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  • Property prices to fall 10-15pc

    (18 mins ago) Property prices in Hong Kong have dropped by 10 to 15-percent this year, according to executives from the surveying firm, Jones Lang LaSalle. The company's managing director, Joseph Tsang Hon-ping, said it's the result of a strengthening US dollar, rather than the government's cooling measures, RTHK reports. He said instead of bringing down prices, temporary ...

  • Damascus Property Market Picks Up as Syrian Pound Tumbles

    As Syrian authorities try to stem a currency collapse, real-estate agents in Damascus say business has never been better since the civil war began. Hussein Youssef, manager ...

  • Delhis Connaught Place among worlds most expensive office spaces

    office areas in the world are in Asia, as demand by global companies to locate there outstripped the supply, according to a semiannual report released on Thursday by real estate services ...

  • SNS Reaal property boss resigns

    Jaap van Dijk, head of the Property Finance division of SNS Reaal, has resigned, according to sources at the company quoted in the Telegraaf. The troubled property division lost €941m on its loans in 2012, a figure that had to be written off by the financial services group. In total, the group posted a loss of €972m in 2012. It was nationalised by the government earlier this year. ...

  • UAEs Adma-Opco awards $766 mln contract to local firm

    production of crude oil . The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to develop the Umm Lulu field has been awarded to Abu ...

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A Woman is a Woman (Une femme est une femme) [DVD]

A Woman is a Woman (Une femme est une femme) [DVD]

Jean-Luc Godard spend the decade of the 1950s writing influential film criticism for the French journal Cahiers du cinma, and when he launched his own filmmaking career in 1959, he dove in and never looked back. In just over a year, from 1959 to 1960, he had completed three ... ...

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  • Prime central London property prices inflate bubble fears

    now comfortably through the half-a-million pound mark, at 515,243 . It sounds a lot, but in some parts of the capital it is small change.Land Registry figures show the most expensive areas of the country - and those that have seen some of the biggest increases in prices - are the neighbourhoods that estate agents like to call "prime central London".The property boom in these places - ...

  • Top firm to invest in Sri Lankas multi-million property project

    After Sri Lanka's government attracted US$500 million from Hong Kong based Shangri-La to develop the country's first ever seven-star hotel in Colombo, the country's Board of Investment (BOI) is in the process of finalising a $640 million mixed-development project in the heart of the country's commercial capital. Minister of Investment Promotion Lakshaman Yapa Abeywardena ...

  • Kenya Top Real Estate Investors Developers Meet in Nairobi

    A two-day seminar that brings together international real estate investors, developers and lenders with interests across Africa starts in Nairobi today. Africa GRI 2013 is being held for the first time and will be hosted at the Eka Hotel. The organiser - Global Real Estate Institute - runs its activities through a series of annual meetings focused on various regions globally. GRI describes ...

  • SNB lauds UBS Credit Suisse capital steps warns on leverage

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A worker uses a cordless screwdriver to fix the logo of Swiss bank Credit Suisse at a branch office in Zurich February 4, 2013. REUTERS/Arnd ...

  • US landlords from hell plead guilty to stalking burglary in attempts to evict tenants

    This undated photo released by the San Francisco Office of the District Attorney shows Nicole Macy. A couple prosecutors dubbed the ';landlords from hell'; for going to scary lengths to drive tenants from a San Francisco apartment building has pleaded guilty to several felonies. Prosecutors said Wednesday that 37-year-old Nicole Macy and 38-year-old Kip Macy threatened to shoot ...

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