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SkyWorld Development Bhd has formalised a strategic collaboration with  Malaysian government agency Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) through the exchange of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the MARA Synergy Summit: Sustainability as the Nation’s Growth Engine, held in conjunction with MARA’s 60th anniversary at the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur.

The potential sale of Marina One, a mixed-use development in Singapore owned by M+S Pte Ltd, is said to have attracted bidders including CapitaLand Group and Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd, international news wires Bloomberg reported.

Rivertree STF Synergies Bhd (RSSB) is undertaking a significant property portfolio restructuring exercise — acquiring two serviced apartment development companies with a combined gross development value (GDV) of approximately RM654.80 million while simultaneously divesting a near-completed mixed development project in Kuala Kubu Baharu, Hulu Selangor, in a series of transactions announced on Bursa Malaysia today.

Magni-Tech Industries Bhd has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Magni Land Sdn Bhd (MLSB), entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) yesterday (May 5) with Neoh Choo Ee & Company Sdn Bhd for the acquisition of a freehold parcel of vacant land in Bandar Tanjong Bungah, Daerah Timur Laut, Pulau Pinang for a total cash consideration of RM133.33 million, to be funded entirely from the group's internally generated funds.

Capital A Bhd is in talks with a major hotel chain to extend the AirAsia brand into the hospitality sector.

Chow said the majority of the key matters in the agreement regarding the joint venture company have been finalised, with the agreement signed on April 13.

According to them, the Public Private Partnership Unit of the Prime Minister's Office will be awarding the consortium with a letter of intent on Tuesday.

Tropicana Corp Bhd has clarified to Bursa Malaysia that its four-month delay in announcing a RM44.82 million leasehold land acquisition in Langkawi was due to the parcel's strategic dependence on a separate, larger acquisition — and that had the bigger deal fallen through, Tropicana would likely have walked away from both.

When Merdeka 118 was designated Malaysia's first building recognised under the MD (Malaysia Digital) Nexus category of the new Malaysia Digital Location Recognition (MDLR) framework in February, this year, most coverage treated it as a technology policy milestone. 

Malaysia is sitting on one of Southeast Asia's most compelling digital investment stories — RM342.58 billion in approved digital investments, 114,854 projected jobs of which 97% are knowledge-worker roles, and a position as the world's second-largest developing-economy recipient of digital FDI.