Far Property set to expand footprint to Zambia
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Spreading wings: Ottapathu
The company, which is owned by Choppies Group directors Ramachandran Ottapathu and Farouk Ismail, maintained a strong asset growth, recording P1.38 billion of assets while reducing the loan to asset ratio to 33% in the six months ended December 2016.
In a statement accompanying their results for the six months period, Ottapathu said they are looking to acquire more properties locally and internationally, noting that acquisition of new investment properties in South Africa and Zambia are under negotiation.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...