This is the third foray of IOI Properties into Xiamen.

“I’ve been doing it for 40 years and I’m still working on it with a simple objective in life — to invent something that will be eternally useful to the world and its people.”

A slowing economy and growing tendency for shoppers to make their purchases online have been blamed for weak sales at brick-and-mortar stores over the last couple of years.

Twenty-two companies made the list, of which only three are subsidiaries of listed companies on Bursa Malaysia. China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd (CHEC), a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Co Ltd, also won two contracts, partnering local companies.

The Transition Town movement came about because many people from all over the world were getting worried about issues such as peak oil (fossil fuel production reaching its peak and then dwindling to nothing) and climate change. Everybody was predicting doom and no one was proffering solutions or a positive vision of the future.

Cranes, scaffolding and tractors are a common sight around the Klang Valley. From houses and high-rises to highways and urban transport systems, something is always being built.

Prime areas that enjoy good accessibility, such as Luyang, Damai, Jalan Lintas and Jalan Bundusan, continued to be hot spots and recorded higher prices, especially for landed and stratified properties, on the secondary market.

Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat’s journey of discovery and what it means to be a ‘comprehensivist’

A dramatic increase in retail space per capita, delays in mall openings, closures of malls and malls put up for sale are signs of the oversupply situation.

Executive director in managing director's Office at Khazanah Nasional Bhd, Datuk Charon Wardini Mokhzani: We’re really glad to see that affordable housing now is a big topic of conversation. The more people discuss it, the more likely we are to solve the problem.