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Hong Kong’s famous floating restaurant sunk after bankruptcy
A famous three-story floating restaurant on a lake in Hong Kong sunk after its owner went bankrupt. Floating for four decades on Aberdeen Harbor Lake, Jumbo Floating Restaurant has been under financial turmoil for more than two years, with the owner unable to continue operating. Classic Chinese style, the floating restaurant is not only a […]
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Apple moves iPad production from China to Vietnam
Apple has set up an iPad factory in Vietnam after its production line in China was affected by strict measures of Covid 19 in China, the company’s largest manufacturing facility. With small-scale production in the early stages in Vietnam, the company said, setting up a factory in Vietnam would diversify the production chain, reducing dependence […]
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Aeon Mall Plans to Invest in Four More Malls in Hanoi
Japanese retail giant Aeon Mall plans to invest in three or four more projects in Hanoi by 2025. Nagakawa Tetsuyuki, General Director of Aeon Mall Vietnam mentioned the business plan in a recent meeting with Hanoi Party Secretary Dinh Tien Dung, last week. Tetsuyuki said he hopes Hanoi will continue its support so the Aeon […]
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Real Estate Sector in the Philippines Neutral
The real estate sector in the Philippines is currently seeing neutral growth with no progress after the national election posting myriad challenges to the country’s economic growth. J.P. Morgan Global Research has downgraded the Philippines to ‘underweight’ and ranked it last in the order of preference in ASEAN in its equity investment strategy immediately after […]
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10-Year-Old Condos in GTA Cost 19% More Than When Newly Built
On 9 May, Tokyo Kantei announced the results of its Survey on ‘Resale Value (RV) of 10-Year-Old Condominiums in the Greater Tokyo Area for 2021.’ The study focused on 9 -10-year-old secondhand condos listed throughout 2021 and compared them to their original listed price when brand new; data of which Tokyo Kantei is the go-to […]
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WealthPark: US$260 Trillion of Globle Residential Real Estate Eight Time Bigger Than Commercial Real Estate
The total global value of residential real estate is approximately US$260 trillion, about eight times the size of commercial real estate, including office buildings and retail facilities, according to a 2022 study report by the technology company, WealthPark. In the report, according to the President of WealthPark Lab, Mr. Kay Kato, housing is the largest […]
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Ellis Walk: Access North Carolina with a Lennar Property
Advertorial Golden Gate Global works closely with Lennar to offer real estate investors exclusive opportunities for U.S. home purchases through Lennar’s extensive inventory of residential communities in 21 states of the USA. Demand for U.S. real estate among Asian investors has steadily increased in recent years. Cambodian investors can now buy homes in the Lennar […]
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Evergrande vows to deliver 39,000 units of properties in December despite debt defaulting
China Evergrande Group has vowed to accelerate their construction works with the aim to deliver 39,000 units of properties within this year, despite being downgraded to restricted default earliest this month. According to CNN, Evergrande Chairman Hui Ka Yan said during a meeting on Sunday 26 December that no one at Evergrande would be allowed […]
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The 16th PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards Grand Final celebrates the Gold Standard bearers of real estate
THE BEST OF ASIA DISTINGUISHED IN CELEBRATORY VIRTUAL FINALE OF THE 2021 PROPERTYGURU ASIA PROPERTY AWARDS SERIES • Mekong Land Development Co., Ltd. from Cambodia won the title of the Best Breakthrough Developer (Asia) • Country winners from Vietnam, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Greater Niseko (Japan) collect coveted regional accolades […]
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UN-Habitat, S. Korea to Build Floating City, Pioneering New Living Amid Rising Sea Level
A floating city is planned to be built offshore of South Korea’s Busan city and will become a model floating city for city development to coastal cities around the world amid the issues of rising sea levels and climate changes. The project is a cooperation between UN-Habitat, the South Korean government, and Oceanix, a company […]
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