THE Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint has laid out a series of ambitious targets for the country’s digital economy, not least of which is to attract some RM70 billion in foreign and local investments into the digital economy. Notably however, the blueprint does not set out a time frame for this investment target.
Even so, at this preliminary stage, the government appears to have taken a prudent, back-to-basics approach with the blueprint, with a view to correcting certain long-standing deficiencies.
Joachim Sebastian, managing director of local technology-enabled transhipment and repackaging company Everpeaks Sdn Bhd, commends the government on acknowledging and prioritising a number of very fundamental issues that have held the economy back for years.
After rough 2020, is Austin s office market poised for a rebound?
The coronavirus pandemic isn t done battering the Central Texas office market, but local commercial brokers say they are seeing signs of that things could improve in the coming months.
Office vacancies were still on the rise and the rental rates being sought were flat in the fourth quarter, according to new industry reports. Office leasing remains far below 2019 s pace, and in line with the leasing activity seen during the last recession, according to CoStar Group, a real estate data company.
But some local office brokers say 2021 could see a turnaround – albeit a gradual one –for the market. Demand for office space has started to pick up again, they say, although it remains below what it was pre-pandemic.
LIMERICK — Faced with the prospect of a developer who wants to put as many as 1,200 housing units on the 200-acre site along the Schuylkill River, township supervisors have