The Golden Week has been unofficially announced for many shopping malls. The eight shopping arcades of Sun Hung Kai Properties recorded a 30 percent increase in the number of shoppers and sales in the four days since National Day on October 1, from a year ago. In order to attract more mainland shoppers, Causeway...
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Shopping malls will be treated to something very special this year. The Delhi International Arts Festival (DIAF), the capital’s answer to the Edinburgh festival, will extend its arm to the common man, it has been said, by offering its interactive music and folk dance performances at malls and historic sites. It will be larger,...
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It has been claimed that an enormous amount of energy and money can be saved if electricity consumption is cut back, according to Yiin Chii-ming, Minister of Economic Affairs in Taiwan. Representatives of 19 major shopping malls and supermarkets took a vow on Tuesday to cut their store’s electricity use by 5 percent in...
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The Philippines was on a non-working holiday on Friday, to observe the anniversary of the death of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., the husband of former president and the world’s democracy icon Corazon Aquino. In a country that is often considered “mall-crazy”, shoppers are expected to flood the malls throughout the coming three-day long weekend in...
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Mel Simon, known for being a pioneer in the shopping mall industry (co-owner of the Indiana Pacers) died Wednesday at 82 after a short illness. Simon put in considerable years as leader of what is now called the Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group. As the son of a New York tailor, invested nearly 40 years in...
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