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  MACC nabs Langkawi warehouse operators, runners for tax evasion – luxury car owners under investigation

  15 January 2024 / 9 comments

  The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has nabbed six members of a syndicate suspected to be involved in a Langkawi luxury car duty evasion scheme that cost the government RM33 million. The six are expected to […]

   

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  NexV Manufacturing breaks ground on NEV assembly plant in Rembau, N9; to produce Neta V from Q1 2025

  12 January 2024 / 3 comments

  Careplus Group and GoAuto Group joint venture, NexV Manufacturing has officially commenced construction on its upcoming assembly plant in the Chembong Industrial Area in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan. According to the company, this is the first […]

   

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  Malaysian riders/drivers, MIROS wants your thoughts

  12 January 2024 / 27 comments

  If you are a Malaysian driver or motorcycle rider, the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) wants your thoughts in the Motorcycle Safety Initiative survey. The survey is online, link here, and open to […]

   

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  GAC Aion appoints Tan Chong’s Warisan TC as M’sia distributor of its EVs – under same roof as ICE cars

  12 January 2024 / 10 comments

  We’ve just seen the Aion S Plus on Malaysian roads, and here’s the confirmation that the EV brand is set to enter our market. China’s GAC Aion has appointed Tan Chong’s Warisan TC as the […]

   

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  Digital road tax and driving licence: If phone is dead, how? Can show screenshot or print? JPJ answers

  12 January 2024 / 76 comments

  The move to a digital driver’s license is among the latest in the Malaysian government’s moves in digitalisation, which, together with vehicle road tax, can be renewed digitally via the MyJPJ mobile app from February […]

   

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  Prolintas secures RM2.7b financing to restructure 4 of its highway concessions, paving the way for IPO

  12 January 2024 / 2 comments

  Highway concessionaire Prolintas has secured Tawarruq Asset Financing facilities totalling RM2.7 billion from Bank Pembangunan. The cash will be used for a comprehensive restructuring exercise involving four of the group’s concessions, namely the Ampang – […]

   

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  Mitsubishi Motors opens its first showroom in Nilai, N9

  11 January 2024 / 2 comments

  Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) and authorised dealer Ban Lee Heng Motor recently opened the first Mitsubishi Motors 3S centre in Nilai. Located at Lot 27447, Jalan BBN 5/1a, Bandar Nilai Utama, the showroom has a […]

   

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  Mercedes-Benz EQB fire: company operating EV charger found to be unlicensed – Energy Commission

  11 January 2024 / 33 comments

  Following the incident of fire that consumed a Mercedes-Benz EQB at a dealership in Johor on the eve of the new year, the company operating the electric vehicle charging bay was found to be operating […]

   

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  2024 Honda CR-V e:HEV RS price announced – range-topping hybrid is RM196k, RM14k more than V AWD

  11 January 2024 / 35 comments

  When Honda Malaysia launched the sixth-generation CR-V in December, the price of the range-topping CR-V 2.0L e:HEV RS was not revealed. The company said that it would announce the CR-V Hybrid’s price in early 2024 […]

   

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  JB-Singapore RTS Link symbolically connected, construction on schedule at 65% completion

  11 January 2024 / 3 comments

  The Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit Link (RTS Link) has made its symbolic connection between Malaysia and Singapore, witnessed by prime minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his Singaporean counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, Bernama […]

   

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  Chery Malaysia sold 4.5k units in three months of 2023, plans to expand sales/service network in 2024

  11 January 2024 / 12 comments

  Chery Malaysia sold 4,501 units in 2023, which sounds decent, until you remember that they only started customer deliveries in September. In fact, it’s hard to believe that the returning brand has been around for […]

   

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  Glow in the dark road markings cost 20 times as much as conventional paint; ministry to study costs, safety

  11 January 2024 / 24 comments

  While there are benefits to implementing glow-in-the-dark road markings, it is also highly expensive; the new method costs nearly 20 times as much as conventional road markings, according to works minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta […]

   

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  New Mitsubishi Triton edition teased, launching soon in Malaysia – last goodbye before next-gen arrives?

  11 January 2024 / 0 comments

  Click to enlarge Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) has released a teaser of a Triton on its social media. The darkened image of the truck in a cave is clearly of the current model, so it’s […]

   

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  GAC’s Aion S Plus EV sedan spotted in Shah Alam

  10 January 2024 / 12 comments

  Click to enlarge Well well, what do we have here? And a sedan no less, in a scene dominated by SUVs. Faisal Hussamuddin shared these pics on MyEVOC’s Facebook page and we’ve been searching for […]

   

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  RON97 petrol price January 2024 week two update – price of premium fuel unchanged; RM3.47 per litre

  10 January 2024 / 5 comments

  With each Wednesday comes the weekly fuel price update for Malaysia, and so today the ministry of finance has announced the retail prices of fuels for the coming week of January 11 to 17, 2024. […]

   

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