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The silent cleaners of the future

As home owners look beyond aesthetics and towards long-term liveability, architects say hidden features such as central vacuum systems could become part of the conversation around future-ready homes.

Can co-housing work in Malaysia?

As Malaysian cities expand and urban living becomes increasingly dense, a quiet paradox has emerged.

Looking beyond the price tag

For decades, the public conversation surrounding affordable housing has been dominated by a single metric: the benchmark sticker price.

Security as the backbone

From food to medicine and from semiconductors to medical devices, just about everything important to our daily lives has a "security" aspect to it.

Buying versus building a business

Entrepreneurship is an extremely arduous and challenging endeavour. Survival is your main priority most of the time with little bandwidth for any other considerations.

The EV race needs a recharge

News flow of restructuring involving legacy brand distributors is commonplace these days.

Shot in the arm for med-tech 

Malaysia's semiconductor sector is widely acclaimed. Everyone knows that.

China’s selective market advantage

China's capital markets are entering a new phase where investors are rewarded less for broad market exposure and more for identifying the country's long-term structural winners.

Protecting nature in the age of AI

Malaysia has spent millions of ringgit building smart cities. While this is certainly a positive step, one of our biggest challenges lies beyond urban centres – in our forests, rivers and wildlife corridors, which are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, development and human activity.

Deep ideology clashes 

Who will win the next war? That's the key question posed by the influential "Foreign Affairs" magazine on the US-China military and technological rivalry.