Category: Kuala Lumpur / Selangor Props
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Forest reserve in Selangor de-gazetted to prevent bushfires. (I learnt…)
What are your thoughts on forest reserves? Should we be protecting all the forest reserves at all costs? Having been to many forest reserves in Malaysia, I think we should preserve them unless of course there are really valid reasons. For example, for catalytic logistics project such as East Cost Rail Link (ECRL). Another example,…
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Yes, the threshold for foreigner is RM1.5 million yeah.
I do wonder whether it’s the media (which did not do enough clarifications) or is it just the people (who just chose to ignore) when it comes to information dissemination. I guess it’s both then? Remember the RM600k threshold for foreigners announced by our Finance Minister which everyone has assumed that it’s for all unsold…
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Construction accident in Taman Desa. Two rescued.
At the time of writing, as reported in Article in thestar.com.my two workers in the construction accident in Taman Desa has been rescued. The second victim was successfully rescued after rescuers spent hours at the site. First victim was a Bangladeshi and he is currently seeing treatment in the Kuala Lumpur hospital. The 6th floor…
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Cement price increasing by 20-50%? Well…
Home prices usually move upwards unless of course the owners are selling below the price they bought for whatever reasons there may be. It may even go up because of coffee prices! Well… (click to read) . Anyway, there’s also the input costs which include salary for construction workers and the cement price. The latter…
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The 2 in 1 solution to too many malls and too expensive homes?
As they say, there’s just too many malls? Some say online shopping will kill most of these malls. I disagree and my recent article here: Online shopping will not kill malls. Better malls will kill the uncompetitive ones Now, before we talk about the potential solution, here’s another problem. Many people say homes are too…
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6 more weeks and coronavirus will affect the Malaysian economy hard.
This was one recent article about how the coronavirus will affect the world economy. The writer shared many points to show that the virus will not significantly affect the world economy unless of course the coronavirus is prolonged. Here’s that article: The coronavirus worry. How will it affect the world economy Needless to say I…
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Please reduce the SST %. It will help the economy.
If you have read kopiandproperty.my long enough, you may know that I am for GST and against SST. However, I have no wish to debate on this today. Whatever the government of the day has decided, I will accept yeah. Sales and Service Tax (SST) was reintroduced in 2018 and the goods are taxed between…