MALAYSIA is well-positioned to attract more international students from China as a result of the current political spat between the republic and Australia, and while the US and the UK continue to wrestle with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. IQI Global group CEO Kashif Ansari said Malaysia now has the advantage to get Chinese…

KUALA LUMPUR: Real estate specialist IQI Global has sold over RM2.4 billion of properties in the first half (1H) of 2020, despite market volatility and the Covid-19 pandemic. Group chief executive officer Kashif Ansari said the sales figures had shown that the appetite for properties remained strong among value-oriented buyers. "The appetite for the property is resilient…

KUALA LUMPUR: Real estate agency RINA Group and its associates will merge into Juwai IQI, the owner of Juwai.com, Juwai.asia and IQI. In a joint statement today, they said RINA and its associates' more than 1,000 agents and negotiators will become members of IQI's 9,000-person global team and will adopt the IQI brand. RINA and its associates…

Shan Saeed is chief economist at Kuala Lumpur-based IQI Global, the largest real estate agency network in Southeast Asia. China's Belt and Road Initiative program is big -- so big that it scares political leaders in Western countries while at the same time providing them with an easy target for criticism. The BRI encompasses more than 130…