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Hong Kong Property Giant Doubles Down on Services in Mainland Expansion New World Development CEO Adrian Cheng wants nonproperty services to generate as much as 30% of the property giant’s income in five to seven years. Photo: Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — New World Development Co. Ltd., one of Hong Kong’s biggest real estate companies, is accelerating its expansion into areas such as health care and insurance as it targets more business on the Chinese mainland. New World Development CEO Adrian...

The Straits Times The government in Beijing will welcome more Chinese firms expanding in Hong Kong.PHOTO: AFP PublishedApr 9, 2021, 2:49 pm SGT https://str.sg/JykK They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/...

Tencent-backed Chinese property services platform Anjuke files for HK IPO REUTERS/Bobby Yip April 8, 2021 Tencent-backed Anjuke Group Inc, an online platform that delivers real estate information, on Thursday filed an application for an initial public offering (IPO) on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.  In its prospectus, Anjuke did not disclose the offering size and timeline for the IPO. BofA Securities, Credit Suisse, and CICC are serving as joint sponsors for the proposed offe...

Rachel M. Gisselquist, a political scientist, is a Senior Research Fellow with the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and a member of the institute’s senior management team. She works on the politics of developing countries, with particular attention to inequality, ethnic politics, aid and statebuilding, democracy and democratization, and sub-Saharan African politics. Her work is published in various journals and edited volumes, including ...

Date Time UNESCO launches 2021 survey on public access to information Using Sustainable development indicator 16.10.2, the new survey will track progress on how states are adopting and implementing legally binding guarantees for public access to information. The 2021 survey on Access to Information will be launched during the World Bank online consultation for the next “World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives”. Previous surveys by UNESCO have raised awareness that states as the...

By Angie Birdsall Special to the Journal Constantine Village Council has set a special meeting to finalize the 2021-22 village budget, for 7 p.m. March 29. It includes a public hearing at 7:03 p.m to hear comments regarding the budget.  Village manager Mark Honeysett presented the council with details about the budget at the March 15 meeting. The taxable value increased from about  $38 million to $40.1 million. The rise came from increased property value assessment and new construction at Cor...

Turbidite Appoints Stan Ngai as Deputy Chief Financial Officer Stan Ngai, Deputy CFO of Turbidite HONG KONG, March 15, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Turbidite, Asia’s newest pan-Asian edge data center platform, today announced the appointment of Stan Ngai as Deputy Chief Financial Officer. Stan joins the team from Morgan Stanley where he served more than 23 years in various leadership roles across Asia Pacific. “We are pleased to have Stan on the team a...

Deepak Mishra, Practice Manager in the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice, has been appointed as the next director and chief executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He will take the charge from Rajat Kathuria who has been the director and chief executive of ICRIER since 1st September 2012. Mishra has held various positions at the World Bank, including co-director of the World Development Report 2016 (Digital...

Mishra has held various positions at the World Bank, including co-director of the World Development Report 2016 (Digital Dividends), Country Economist for Ethiopia, Pakistan, Sudan and Vietnam, the ICRIER statement added.

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