Foreign Property News | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
Rocker John Fogerty is ready to part with his celebrity-pedigreed equestrian estate in Los Angeles and has listed it for $21.5 million. (An aerial look at the property Picture: Google Earth) The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman hasn’t owned the 10,460-square-foot house, located in the city’s guard-gated community of Hidden Hills, for long. (The Hidden Hills home is set on two acres. Picture: Google Earth) He purchased it from actor Sylvester Stallone almost exactly six months ago, in early October, for $17.2 million. (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone attend “The Expendables 3” private dinner....
Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
If you're in the market for a spook-tacular vacation, then make a beeline for Alton in Southwest Illinois.If you dare. Alton has a deserved reputation as the most haunted small town in America, with a long roll-call of ghostly residents, from phantom nuns to a bank robber who haunts the local Irish pub and hotel guests... who can never leave. We asked Cory Jobe, President & CEO of Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau, how long Alton has had the reputation as a hauntings hotspot. He said: 'Situated on the banks of the Mississippi River, Alton was founded in 1818, but its history is much older with Native Americans having inhabited the land prior to the town being founded. When...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
In September 1933, a humble wooden hut on a secluded Norfolk heath became the improbable location of one of the most important hideouts in history. Nearly a century later, the rarely told story of the three weeks Albert Einstein spent holed up in a heathland bothy, on the run from Nazi assassins, has been turned into an unusual type of docudrama. Netflix’s Einstein and the Bomb will shine a light on how the celebrated German Jewish scientist’s brief sojourn on Roughton Heath came at a crossroads in his life – and, consequently, changed the course of history. “It was only as we looked closer that we realised quite what a seismic moment in his life it was,”...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Anil Ambani's failure story serves as a sobering lesson in how bad business choices and a lack of foresight can bring down a once-thriving empire. With $42 billion in assets, Anil Ambani ranked as the sixth richest businessman in the world following the split of Reliance. Anil Ambani, on the other hand, went from a peak to nothing, while Mukesh Ambani grew his business and rose to become one of the richest industrialists in the world. Anil Ambani's own choices led to his downfall. He started many companies simultaneously, without proper planning or vision. He dreamed big dreams of becoming a big player in telecom, power, infrastructure, and entertainment sectors, but his plans were...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
Engineers in a Chinese city have moved a bus terminal to a new location by pushing the entire five-storey building across the ground. To relocate the massive 30,000-tonne structure whole, workers put hundreds of hydraulic jacks under it and laid rolling tracks for it to slide along. The building is equivalent to four Eiffel Towers in weight and was moved in the space of 40 days to give way to bullet trains. (The Houxi Long Distance Bus Station in China was pushed forwards along railings to relocate) (Hundreds of hydraulic jacks would rise and move forwards, bringing the structure along) The Houxi Long Distance Bus Station is situated in the Jimei...