99-Year Lease or 99-Year Risk? What Singaporean Property Investors Must Know About the Private Lease Scheme (PLS) in Malaysia
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- December 25, 2024
A rainy evening, RM80 of street food, a suspicious Ritz-Carlton discount, and an unnecessarily thorough due-diligence exercise on dinner.
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READ MOREBy Boo Kok Chuon A rather unusual landlord and tenant dispute made the news in Singapore this week. An elderly couple in their eighties had rented out their semi-detached house at 7A Lengkong Dua in Kembangan for $7,500 a month. The tenant named in the tenancy agreement was Noranth Ventures Pte. Ltd., a company with
READ MOREBy Boo Kok Chuon With the Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System Link approaching operation, confidence has returned to Johor Bahru’s high-rise property market. The logic is not difficult to understand. The RTS will connect Bukit Chagar to Woodlands North in approximately six minutes, replacing one of the least predictable portions of the present cross-border commute
READ MORETwo accused admit helping dispose of Abby Choi’s body, yet deny murdering her. A third denies both. What might explain these seemingly peculiar pleas? By working backwards from the plea matrix, this article examines how evidence, timing and common purpose may shape the strategic battlefield in a multi-accused murder trial.
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