The escalating US-China trade tensions have prompted more European business chambers to seek collaboration opportunities in Qianhai, a special economic zone in Shenzhen near Hong Kong, according to a mainland-based incubator on Wednesday. Tech firms in Qianhai and Nansha, a district in southern Guangzhou, also said Hong Kong, as an international hub, now played a…
Henderson Land Development, New World Development and Sino Land are among 22 Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies that have expressed interest in a pilot scheme to develop large land parcels in the Northern Metropolis after a Beijing official urged the business sector to get involved. The Development Bureau said on Monday that it had…
Hong Kong has awarded Singapore’s Mapletree Investments a 50-year land grant to a parcel of land in the New Territories for about HK$3.68 billion (US$473 million), according to the Lands Department on Tuesday. Mapletree’s unit Titanium 2 was the sole bidder for the 44,318-square-metre (477,000 sq ft) logistics site in Tsing Yi following a tender…
Profit will determine whether a high-profile pledge of support by business heavyweights for Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis megaproject near the mainland China border will result in investment, according to economists and a developers’ representative. Some also said the pledge was only a gesture not to offend Beijing and the Hong Kong government. Stewart Leung Chi-kin,…
The Hong Kong government will consult developers and make any necessary changes to its pilot scheme for developing large land parcels in the Northern Metropolis to better leverage market forces for the construction of the megaproject near the mainland China border. The Development Bureau announced details of plots earmarked for the land-disposal pilot scheme on…
The Hong Kong government will consult developers and make any necessary changes to its pilot scheme for developing large land parcels in the Northern Metropolis to better leverage market forces for the construction of the megaproject near the mainland China border. The Development Bureau announced details of plots earmarked for the land-disposal pilot scheme on…
Dozens of villagers from a border town in Hong Kong marched to government headquarters on Sunday, demanding better terms under a resettlement plan aimed at freeing up land for the Northern Metropolis mega redevelopment. The villagers from the Hung Shui Kiu area set out from the United Centre in Admiralty at around 11am for the…
Hong Kong authorities aim to sell the first sizeable site under the Northern Metropolis next year in a bid to encourage the private sector to expedite development of the megaproject in the northern New Territories, a minister has said. Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn Hon-ho also hinted on Sunday that the government could separately sell…