What will
happen to those who have paid up?"
