KINIBIZ Tiger’s jungle has been abuzz this week, what with new developer outfit EcoWorld moving for a 65 percent stake in Focal Aims, a Johor-based developer. Not only because the little-known Focal Aims is no one’s idea of a sexy prey, but also because the predator EcoWorld has uncanny shades of Liew Kee Sin, the man helming arguably the country’s top developer.

While the man himself personally denied his involvement, Tiger cannot help but feel the end is near for SP Setia’s era at the top. But even though many see SP Setia as Liew vice versa, the end of SP Setia’s era does not necessarily mean the end of Liew’s era.

Is Liew retiring for real after leaving SP Setia by March 2015 at the latest? Or will he emerge in EcoWorld and repeat his climb to the top of the food chain with this new, fascinatingly fast-rising outfit? Only the man himself knows.

Though Tiger suspects Liew’s 22-year-old son Tian Xiong, precociously dabbling in corporate deals involving hundreds of millions just one year after graduating from university, might know something about his father’s plans. As does perhaps EcoWorld’s senior management team, all formerly Liew’s teammates in SP Setia.

Of course if the latter scenario for Liew post-SP Setia proves to be the case, Tiger looks forward to seeing Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB)’s faces then given how they wrested control over SP Setia from Liew and his team - after the latter spent years nurturing it - without so much as a by-your-leave in 2011-2012.

But the SP Setia-EcoWorld saga aside, this week also brought us a twist to another story - it turned out that the Proton era as the government official car is not yet ending after all.

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This article was written by Khairie Hisyam.