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Jesselton Twin Towers in Kota Kinabalu 55% sold

Launched in January 2019, the Jesselton Twin Towers development by Kota Kinabalu-based real estate developer Jesselton Waterfront Holdings Sdn Bhd is currently 55% taken up. According to executive chairman Tan Sri David Chu, around 20% of the buyers are foreigners, mainly from China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Brunei and other neighbouring countries. “A couple of them are from the US and the rest are local Sabahan, with a few from Sarawak and Kuala Lumpur,” he says via an email interview. Chu says foreign buyers, in particular, look for iconic buildings with sea and sunset views as well as those in a safe or gated-and-guarded environment when investing overseas. “Jesselton Twin Towers meets all these criteria. With the Consulate General of the Republic of China’s Kota Kinabalu office located across the road from the development and with China State Construction Engineering Corp Ltd as [the main contractor], Jesselton Twin Towers has attracted many foreign buyers, especially th

Mandarin-speaking German poet discusses languages, new ways of thinking

Changing and being stuck, at the same time. Of both leaving and staying behind. Through the eyes of poetry, the recent George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) 2020 explored the “in betweens” of emotion, space and states of being. A Mandarin-speaking German poet, exploring a new realm, was one of the highlights at this year’s 10th edition of the festival, which was a virtual affair. Lea Schneider, 31, was still in school the first time she stepped foot on mainland China. After learning Mandarin as a subject (lazily, she says), she was offered a place on a six-week student exchange programme. “I was young and I wanted to see the world. When I arrived, I had all those cliches and stereotypes in my head, even though I had been learning the language, (albeit) quite badly, for two years.

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