OPINION & ANALYSIS
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Analysis: Home design: Seat of power
Many times I have nervously walked into the offices of CEOs and major executives for first time meetings. Sometimes there is a dazzling expensive view from an office on a high floor, but I often find, for being so fancy, their offices are usually drab and predictable. I continue to be hugely underwhelmed.
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Analysis: Pension: Plugging the pension gap with property related assets
The decline in worldwide retirement provision and pension deficits in both government and private schemes, will inevitably lead to a reduced income stream for those reliant on them to fund their retirement needs.
Many individuals are understandably now in a state of inertia and ‘caught in the headlights’ following the institutional financial fiascos of 2008 and 2011 -
Analysis: Insights: A close Burma shave
Myanmar’s new found freedom is already luring overseas property investors in droves, but will the market match all the buzz? Years of failed Communism in Banana Republics around the spinning globe have left a shallow feeling on unfulfilled capitalism and empty wallets from the huddled masses.
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Analysis: Tax: International aspirations for AEC 2015
The latest BDO Global Ambition Survey reveals that despite perceived increased difficulties in conducting business abroad, the CFOs in all the countries interviewed believe that a larger proportion of their revenues will be accounted for by sales outside their headquartered country by 2014.
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Expert reacts to joint planning initiative launched by Abu Dhabi and Singapore
The Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to gain and share first-hand experience on urban planning strategies, methods and best practices. The MoU formally sets out a framework for the exchange of information and experience between the UPC and URA and under [...]
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Asia-Pacific investment plummets in the first quarter of 2012
Across Asia, investment has fallen by 42 per cent quarter on quarter. The total capital fell to US$11.6 billion during the January-March period.
Chinese mainland investment dramatically decreased by 70 per cent, revealed in the Asia-Pacific Capital Markets Marketview report, yesterday. Investment in China plunged to US$949 million in the first quarter, according to the report.
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Southeast Asia’s high end property market: a mixture of results
In Hong Kong, there were signs of stabilisation – after declining markets over the past six months; luxury residential prices were up 1.4 per cent, quarter on quarter. This growth is a result of low interest rates and more active mortgage lending by banks.
Growth in emerging Southeast Asian markets aided to offset depreciating value in Singapore and China.
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Hi Life: Villa Rental: Villa Chan Grajang Phuket, Thailand
Chan Grajang, which is generous on a multitude of fronts – size, staffing, views, privacy, entertainment pleasures, charm. Its hilltop position is truly inspiring; we enjoyed wide views over the sea and watched the sun fade into the lush headland beyond. Inside we revelled in the villa’s unusual rustic luxury, where nature’s clever designs – a large twisted driftwood log, for example – meshed perfectly with the sumptuous, finely crafted finishings.
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Leading Edge: Real opportunities in Yangon
When Colliers International recently hosted a half day seminar in Bangkok entitled “Doing Business in Myanmar — Opportunities and Challenges,” the response was impressive. Hardly a seat was left unsold in the expansive Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, where an experienced panel of Burma experts (listed below) based in Yangon and Bangkok, out- lined the potentials and pitfalls in Asia’s latest investment hotspot
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Special Report: At your service… at home
The average occupancy rate at selected serviced apartments was 72 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2011, an improvement from 70 per cent in the previous quarter and 66 per cent a year earlier. Average room rates per night during the fourth quarter was RM277 (US$90), a decline from the RM288 (US$94) recorded in the previous quarter.
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