18 December 2019, Kuala Lumpur – Standard Chartered Saadiq has entered into a multifaceted long-term collaboration with Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) involving the latter’s overseas properties as well as travel business. 

Standard Chartered Saadiq has extended a two-year Shariah-compliant financing facility totalling GBP65 million to two wholly-owned subsidiaries of TH for the refurbishment and refinancing of office properties in the United Kingdom. Part of the funds has been disbursed to LTH Property Holdings Ltd to partially fund the renovation of its office property in London, while the remaining is used to refinance the term financing of a second office property owned by LTH Property Holdings 2 Ltd in Surrey. 

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 13 December 2019 – Sunway Putra Hotel, Kuala Lumpur recently organised “Bin It to Win It” challenge to create awareness on repurposing used fabrics. This is in line with the hospitality group - Sunway Hotels & Resorts’ partnership with Kloth Cares, a Malaysian social entrepreneurship movement dedicated to keep fabrics out of landfills through rethinking, reusing, reducing, repurposing and recycling unwanted fabrics.

The partnership with Kloth Cares involves a permanent Kloth Cares bin placed in the hotel for its employees to recycle their used linen, clothes and soft toys which are then collected on a monthly basis by Kloth Cares. Sunway Putra Hotel, Kuala Lumpur’s challenge which ran from 6 – 13 November 2019 is aimed at encouraging its employees to recycle their used fabrics and apply the function of the Kloth Cares bin. During the two-week challenge, the Hotel has successfully collected more than 500 kg of linens and old textiles.

Stuttgart/Los Angeles. Designers from Porsche AG and Lucasfilm Ltd. have joined forces to develop a fantasy starship that brings together the design DNA of the two brands. Over a period of two months, the project team worked together at their respective design studios in Weissach and San Francisco to create initial ideas and drafts before finally coming up with a concrete concept. The fantasy starship, named Tri- Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter, will be presented as a detailed model measuring 1.5 metres (5 feet) in length at the December film premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in Los Angeles.