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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

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...

THERE has been zero crime at the Prai Free Industrial Zone in Penang during major festive holidays since 2011, thanks to the community policing programme introduced there that year.Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) secretary Johnny Michael Tan said frequent factory break-in cases were...

Amcorp Prop will suffer a completion delay for a major London project.KUALA LUMPUR: Affin Hwang Capital Research has downgraded Amcorp Properties to Hold on the back of expected project delays and uncertainties ahead due to Brexit.The research house said on Friday Amcorp Prop will suffer a...