With cash demand peaking next year as the group's five rail projects enter their final stages, the group said its net debt-equity ratio, which edged up 0.6 percentage point to 11.6 per cent, would...
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26 Aug 2013
MTR's new rail projects are expected to strain the firm's cash position over the next two years, with a dearth of profit from property sales over the past 18 months compounding its predicament.
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6 Aug 2013
So who can fault me for saying that MTRC stands for Modern Town Redevelopment Company when our metro system's finance man, Lincoln Leong, himself pushes this line?
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27 Jun 2013
The MTR Corporation is confident it will be able to find 2,400 construction workers and other professionals at a job exposition this weekend for its five mega projects despite a shortage of labour...
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20 Jun 2013
The MTR next year will stop charging Octopus card users the extra 10 cents per trip to pay for platform screen doors.
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8 Jun 2013
The MTR will give fare concessions of just HK$200 million this year after the 2.7 per cent fare rise kicks in at the end of month. This is only a third of the concessions it gave last year.
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More than a third of the civil works for the new South Island Line (east) have been completed, the MTR said - with some help from new technology.
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A recently revised fare-adjustment mechanism that penalises any suspension of services lasting more than eight hours made such a fine possible, Secretary for Transport and Housing Professor...
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Excavation work at a To Kwa Wan railway construction site has been suspended after more than 50 residents were evacuated because of reports that nearby buildings were shaking.
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'Success' for strikers has hurt society
I am glad to hear that the strike by dockworkers has come to an end following their acceptance of a 9.8 per cent pay rise.
I did not share any...
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MTR Corporation's commercial director Jeny Yeung said passengers would continue to get a 10 per cent discount when they took a second trip on the same day, after the first phase of the scheme ends...
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After a few months of negotiations with the Mass Transit Railway Corporation, the government said it had struck a new deal that makes fare adjustments more affordable. Instead of the original 3.2...
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