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RM2.6 billion investment into Penang. (one of the partners is IKEA…)
Reported in many articles. This is one of them: FreeMalaysiaToday.com: Aspen-Ikea JV invests RM2.6 bil on metropolis in mainland Penang Aspen Vision City Sdn Bhd, a joint venture (JV) company between Aspen Group Holdings Ltd and Ikea Southeast Asia, has invested more than RM2.6 billion in its 99.15ha master-planned metropolis in mainland Penang. Aspen Group…
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10 nice CNY videos for enjoyment
These days, videos are the rage everywhere. Instead of reading long articles, it’s far more interesting to just view, listen and learn. Chinese New Year videos among property developers are becoming a norm too. Here are 10 of those I like, need not be from property developers yeah. (In no particular order) Some are FUNNY,…
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Stop looking at a home as a liability or asset. For some, it’s still a must.
Someone searched this term “Is house a liability or an asset.” and Google referred them to kopiandproperty.my Haha. I know, there’s a super famous book which says that as long as the house does not give you any returns, then that’s a liability. Only when a house gives you a positive return that it should…
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HK$5.6 billion? “You can’t bring the money in your bank account with you after you die.”
To those who may not know him, this is a HK famous actor who’s now famous throughout the world after appearing in many Hollywood movies. An earlier article tells of how frugal Chow Yun-fat is. Here’s that article: It’s about being comfortable and not how much we spend Hespends just roughly HK$800 (RM426) per month.…
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The tallest tower in Malaysia definitely needs to have a mall too.
Do you know which is the tallest tower in Malaysia today? Nope, the tallest tower is NOT Petronas Twin Towers. That remained the tallest twin tower in the world and Malaysia too. The new tallest tower in Malaysia will be PNB’s Merdeka 118. Thus far there has not been too much news about the tower…
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S P Setia, Sime Darby Property sells. EPF-PNB buys. RM8.35 billion of Battersea.
This could be considered a friendly transaction. Malaysian companies to Malaysian funds. S P Setia Bhd and Sime Darby Property Bhd will be selling the phase two commercial assets of the Battersea Power Station to Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), in a deal worth £1.58bil (RM8.35bil). The transaction is expected to be…
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‘Money not enough’ from beginning 2019 till July 2019
Important notice where money and loans are concerned. Article in thestar.com.my here. Nomura Research warned in its recent 2019 outlook report, that a number of countries in Asia including South Korea, Greater China, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia may be experiencing a sudden shortage in the availability of money for lending, leading to a decline in loans available.…
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We MUST change our usual ways. New Malaysia, right?
It’s always very unfortunate when accidents happen and it could have been prevented. Malaysia has had many of these happening within 2018 and I think the authorities have to serious in enforcing all necessary rules and regulations. Workplace accidents usually happen when proper safety management is not enforced either because the supervisors are not serious…
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Free homes but you need to be of working age.
Homes in Tokyo is pretty expensive. It’s easily on the top of any world city ranking for house price. According to one recent number this year, the average new home price in Tokyo is US$603,000 (RM2.5 million) While no size was mentioned but Japanese are not known to love huge houses. Here’s that article in…
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TAX article about the TAX that will be coming in Budget 2019
There’s a famous line,”in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” According to freakonomics, this was a line from Benjamin Franklin’s letter. Malaysians may be bracing for some, at least when the Budget 2019 speech is delivered this Friday (2nd Nov 2018) by our Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.…
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MRT Line 2: 20,000 to lose jobs, complexities from the underground works
I was wondering what will happen to the people involved in the underground work portion should MMC-Gamuda does not win the international tender which will be called by the Finance Ministry. I read the answer today. The article was in many media and one of it is this one in FreeMalaysiaToday.com : MMC-Gamuda: Termination of MRT2…
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From a shopper’s experience: 6 things that malls can think about.
As a guy, I am not that ‘typical guy’ when it comes to shopping. I do not dislike shopping. I am a guy who loves browsing, comparing and occasionally buying the item if I think it’s of value even when it was not in my mind before I arrive at the mall. To illustrate briefly?…