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Think shopping, think Hong Kong. That’s the message Hong Kong singer-actress Karen Mok has for Malaysians as the Special Administrative Region kicks off another Hong Kong Shopping Festival. 

“I have been all over the world, but somehow I always end up doing most of my shopping in Hong Kong,” said Mok, who appears in the Hong Kong Tourism Board’s commercials for the shopping festival. 

It is the second time in three years that she has been the ambassador for the event. 

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Three upmarket shopping malls in Penang – Gurney Plaza, Queensbay Mall and Island Plaza – have recently been sold for over RM1bil. 

Sources told StarBiz that Gurney Plaza and Island Plaza had been sold to a US insurance group based in Singapore. 

“Gurney Plaza has been sold for about RM700mil,” a source said. It is not known how much Island Plaza went for. 

“As for Queensbay Mall, it was sold to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) for about RM400mil,” the source said. 

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Parkson Corp Sdn Bhd will have 30% more retail space with the opening of five new outlets and expansion of two existing outlets nationwide by end-2008. 

Chief operating officer Toh Peng Koon said the new outlets would be at Sunway Pyramid, Bandar Sunway and The Pavilion in Kuala Lumpur, the Spring in Kuching, East Coast Mall in Kuantan, and KBTC in Kota Baru.  

Its existing outlet at Plaza Gurney would be expanded while a seventh outlet at Bintang Plaza in Miri, Sarawak, would relocate to bigger premises. 

From left: Toh Peng Koon, Sunway City Bhd managing director Ngeow Voon Yean and Parkson Corp general manager Raymond Teo touring the new Parkson outlet in Seberang Jaya

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Interesting feature: (From left) Sunway Carnival general manager Lung Hien Chou pointing out some shoplots to Sunway City Berhad managing director Ngeow Voon Yean and Chan.

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