News in brief
HONG KONG
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The Government is planning a HK$25.5 million housing estate for low income families on waterfront land facing Sulphur Channel Kennedy Town. About seven blocks of 24 to 26 storeys each are propos ed, providing accommodation for 15,000 people. Also envisaged are a three-deck garage and a playground at 40 ft. above the waterline. Work is expected to start in 1966 and to take three years to complete.
Fook Lee Co., Ltd. have been given a contract by the Government to lay water pipelines in Kuntong and Saumauping residential Work will start soon on the contract, which is worth HK$1.1 million.
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First 16-storey building to provide homes for 5,700 people will be started shortly at Shek Pai Wan resettlement
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It will take about 17 months to build.
Work on another resettlement flatted factory will start in February at Tsun Wan. The seven-storey building will contain 86,000 sq. ft. of floor space in 336 working units.
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North Point Kaifong Advance- ment Association plans to erect six-storey primary school at the junc- tion of King's Road and Tin Chiu Road, North Point. It will accom- modate about 2,000 pupils and will cost HK$1.2 million.
Three investment companies who bought an 81,990 sq. ft. plot at Kun- tong at a public auction in October, are to build a multi-storey godown on the site to serve the new industrial zone. The companies are Tim Man Investment Co., Ltd., Pa Ling Invest- ment Co., Ltd., and Hung Wah Co., Ltd.
MALAYSIA
Singapore Housing and Develop- ment Board is working on plans to develop about 27 acres of land at Kampong Tiong Bahru. Low-cost flats will be built.
Federation of Malaya Government Officers' Co-operative Housing Socie- ty has launched its most ambi- tious housing scheme. Covering 259 acres at Sungei Way Village, near Petaling Jaya, it will cost about M$30 million, The first stage, 183 houses on 40 acres, will be completed in about 13 months. Other proposals being drawn up by the society are for 700 houses on 130 acres at Johore, 500 houses at Malacca, 300 at Seremban, 500 at Ipoh and 600 at Penang.
Mobil Oil Co. has announced that it plans to invest M$73 million in Malaysia. More than $40 million will be spent on refinery at Singapore.
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Work is about to start on two flyovers along Bukit Timah and Dunearn Roads at the junction of Farrer Road and Adam Road,
Singapore. Each will cost M$1 mil- lion and will be 2,425 ft. long and 24 ft. wide. Completion is scheduled by the middle of 1966.
A total of 170 low-cost houses are to be constructed at four local coun- cil areas in the Muar district, at a cost of M$870,000. They will be at Tangkak, Bukit Kangkar, Bakri and Pagoh. The Central Government is also to spend $300,000 on building three reservoirs in the Segamat dis- trict.
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allocated M$24.83 million in the Singapore Govern- ment's 1965 development estimates. Of this total $1.2 million is towards the cost of building three secondary academic schools, $1 million is for six secondary vocational schools, $1 million for six primary schools and $1.5 million for three secondary academic schools.
Asian Cement Corporation, Tai- wan, is to establish a plant in Malay- sia later this year It will produce 200,000 metric tons of cement year.
TAIWAN
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A big stride towards the resettle- ment of squatters has been made in Taipei with the completion of housing project in Nanchichang. This consists of nine blocks contain- ing 1,264 units. The Taipei City Government is to build a grade school close to the site.
Taipei County Government reports that work will soon be under way on a new dam on the Tamsui River at Sanchung. Extending from Chungsing Bridge to Taipei Bridge, it will be 3,900 metres long. The construction cost is estimated at NT$29 million.
Chinese and American irrigation experts will soon complete their re- port on the proposed US$100 million Tseng Wen Chi reservoir in South Taiwan. If carried out the project would increase the country's annual rice output by some 70,000 metric tons and its power-generating capacity by 100,000 KWs.
Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation is to build a 100,000-ton dry dock in
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co-operation with Mr. T.Y. Yung, shipping magnate, of Hong Kong. Work may start with in the next two months, for completion at the end of the year.
Taipei City Government is to set aside over NT$231 million in its 1965 budget for implementing five road projects in the city. Largest will be a NT$24 million, 1,000 metres long road between Ai Ko West Road and a new community at Nanchichang.
The City Government has adopted a sewerage plan which calls for con- struction of a complete underground drainage system and three disposal centres in the city. Total outlay on the scheme, NT$522 million, will be financed by a World Bank loan.
THAILAND
The Public Welfare Department is planning to build new flats for low income people which can be bought on an instalment basis. The flats, to be constructed at Din Daeng Road, Bangkok, will cost between 30,000 and 40,000 baht. The cost will be re- payable by tenants over ten to 15 years.
The 1966 Asian Games are to be held in Bangkok, and a new main stadium holding 60,000 is to be built for the occasion.
Ten blocks in the Government's low income group housing project have been completed at Din Daeng Road, Bangkok. They contain 636 rooms and cost 30 million baht. The Welfare Department has plans for building a total of 79 blocks to accommodate 5,000 families.
An agreement has been signed be- tween Thailand and Japan for the establishment of a training centre for road construction engineers in Southern Thailand. Japan will pro- vide a total of about 150 million yen worth of facilities for the centre which will be built in Songkhla. The centre will be staffed by ten Jap- anese experts.
PHILIPINES
The National Power Corporation will undertake four major projects during 1965 at a cost of P33,290,000. These include the Maria Cristina hydro-electric scheme, Bataan thermal plant, Ilocos electrification plan and Southern Luzon project, stage 1.
People's Homesite and Housing Corporation has filed an application for a P7 million loan from the Gov- ernment Service Insurance System to finance the development of two low- cost housing projects in Naga City and San Fernando, Pampanga.
Manila's Bureau of Public Works has signed a P6 million contract with Omega Development Corpora- tion for the improvement of Pier No. 3 at South Harbour.
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