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...If Mui is right, it suggests a virtuous cycle of strong labour markets and productivity-driven growth is possible, much like in the late 1990s. (He calls this “the dream of the 90s”.)...
...The public face of the acquisition of 2-8a Rutland Gate was Cheung Chung-kiu, a Chinese property developer whose company CC Land owns London’s “Cheesegrater” skyscraper....
...Bonhams has nearly 400 items from her estate, including several pieces of designer jewellery, clothes and furniture, the cream of which will also be offered live on November 6....
...As private sector R&D investment has fallen, the state has made up for it, and then some: Mui points out that “a lot of the elevated government investment in R&D was Covid-related, such as health research...
...The territory’s economy grew a lacklustre 1.5 per cent year on year in the second quarter, while home prices fell for four consecutive months between May and August this year, and real estate and land sales...
...“And all of this is related to the tech war between the US and China.” Kemikon builds parts, such as machine frames, for clients including LAM Research and Applied Materials in the US....
...“Ultimately the insolvency of the real estate sector must be addressed.”...
...The announcement created “a lot of interest, a lot of noise”, according to Rocky Mui, Hong Kong-based partner at legal firm Clifford Chance who has worked closely with issuers in the ETF industry....
...Kelvin Lam from Pantheon Macro notes that 49 out of the 70 cities surveyed saw new-home price declines in July, compared to just five in March....
...The head office of Sene, for example, is the site of what was once The Square restaurant in Mayfair: . . . and Kena appears to operate out of some super-prime real estate: Having a bogus business address...
...“With the lifting of the mask mandate, we have now officially removed all anti-epidemic restrictions,” said health secretary Lo Chung-mau. “Hong Kong has fully returned to normalcy....
...There had been allegations between 2008 and 2013, by a Dutch NGO and a TV documentary, of sexual harassment at the Kericho estate....
...The total investment volume of non-residential investment deals exceeding HK$100mn ($13mn) dipped 45 per cent year on year during the first six months of 2023, according to real estate agency Cushman & Wakefield...
...More taxes on real estate and personal income could be rolled out when the time is right, other experts said. Another solution is to allow the central government to raise more money....
...On Wednesday, Sculptor — which in July agreed to sell itself to real estate specialist Rithm Capital for $639mn — turned down another high offer made by a group of rich hedge fund investors including Boaz...
...The real estate market showed signs of stabilisation in the first quarter following a prolonged slump, but it has begun to slip again in recent weeks....
...China needed to “expand market access” for foreign investors, prop up consumption and control risk in the real estate sector, Li said, in one of his last appearances as China’s second-ranked official....
...The Northern Metropolis is one of the largest real estate deals to materialize in years, with the government earmarking HK$100bn ($12.79bn) of investment so far....
...The road is closed and my sound technician boyfriend has set up the stage for one of the most ridiculous line-ups in history: Jay Chou, Anita Mui, Big Bang, My Chemical Romance, System of a Down and, to...
...real estate....
...“We hope the Hong Kong government will further relax Covid measures soon,” Stewart Leung, chair of Wheelock Properties, one of the territory’s real estate conglomerates, told the Financial Times....
...Lantau Island: Mui Wo to Tung Chung via Sunset and Lantau Peaks Distance: 20km Elevation: 1,500m Time: 4hrs 15 mins Starting point: Mui Wo, which can be reached by ferry from Central Pier Six Finishing...
...“We have no plans for any widespread city lockdowns as you have seen in some of the other places,” Lam said on Tuesday, a day after the city logged 2,071 coronavirus cases with another over 4,500 pending...
...A group of Hong Kong investors will fly to Tokyo for the shopping trip of a lifetime in August: a real estate bargain hunt fuelled by the historic weakness of the yen, the unwavering policies of the Bank...
...His new health secretary, Lo Chung-Mau, who Beijing approved last week as part of a new cabinet, could have other plans....
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