Cyberjaya loves its women
Issues March 18, 2019
MALAYSIA’S GLOBAL TECH HUB MOVING TOWARDS A BETTER WOMAN-FRIENDLY CITY BY Zoe Phoon The 2018 Global Peace Index has ranked Malaysia the fifth safest country out of 14 nations in Asia Pacific. More recently, a study titled “Top 5 safest countries in Asia Pacific for women” by Singapore-based Value... Read more
Dark days for apartments and SoHos
Issues August 5, 2018
MOST MARKET WATCHERS POINT FINGER AT PREVALENT STRINGENT FINANCING REGIME FOR CURRENT OVERHANG SITUATION All is not well for apartments and SoHos on the property landscape and unflattering official numbers are telling us exactly why. The National Property Information Centre’s (Napic) report on the property overhang for the first... Read more
INTRODUCING THE ALL-IN-ONE ‘POP-UP’ SOLUTION TO FLOODING, PARKING, GREEN SPACE SHORTAGE BY Zoe Phoon ... Read more
Uproar is brewing over Petaling Jaya City Council’s (MBPJ) decision to seize more than 250 bicycles placed on the sidewalks and streets to promote a healthier living standards and a more eco-friendly transportation option. According to various reports by national dailies today, the bicycles were seized for causing obstruction... Read more
Still subdued… still “waiting and seeing”
Issues September 3, 2017
KNIGHT FRANK REAL ESTATE REPORT REVEALS WE’RE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET, BUT THERE ARE SOME POSITIVES TO HOLD ON TO BY Chris Prasad The prolonged lull in the property market is now reaching a point of immense frustration for industry players. Investors are still suffering the jitters,... Read more
FACING AFFORDABLE HOUSING WOES OF OUR OWN, FIND OUT HOW THIS DEVELOPER IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, NAILED IT BY Zoe Phoon Either non-profit Foundation Communities has got something exactly right, or is doing something perfectly, or both. Of course, credit must also... Read more
The prolonged mismatch between the price of supplied property and the average affordability level of Malaysian citizens has prompted Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to be more vocal about the issue in recent months. Having referred to the issue as “critical” late last year, it has subsequently made suggestions on... Read more
Lessons on how not to be victims of success
Issues June 29, 2017
REDEVELOPMENT CAN REVIVE A LANDSCAPE, BUT THERE ARE IMPORTANT PITFALLS TO CONSIDER TOO BY Zoe Phoon The High Line in New York City in the US is a 1.45-mile long public park built on a disused historical freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. Opened... Read more
BY Livian Lin Here’s a shocking statistic: The number of Americans who feel they have zero friends has tripled since 1985, with one in four now reporting they have no one to confide in. Loneliness has become an epidemic, and surveys suggest that in Europe, one in ten people... Read more
“High-rise Sickness”: Is there such a thing?
Issues April 20, 2017
EXPERTS SAY SLIGHTLY SWAYING SKYSCRAPERS COULD TRIGGER MOTION SICKNESS, NAUSEA AND EVEN DEPRESSION BY Zoe Phoon A team of engineers, medics and physiologists from the Exeter and Bath universities in the United Kingdom are exploring claims that people experience motion sickness, tiredness, fatigue, depression, poor concentration and lack of... Read more
