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The Death Of Social Mobility.(Special Report)(Cover story)
Byline: George Wehrfritz; With B. J. Lee in Seoul and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore
In the Asian Tiger economies, the next generation will struggle to do as well as their parents did.
On the face of it, Tin Shui Wai isn't the embodiment of urban blight. Stacked up against France's racially charged public-housing estates or America's crumbling inner-city ''projects," Hong Kong's newest satellite town looks remarkably accommodating. But the landscaped common areas, colorful residential blocks and playgrounds mask an undeniable fact: the community of 271,000, where scores of narrow towers cluster like bamboo shoots in a thicket soaring 40 stories ...
- HONG KONG: PROBE LAUNCHED INTO TIN SHUI WAI HAWKER INCIDENT.
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database June 26, 2006 700+ words
...launched into the drowning of a hawker who was trying to flee from Food & Environmental Hygiene Department officers in Tin Shui Wai today. Director of Food & Environmental Hygiene Gregory Leung expressed his condolences to the man's family, saying...
- HONG KONG NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - OCT 31, 2007.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News October 31, 2007 700+ words
...Property stocks closed lower in Hong Kong yesterday after placements of...thriving fee-based services. - Hong Kong's blue-chip benchmark surged...anyone ever doubted the claim Tin Shui Wai has become Hong Kong's "town of sadness," proof...
- HONG KONG NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - JAN 5, 2007.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News January 5, 2007 700+ words
...yuan has surpassed that of the Hong Kong dollar in Hong Kong. - Police search for bullets in Shek Po Road, Tin Shui Wai, after an officer shoots dead...a chopper. THE STANDARD: - Hong Kong stocks suffered a major setback...
- HONG KONG NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - APRIL 8, 2009.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News April 8, 2009 700+ words
HONG KONG, April 8 Asia Pulse - Highlights...biggest clothier listed in Hong Kong, hired Ronald Van der Vis...some flats in its new Tin Shui Wai project near levels last...Materials (0983), a Hong Kong-based builder, made an...
- HONG KONG TO EXTEND LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM IN NEW TERRITORIES.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News December 18, 2000 700+ words
HONG KONG, Dec 18 Asia Pulse - Hong Kong's Chief Executive-in-Council has authorised a proposal to extend the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system to Tin Shui Wai (TSW) Reserve Zone in the New Territories to meet the transport...
- HONG KONG: CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AWARD FOR PLANNED $272,000,000 VIADUCT...
- Newspaper article from: WWP-Business Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific September 1, 1999 700+ words
...contracts to a Japanese/Hong Kong joint venture. The...ENGINEERING of Hong Kong, a likely subsidiary...Long Ping to Tin Shui Wai in the northwest...Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai in the north-western...New Territories, Hong Kong International direct...
- HONG KONG: JOINT VENTURE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AWARD FOR PLANNED $145,000,000...
- Newspaper article from: WWP-Business Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific September 1, 1999 700+ words
...Rail railway project in Hong Kong. In so doing, KCRC recently...joint venture based in Hong Kong. The partners in the...Mun, Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai in the north-western...Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong International direct dial...
- HONG KONG: UPCOMING INVITATIONS TO BID ON $3,870,000,000 FIRST PHASE RAILWAY...
- Newspaper article from: WWP-Business Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific April 1, 1999 700+ words
...will involve undertaking Hong Kong's West Rail heavy railroad...Mun, Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai in the north-western...Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong International direct...FACILITATE DOING BUSINESS IN HONG KONG - CHINESE SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE...