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WITH a council £1.3 billion in debt and services cut to the bone, most people in hard-up Tilbury have given up on voting. The port town in Essex, which has no pub or public toilets but plenty of boarded-up shops, has one of the lowest turnouts  for elections in the country.     (Tilbury, in Essex, has one of the country's lowest voter turn-outs.Credit: Peter Jordan)   (The area has no pubs after crime-plagued venues were shuttered.Credit: Peter Jordan) Even though it is home to London’s biggest dock, a terminal for cruise liners and a huge Amazon distribution centre, the town’s unemployment rate is close to twice the national average. New...

[Unicode]   ကိုဗစ်ကာလနောက်ပိုင်း အပန်းဖြေခရီးသွားလာမှုများ တဖြည်းဖြည်းခေတ်စားလာမှုခြင်းကြောင့် ပုဂ္ဂလိကပိုင်ဆိုင်သော အပန်းဖြေနေရာများ အိမ်ခြံမြေနှင့် ဥယျာဉ်ခြံများကို စနစ်တကျဖွံ့ဖြိုးလာစေရေးအတွက် လိုင်စင်ပြုလုပ်နိုင်ရန် ဆောင်ရွက်နေကြောင်း...

Everyone has their hobbies, and one of mine just so happens to be whiling away hours on Rightmove, fantasising about living in houses I will never be able to afford. So you can bet I was pretty darn excited to discover a listing for Britain’s most expensive flat on the market for an eye-watering £175,000,000. The five-bedroom penthouse is located in the iconic One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge, London, a complex made up of four luxury apartment buildings. According to the latest Rightmove data, properties in Knightsbridge had an overall average price of £2,915,809 over the last year, making this home more than 60 times the average property price in the...

[Unicode]   ဆန်ဖရန်စစ္စကိုမှ ဘီလျံနာသူဌေးတစ်ဦးသည် လွန်ခဲ့သော ၁၅ နှစ်တာ ကာလပတ်လုံး သူ၏ စံအိမ်အနီး ပင်လယ်ကမ်းခြေသို့ အခြားသူများ လာရောက်မှု ပိတ်ပင်နိုင်ရန် ကြိုးစားအားထုတ်ခဲ့သည်။ ကယ်လီဖိုးနီးယားပြည်နယ်မှ တရားသူကြီးတစ်ဦးက ဘီလျံနာသူဌေး ဗီနော့ ခိုစလာ၏...

A group of around 1,500 homebuyers in the Chinese city of Tianjin, near Beijing, have yet to see — let alone move into to — the apartments they said they paid for about eight years ago. As is common in China, the apartment complex in Tianjin sold the units before they were completed. The promise was that they would be ready by 2019, but the majority are still unfinished, according to five of the homebuyers, who spoke to CNBC via telephone but requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. The buyers are a mix of people who paid in full upfront but also in smaller installments. Their concerns are just one example of the wider challenges that persist in pockets of...

 [Unicode]   တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းအတွင်း ထားဝယ်အထူးစီးပွားရေးဇုန် အတွင်းရှိ ထားဝယ်ရေနက်ဆိပ်ကမ်းကို ပူးတွဲအကောင်အထည်ဖော်ရန် ရုရှားနှင့်မြန်မာအကြား ကနဦးအဆင့် ဆွေးနွေးမှုစတင်နေကြောင်း ထားဝယ်အထူးစီးပွားဇုန် စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုကော်မတီထံမှသိရပါတယ်။ အဆိုပါ...

[Unicode]   မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်းရှိ အပန်းဖြေအိမ်ရာများအနက် ပင်လယ်ကမ်းခြေ နှင့်နီးကပ်သော ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းအတွင်းမှ အပန်းဖြေအိမ်ရာများမှာ ဈေးကွက်ကောင်းမွန်နေဆဲဖြစ်ကြောင်း အကျိုးဆောင်များထံမှ သိရသည်။  “ ငွေဆောင်နဲ့ချောင်းသာအနီးက အပန်းဖြေအိမ်ရာတွေ...

  The last piece of privately-owned land in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard is up for sale for a cool 300 million euros ($324 million). Spanning 14,830 acres (23.2 square miles), the land has “significant environmental, scientific and economic importance,” according to a listing from agent Knight Frank. The archipelago is located between mainland Norway and the North Pole, and has taken on greater geopolitical importance as the sea ice melts, opening new shipping routes and increasing its strategic value.   (The Arctic is of increasing geopolitical importance as climate change melts sea ice. Knight Frank) “Considering the geopolitical and strategical...

Tyson Fury has confirmed that he won’t be leaving his seven children any money as part of a potential inheritance, insisting that doing so would avoid them becoming “weak” and “spoilt”. Ahead of the Gypsy King’s blockbuster fight with Oleksandr Usyk, which will see an undisputed heavyweight champion crowned for the first time in over two decades, the 35-year-old's sizable fortune is set to grow tenfold. Though the final prize money from the bout will not be known until after they step into the ring on Saturday, May 18, Fury’s US promoter Bob Arum has already claimed that his fighter will earn more than £78million from the...

Sentiment in China’s property market rose on expectations that the government will step in to soak up unsold inventory, after plans for Hangzhou to do so came to light. However, analysts and economists remain cautious about the scope of such aid – and whether it is the best way to rescue the market. Shares of CIFI Holdings jumped 29 per cent to HK$0.49 on Thursday, the biggest increase in almost six months, while peer China Vanke rose 16 per cent to HK$5.73, extending its gain to 24 per cent this month. Authorities in Hangzhou, the capital of China’s Zhejiang province and home to Alibaba Group Holding and carmaker Geely, said on Tuesday they are planning to buy homes...