Living in a cubicle in ASIA'S WORLD CITY

This is just reality for many people, families here in Hong Kong. Please read the below - also remember the fire a few days ago in a building with many divided flats killing 4 people because they could not get out in time:
CUBICLE LIFE

Sell, buy, rent, lease property in Hong Kong without agent

Here the link to a good site called zero agent property - ZAP !
This is a good idea. The site is quite new so not so many projects listed there and unfortunately
most of them in the typically "expat districts". Lets hope it will get more and more with the time.
Actually it is no need to use some of this agents to sell, buy or rent / lease out your HK property.
Please spread the site it's worth having something like that - please click here:
ZERO AGENT PROPERTY
Please note this link I have put on my blog list on top - use it - spread it - save the money paid to agents for what ?

China Considers New Tax for Foreigners

Here from the WALL STREET JOURNAL - some new tax issue with what intention behind ? You follow this and then ask yourself if you will be part of the scheme when will you ever benefit of the amounts you have paid in ? Never I guess - please read here in detail:
READ FULL STORY HERE

Jumped from 26th floor

Today a man jumped down two buildings next to where I am staying. My wife & my son passed the scene when he was already covered by a police blanket. The shoes were still looking out. My son did not recognized the seriousness. Later we heard that this was a mainland father had a dispute with his adult son about money (is there anything else in HK than MONEY ?). The son left & then the father jumped. It was a very bright and nice day today & I just wonder what in the world can be so bad that somebody is that brave (or coward ?)to jump instead just face the problem and get it settled somehow.
This song is dedicated to the unknown jumper - ACROSS THE UNIVERSE.

SHENZHEN POLICE BIKE

Mail from Gaddafi daughter.........?

Believe it or not - I have received an email from Gaddafi's daughter. Her name is Aisha & she has a "hug amount of money" which needs my assistance to transfer from somewhere to another place. With "hug" I guess she means "huge".
But actually I guess this is just some kind of new spam / set-up like all the others well known coming from some african countries. Not very much related to anything with China - but it will not take long time & we will have similar coming from China - Cheers. Here the original wording from this email:
quote
Good day
sir
This message may come to you as a surprise I am contacting you because of the problem we are having in my country Libya which the problem is getting more tough everyday I am. Aisha Gaddafi the daughter of Muammar Gaddafi the president of Libya I am right now in west Africa I have some hug amount of money which I need a foreign
partner to invest if you are interested to assist me on this transaction which I will compensate you get back to me for more detail and also keep it confidential reply
me on this email: aisha11122@live.com
send me your full name, address, telephone number including your occupation
Yours sincerely
Aisha Gaddafi
unquote

HONG KONG: Mark 6 Crazy - THE RESULTS

The lucky numbers: 13 - 15 - 18 - 30 - 32 - 48 + extra number = 8 (lucky number !)
3 first prices pay HKD 44,509,550.00 each
11.5 2nd prices pay HKD 1,388,690.00 each
481.5 3rd prices pay HKD 88,440.00 each
Total turnover HKD 342,962,710.00 !
I also won: HKD 40.00 - Cheers !

HONG KONG: Mark 6 Crazy

Hong Kong Mark Six lottery jackpot is now 100 Million Hong Kong Dollar.Next draw is on Friday 20.05. - means today.
Until closing of Thursday night tickets turn-over was HKD 171 Million.
Lets bet they will at least crack the HKD 250 Million in selling by this evening
before closing the selling at 9.15 pm HK time.
But one thing please somebody explain to me:
They are all saying 1st price is now 1 Billion - actually 1 Billion = 1,000 Millions -
how can this be HKD 100 Million ? 1 Billion is much more than HKD 100 Million.
I know the chinese have problems with too many zero's - I have checked already
Wikipedia & other sources but couldnt find any clear explanation why they call
HKD 100 Million 1 Billion.
Anybody has a clue on this ?

CHINA STATISTICS FROM THE ECONOMIST

Please read yourself - this is from the ECONOMIST

Comparing Chinese provinces with countries

All the parities in China

Which countries match the GDP, population and exports of Chinese provinces?

China is now the world’s second-biggest economy, but some of its provinces by themselves would rank fairly high in the global league. Our map shows the nearest equivalent country. For example, Guangdong's GDP (at market exchange rates) is almost as big as Indonesia's; the output of both Jiangsu and Shandong exceeds Switzerland’s. Some provinces may exaggerate their output: the sum of their reported GDPs is 10% higher than the national total. But over time the latter has consistently been revised up, suggesting that any overstatement is modest.
What about other economic yardsticks? Guangdong exports as much as South Korea, Jiangsu as much as Taiwan. Shanghai’s GDP per person is as high as Saudi Arabia’s (at purchasing-power parity), though still well below that in China’s special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau. At the other extreme, the poorest province, Guizhou, has an income per head close to that of India. Note that these figures use the same PPP conversion rate for the whole of China, but prices are likely to be lower in poorer provinces than in richer ones, slightly reducing regional inequality.
Correction, February 25th: The original figure given for Hong Kong's exports included re-exports. This has been changed to refer to domestic exports only.
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