Asia's Greatest Cities - some amazing facts

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for our singapore slings press lah

for shanghai shennanigans  press wai

hk has 7650 skyscrapers?

mandarin language is 700 years old...  cantonese is 2,000!!!!!   wow

Soon, Mumbai will house the highest-priced residence in the world. Local tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s US$2 billion, 27-floor skyscraper Antilla will reportedly have three helipads, six floors of parking and 600 full-time staff.

Oh yeah, that. With a built in ballroom n everything. Some term it a home... I call that a hotel

a little bit 'regal'   i nkow hes rich but i cant help feeling he's punching above his status

..  but then he wouldnt care what i thought haha

Asia non-Japan is still (possibly) in the early stages of a 20-30 year super-bull-market cycle. Commodities, property, stocks, population growth all rising quickly… education, health care, standard of living all improving dramatically… just like Western Europe 200 years ago post Industrial Revolution or the United States 100 years ago as they moved from an Emerging to a Developed market. Now it’s Asia’s turn. This year’s Asia-driven global rally in the face of so much Western uncertainty confirms this Asia-rising theory. The road to further Asian improvement will still be bumpy… but the direction of that road is now firmly set, I would argue.

This is Asia’s century: about time too!

so why you moving back to london this weekend!!

your new name will just have to be punter

Haha you got me there! Was just thinking that the other day myself... but investment wise I will remain heavily Asian focussed personally.

Euro-Asia bridge punter

turkish punter

nothing wrong with a good turkish rug... the price is very nice! You like?

reason not to go back to london #646

oh don't remind me... look at the guy front right with his back pack on... doesn't look a very happy chappy.

hey dude its ok...   you dont have to do the tube....     i hear its hot n nasty...  you can always walk   

that does look a lot better!

as long as it doesn't start raining... cold rain and dark-grey london nov-feb not looking forward to that. in spring/summer though london is nice.

Sunday sees the main event of the weekend though as a really nasty little low pressure system zips up from the southwest bringing more heavy rain and also strong winds across the whole country. The rain will clear east during the day, leaving a rash of showers in it's wake, the winds will be strongest around the coasts with severe gales likely in some parts. There's still some uncertainty over the precise track of the low pressure system so stay tune for updates on this.

Looking ahead into next week, it stays unsettled with more wet and windy weather at times - Autumn proper is back with a vengeance!