Category Archives: Overseas Property

Delays at CapitaLand Macau project

CAPITALAND’S joint casino project partner in Macau said that disagreements with its business partner New Cotai had led to delays in getting land-use approval.

CapitaLand – which owns a 20 per cent stake in the US$2 billion Macao Studio City through a joint venture firm with eSun Holdings Ltd known as EAST Asia Satellite Television (East) – said last Saturday that it will work with eSun on solutions to enable the project to progress.

It also said that it has the option to ‘put back’ its shares to eSun if certain conditions are not met by September 2011 ‘or such other date as may be mutually agreed’.

In a statement last Friday, Hongkong-listed eSun said that progress for Macao Studio City has stalled due to differences of opinion between East and its US partner New Cotai, which has a 40 per cent stake in the joint venture company in charge of the project, Cyber One.

The Macau government had not given permission for Cyber One to make modifications to the land and raise the developable gross floor area of the site to about six million square feet. Continue reading

Heritage houses in Malacca restored

The building in Malacca is next door to where hit Chinese drama serial The Little Nyonya was filmed.

Dating back to 150 years ago, it is now owned by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and has been restored.

The building – two linked heritage townhouses at 54 and 56 Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock – was opened yesterday by the Governor of Malacca.

NUS received $1.5 million from Ms Agnes Tan, the last surviving child of Straits Chinese community leader Tan Cheng Lock, to buy and restore the two houses in 2004.

That enabled a team of six academics and undergraduates from the university’s Department of Architecture of the School of Design and Environment to work with a Malacca-based conservation architect.

The team retained many interior features. Continue reading