News about China

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 10): Malaysia should focus on highlighting other productive Chinese investments in the country in assessing its bilateral economic relationship with China, said University Malaya Professor Dr Edmund Terence Gomez (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): About half of plastic waste coming out of the US for recycling recorded for the first six months of this year was taken to Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, said Unearthed, Greenpeace’s investigative arm, reported British newspaper The Guardian yesterday.

PETALING JAYA (October 2): Malaysia welcomes investments in Malaysia, but foreigners settling in the country "by the millions", was not alright, said Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad on BBC’s Hardtalk programme.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 27): Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng (pictured) said he may end up as the most unpopular finance minister in the nation's history.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 18): China state-owned enterprises’ (SOEs) investments in Malaysia during the previous Barisan Nasional administration were heavily skewed towards the construction sector, which is susceptible to rent-seeking activities, according to a recent report co-authored by the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (Asli) and University of Malaya.

LONDON: It is estimated that a whopping £2 billion (RM10.

Country Garden Holdings was founded by a man who literally began building brick by brick (he was a bricklayer) in Guangdong, China.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 12): Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pictured) wants to reassure foreign investors who may have been spooked by the recent scrapping and delay of a few high-profile multi-billion ringgit mega projects, according to a report by Bloomberg.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 7): High demand for housing in China has prompted newly-built or newly-renovated apartments to be put on the market before cancer-causing formaldehyde fumes have enough time to dissipate, reported the BBC.

KUALA LUMPUR (September 6): Vague statements and inconsistent policies by the new government may dent investors’ confidence in Malaysia, said the Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce (MCCC).