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Twenty-eight years ago, on Merdeka Day in 1994, a new Malaysian bank was born. Allied Bank, subsequently renamed PhileoAllied Bank, began operating as a Malaysian-owned bank after taking over the single Kota Kinabalu (KK) branch of the UOB Bank in Malaysia from UOB Bank Group of Singapore
For half a year, Singapore's former foreign minister George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap, in weekly interview sessions which lasted two to three hours each time. The result of the interviews is a series of three books. In the first book, George Yeo: Musings, the.
How does it usually feel when an individual buyer or family swoops into a show flat and decides to buy a stack of condo apartments in one go? Would it feel like a TOTO-striking moment for whoever’s closing the deal? Nerve-racking because of the quantum and insane money involved? Possibly a bit of both. “Imma go buy a few apartments.