“You won’t see massive overnight increases in property values, it is going to be long-term and gradual”

“HSR fares must be competitive with other modes of transport and must be reasonable to make it viable for people to commute daily or at least regularly”

“In the next 10 years, the state government should work hard to improve the development of their towns in order to retain their young”

“We should not ignore towns such as Pagoh or Muar which offer smallholding and plantation land purchase opportunities”

Kimlun is also aggressively tendering for various infrastructure projects and low-rise developments, which command higher margins.

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.