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Home-sharing options like Airbnb have hotels worried
BY HUGO MARTIN For many travellers, home-sharing is becoming an attractive alternative to traditional hotels as it offers many different options, and some might even include a furry housemate! Photo: Wikimedia Commons Tired of “sterile hotels”, Brooklyn resident Kelly Dwyer turned to...
Fast-changing coastal town
BY R.S.N.MURALI Klebang is becoming a modern township with the mushrooming of modern homes and shophouses near the beachfront. Rapid development, including plans for a theme park, set to transform quiet Klebang into Malacca’s new growth areaThe sleepy hollow of Klebang is set to become the...
PJ mayor says one-way loop is almost complete but residents raise issues that need fixing
BY SHEILA SRI PRIYAResidents say the road island constructed at the entrance to the Taman Jaya lake is not suitable and could endanger motorists. The island has encroached to the main road and motorists unfamiliar to the ill design may be caught off guard. THE one-way-loop project (OWL) in...
Brexit, stamp duty regulations combine to take out property stocks
BY TEE LIN SAYBrexit, stamp duty regulations combine to take out property stocksA combination of the new stamp duty regulations introduced on April 1, along with the aftermath of Brexit, have caused United Kingdom’s (UK) biggest property stocks to fall by a double digit quantum on a year to date...
Sunway scores two acknowledgements from FTSE
Passengers boarding a bus on the BRT Sunway system TWO companies under Sunway Group made the FTSE4Good Bursa Malaysia Index in 2016 out of the 39 constituents that made the list this year.Sunway Bhd and Sunway REIT have been officially acknowledged as socially responsible investment communities by...
StanChart: Bank Negara may cut rates only in September
PETALING JAYA: Standard Chartered Global Research expects Bank Negara to maintain its overnight policy rate (OPR) unchanged at 3.25% and cut rates only in September.“Our long-held view had been for the central bank to ease policy rates this year. However, following the largely neutral tone of the...
StarProperty.my goes green
By Lee Yan LiThe StarProperty.my team members doing their bit for Mother Nature.A small plant in a home makes a BIG difference.To promote sustainable living, StarProperty.my will be giving away 1,100 edible and ornamental plants in the upcoming StarProperty.my fairs held at NU Sentral, Publika Mall...
Taman Palm Grove residents urge MPK to clean and repair damaged drains
BY STUART MICHAELResidents looking at the cleared area near Block C where the proposed shoplots will be built. RESIDENTS living near the Selayang Makmur apartment are furious with Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) for not taking action against the apartment’s Joint Management Body (JMB),...
Nature lovers not giving up
BY STEPHANIE LEEEnvironmentalists are trying to stop a development project from taking place on Tanjung Aru beach in Kota Kinabalu . — filepicKOTA KINABALU: The government is resolute in its decision to turn the Tanjung Aru public beach and park into a 348ha eco-friendly integrated waterfront...
Provide better walkways and more before project begins, authorities urged
BY NORBAITI PHAHARORADZIA signage states that the bus stop is under CCTV supervision but no CCTV has been installed here so far.OHOR BARU: Following the East West Link project which was proposed during the Ninth Malaysian Plan, the authorities need to resolve several problems before proceeding, for...