Category: ASIA / ASEAN
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Bad Debts within ASEAN banks are Bad News
Bad Debts within ASEAN banks are increasing. I think it’s quite important to be aware of the bad debt numbers. It’s also known as bad loans or Non-Performing Loans (NPLs). This number quite frankly should be on a rising trend since many businesses have been forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic and when…
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How many of these largest cities have you visited?
How many of the largest cities in the world which you have visited? There are 20 in the list below. I have only visited 3 of the below. Have you dropped by visualcapitalist.com lately? (Nope, they did not pay any single cent to kopiandproperty for this mention) I am a subscriber to their contents and…
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V-shaped recovery for ASEAN + 3. Good news, right?
Everyone knows we are going to have negative GDP this year. Will there be a V-shaped recovery for ASEAN then? We could not yet shake off COVID-19. It is still around and in some countries, it has gotten worse. In fact some are fearing the the winter months will bring an even higher number of…
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Positive. ASEAN+3’s 23rd meeting has just concluded with a joint statement.
ASEAN+3 would be all of us in ASEAN plus China, Japan and Korea. It’s important that ASEAN members work together when it comes to finance matters. It’s even more important and effective if we could have the participation from China, Japan and Korea. Building resilience meant a stronger partnership and this is no longer the…
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Juwai IQI Launches Juwai.asia, the First Global Real Estate Portal for Asian Buyers
Press Release: Juwai IQI Launches Juwai.asia, the First Global Real Estate Portal for Asian Buyers Juwai IQI today announced the launch of Juwai.asia, the first global portal for non-China Asian consumers who want to purchase real estate almost anywhere in the world. Chinese buyers are already served by the company’s existing portal,Juwai.com, which since 2011…
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Malaysian economy to recover only in 2021. Bad news?
By the way, if you still do not know, the latest forecasts about Malaysia’s economy are all in the negative territory. Ambank Research says negative 1.1% for 2020. This was Ambank Research’s comment, ““The pandemic virus impact, added with the collapse in oil prices, just aggravated some of the already weak sectors while dampening new…
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More Japanese manufacturers coming to ASEAN. GREAT news.
The first company I worked for was a Japanese multinational. In this company, I was given the opportunity to visit the London sales office, represented ASEAN on a billion dollar negotiation deal in Tokyo, travel to Singapore on average once every quarter for meetings and trainings and even visited its manufacturing plant in Perak on…
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7th PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Malaysia) moves gala dinner date, extended nominations period
Malaysia’s biggest real estate awards programme, now set for August, to accept nominations until June Black-tie gala dinner and awards presentation to be held at The Majestic Hotel Kuala Lumpur on 28 August 2020 Nominations accepted until June whilst existing entries will be judged as normal; logo rights to be extended for Winners and Highly Commended…
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This is a race where the winner gets to start saving the world.
An overview on all the hardwork and progress from researcher teams all around the world for a COVID-19 vaccine. This is not a race among the countries. It is a race for the world to contain COVID-19. USA: Article in cnbc.com The first human trial testing a potential vaccine to prevent COVID-19 began Monday, U.S.…
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100,000 empty apartments! May be more, soon.
Yeah, I think everyone who has read kopiandproperty.my for some time would know that Malaysia has unsold properties and some of it has turned into overhang properties too. Unsold units may not be overhang In fact there were also some measures to attract some foreign purchasers too. RM600,000 threshold for foreigners to buy KL properties…
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International airport to cater to 27 million passengers and higher. Wow for ASEAN.
I am pro-ASEAN. I believe we have a lot more to propel all ASEAN members upwards and prosperity can be achieved faster when there are more integration. At the very least, visit each other more often! Just look at the population stats from statista.com below. Combined, we are already 650 million strong… Just have 10%…