News about Malaysia

S P Setia Bhd has a knack for turning a less favourable situation into something lucrative.

From a plastics trading firm in 1965, Mah Sing Group Bhd has grown into a leading property developer today, creating a portfolio of prime residential and commercial developments across the country in the 20 years since it entered the field.

The interview with C S Kong, the media-shy managing director of UOA Development Bhd, takes place in a corporate club at the company’s 60-acre flagship integrated development Bangsar South.

While negative sentiment continues to loom over Iskandar Malaysia’s property sector, UEM Sunrise Bhd managing director and CEO Anwar Syahrin Abdul Ajib is clearly focused on ensuring that its projects there succeed.

Gamuda Land, the property division of Gamuda Bhd, has made it to the Top 10 spot of The Edge Malaysia Top Property Developer Awards for four consecutive years.

JOHOR BAHRU (Dec 1): The state’s RM3 million budget to help Johoreans buy their own homes is underfunded, Opposition assemblyman Ee Chin Li (DAP-Tangkak) has said in response to Housing and Local Government chairman Abd Latiff Bandi’s winding up speech on the Supply Enactment 2016 at the State Assembly session on Sunday.

With fewer than six weeks to the end of the year, tourism industry players doubt that Malaysia will hit its annual arrivals target of 29.

•    Today, we look at price growth and indicative asking rental yields for non-landed residences in Puchong South.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 25): WCT Holdings Bhd’s net profit was up more than three times to RM85.

With a slew of mega projects scheduled to transform the Kuala Lumpur skyline, the capital city will soon be in a construction boom.