The problems contrast sharply with the success in China of more low-key conglomerates such as New World Development and Cheung Kong.
New World Development and Hopewell Holdings didn't respond to requests for comment.
For instance, the government is now the owner of nearly 12% of New World Development and of more than 10% of Cheung Kong, two giant property conglomerates.
New World Development, led by the family of billionaire Cheng Yu-tung, moved to expand its global hotel business by acquiring Dallas-based Rosewood Hotels and Resorts last year.
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New World Development, the Hong Kong conglomerate controlled by billionaire Cheng Yu-tung, is eyeing the spinoff of its some its hotel and hospitality assets amid a regional boom in the industry.
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Project Glass will be the first step in a revolutionary new development within the world of mobile technology.
Preserving biological diversity lies at the heart of the new vision of sustainable development that the world needs from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
Extreme global poverty could be eradicated by the end of the next decade under optimistic new targets unveiled by the World Bank that have divided development experts.
In Milan, we shared an update this week on Bosco Verticale, a new high-rise development that will feature the world's first vertical forest with large trees growing from the balconies.
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Finally, there's the extension of the No. 7 subway line from Times Square to a huge new real estate development on Manhattan's Far West Side, New York's biggest besides the World Trade Center.
These days, we are constantly hearing about a new development or breakthrough that promises to change our world.
The Institute comes at the right time, when the world is debating the contours of a new global sustainable development agenda to follow 2015.
The world is in the midst of creating a new development model that, at the corporate level, could bestow competitive advantages and create sustainable corporate futures, while fostering more equitable global economic growth and also tackling climate change.
For the first time in an almost 10-year run of urban design conferences held around the world, the French Minister of Sustainable Development selected New York and its zoning innovations for study.
Horst Kohler, the president of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has emerged as the new European candidate to run the world's most important financial institution.
Takashi Tezuka, director of Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story, is supervising the development of the new game, which is set in a fanciful world of yarn and textiles.
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Lowe believed the new rules introduced by world governing body FIA make it difficult for McLaren to gauge their development against their competitors.
"Expanding our partnership with YouTube provides another platform for extending the reach of the thousands of hours of archived baseball content in our library and for delivering live baseball games via the Internet to fans in new markets around the world, " said Kenny Gersh, Senior Vice President, Business Development, MLBAM.
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We've just about had our fill of " world's smallest" gizmos this week, but when it comes to a new development in the battery realm, we certainly won't complain with delivering power in a less burdensome manner.
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Government leaders in the United States and China, the two largest economies in the world, believed that companies from their respective countries should lead in the development of this new technology.
Given the challenges of financing major capital projects like power plants in the midst of the Great Recession, South Africa and the national utility, Eskom, have turned to the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank for assistance in financing new electric power stations.
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The roundtable also highlighted new tools and approaches such as the guidance on corporate ecosystem valuation from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development ( WBCSD), the biodiversity-responsible land management certification from the Green Development Initiative ( GDI), and the new guidance on ecosystems assessment from the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation association ( IPIECA).
New York: United Nations, that in preparation for the United Nations Financing for Development (FfD) world conference concluded, "there is a genuine need to establish, by international consensus, stable and contractual new sources of multilateral finance, " to wit, international taxes and fees.
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Many students at the event were complete novices in the world of mobile app development, but they had been lured by the prospect of an introduction to new skills and opportunities.
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Ferguson to the new position of global vice president for Cadillac, giving him responsibility for growth and development of the brand around the world.
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