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If property investment has been on your radar, especially within the commercial or industrial sectors, Ku Swee Yong's 'Building Your Real Estate Riches' could serve as the compass you need. The book stands out for its pragmatic advice, rooted in thorough research and Yong's own keen observations. The insights offered are distilled from articles in reputable publications, offering a clear view through the often foggy world of real estate investment chatter. Perfect for anyone looking to make informed decisions and seeking to maximize their investment returns.

If you're the type to seek an understanding of North Korea beyond the headlines, this book is for you. Suki Kim's immersive experience, coupled with her emotional narrative, provides a unique perspective on the isolated nation. It's a rare mix of personal struggle, cultural insight, and political intrigue that may reframe your views on North Korea and its people.

If you're pondering dipping your toes into Singapore's property market or you're already navigating its waters, "Real Estate Riches" could be the lighthouse you need. Ku Swee Yong compiles his expert articles and new commentaries to give you a well-rounded view, making complex policies digestible. His insights could be your edge in making informed real estate investment decisions in Singapore.

Considering how the pandemic has shaken up the real estate market, Swee Yong Ku's insights in "The Future of Real Estate" could be invaluable for anyone invested in property or contemplating investment, especially in Singapore. Whether you're preparing for the waves of changes technology brings or the demographic shifts with an aging population, this book's forward-thinking analysis could help you strategize effectively for the coming years.

The property market goes through cycles, and an investor needs to understand market conditions for a balanced view on opportunities and risks. But how can one sift through the noise and formulate a clear strategy? Respected market analyst and fifth-time author Ku Swee Yong looks at market trends, explains the impact of government policies and dispels common misconceptions. The lead articles delve into how the residential sector will be affected by the ageing population and the expiry of many HDB flats’ 99-year lease, and offer suggestions for the Concept Plan 2021. Others sketch out how the property landscape will be affected by changes in the retail scene, the adoption of FinTech, the rise of co-working & co-living spaces. Preparing for a Property Upturn provides an exciting overview of the current and future real estate issues. Whether you are seeking local or regional prospects, investors and market practitioners alike will benefit from perspectives which are backed by extensive data and research.

As a property investor facing uncertain market trends, "Weathering a Property Downturn" by Ku Swee Yong could be the compass you need. The book offers thorough analyzes and defensive strategies tailored to cope with gluts and falling prices. It's like having an experienced guide helping you to pivot and protect your investments – especially valuable if you're feeling adrift in the ever-changing tides of Singapore's real estate scene.

Vibrant swatches of paint build resonant portraits of heartache, childhood memories, and lonelinessSweet Time is an intimate rumination on love, empathy, and confidence. Singaporean cartoonist Weng Pixin delicately explores strained relationships with a kind of hopefulness while acknowledging their inevitable collapse. Her stories are like a series of snapshots in a photo album or the brightest highlights from an Instagram profile. Gorgeous image follows gorgeous image in a delicate quest to find connection. A night out turns into a chance encounter that is at first ecstatic and then quickly descends into awkwardness. A round of “he loves me, he loves me not” becomes a way of reading every action taken by a distant love interest. A couple find themselves in an artificially beautiful landscape, but the relationship can’t survive their difference of opinion on the illusion of its beauty. In Sweet Time, thick and bold strokes of color mingle with delicate lines. Weng combines colorful realism with a gentle wit and introspection, crafting infinitely relatable stories of everyday life and love now.

Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore's first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore's first industrial estate now known as Jurong Town. He was also the first and longest serving Defence Minister after Singapore became independent in 1965, responsible for building up the Singapore Armed Forces from scratch. Later he became Minister for Education in 1981 and revamped the education system to what it is today. Dr Goh was also concurrently Deputy Prime Minister from 1973 to 1984 during which time he set up the Monetary Authority of Singapore.While Dr Goh's public career and achievements are well documented in press reports and archival records as well as in photographs and speeches, what is missing is an insight and exposition of Dr Goh as an individual in his various roles. Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered seeks to provide this missing dimension of Dr Goh as a person to work for. Thirty-eight persons who had the opportunity of closely observing or working with Dr Goh have contributed their reflections and recollections of Dr Goh as a person, colleague and “boss”, to this book. They have given candid and personal pen portraits of an unusual leader and minister, revealing a glimpse of the working habits of Dr Goh not known to most people.Drawn from oral histories and recent interviews, these reminiscences have been chronologically arranged, from those who recalled what it was like to work alongside Dr Goh on the Malayan Forum in London in the early 1950s, through his various ministerial positions, to travelling with Dr Goh after he “retired” from politics in 1984. What emerges from these anecdotes of Dr Goh is that he could be an extremely demanding “boss”, who could also be very supportive of his subordinates. They show him to be a person with a very inquisitive and creative mind capable of making great leaps of lateral thinking, able to connect disparate ideas and data to propose new and innovative solutions to intractable policy problems. He was truly a Singaporean for all seasons.

Stephen King called Playing for Thrills, Wang Shuo's stupendous debut novel, 'perhaps he most brilliantly entertaining hardboiled novel of the 90s...Raymond Chandler crossed with Bruce Lee.'Wang Shuo, easily China's coolest and most popular novelist, applies his genius for satire and cultural irreverence to one of the world's sacred rituals, the Olympic Games. In Please Don't Call Me Human, he imagines an Olympics where nations compete not on the basis of athletic prowess, but on their citizens' capacity for humiliation - and China is determined to win at any cost. The novel's anti-hero is a slacker pedicab driver from Beijing, a degenerate nihilist who rips off his own face in order to win the gold for China. Banned in China for its 'rudeness' and 'vulgarity', this astonishing, tripped-out novel is filled with the kind of word play and outlandish antics that have earned Wang Shuo his own genre, 'hooligan literature'.

A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Suddenly he receives a mysterious email, a directive seemingly from the home office. He has one day to return to headquarters. He hasn't heard from anyone in over ten years. Why is he being called back now? Is this message really from Pyongyang? Is he returning to receive new orders or to be executed for a lack of diligence? Has someone in the South discovered his secret identity? Is this a trap?

Spanning the course of one day, Your Republic Is Calling You is an emotionally taut, psychologically astute, haunting novel that reveals the depth of one particularly gripping family secret and the way in which we sometimes never really know the people we love. Confronting moral questions on small and large scales, it mines the political and cultural transformations that have transformed South Korea since the 1980s. A lament for the fate of a certain kind of man and a certain kind of manhood, it is ultimately a searing study of the long and insidious effects of dividing a nation in two.

Author: Young-Ha Kim
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: 28 Sep 2010

Are you curious about investments outside of the usual stock and bond sphere? 'Getting Started in Alternative Investments' could be your go-to guide. It's perfect if you're specifically keen to understand how modern-day options like cryptocurrencies, peer-to-peer lending, and even streetwear can become part of your portfolio. This book stands out by not just scratching the surface but diving into the nuances of each alternative, which might be just what you need to diversify and energize your investment strategy.