Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL)

Watch SUPERTALLS CONSTRUCTION IN KUALA LUMPUR. Click the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPrTvR...

Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL) now has close to 700 development projects (excluding townships) either just-completed, under-construction, approval stage, planning submission/proposed or planned development.. This projects are expected to complete as of 2020, as to achieve the Vision 2020..

These are some of the supertalls that are existing, just completed and still under-construction:
01) Warisan Merdeka Tower 682m 118fl
02) Petronas Tower I 452m 88 fl
03) Petronas Tower II 452m 88 fl
04) Kuala Lumpur Tower 421m
05) Landmark Tower @ KL Metropolis 400m+ 100 fl
06) St. Regis @ KL Sentral 385m 80fl
07) Plaza Rakyat 382m 79fl
08) Platinum Tower @ Tun Razak Exchange 380m 80fl
09) Kenny Heights Central Tower X @ Mont Kiara 361m 80fl
10) Four Seasons Place 342m 65 fl
11) MAS Annexe Tower 323m 68fl
12) Telekom Tower 310m 55 fl
13) Lot 185 & Lot 167(K) @ KLCC 300m+ 78fl | 71fl
14) Tradewinds Centre I 300m 60fl
15) YTL Group HQ 298m 60fl
16) Ilham Baru Tower 298m 62 fl
17 Puncak Baru Residential 286m 60fl
18) Naza Tower I 272m 50 fl
19) Aurora Tower 268m 65fl
20) Carigali Tower 267m 59 fl
21)Corporate Office Tower @ KL Eco City 252m 42fl
22) Menara Maybank 244m 50 fl
23) Vogue Suites I @ KL Eco City 243m 56fl
24) Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur 243m 42fl
25) Vista Tower 238m 62 fl
26) W Hotel & Residences 232m 55 fl
27) Lot D Condo I & II @ KL Sentral 230m+ 52fl
28) Tradewinds Centre II 230m 50fl
29) Millenium Residence 228m 57fl
30) Banyan Tree Signatures 220+m 55 fl
31) Harrods Hotel & Residences 220m+ 55fl
32) Felda Tower 216m 50 fl
33) Maxis Tower 212m 49fl
34) Ritz Carlton Suites 210m+ 55fl
35) Platinum Suites 210m+ 51fl
36) Kompleks Kerja Raya Tower II 210m 37 fl
37) AmBank Tower 210m 50fl
38) The Troika Tower III 204m 50fl
39) Berjaya Times Square 203m 48fl
40) Lot K Residence 202m 52fl
41) TA Tower III 200m+ 50fl
42) Q Sentral @ KL Sentral 200m+ 45fl
43) Pavilion Elite Tower 200m 50fl
44) Lot G Office Tower @ KL Sentral 200m 37 fl

..and more to come soon!!!http://youtu.be/KqaJa_Ejjrs

Putrajaya, Malaysia

Putrajaya is a planned city, located 25km south of Kuala Lumpur, that serves as the federal administrative centre of Malaysia.. The seat of government was shifted in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya, due to the overcrowding and congestion in the Kuala Lumpur areas..

Putrajaya is home to the World's Largest Roundabout with a diameter of 3.5 km (2.7 miles) as well.. Planned as a garden and intelligent city, 38% of the area is reserved for green spaces by emphasising the enhancement of natural landscape..http://youtu.be/YqUSec1hjSA

2nd among Asean countries in Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013.

source: http://www.mysinchew.com/node/77301

Malaysia  second spot among Asean countries in the Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013.   Ranked the country eighth among 22 Asia Pacific countries ahead of China, India and other Asean countries except Singapore, and placed it among the top 20 per cent of the most competitive countries globally in a. report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Geneva, Switzerland.

WEF has acknowledged Malaysia's efforts to move up the value chain and upgraded the country's stage of development to "transition towards innovation-driven" from "efficiency-driven" previously.

Malaysia has to increasingly focus on both non-technological and technological innovations to further enhance its competitiveness, most notable advantages are its efficient and competitive market for goods and services, its remarkably supportive financial sector, and its business-friendly institutional framework.

The report put Malaysia in the top ten among the 144 countries covered in many areas, including in the legal rights index (ranked first), pay and productivity (third), government services for improved business performance (fourth) and strength of investor protection (fourth).

Malaysia also did well in government regulation and ease of access to loans (eighth); financing through local equity market (ninth); and business impact of rules on foreign direct investments, as well as efficiency of legal framework in challenging regulations (10th).

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Ringgit

source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-15/malaysia-s-ringgit-declines-ahead-of-economic-data-correct-.html

Malaysia’s ringgit fell before time of GDP data release data forecast to show Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy grew at the slowest pace in a year. Malaysia’s inflation rate is forecast to stay at the lowest level in two years.



Gross domestic product increased 4.6 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, compared with 4.7 percent in the previous three months, according to median estimate of economists in a Bloomberg News survey before an official report due at 5 p.m. local time. Consumer prices rose 1.6 percent in July, unchanged from June, a separate survey showed.

 The ringgit declined 0.1 percent to 3.1226 per dollar as of 8:56 a.m. in Kuala Lumpur, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. One-month implied volatility, a measure of exchange- rate swings used to price options, dropped 10 basis points, or 0.1 percentage point, to 6.22 percent, the lowest since July 18.
The currency will be cushioned against external weakness by Malaysia’s current-account surplus, Credit Agricole CIB said in a report today. The surplus as a percentage of GDP is the second-largest in Asia, according to the report.

Lee Chong Wei silver medalist 2012 Olympic Games

Lee is a silver medalist in both the 2012 Olympic Games and 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event and ending Malaysia's Olympic medal drought since the 1996 Games.

Lee Chong Wei (born October 21, 1982 in Bagan Serai, Perak^[2]) is a professional badminton player from Malaysia who resides in Bukit Mertajam.^[3] As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 199 consecutive weeks from August 21, 2008 to June 14, 2012.^[4] He is the third Malaysian men's singles shuttler after Rashid Sidek and Roslin Hashim to achieve such a ranking (since official rankings were first kept in the 1980s), and is the only Malaysian shuttler to hold the ranking for more than two weeks.


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Pandelela bronze in the 10m diving event 2012 Summer Olympics in London

Pandelela Rinong anak Pamg (born 2 March 1993) is a Malaysian diver. She became the first female Malaysian athlete to win a medal at the Olympics, as well as the first to win an Olympic medal in any sport other than Badminton, when she took the bronze in the 10m diving event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.^[1][2]

She is 5'3" tall and weighs 109 lbs.^[3] She is from Kupuo Jugan,Bau. She is of Bidayuh ethnicity, a Bumiputera native to Sarawak, Malaysia.

At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 10 m Synchronized Platform with Mun Yee Leong^[4] and placed 5th in the Women's 10 m platform.^[5] She also competed in the Women's 10 m platform at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.^[6]
She was the flag bearer for the Malaysian contingent at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore where she won the silver medals in the girls' 10m platform event and 3m springboard event.^[7]
At New Delhi 2010, she won Malaysia's first Commonwealth Games gold medal in an aquatic sport by winning the women's 10m platform.
She became Malaysia's first female flag bearer at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics where she competed in the individual 10 m platform and the 10 m platform synchronized event with her partner Leong Mun Yee.
She became the first Malaysian female athlete to win an Olympics medal, and the first Malaysian athlete to win an Olympics medal in a sport besides badminton by winning a bronze medal in the Women's 10 m platform at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandelela_Rinong