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Thai developer Sansiri targets Hong Kong buyers with affordable mini flats in Bangkok amid glut

Thai developer Sansiri targets Hong Kong buyers with ‘affordable’ mini flats in Bangkok amid glut Cheryl Arcibalcheryl.arcibal@scmp.com Thai developer Sansiri is marketing 55 units in its latest project in Bangkok to Hongkongers at prices starting from HK$500,000 (US$64,394). Photo: Handout With Thai developers struggling to dispose of a massive stock of unsold flats in Bangkok, many of them are trying to lure overseas buyers with huge discounts and bargains to whittle down the inventory and get the struggling sector back on its footing. Bangkok-listed Sansiri, one of the top three developers in the Southeast Asian nation, is marketing units as small as 231 square feet (21.5 sq metre) starting at HK$500,000 (US$64,394) to buyers from Hong Kong - a size they are familiar with but at a fraction of prices in the world s most expensive property market.

Palm oil, poster child for globalisation s wrongs, and its part in forest destruction, modern slavery and the obesity epidemic

Palm oil, poster child for globalisation s wrongs, and its part in forest destruction, modern slavery and the obesity epidemic
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China s rail spending spree in Africa is over but it s still laying down the tracks

China s rail spending spree in Africa is over but it s still laying down the tracks
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Women on boards: quota proposal gains support as Hong Kong companies drag their feet on ensuring diversity

When Ginny Wilmerding joined the board of Hong Kong-listed consumer technology company Techtronic Industries in April, it was an ambition realised after years of waiting. The 52-year-old American, a partner of communications consultancy Finsbury Glover Hering, says she wanted to be appointed to a company board for a long time. "But I was not sure how I would break through," she adds. She believes there are many more capable women in Hong Kong.

Save Lakshadweep: Indian island dwellers protest tourism development plans, fearing they will lose their homes

In Malayalam, the official language of the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, as well as in Sanskrit, the word lakshadweep means "hundred thousand islands". In fact, there are but 36 in the remote Indian archipelago of that name, which spreads across 32 sq km of the Arabian Sea, about 300km off Kerala's coast. Ten of those islands are inhabited by a total population of about 65,000, and none is wider than 1.6km. All of them, though, are under.

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