House prices in China still declining
Tweet Prices of new homes in China continued to decline last month, figures from the National Bureau of Statistics have shown. Excluding affordable housing funded by the government, house prices…
Abducted Chinese workers free at last
Tweet The 29 abducted Chinese business workers in Sudan are now free. Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 7th), all the workers who had been kidnapped safely landed at Wilson airport in Nairobi,Kenya…
Beijing office rents now 25% more expensive than New York
Tweet Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are now all amongst the top 10 most expensive places to rent office space in the world according to the latest data published by…
Sudanese rebels take Chinese workers hostage
Tweet Sudanese rebels are holding 29 Chinese workers following a fierce gun fight with the Sudanese armed forces. Chinese embassy officials in Khartoum however said that 27 workers are missing.…
Taiwan broadens its quality certification system to include tiles
Tweet The only way that Taiwan-made products can effectively compete with those from China mainland is by making sure that they are of impeccable quality. In line with this argument,Taiwan…
New home prices in Beijing down 11% in 2011
Tweet New residential apartments’ prices in Beijing dropped by 11.3% last year (2011), thanks to the policies that the Chinese government had introduced to control an overheated property market. According…
Taipei property market stumbles – new home sales down 24%
Tweet Taipei’s land administration bureau said Friday that new home sales in the city declined by 24% last year with only 85000 units having been sold. In the district of Banqiao,…
Indonesian infrastructure projects welcome passing of new land acquisition law
Tweet Indonesia’s House of Representatives last Friday endorsed the long-awaited law on land acquisition for public development inJakarta. In the past, public infrastructure projects were usually delayed as a result of…
Old Chinese cement plants to be closed to reduce environmental impact
Tweet The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Tuesday that the country is aiming to eliminate 250 million tonnes of the cement industry’s outdated production capacity in the…
Shanghai new homes volume falls again but prices recover
Tweet New home sales volumes in the key market of Shanghai fell below the 100,000m2 level yet again last week as an extremely weak sentiment continued to be displayed by…
