Aspen to scale down its glove-making unit, warns of material impact

KUALA LUMPUR (June 9): Singapore-listed Aspen (Group) Holdings Ltd has announced plans to "significantly" scale down its glove-making unit as it suffers from industry-wide issues from lower demand and falling average selling price (ASP), resulting in it being unable to secure significant new purchase orders from its existing or new customers.

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Rising number of ‘sick’ housing projects adds to housing woes

With 580 sick projects against 2,552 launched projects, it also indicated that nearly 23% of house buyers’ fates were determined by those errant developers According to the government’s statistics, as of March 31, 2022, the number of “sick” private housing projects rose to 580, comprising 102,132 units, which affected a total of 51,000 house buyers compared to 365 sick projects comprising 48,826 units affecting a total of 26,145 buyers in March 31, 2020 (Table 1).

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