your reply involove many topics.
How did you so
brilliantly see so many topics when the focus is to reply to your
multiple points woven together in some senseless manner to create a
noisy piece of regurgitated and poorly digested propaganda
?
There has been
and remain only one main topic - Singapore' present poor
economic performance compared to the glowing health of Hong Kong's
economy.
7--eleven etc
salary is a good indicators of HK economoy
This chain,together with other 4 chains,employ many pple in
HK.
Can the
wages of 7-Eleven employees be a good indicator of HK's economy to
be compared with Singapore ?
Is the 7-Eleven
employee even reflective of the real picture of Hong Kong's workers
?
With Hong Kong
passing a legislation that guarantee a minimum
wage. to even Filipino maids at
HK$3,400 per
month - are you expecting anyone to believe that
the wages of the 7-Eleven employees - and across the Hong Kong
workforce - will be lower then the maids ?
30 % of
population in HK stays in rented Public housing
http://www.yearbook.gov.hk/2006/en/11_04.htm
SG has less than 10% of population stays in same type.
SG gavaman encourage pple to buy.
HK recently scrapped the rental pegged at 10% of medium
income,
may be adjusted upwards or downewards.
In 2006,about 110,000 households needs to wait for 1.9 years
to get a rented flat,costing HK$ 250--3810 pm.
Do you even know who are the 30%
Hongkongers who live in rented flats - which income group{s}
do they represent ?
Are you suggesting that the 30% of
Hongkongers living in rented Public Housing are all the
equivalent to the under-Class Singaporeans living in rented
ONE-Room HDB units ? Are you must be deluding yourself in your
usual noisy ways ?
Have you seen the number of
Classified Ads that also offer HDB flats for rent ?
Has the HDB not similarly adjusted
the income levels to allow singles and married couples to rent
excess HDB units ?
The fact that the Singapore
Government prefer Singaporeans to buy the flats is obvious,
considering the amount of profits that can be made from the sale of
the HDB flats - with current 1000sq fr 4-room HDB new flats ranging
from S$200,00 in Sengkang to $400,000 in Telok Blangah.
Do you believe that with the
present HDB queuing scheme there is a shorter time than
the 1.9 years waiting time experienced in Hongkong ?
Can HDB complete their building
projects in less then 2 years ?
The areas of rental public housing range from few hundred to
about
600 sq ft.
Sale of HK
public flat----less
than balance of 40 yrs in land lease
This type just like SG direct sale of HDB flat.
Many here complain SG 99 years.
Has the noisylion again
deluded himself with his own noise, and forgotten to check the
facts ?
Have you considered that the
smallest HDB flat offered for rent in Singapore is the
HDB
1-Room Flat Size : 26 sq M or approx. 260 sq ft
is smaller than the 600 sq
ft offered in the HongKong "public housing rental scheme"
?
Have you checked some
of the remaining lease of some of the HDB units that are
offered for resale ?
Did you check that even the brand
new HDB Studio
Apartments for elderly offered with 30 year
lease are
being offered for sale ?
HK is shorter,land lease runs up to 2047,less than balance of 40
yrs!!
can u suffer few hundred sq feet as shown in your link?
It costs S$100,000 in Tin Shiu Wai,famous for its remote
location and frequent family incidents.
It is also called 'Town of
Sorrow''.
Have you checked the frequency of
suicides in Singapore ?
A post in this Speakers'
Corner in February 2008 had included the following:
2006:
A total of 419 people committed suicide in 2006, up from 346 in
2003. The suicide rate per 100,000 residents - a sobering indicator
in population statistics - is also on the upswing, growing from 9.3
in 2003 to 10.3 in 2006, figures from the Registry of Births and
Deaths reveal. It is the fourth straight rise in as many years.
(ST, Aug 13, 2007) (link)
If Tin Shiu Wai is given the title
of Town of Sorrow for the suicide rates, should Singapore be given
the sobriquet of being a "City of Sorrow" ?
if not, u have to pay S$175,000 for
a 50 sq meter tiny unit in Sha Tin
!!
Can u take the small size?
Perhaps the 26 sq M of an HDB
ONE-Room flat will be suitable for a noisy cat living alone with
his noise ?
HK pple suffer
a lot from Park'N Shop and Wellcome
supermarkets
and almost all
shopping centers in public
housing sold to
one
company
They monopolyise the market,thanks to HK gavaman sold
ALL SHOPPING CENTERS IN PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES!!
Imagine if HDB sells shopping centers in all estates to
private company,
what would u do?
Are Singaporeans not made to
be dependent to some supermarket chain named Fairprice, that
has prices being anything but fair to the consumers who are the
economic digits of the Singapore economy ?
Was HDB not the major landlord in
Singapore for more then 30 odd years, until they forced all the
tenants to purchase the old shop lots, rather then bear the cost of
upgrading and renovations ?
Are the main shopping centers in
Singapore not owned by Capital Land, or NTUC, or Temasek, or some
other GLC ?
Now in HK.It is the case.What can HK pple do?
Protests?Done already.No change to the truth.
All have been sold.Protests in HK cant solve all the
problems.
The HK gavaman sold all these because it needed $$.
Do your home work lah.My fren?
http://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/commercial/0,,,00.html
In November 2005, the Housing Authority (HA) divested 180
retail and car parking facilities to The Link Real Estate
Investment Trust (The Link REIT). These properties are now run by
The Link Management Limited, the company established for the
purpose of managing The Link REIT.
Does the noisylion know what is an
"Investment Trust" - and more so the purpose of a Real Estate
Investment Trust ?
With your displayed intelligence
in squawking everything and anything to promote your Singapore by
deriding others - do you have any honor left in yourself
compared to the cat that has far more honor then you as a
human ?
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U better read more HK papers and listen to their Call--ins
to know the prices of these chains.
They dominate in all public housing estates.
Here,NTUC Fairprice super. still have to worry votes every 5
years.
If you have been doing any
reading yourself, it certainly have not been displayed in the
responses that you have given todate.
It is either due to the Singapore
education that you have received that has been determined to have
the poor result of making the adult population being not
literate.
INflations highest in so many years is because
PAP controlled the cost of living so well in the
past!!
control almost all shopping centers in public housing
http://www.thelinkreit.com/
Are you admitting that the PAP has
controlled the cost of living so well in the PAST
- and NOT presently ?
If you do not understand
what Real
Estate Investment Trust - REIT is all about, the list you can do is to give some
due diligence in educating yourself, and find out some information
that would have saved you some usual embarrassment of falling
flat on your own pile of crap.
The Link REIT is but one of
amongst 7 REITs that were established in Hong Kong since 2005
- for the purpose of investment in properties as a Mutual Fund,
whose shares are offered to the Hong Kong public.
Are you having any quarrel with
Hong Kong's REIT - with The Link as your primary target
?
Do you know that
The Link
REIT is at least in
private hands - in the manner that Hong Kong public hold shares in
this Mutual Fund that is set up to develop and control properties
?
Unlike in Singapore, the main
shareholders of the property holding companies are all Government
Linked Companies, with the Board of Directors being appointees by
the Government.
