Construction

Hong Kong to get mega court to pack in the masses

25 Feb 2013

A mega court with space for 100 members of the public and dozens of litigants and lawyers, to be used for high-profile cases that are subject to intense media attention, will be built inside the...

Indonesian party chairman quits in graft case

24 Feb 2013

Anas Urbaningrum, 43, was named a suspect for allegedly receiving "gifts or a promise of gifts" in a corruption case linked to the construction of the Hambalang sports centre project near Jakarta...

New US housing starts expected to have cooled in January, analysts say

20 Feb 2013

Builders started work on 920,000 houses at an annual rate following December's 954,000 pace, which was the fastest since June 2008, according to the median forecast of 73 economists surveyed by...

Building approvals in surprise decline

6 Feb 2013

The number of permits granted to build or renovate houses and apartments fell 4.4 per cent from November, when they rose a revised 3.4 per cent, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney on Monday....

US construction industry jobs grow steadily as housing market rebounds

6 Feb 2013

Construction firms added 28,000 jobs last month, according to the January employment report. And the industry has created 98,000 jobs since September, according to annual revisions that were...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Toronto to meet office demand In 2014

More than 1.59 million square feet of so-called triple-A space will be added in Toronto next year, according to data from Cushman & Wakefield, the world's largest closely held real estate...

Engineer shortage not the problem

Your article regarding a lack of engineers in Hong Kong ("Not enough engineers to go around", January 24) requires another viewpoint.

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Public housing target unrealistic without imported labour

As a directly elected member of the Legislative Council, my responsibility is to ensure the overall interest of the community and to help find workable solutions to urgent social and economic...

BUSINESS DIGEST

Business Digest, February 1, 2013

German carmaker Daimler is planning to buy a 10-20 per cent stake in the passenger car unit of its Chinese partner BAIC Group.

CONSTRUCTION

Business and labour groups disagree over importing construction workers

Business and labour interests are set for a face-off over importing foreign workers, which one lawmaker said the government was considering to fill an estimated shortage of 5,000 people in the...

COMPANIES

Zoomlion says sales surged last year

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology, seeking to boost investor confidence after an anonymous letter questioned its sales, said business surged last year after it offered new products...