FEATURE PROPERTY EDUCATION HEALTHCARE INAUGURAL SUNWAY-OXBRIDGE SUNWAY ISKANDAR’s FIRST JEFFREY CHEAH FOUNDATION SUNWAY HEALTHCARE PURSUES ESSAY COMPETITION RECEIVES LAUNch, CITRINE, SELLS OUT DOUBLES ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP EXPANSION PLANS OVERWHELMING RESPONSE TOTAL TO OVER RM33 MILLION KDNPP 5365/10/2012 (031031) ISSUE 51 OCT – DEC 2014 IssUE 51 CONTENTS FROM THE SEnioR MANAGEMENT’S DESK COLOPHON SUNWAY’S FROM THE SEnioR EDUCATION MANAGEMENt’S DESK JEFFREY CHEAH FOUNDATION DOUBLES 17 ADVISORS YBhg Datuk Seri Razman SUNWAY’S GAME-chANGING GRowth ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP TOTAL TO OVER M. Hashim GAME CHANGING foR OUR commUNITIES RM33 MILLION Sarena Cheah 03 14 Sharzede Hj. Salleh Askor EDITORIAL BOARD GROWTH FEATURE moNASH UNIVERSIty MALAYSIA: EDITOR INAUGURAL SUNWAY-OXBRIDGE CELEBRATING womEN IN EDUCATION Dr Tong Gin Chee WRITERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES ESSAY COMPETITION RECEIVES 15 Dhiwenia Subramaniam, Ang Sher Lyn, Ng Yit Kim May, OVERWHELMING RESPONSE Yap Shi Han 06 ExcLUSIVE INTERVIEW WIth EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS TAN SRI RAMON NAVARATNAM LINA VERchERY Nor Hidayah Hassan, CORPORATE ADVISOR, SUNWAY GROUP 16 Tabitha Revi PUBLISHER The United Nation’s World Economic and Social Our expansion as a corporation translates to we launched the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Sunway Group Brand Survey 2013 estimates more than 6.25 billion economic well-being of all our stakeholders. Southeast Asia (JCI), the first university based Marketing & Communications people will be living in cities by 2050. The same think tank in Malaysia, which is overseen by NEWS BITES REGISTERED ADDRESS report shows that more than 70% of Malaysia’s I like our ‘game changing’ Sunway initiatives to an executive council and the International Sunway Management Sdn Bhd AWARDS : own population is now urbanised! Clearly, the develop people. This includes the development Academic Advisory Council (IAAC) made up 08 Level 16 Menara Sunway FOURTH CONSECUTIVE WIN AT Jalan Lagoon Timur challenge of rapid urbanisation is among the of integrated townships where we build of eminent scholars, and former and present BCI ASIA AWARDS 2014 Bandar Sunway most important challenges of our time. How quality living by putting together the best government officials from around the world. 47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia do we balance growth with sustainability? infrastructure, a superior mix of lifestyle SUNWAY SWEEPS FOUR AWARDS AT Tel: +603 5639 8889 components of “live, play, learn, work and be As for the Planet, Sunway builds sustainably to SEAPA MALAYSIA 2014 INCLUDING URL: www.sunway.com.my While our government acts to implement safe and healthy” in a natural environment, mitigate our carbon footprint. We emphasise BEST DEVELOPER PRINTER the Government Transformation Programme so that our communities can get to enjoy the efficient public transportation and walkability 20 Gloverin to drive Malaysia to become a high-income best in life. We invest in our communities and have taken the lead to build Malaysia’s No 3 Jalan PJS 11/16 Bandar Sunway nation (an average of USD15,000 pa. per through corporate social responsibility (CSR) first elevated Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) – Sunway NEW PARTNERSHIPS : 47500 Subang Jaya person), sustainable development cannot be programmes under our education, healthcare Line. Upon its completion in 2015, eco-friendly DAIWA AND SUNWAY PAIR UP TO Selangor Darul Ehsan expected to be the sole responsibility of the and C.A.R.E (community aid, reach-out, and electronic buses will service over 500,000 Malaysia INNOVATE MALAYSIA’S FUTURE HOMES Tel: +603 5633 9666 government. Businesses hold great power enrichment) projects, in order to advocate and residents in Bandar Sunway and USJ and to achieve our goals of enhancing – ‘people, actualise the goals of a truly inclusive society. serve about 42 million visitors per annum! We 10 BERITA SUNWAY IS PUBLISHED HEALTHCARE SUNWAY GROUP AND SUNWAY QUARTERLY. planet, and profits’. When we take all this into are pioneering green innovations in building SUNWAY HEALTHCARE PURSUES EDUCATION CEMENTS UNIVERSITY- THE VIEWS AND OPINIONS EXPREssED consideration, we do not simply measure One of our largest initiatives to improve materials and in property development, and are OR IMPLIED IN BERITA SUNWAY ARE EXPANSION PLANS INDUSTRY LINKAGE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS AND DO performance on just the financial dimension. the lives of our community is the Jeffrey retrofitting Sunway buildings for green tech, NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE 17 21 OF BERITA SUNWAY, ITS DIRECTORS Hence, holistically, we would aspire to excel Cheah Foundation. In March 2010, Founder through our Asset Enhancement Initiative. OR EDITORIAL STAFF. UNSOLICITED TRANSPARENCIES AND ARTICLES in many fields, namely to: (i) raise the welfare and Chairman of Sunway Group, Tan Sri Dr ARE SENT AT OWNER’S RISK AND THE SUNWAY PALS – GROWING BIGGER IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU PUBLISHER ACCEPTS NO LIABILITY of our people (the fair and favourable business Jeffrey Cheah, AO, had transferred all the Thus, we believe we can change the future AND BETTER DAY BY DAY 22 FOR LOss OR DAMAGE. practices for labour and the community in which equity he had in 12 education institutions, for our communities. Moving forward, we PROPERTY 18 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ©COPYRIGHT we conduct our business); (ii) use sustainable valued at more than RM720 million into the will continue to also find ways to create and 2013 BY SUNWAY GROUP BRAND TAN SRI DR JEFFREY CHEAH HONOURED MARKETING & COmmUNICATIONS. environmental practices to reduce negative not-for profit Jeffrey Cheah Foundation (JCF), add value for our stakeholders by improving AS OUTSTANDING CEO OF MALAYSIA BY Should you wish to be on our environment impact for our planet; and (iii) to provide quality education in perpetuity. resource efficiency. We will continuously work THE EDGE-BILLION RINGGIT CLUB mailing list, kindly contact us at strive for reasonable returns and profits. Today these prospectuses can be capitalised to enhance the cities that we build and manage 08 at RM1.5 billion as Malaysia’s biggest Social and operate to enhance competitiveness, Sunway Group Brand Marketing & As a former Civil Servant, I can strongly Enterprise. JCF has to date, awarded more liveability and environmental quality. SUNWAY ISKANDAR’S FIRST LAUNCH, Communications relate to Sunway’s Social Enterprise Model, than RM165 million worth of scholarships to CITRINE, SELLS OUT Level 18 Menara Sunway especially in Education. Sunway has adopted approximately 20,000 deserving students. For all these reasons, as a former Civil Servant, Jalan Lagoon Timur 10 Bandar Sunway the unique ‘Build-Own-Operate’ business I have enjoyed working at Sunway for the 47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan model. This means that we act as co-investors In 2013, Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah further last 20 years under Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah’s Malaysia DIGITAL TRENDS Tel: + 603 5639 8059/ in the communities we build. As co-investors, donated USD6.2 million to Harvard University exemplary leadership in Social Enterprise SUNWAY LIFESTYLE APP UPGRADED 8094/8086/8631 we pledge our commitment for the long-term to establish the Jeffrey Cheah Professorship with his laudable philosophy of “Giving FOR A MORE DELIGHTFUL USER welfare and progress of our communities. We for South-East Asia Studies. This initiative Back to Society”. I wish that his laudable DESIGNED BY IDEIO SDN BHD EXPERIENCE grow along with them. Sunway is also supported opened up a two-way flow of faculty and initiatives and innovations in Social Enterprise PRinTED on ENVIRonMENTALLY 12 FRIEndLY PAPER by Sunway REIT, which recycles capital to scholars between Harvard University and will be emulated by many other successful 16 ensure sustainable socio-economic growth. our Sunway Education Group. Just this year, entrepreneurs in our country and region. OCT DEC 2014 ISSUE 51 3 4 ISSUE 51 OCT DEC 2014 OCT DEC 2014 ISSUE 51 5 FEATURE STORY The inaugural Sunway-Oxbridge Essay required to submit their essays online via to the schools, especially the dedicated “Elevating the proficiency of the English Competition, held in line with Sunway Group’s sunway.edu.my/essay. After two rounds teachers and principals who had been language is one of the main drivers for the INAUGURAL corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative of rigorous and intensive selection, led most supportive of this initiative, and to nation’s education goals as delineated in to elevate standards of education in Malaysia by Sunway University, Monash University the students’ families, for encouraging the the GTP 2.0. Currently, one of the initiatives particularly in the advancement of English Malaysia and the Oxford & Cambridge students’ participation. that the Ministry is championing is the SUNWAY-OXBRIDGE proficiency, saw an overwhelming response Society Malaysia, 26 young Malaysians strengthening of the language among English with approximately 2,000 entries from emerged as top winners and were invited “Befitting Sunway Group’s 40th anniversary, teachers in the country and thereby directly secondary school students across Malaysia. to receive their prizes at the Prize-Giving we mooted and embarked on the Sunway- benefitting the students. Better English will ceremony held at Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa. Oxbridge Essay Competition as part of help students do better in their education, The essay competition, endorsed by the The prizes totalled more than RM200,000 Sunway’s CSR initiatives to enrich the lives of especially since it will give them access to Ministry of Education Malaysia, was organised in value comprising RM28,000 in cash our communities. We believe there is much more resources, such as journals and online ESSAY by Sunway Group in partnership with The sponsored by Sunway Group and RM190,000 that private corporations can do to boost articles,” he said. Oxford & Cambridge Society Malaysia, Jeffrey in Sunway bursaries by Sunway University. English proficiency and make a significant Cheah Foundation, Sunway University and Ng Yin Yin, Head of English Panel of SMK (P) impact for the society,” said Tan Sri Datuk The inaugural Sunway-Oxbridge Essay Monash University Malaysia.