COMMENT | In October last year, a parcel of land measuring more than 13,000 square metres was put up for a 30-year lease. When tenders closed last month, there were three bids.

A decision on the award will be made after the tender submissions have been evaluated and will be published later.

If you thought that the Kuala Lumpur City Hall or the Selangor government had changed their ways of selling or alienating land overnight, you were wrong.

This only happens across the Causeway, where the Singapore Land Authority has implemented a system that optimises land use to benefit the public by periodically auctioning parcels of land.

In the Klang Valley, prime land is not sold to the highest bidder but...