I thought so too... but I've read it is not anymore. Maybe 5 years before... but not now.

Company Mkt Cap* Short&Long Landbank
Term Debt# (hectares)
($ mln) ($ mln)
1 Wilmar (WLIL.SI) 20,814.2 4,929.9 500,000
2 Sime Darby (SIME.KL) 11,994.8 1,638.0 524,626
3 IOI Corp (IOIB.KL) 8,323.2 1,639.0 251,000
4 KL Kepong (KLKK.KL) 3,617.6 580.0 360,000
5 Golden Agri (GAGR.SI) 3,302.8 557.0 637,361
6 Astra Agro (AALI.JK) 2,906.4 -nil- 258,900
7 Indofood (IFAR.SI) 1,362.6 650.1 541,224
8 Asiatic Dev (ASIA.KL) 1,206.8 7.9 164,000
9 London Sumatra (LSIP.JK) 864.3 73.4 169,909
10 Boustead (BOUS.KL) 804.0 1,035.0 100,000
11 United (UTPS.KL) 765.1 -nil- 80,874
12 Kulim Bhd (KULM.KL) 576.0 459.1 124,660
13 IJM Plantations (IJMP.KL) 502.6 10.0 70,000
14 Sampoerna Agro (SGRO.JK) 334.8 21.7 169,000
15 Bakrie Sumatera (UNSP.JK) 303.6 156.4 80,000

This was in 2009. Wilmar, which is Singapore's, concentrates on Indonesia vast land (even in Malaysia too) for palm oil cultivation.

But I might be wrong...

"As of 2009, Indonesia was the largest producer of palm oil, surpassing Malaysia in 2006, producing more than 20.9 million tonnes." - Scientific American Board of Editors (December 2012), "The Other Oil Problem", Scientific American 307 (6): 10, "...such as Indonesia, the world's largest producer of palm oil."

This post has been edited by zerol410: Jul 20 2013, 10:46 AM

met AIA officer in sales gallery today. anyone take AIA housing loan?

Any chance her name is Alison?

Is AIA loan also subject to Bank Negara rules like LTV 70% ?

i didnt ask too details about her AIA loan offer as i hv secured my own loan. She only mentioned AIA loan is fixed rate at 4.25%

I have always been a fan of fixed rate. If AIA have Islamic loan, I would have applied. But currently, there are only Takaful products. No home loans yet..

Islamic rite?

Good thing about fixed rate is now the rates are low....so better to lock down.

But if you intend to pay/settle fully lumsum at one point in the future...beware! You will need to settle full amount of principal + interest.

Nope, it is just fixed, but not Islamic, yet. There is a number of conditions for the product to be Islamic. Fixed rate is just one of them.
I have been urging my AIA reprentative for them to create one...

Just to check with you guys here...do we need to pay any toll when we enter or exit Elmina east?

anyone know when the next phase coming soon ?

If you want to escape it, you can. When you go out from Elmina and into GCE, just take the Denai Alam / Bukit Subang exit. From there, you have the options to go anywhere - Shah Alam, Puncak Alam, Subang, Sg. Buloh.

Later on in the future, there will be a DASH interchange. From there, you can drive east until you meet a toll plaza. But before the plaza, there will be FIVE interchanges where you can exit... well, if all goes according to the highway plan that is.

When we go out from Elmina to Elmina toll plaza to GCE, do we need to pay any toll in Elmina toll plaza? When pass by Elmina toll plaza to Elmina east, do we need to pay any toll in Elmina toll plaza?

Yup, definitely. Both ways kena toll.

In order to avoid tolls (orange), you need to use these options:

a) Denai Alam interchange (blue)
b) DASH interchange (pink)
c) THREE roads to leading neighboring developments (yellow)

Green is the Elmina interchange.


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Do we need to pay toll in green?

Nope, no toll plaza there. Interchange only

ok...now I am clear

Possible can we see Tesco coming to Elmina soon? since nearby Township like Ara Damansara and Puncak Alam is building 1 now...

Tesco... Maybe yes, maybe not. Good if they do...
But definitely either Jaya Grocers, Presto or Cold Storage will be there.

we want aeon. nengok wayang. tanah punya luas patut buat ikea sini

Tesco anak Syarikat Sime Darby...

Yes... Cinema is the best... now nearest cinema still Citta Mall... sigh...