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  • Rakuten closes Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia

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    Charles Tan
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    I buy things online nearly every week these days even if I still love to shop in malls. It’s so easy to start a new online company, right? I agree too. It’s however much harder to make it work when there are many competitions especially strong ones. Of course, sometimes it may also be due…

  • Bayan Baru – RM10 billion development starting 2017

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    Charles Tan
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    Many years ago, I thought Bayan Baru was a fully developed; matured neighbourhood. I could not see any huge pieces of vacant land. There were many older apartments here and there and even the landed terrace homes are also considered quite aged. Then, I found out that there are still many pieces of empty plots…

  • Dubai: 8 million sq ft mall to proceed

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    Charles Tan
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    The world would most probably be in a recession mode for 2016. IMF’s assessment. Read here: Getting ready for the next global recession? : It’s not too hard to understand why, the world’s largest market, China’s growth has fallen so much that it is affecting countries with lots of exposure to it including even our neighbour,…

  • It’s time for Havoc Hartanah 2016 in Kuala Lumpur

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    Charles Tan
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    It’s important to keep learning from those who has more experience than us when it comes to property investment. Seriously, it matters not whether you agree or disagree with all the speaker. No one knows you better than you. These talks give us another perspective that we may have overlooked or even some additional information…

  • More firms going under not necessarily bad for future

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    Charles Tan
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    What goes up must come down and what goes down should slowly come back if not bouncing backing the near future. Oil prices caused havoc to many businesses when it was over US$100 per barrel. However, once it dropped below US$50 per barrel, all of a sudden, many businesses related to oil and gas started…

  • Work in Singapore, stay in Phuket? Cool.

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    Charles Tan
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    If you are an expat, would you want to work in country with high pay and stay in another country with lower cost of living? Living comfortably and luxuriously during the weekends instead of renting a small unit in the country where you work? According to Phuket Gazette in an article in propertyguru.com.sg there are…

  • Print media has high readership and ads, still

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    Charles Tan
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    I wrote about newspapers just a week ago. Read here: Newspapers need to embrace online, fast Today, an interesting article was published in The Star about the viability and sustainability of newspaper (print media) moving forward. It featured all the heavyweights from the media industry. Let me summarise the long article into a concise one below,…

  • PR1MA: 10,000 units to be delivered in 2016?

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    Charles Tan
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    These days, one of my personal wish is for more people to be able to afford a roof over their heads. One company that is receiving lots of attention for affordable homes would be PR1MA. I think I should highlight what PR1MA said to NST recently in an interview. We can revisit the things that…

  • Gong Xi Fa Cai and Happy Holidays

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    Charles Tan
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    Many friends who are the same age as me said that they no longer feel anything special about Chinese New Year. They do not even buy new clothes anymore. Let me share a little personal secret. Any celebration is only as awesome as how we would like it to be. Question is, do we? Blame…

  • Property Malaysia? Rental will be weak for some time

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    Charles Tan
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    Remember my article about the potential of sudden drop in property prices? Read here Please tell me honestly, who wants property prices to fall?  Actually, times are getting extremely tough these days. My colleague who has a unit in the KLCC area told me that she has yet to find a tenant who’s willing to…

  • Ringgit: Happy, yes. Lasting, maybe. Undervalued, still is.

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    Charles Tan
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    I would like to reiterate, the Malaysian economy has not suddenly improved so much that the Ringgit appreciated so much and reached the highest level against Singapore dollar for past 6 months or highest level in 3 months versus US$. This was my same argument when Ringgit kept falling. The economy has not deteriorated so…

  • Still about Sky-Cab? Okay, three questions.

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    Charles Tan
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    I wrote about Sky-Cab before. Here: CableCar, Tunnel, LRT, more roads and PTMP. Action! Well, nothing was reported until recently. I still do not see the economic reasons for Sky-Cab. Let’s ask three questions instead so that I get a clearer picture to decide I should support this Sky-Cab or should I not support it? From my writings on…