Investment Highlights

KUALA LUMPUR: This year, Vietnam celebrates 25 years of the "Doi moi" ("renewal" in Vietnamese) economic reforms initiated in 1986 that paved the way for a socialist-oriented market economy.

In the past decade, these reforms have made Vietnam one of Asia's success stories as it made its transition from a command to a more market-oriented economy.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (Prasarana) is firming up its plans to develop property projects along the mass rail transit (MRT) alignments which would allow the government to directly benefit from the expected surge in property value. Prasarana is a government-owned company which owns assets and provides public transport services in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR: The 9% devaluation of the Vietnamese dong last Friday may have caused a knee-jerk reaction in the market after it slid to record lows against the US dollar, but some Malaysian companies that have significant investments in the country are still positive on its prospects.

The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange ended trade 0.05% lower last Friday to close at 519.98 points.

Dijaya Corporation Bhd, the master developer of the Tropicana Golf and Country Resort development in Petaling Jaya, is looking to launch two new freehold townships in the southern part of Klang Valley this year — one in Cheras and another in Balakong.

KUALA LUMPUR: AmResearch Sdn Bhd has maintained the overweight stance on the construction sector as there is greater illumination on new contract visibility.

The Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project is one of the anchor projects under the government's Economic Transformation Program (ETP) and 10th Malaysia Plan, that is likely to be fast-tracked and with more to come.

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Lin Yun Ling, Gamuda Bhd group managing director, said the company's property arm, Gamuda Land Sdn Bhd, is targeting RM5 billion worth of sales over the next two years as it embarks on a "high-growth" phase in 2011.

SHAH ALAM: Gamuda Bhd is targeting RM5 billion in property sales over the next two years driven by two projects namely Gamuda City and Celadon City, both in Vietnam.

"We are expecting RM2 billion in sales from local projects and RM3 billion from the two projects in Vietnam.