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Raising the bar for homes
BY KATHLEEN ANN KILIA birds eye view of the Emerald Bay waterfront homes in Iskandar Puteri, Johor.ISKANDAR PUTERI: A project featuring waterfront villas in a Caribbean tropical setting, with private berth (dock) and swimming pool to boot, has taken property development sector in the country up a...
One fifth of households in Section 11, PJ, practising waste separation, says rep
BY SABRINA BENNISThe rubbish truck collects Section 11 residents’ recyclable waste every Monday.NINETEEN per cent of households have participated in the waste separation initiative in Section 11, Petaling Jaya six weeks into the launch of the project.Of the 329 houses in Section 11, 62 have...
Valuable properties left wasted
BY YIP YOKE TENGIn need of rescue: The shops on the right have been repurposed to become the now fashionable Old Malaya dining hub while the one on the left, once called Serani Row for housing elite members of the Eurasian community, is eroding. — SADIQ SANI/The StarIT IS time to give due...
Old Pudu jail site to be transformed into world-class development
BY HEMANANTHANI SIVANANDAMKUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC) will feature a retail mall, with construction work for both BBCC and Mitsui Shopping Park LaLaport KL set to begin soon.Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who officiated the ground-breaking ceremony for the project on...
BBCC set to transform KL
BY HEMANANTHANI SIVANANDAMA new world: BBCC’s chief executive director Datuk Richard Ong (left) showing Najib the model of the complex during the groundbreaking ceremony in Kuala Lumpur. Also present were (from third left, front row) Mitsui Fudosan Asia Malaysia & MFBBCC Retail Mall managing...
Sotheby’s enters Singapore’s luxury market
Connecting ultra-high-net-worth clients in Singapore, Malaysia and the region to luxury residential homes through its global footprint and digital capabilities Despite the current weak market sentiment, the market targeting the ultra-high-net-worth clients are still underserved, according to...
Land clearing ruining Penang island, says Gerakan
KUALA LUMPUR: Penang’s failure to monitor extensive land clearing projects has led to severe environmental problems, claims Gerakan.Party vice-president Datuk Dr Dominic Lau Hoe Chai said more than 30 plots of green land on the island were being cleared to make way for development.He claimed that...
Developer shows its caring side
BY OH ING YEENAkmel Zurin presenting bubur lambuk to a motorcyclist at the PPB head office in Precinct 16, Putrajaya.For their first Ramadan Kareem programme, Putrajaya Perdana Bhd (PPB) distributed 1,500 packets of bubur lambuk to the Putrajaya community and donated RM10,000 to a welfare home,...
City’s old-timers reflect on Old Town’s history and growth
BY SHEILA SRI PRIYASkyline showing the Federal Highway towards Petaling Jaya. In 1952, the Selangor government allocated 480ha of the Petaling Garden Estate for a new settlement which was named Petaling Jaya, the country‘s first satellite town.WHEN the British rulers opened up land adjacent to...
The city’s hot seat then and now
THE challenge for Datuk Ahmad Termizi Puteh when he took office as Petaling Jaya’s first mayor over a decade ago, was to provide better infrastructure especially roads.“The public’s immediate thought was that assessment rates and other fees would increase when the municipality became a...