Kuala Lumpur
Hyatt: up there in Kuala Lumpur, first in New York...
The Park Hyatt brand is taking a more elevated position in the world of luxury hotels by passing the 50-hotel mark worldwide. Its latest hotel, which opened at the beginning of August, dominates the whole of Kuala Lumpur, housed in the tallest skyscraper in the whole of the city.
Return to Europe announced for AirAsia X
AirAsia X, the long-haul arm of the AirAsia group, is returning to Europe more than 13 years after ceasing services to Paris and London from Kuala Lumpur. At the time, the AirAsia group explained the withdrawal of its subsidiary by the surge in oil prices, the increase in air taxes and the introduction of the...
The eternal return of the high-speed train between Kuala Lumpur and...
It was originally due to open in 2026, linking Kuala Lumpur to Singapore in just 90 minutes, compared with more than 4 hours by car. Formally signed by the prime ministers of Malaysia and Singapore in 2013, the 350 km "MyHSR" ("Malaysia High Speed Rail") link should have replaced a large part of the...
The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed line project goes off the rails
The high-speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Singapore will remain on the drawing board. It has not been a sea snake, but a land snake for Malaysia and Singapore. The ambitious project for a high-speed train that would cover the 350 km between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in an hour and a half...
New with old. And some very new stuff too, from...
Four Seasons, Carlson, Formosa International... Having passed through several hands, the luxury brand Regent Hotels has had a tumultuous history since its creation in the early 1970s. With the purchase of the majority of the brand's shares last March, it is now the turn of the InterContinental Group (IHG) to try and restore it to its former glory.
New travel alternatives from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur
Seletar is already an operational airport in Singapore. The small hub, located to the north of the financial metropolis, is in fact ideal. It is only 15 minutes from the border, making it ideal for both flights to downtown Singapore and to neighbouring Malaysia. It currently handles private business jets, but the government...
Alila combines business and resort
With its beautiful resorts established in the middle of a tea plantation in China, in the heart of a fort in India, at the top of the mountains of Oman, on the edge of the luxuriant beaches of the Maldives or Bali and more recently on the edge of the Pacific, at Big Sur in California, Alila has become the specialist in intimate and...
Malaysia Airlines refocuses its operations from Kuala Lumpur
Peter Bellew, who took over from Christoph Müller at the helm of Malaysia Airlines on 1 July, has made it clear that the airline will cease to have activities that cost it money. Malaysia Airlines is already starting to turn its head after 30 terrible months of mounting financial losses...
A successful makeover for Malaysia Airlines' business lounges
Malaysia Airlines recently inaugurated new areas dedicated to business travellers at Kuala Lumpur airport. The Golden Lounge lounges in the Malaysian capital have been sporting a new look since 25 January. The Platinium Lounge now has 105 seats, adding 41 to its original capacity. A new...
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Penang: Asia in the mirror
From the top of the vertiginous Menara Tower, the eye takes in a 360° mishmash of expressways, gleaming skyscrapers and hills carpeted with tropical forests, from which emerge here and there the tin roofs of the last historic districts. No master plan, just cranes everywhere: Kuala Lumpur, or KL as everyone calls it, is an acronym that...
Putrajaya, the new administrative capital
Built around an artificial lake, this new city is a showcase for trends in contemporary Malaysian architecture: a Mughal-style courthouse, a Safavid-inspired mosque, a conference centre reminiscent of a flying saucer and futuristic bridges. The whole thing is monumental, brand new, but... soulless. The Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside hotel, close to the convention centre, has opted for...
Kuala Lumpur awaits its 1st Holiday Inn Express
The Holiday Inn Express planned for 2015 in Kuala Lumpur's Bukit Bintang commercial district is the result of an agreement between InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and RB Capital. It will have 200 rooms, and will be equipped with a self-service business centre, a fitness area, a lounge and a restaurant.
Malaysia from Kuala Lumpur to Borneo - Tropical Mosaic
Under the plane's wings: nothing but green. Strings of dark colours neatly lined up; clumps of trees following the curves of the land and which are in fact oil palms; the kind that, since the 1970s, have enriched Malaysia, a major producer of this essential fat for Asian cooks...
Kuala Lumpur: Golden triangle
Kuala Lumpur, an open city. Despite more than mixed results in the March 2008 elections, this is the message that the representatives of Barisan National, the party that has led Malaysia since its independence in 1957, continue to spread to foreign investors. It's a message that no one in this city would dream of questioning...
