KUALA Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) is focusing on culture, music and tourism as core areas in 2023 to help drive the city’s economy and create jobs for locals.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) said the decorative shrubs were planted at key roads in the city.
Also referred to as the Red Master, the shrub comes in shades of red, green and silver.
Traders and the homeless in Medan Pasar store items near plants and shrubs. Photos: FAIHAN GHANI/The Star
A check online showed that a pot of the plant sells for about RM40.
“It looks like the plants were pulled out very carefully so I think whoever took it wanted to re-plant it elsewhere, ’’ said DBKL Corporate Planning Department director Khairul Azmir Ahmad.Condemning the action, he said, the plants mostly stolen are in affluent areas like Mont Kiara.
Pushing for greater recognition 29 Jan 2021 / 11:31 H. Chan’s appreciation of art comes from his wife, who explains in detail what he cannot visually see. – Pictures courtesy of Stevens Chan The exhibition section of the inaugural Art Includes 2019 festival.
Once an entrepreneur with a storied background in banking and insurance, everything fell apart for businessman Stevens Chan when he lost his sight due to glaucoma at the age of 45.
However, Chan bounced back soon after, becoming a community worker, activist and social entrepreneur. Within a span of a few years, he formed the Malaysian Glaucoma Society in 2009 in an effort to fight and stop unnecessary blindness. He and his wife also formed SOS Missions Bhd, a non-profit organisation aimed at extending their work to others with disabilities, particularly children and teenagers.
Excellent, Inexpensive New Malaysian Restaurant Opens In The East Village View all 10
The East Village has been hit pretty hard recently with a slew of restaurant closures and hibernations (most painfully, Superiority Burger), but as has been the case throughout the entire pandemic, new spots keep opening up to ease some of the sting. The latest arrival worth getting excited over: Medan Pasar, a terrific Malaysian restaurant on East 7th Street.
The chef and owner here is Chuan Tan, who was born in Kuala Lumpur, grew up in Singapore, and has been living in America for about 20 years, currently in Elmhurst. Tan has experience running restaurants in fact, he currently manages three other spots in New Jersey but Medan Pasar is his first in the city, and the first that serves the cuisine of his birthplace. Tran signed the lease for the space last February, but COVID-related construction delays, plus the usual permit difficulties, meant it took almost an entire ye