It’s always better to farm your own yard than to depend on windfalls The next emerging economy won’t be like the current one; Asia Pacific won’t be Asian’s anymore if the next emerging economy is poised to succeed the current one! Many still in slumberland and thought that the next emerging economy will continue to be Asia friendly. The new Indo-Pacific strategic planning by US has taken out asia if you may notice that; you will not be in the Asia Pacific era anymore should the next emerging economy overtake the existing one Go open up your world map and you may see that natural demarcation of Indo-Pacific; that’s the extension of Indian Ocean into the Pacific; naturally barricading the rest of ASEAN countries except Indonesia and linking Australia Asia Pacific basin will be split into two! However Pacific region from east coast of US extended until the “First Island Chain”(from Korean peninsula to Japan, ROC until the Phillipines) will be separated from ASEAN as Pacific Rim Where is asean? Sandwiched between the two regions into the oblivion! If you still don’t unite and work with the current emerging economy, the next emerging economy will make sure that you be down the dungeons For we are a small nation with fragile social economic fabric and can’t afford to bear the brunt from the clash of the titans
This looks like a propaganda by Japanese consortium who have pulled out from the HSR race to blackmail the project. They think that the project will not be feasible without government funding, and they could not get any from the government so they pulled out of the bid.
It may be that their proposal is not good enough to make it feasible, their cost may be double of that from Chinese maker, and they may not be innovative enough in terms of revenue models.
I see HSR is the way to go for us to fast-track our race to become a high-income nation, and I do not think that we need to be a high income nation before we can consider HSR. Indonesia has already made a HSR line up and running, Thailand is already considering HSR as well.
There are merits in the HSR proposal. For one, the multiplying effects from the construction contracts may allow over RM100 billion of economic benefits to flow through the various supply chains for the project - construction materials, construction workers and labour force, various supporting industrial and workshops, property development around each HSR station, thousands of job creation during construction period and operational phase, tourism spill-over to areas along the HSR track etc.
HSR would provide a vital option for travellers between KL and Singapore, now only relying on inefficient air flights often packed and expensive during peak seasons. The amount of time saved during the journey is vital for business travellers. Just imagine, business travellers can do a day trip between KL and Singapore by taking a 90 min train from KL to Singapore, having meetings in Singapore and then commute back to KL in 90 mins to have dinner at home. And along the HSR journey, business travellers can have precious time to sit comfortably in the train doing some reading and preparation for meetings ahead. 1 hour of business hours saved in travelling for a million passengers will be a million hours of manhours saved for more productive work, rather than on wasteful travelling and waiting.
Singapore property prices are at least 7 times higher than that in KL. With the HSR, many expats can choose to stay in KL to enjoy the much lower rental and commute by HSR to Singapore for work (if there is affordable monthly tickets available). There will be more demand from expats and Singaporeans for good quality properties in the Klang Valley, this will help to fill the big gap in property prices between KL and Singapore. Many existing property owners in the Klang Valley will see their property prices appreciating substantially.
For leisure travellers, HSR will be a good option if they travel alone or just in small groups (2-3 pax) especially during festive seasons like CNY. We are seeing more and more cars on the road in North-South highway, and it could take up to 8 hours to drive from JB to KL on days before CNY or Hari Raya. Rather than spending endless hours on the highway, many may be willing to spend a few hundred ringgit on HSR just once or twice a year to have a comfortable 90 min ride.
We would be losing out to our neighbours in ASEAN if we still didn;t do the HSR. We were the first to propose HSR project some 10-15 years ago when the proposed cost was just less than RM15 billion for the 350km KL-Singapore HSR, then there were many critics too to try to kill off the project, many from the airlines and bus industry. Now the same groups of people are coming out to shout and doubt on the feasibility of the HSR, trying to kill it off again.
But I always believe in the end common sense prevails, considering the huge value this HSR project will bring to the country.
I don't agree with the argument that the interest payments for the HSR project would be more than buying air tickets for every KL people to travel to Singapore, this was obviously speaking for the airline industry.
First, the project costs will be mainly borne by the private consortium, not the government. The government will likely only look into land acquisition, the rest of the project costs will be financed by private consortium with cheap money from China or Japan. Hence there is no issue arising for our government to carry huge amount of debts and pay high interests. So the statement itself is false.
Secondly, air tickets may not come cheap when you need them. Very often than not, an air ticket may cost you a bomb when you need to book one to Singapore or back, especially during festive seasons or important events or on emergency. Furthermore if you look into the statistics, how many travellers who take flights between KL and Singapore are leisure travellers? I think the bulk of them are on business or lone travellers. It costs over RM1000 for a family of four to fly from KL to Singapore or vice verse, and takes over 3 hours on total travelling time, including the 2-hour pre-flight check in time. It only costs RM70-100 for a family to drive from KL to JB.
Thirdly, the argument that the government would rather save the money on HSR and channel it to other facilities to the people like hospitals or schools is again false, as the government is not funding the HSR projects. Instead, when the HSR takes off, it will encourage more economic activities, more tourists from Singapore, more expats to stay in KL, more multi-national corporations to set up regional HQ in KL, help to increase property prices in the Kland Valley and areas surrouding HSR stations, promote more inter-state tourism activities especially to states with HSR stops etc. All these will add more tax income to the government, and the multiplying effect from such will be a lot more than the interest payment for the HSR project.
In absolute figure GDP Indonesia is not a small country but an economic giant. Malaysia government is loaded with heavy debt and the minister of economy still cannot find a sensible solution to normalize the petrol subsidy (RM50b).
As a minister of economy it is his duty to collect big data to predict the direction of oil price, gold price, USD/Yen, US interest rate and so on but somehow he spends so much time to reinvent the wheel and collect PADU statistic (which is already captured in DOS or MOF's database) to see how to allocate the petrol subsidy which is more of welfare matter rather than an economic issues.
As a minister of economy, he should release a public statement and inform public what is the economic impact of weakening ringgit so the business sectors can plan ahead and see how to hedge their foreign currency contracts. This is what I call a minister of economy.
Come back to the HSR issue. Most people from Singapore will take it to eat BKT in Klang and most people from KL will take it to eat Hainan Chicken Rice in Singapore as most business transactions are done thru internet so do we need HSR for that matter?
Economically there is no reason for Malaysia to build high speed train as we are not yet a high income country. Totally agreed with both Tony (Tony Fernandes and Tony Pua) flying with AA is better option as everyone can fly. If the government go ahead with the high speed train it will kill two birds with one stone as both AA and HSR will be competing with each other and both will fail to achieve the economies of scales. It is sad that DAP is trying to sideline Tony Pua and Kian Ming as both really talking with logical sense.
hello, INdonesia has got 270 million population, if you divide the GDP by the population, Indonesia GDP per capital is only USD4,800, while Malaysia is already more than USD11,000 per capital
The business model of AA is proven so why should we kill the golden goose and opt for the high speed black swan which made no sense at all as far as game theory is concerned.
The minister who always talk about BMW really made Malaysia an an international laughing matter. Who in the world will make their dark history linked to "war camp" a UNESCO World Heritage? Heritage sites are something that give our nation an unique identity and something that we all should be proud of.
The reason Hiroshima is declared UNESCO sites is because Japan is trying to make US and the whole world look really bad (so something like that) for political reason as if the whole world owed them.
All Malaysians, especially Malaysian govt institutional investors like KWAP & KWSP, should shun this stock for being pro-Israeli & in partnership with NVIDIA. Investment in YTLP is investment in a partnership supporting Zionist Israeli annihilation of Palestine & genocide of the Palestinians, which Malaysia is against.
I am an advocate of the HSR. When we wanted to build the North South Highway there were many who said expensive and not worth it. Can we live without the North South Highway now? Same with HSR. We need to get the right model and the economic benefits to the country will be enormous. Air travel will still be there. But HSR will give more choices.
The airlines are already adjusting to the worldwide situation. More flights to India and China and less to Europe. Good airlines will always survive by reviewing their routes and adding or reducing frequencies as and when required.
Thank you Dragon for concurring with me. What is Singapore's population 2023? Answer 5.9 million Only one-third of S'pore resident households own cars – meaning for 3.9 million S’poreans, flying is the only way if they want to come to KL (and other places like Genting) They have no choice so their favourite leisure is of course making day trips to JB S’pore’s GDP is >USD400b and “private consumption expenditure contributes the largest share to GDP” (Singapore Department of Statistics) So imagine the chunk of S’pore GDP flowing into KL and M’sia with the HSR The S’pore govt has so far been very supportive of the HSR. The quality of life and mental health for S’poreans will definitely improve with the HSR. For Malaysian, forget about going there, unless you rich or go for business.
Correction.... the common folks in S'pore (who don't have cars) also have a choice of taking the bus to get to KL, But the journey may take > 5 hours one way, including the hassle of get down, queue to get their passports chopped. Most likely day trips are out of the question. Speed is essence!
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This thing has been forming a very BEARISH DESCENDING TRIANGLE for the past 5 weeks. Within the next few days, it will fall below its triangle base of 2.12 and heads towards its technical objective at 1.79. Stay away if you do not want to get hurt big time.
2.12 => 2.40++ 2.12 => 2.30++ 2.12 => 2.20++ Ding dong ding dong 2.12 => 2.20 for a few days b4 breaking below 2.12 n all hell will break loose. Clear as a crystal. Not if it will happen but rather when it will happen. Stay away!!
share price gone up from 50+sen to highest around rm2.40...and Institute fund shouts to rm 3-4....sounds very similar to glove counters during COVID time...many retail investors refuse to sell at RM 28++ before share splitting, following IB call thinking can go up to RM 50++....and most retailer got burnt due to no sell at high, keep it till forever and now glove is below RM 1.
YTL share price gone up to RM 2.4....still you guys no sell....waiting to go to RM 3/4...
After reading the superb write up from Dragon328 , die die hold the both companies and just like Francis Yeoh be patient with YTL’s companies shares. Wish all believers good luck-
wow is this frog for real? not only are u close/narrow minded, you're evidently pretty dumb as well. We can easily name ten figures from corporate scene who can helm a company better than our minister of economy, and ure talking as tho malaysians are kids, passive and clueless what to do with our ringgit. stop embarassing yourself. going by your dumbass logic we should all go back to stoneage. are u flatearther as well? u display similar IQ capacity.
@metaverse As a minister of economy, he should release a public statement and inform public what is the economic impact of weakening ringgit so the business sectors can plan ahead and see how to hedge their foreign currency contracts. This is what I call a minister of economy.
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It’s always better to farm your own yard than to depend on windfalls
The next emerging economy won’t be like the current one; Asia Pacific won’t be Asian’s anymore if the next emerging economy is poised to succeed the current one!
Many still in slumberland and thought that the next emerging economy will continue to be Asia friendly. The new Indo-Pacific strategic planning by US has taken out asia if you may notice that; you will not be in the Asia Pacific era anymore should the next emerging economy overtake the existing one
Go open up your world map and you may see that natural demarcation of Indo-Pacific; that’s the extension of Indian Ocean into the Pacific; naturally barricading the rest of ASEAN countries except Indonesia and linking Australia
Asia Pacific basin will be split into two!
However Pacific region from east coast of US extended until the “First Island Chain”(from Korean peninsula to Japan, ROC until the Phillipines) will be separated from ASEAN as Pacific Rim
Where is asean? Sandwiched between the two regions into the oblivion!
If you still don’t unite and work with the current emerging economy, the next emerging economy will make sure that you be down the dungeons
For we are a small nation with fragile social economic fabric and can’t afford to bear the brunt from the clash of the titans