Singapore and Malaysia have reached an agreement to end their months-long airspace dispute.

Under the deal, Singapore will halt instrument landing system procedures at its Seletar Airport, while Malaysia will open up a restricted area near the countries’ border.

This will allow Malaysia Airlines’ subsidiary Firefly to start operations at Seletar Airport this month, as the airline postponed its plans to fly out of Seletar Airport last year due to the dispute.

The dispute began in December when Malaysia said it wanted to take back control of airspace managed by the city-state since 1974, because Singapore’s new instrument landing system at Seletar airport involved a flight path over Malaysian airspace.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad are scheduled to meet between April eighth and ninth in Putrajaya.

Meanwhile, thousands of people yesterday joined in marches across major German cities against rental insanity, which has sparked a popular backlash.

About six thousand people gathered in Berlin’s emblematic Alexanderplatz and were marching towards the working-class, predominantly immigrant district of Kreuzberg, which has been recently
targeted by developers eager to make a fast buck.

The protesters also launched a signature campaign to press for a local referendum for Berlin’s city hall to expropriate properties of real estate companies possessing more than three thousand apartments.