News about Chinese

PETALING JAYA (Jan 9): Take charge of the wellness of your home this year and fill it with positive energy with easy-to-follow feng shui ideas and inspirations from renowned feng shui consultant, speaker and author Datuk Joey Yap! Through a first-of-its-kind strategic collaboration, Nippon Paint Malaysia Group is partnering Yap to offer feng shui tips through a series of six video episodes in conjunction with the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations, the coating solutions provider said in a press release.

BATU GAJAH (Jan 3): Both the Malaysian and Chinese governments have not decided on the fate of the suspended RM81 billion 688-km East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) as they are waiting for a report from the project owner Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd and main contractor China Communications Construction Co Ltd (CCCC).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 2): Recognising the Chinese independent school's Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) is just a signature away from being formalised, but the government has to consider Malay sentiments as well, according to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 30): Sin Chew Media Corp Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Media Chinese International Ltd (MCIL), is acquiring a parcel of industrial land on Jalan Semangat at Seksyen 13, Petaling Jaya, Selangor for RM18.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 27): The Edge Malaysia business weekly this week took a look at the “business empire” of one of the country’s oldest political parties: Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA).

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).

BEIJING (Sept 24): The Chinese contractor of the controversial East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) is still hopeful of rescuing the project and has expressed its willingness to take up an equity stake in the ECRL if the project resumes, according to its management when met by Malaysian media in China on Saturday during a trip organised by the Chinese government.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 9): Traders at Jalan Sisi in Muar, Johor, expressed relief over the quick reversal of a notice to remove Chinese characters on their pre-war shophouses, reported The Star.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 4): The recent statement made by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad concerning foreign buyers in the Forest City (pictured) mega project in Johor has cast the limelight on home purchasers from the Middle Kingdom.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 14): Malaysia is looking to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects signed by the previous scandal-tainted government as it digs itself out of debt, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad told The Associated Press (AP) in an interview.