More Shopping Malls Facing Permanent Closure

Tan Sri Teo Chiang Kok, President of The Malaysian Shopping Malls Association (PPK)

19-Aug-21 12:30

More Shopping Malls Facing Permanent Closure

Pause
Embed

Just last week, The Malaysian Shopping Malls Association (PPK) warned of more malls facing closure by year-end, amid the ongoing drought in business caused by the prolonged lockdown. But with some retail segments being allowed to reopen this week, does this offer mall operators and their retail tenants a lifeline? PKK President Tan Sri Teo Chiang Kok gives us the details.

Image Credit: AzmanMD | Shutterstock

Produced by: Audrey Raj and Daniel Tee

Presented by: Audrey Raj and Freda Liu

This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories: Personal Finance, Investments, Financial Literacy, Young Finance, Personal Development, Entrpreneurship, SME

Tags: Covid-19, MCO, NRP, retail, shopping, economy, PKK,

Today’s Shows

11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) 1337 Ventures' Bikesh Lakhmichand shares a founder's guide to the first investor meeting, explaining what VCs, angels, and ECF platforms really want to see.

12:00 PM

BBC World Service

(REPEAT) This week on Science in Action, stories on a major new telescope survey that have started in Chile while scientists are also beginning a project to create fully synthetic human chromosomes.

1:00 PM

A Bit of Culture

(REPEAT) Kam Raslan, Matt Armitage and debutant Chin Kar Yern get together to talk about not using ChatGPT and its implication, public spaces and the foreign language of tech.

2:00 PM

Ringgit & Sense

(REPEAT) Alvin Tan of the Financial Planning Association of Malaysia (FPAM) discusses aspects of Malaysian Gen Zers personal finance.

2:30 PM

The Property Show

(REPEAT) Imran Clyde of Nextdor Property Communications shares his insights on the legal aspects of property advertising.

3:00 PM

Best of The Bigger Picture

(REPEAT) How patients diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer have found hope and companionship in the Cancer Survivor Support Group.

4:00 PM

Best of Evening Edition

(REPEAT) We speak to board game designer Goh Choon Ean about what makes Malaysian board games unique.

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of People Fixing The World looks at a community that tackles poverty via the traffic light system.

PROGRAMMES