Taman Desa, Kuen Cheng and Menara IGB
1. I’m impressed with the Chinese community’s strengths in business and finance after looking at these three, hardly iconic, but manifestations of their expertise and community teachings.
2. Taman Desa is a township with heavy Chinese features – where trading and commerce in heavy services and machinery is all too prevalent, presumably began and continued since mid19th century. Kuen Cheng is a private Chinese primary school, whose buildings and layout is more reminiscent of a tertiary level malayish IPTS with some government backed institution, and MEnara IGB sits across TNB headquarters, where over 10 years it has grown to a fantastic self-contained commercial city generating revenue and with a high multi-storey building housing the IGB hq.
3. The Malays would be hard-pressed to replicate this, but again, the question is, what is the inherent strength of the Chinese? I would hazard that it’s the community’s ability to stand on the shoulders of giants, to cooperate and to consolidate.
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