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...Transactions have really dried up for high-end condos priced about RM1.5mn ($380,000) and above, and it’s affecting all sorts of areas, including international schools,” says Hussain....
...Across China, other friends tell me of villages and townships embarking on self-quarantine in the national spirit of viral defence....
...“Costs are too high to sustain these levels of activity.”...
...Xiang’e now features a handsome new primary school and apartment blocks that resemble Pudong, the district of Shanghai that oversaw the town’s reconstruction....
...In many cases, township artists entered the halls of corporate power ahead of the black capitalist class....
...Yet high-rise buildings are not to everyone’s taste....
...The young boy has a shy smile and neatly combed hair, and his smart-collared shirt is tightly tucked into a pair of flannel shorts pulled up high on his waist....
...Last stop of the day: a fish-processing plant run by Jan’s old school and military buddy, Pierre “Whitey” Marais. Whitey employs 1,400 people on land and more than 100 crew at sea....
...His well-to-do parents had been strict and deeply disappointed with his mediocre high-school grades, he said. “I don’t have a single friend and I won’t in the future . . ....
...In 1956, he was one of 156 people charged with high treason for opposing white rule....
...The declining quality of the country’s high school, university and technical school graduates has meant that businesses have been forced to increase their training budgets and invest more time in developing...
...Though one bill introduced in Congress last year would have extended the protection given consumers at least to townships and school districts, which have been hit hard by fraud, Mr Johnson said the industry...
...Hosono is heartened by the recent decision taken by one evacuated township that it is safe to return....
...Africa’s largest stock exchange sits in a gleaming high-rise building just a short drive away in Sandton, an affluent district that hosts designer shops, offices for some of the world’s top banks and an...
...“Chinese high schools are run for just a few thousand Han Chinese, whereas districts with hundreds of thousands of Uighurs have only one high school,” says Ilham Tohti, an economist at Minzu University in...
...Rajkumarchari, a 20-year-old high-school graduate who died two months ago after setting his clothes on fire....
...Naidoo plans to build the next 10 homes on state school grounds....
...She started studying high-school textbooks at home and sat her exams the next year. Then she took a degree. At the factory, meanwhile, she was promoted to supervise a production line....
...About 98 per cent of habitations are now covered by primary schools. I propose to increase the plan allocation for school education from Rs.26,800 crore in 2009-10 to Rs.31,036 crore in 2010-11....
...A few hundred metres away across the main square of Kliptown, a district at the heart of the township inextricably linked with the downfall of apartheid, dignitaries and locals jostle to catch a glimpse...
...The development will span about 114 hectares and comprise about 1.14m sq ft of space across 50 high-rise apartment buildings, 13 low-rise commercial buildings, five elementary schools, seven kindergartens...
...Instead of waiting to start recruitment efforts until promising students are in university, oil and gas companies are increasingly scouring high schools to begin offering internships that count toward experience...
...At an Obama rally in Levittown, Pennsylvania – one of the first planned US suburban townships, founded in 1951 – tickets at the mostly white event ran out within hours....
...The 1950s ranch-style property in the township that he and his former wife bought in 1994 for $200,000 is now worth about $500,000....
...A high-quality supermarket chain, Delhaize, is due to open in the next few months, and there are plans for a new tram link to the centre....
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