Author: Charles Tan
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Here are my thoughts about saving money via electric vehicle (EV)
Many years ago, a secondary school classmate who’s a very successful senior manager in an electronics company bought a Toyota Prius. Image shows that car. Image source is paultan.org He bought it for something like RM150,000 and when asked about his main reason to buy the car, he said, did you know that every km,…
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Family Fun. Picnic @ ASEAN Sculpture Garden.
If you are a family with young kids and staying in Kuala Lumpur / Selangor just like me and just needed a place to chill out during the weekends, this may be the one. It’s also NOT crowded which is super important at this point in time. This is the ASEAN Sculpture Garden. Show you…
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Buying a bicycle is bad for the economy?
I read this many years ago and recently someone forwarded it again. Actually, I do think there are always many different perspectives even if we are speaking about the same thing. The image shows a bicycle and it went on to say that cycling is bad for the economy because a cyclist does not buy…
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One Travel Bubble starts next week. Surely more to come. What bubble?
I have never been to New Zealand. I have been to Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. I do think I want to go to New Zealand sometime in the future and I would definitely want to go to Brisbane, Canberra, Tasmania and more. These two countries will allow travels between one another starting next week. Yes,…
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Property market recovery in 2H 2021
What is property market recovery? How do you define property market recovery? I personally define property market recovery as the time when property transactions show a rising trend every quarter and should be driven by first-time home owners versus most transactions by those who already own many properties. When the latter happens, let’s be savvy…
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Sunway Berhad reported profit before tax of RM251.7 million and declared acash dividend of 1.5 sen in 4Q 2020
Press Release: SUNWAY BERHAD REPORTED PROFIT BEFORE TAX OF RM251.7 MILLION AND DECLARED A CASH DIVIDEND OF 1.50 SEN IN 4Q 2020 Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, 31 March 2021 – Sunway Berhad today announced its fourth quarter financial results (“4Q 2020”) for the financial year ended 31 December 2020. The Group recorded revenue of RM1,278.0…
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An update of Malaysia property market. Just charts for reference.
As a media, kopiandproperty.my was invited to the Property Market Report 2020 launching session yesterday. All the charts shown today are from Jabatan Penillaian and dan Perkhidmatan Negara (JPPH). After looking through the softcopy slides provided, we have chosen a few slides which we believe gives us a sense of what’s happening in the market…
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Double-storey landed homes in Penang for less than RM250,000? Developed by Scientex.
If you think this double-storey landed home is within the Penang island, then you may now skip this article. It’s in Tasek Gelugor and this is NOT the same as Gelugor where USM campus is situated. Tasek Gelugor is in mainland Penang and it’s under Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Perai. (MPSP) By the way, the reason…
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Everyone can travel interstate again, soon?
At the moment, we could not travel interstate without some important reasons. We need to get a stamp from the neighbourhood police station for this. Unfortunately there are so many rumours about people abusing this and travelling for some absurd reasons. F Now…there’s an expectation that the government will lift interstate travel ban very soon.…