The rapid rise of green building in Malaysia is being exemplified by two large sustainable housing projects near Kuala Lumpur – Green Beverly Hills and Diamond City Providing low-density housing and some commercial development, these projects-in-progress are a response to Malaysia’s generous green technology incentives and rising demand for sustainable…

Sustainable development in Malaysia has been a national focal point for decades. Ever since the forward-thinking Vision 2020 was drafted by Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad in 1991, Malaysia’s governments, businesses and citizens have cherished the thought of the clean, green, fully-developed and unified nation it proposed. Through generous green…

The annual International GreenTech and Eco Products Exhibition and Conference Malaysia (IGEM) will be held in Kuala Lumpur this year, from September 9th to 12th, 2015. In light of the rapidly approaching event, we felt that this would be a good time to review some of Malaysia’s green technology initiatives;…

Malaysia – which did not have a solar industry before 2007 – became the world’s fourth-largest producer of solar cells in 2014, topped only by China, Taiwan and Japan. Much of this growth is thanks to an influx of large international corporations who, thanks to Malaysia’s attractive green technology incentives…

Malaysia’s government is strongly backing nationwide growth and development of green technology by proposing generous tax incentives surrounding that business sector. Malaysia’s 2014 budget introduced two big incentives for investments and expenditures in green technology. The first is a green investment tax allowance (GITA) of up to 100 percent on…

The sixth in a series of green technology exhibitions in Malaysia will push the country towards its goal of becoming a regional green technology hub by attracting a predicted 50,000 investors and 400 exhibitors from over 20 countries across the world. The Malaysian exhibitions have generated RM6 billion ($1.4 billion…