News about Sarawak

KUALA LUMPUR (May 24): Construction company TRC Synergy Bhd (TRC Synergy) expects contribution from its property segment to increase to between 20% to 30% of the total revenue in two year's time.

DESPITE obtaining city status in 1988, Kuching’s skyline is still relatively short of tall buildings and skyscrapers.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): While property sales has been sluggish in the local property market, Lien Dak Group of Companies is confident that its RM300 million LD Legenda in Kuching, Sarawak will do well.

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KUALA LUMPUR (April 13): Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS) is bidding for one of the 10 packages for the Sarawak side of the Pan Borneo Highway mega project, said its group chief financial officer Syed Hizam Alsagoff.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): HCK Capital Group Bhd said its indirect 70%-owned unit HCK Premier Builders Sdn Bhd (HPBSB) has entered into a joint venture (JV) development agreement with Daya Builders Sdn Bhd for the development of apartment units in Kuching, Sarawak.

PETALING JAYA (April 8): Design Village Penang – the northern state’s first premium outlet mall – aims to open by this November in time for the school holidays, said its general manager Tay Ai Leen.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 5): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak (pictured) said the Government would build another 5,000 affordable houses in Miri and Kuching, Sarawak, to ensure more people could own comfortable and safe residential units.

WHEN Alfred Russell Wallace worked on his theory of evolution through natural selection following his explorations of the Malay Archipelago in a small hut not far from what is now Sarawak’s capital, Kuching, he noted how much of the state was unreachable due to its hilly terrain and dense forests.

KUCHING (March 15): Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem today announced that the state government had abolished payment of certain land quit rents.