Sydney City Walks

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Sydney home of Hong Kong telco tycoon yours for $41 million-plus

Hong Kong telco tycoon Canning Fok and his wife are cashing in on Sydney’s bullish trophy home market by putting their Vaucluse home up for sale for more than $41 million.

The listing comes less than a year after the long-time director of Vodafone Hutchison was appointed chairman of TPG Telecom after the resignation of the company’s billionaire founder David Teoh.

Fok, assistant of Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, is based in Hong Kong, where the South China Morning Post reported last year he had received an offer of about $173 million for his former family compound, made up of two neighbouring houses at the southern tip of Hong Kong Island.

Anzac Day marked across Australia as crowds return to public ceremonies and parades

Dawn ceremonies across the country have honoured the men and women who died in armed conflict while serving Australia.

Today's Anzac Day services are the first in three years to welcome the general public, after the COVID-19 pandemic heavily disrupted the 2020 and 2021 commemorations.

It was 107 years ago today that Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed on Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I.

The Anzacs were defeated after eight months, after suffering great hardships and mass casualties.

AFL Round-Up: Brisbane, Sydney and Geelong joined by Fremantle and St Kilda as round six reveals the list of challengers

At the end of a round in which Melbourne kicked 22 behinds but still won without breaking a sweat, it's high time to look at who, if anyone, can challenge them in 2022.

Welcome to the AFL Round-Up, where we digest the week that was.

Gather the chasing pack

The Demons have run roughshod over the first six weeks of this season, leading some to declare the season is as good as over in late April. In fairness, not since the 2008 Cats, 2009 Saints or 2018 Tigers has there been such a sure thing at this point in the season.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

7 TIPS TO MANAGE AND MOTIVATE REMOTE TEAMS

Hello there,

I had recently bought a business for sale in Sydney when the pandemic started spreading in the country. We had to go in a lockdown as NSW was one of the worst affected states. Anyway, we continued to work remotely but it made me very anxious as I had not yet developed a rapport with my team. It was time to pull up my socks and get in touch with each of them one-to-one to know what they were feeling. I asked HR to conduct team meeting and schedule daily calls with them to discuss all the projects and their work commitments. We also took out time to informally enjoy our discussions and it helped. Here is an article that will teach you all about managing remote workers.

https://www.business2sell.com.au/blogs/strategy/tips-to-manage-and-motivate-remote-teams

COVID pills, a holy grail vaccine and 'immune fitness': Why there's a virus 'recalibration' coming

Kerry Chant probably summed it up best: "All of us just want COVID to be gone."

The NSW Chief Health Officer was speaking at a press conference earlier this month and said while the idea of the virus vanishing was not possible, 2022 would be a year of "recalibration".

All states and territories in Australia are now living with COVID-19 and — bar occasional snap lockdowns and lockouts in some Top End communities — restrictions are, generally, being eased.

NSW's Blue Mountains could lose World Heritage status if Warragamba dam plan goes ahead: experts

Scientific advisers to the United Nations have delivered a scathing assessment of the NSW government's plans to raise Warragamba dam, prompting fears that the Blue Mountains could lose its world heritage status if the project proceeds.

In a letter to the federal government, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), said raising the dam "appears to be inappropriate in relation to the requirements of the World Heritage Convention".

Australia is a signatory to the World Heritage Convention, and under federal environment law, the federal environment minister is not allowed to approve a project that is inconsistent with the Convention.

Asian Australians' celebrations of Lunar New Year hampered by COVID

As COVID again spoils traditional Lunar New Year celebrations, Asian-Australians have been forced to keep their usually free-ranging family traditions closer to home.

For Marianne Bogard, who is of Vietnamese and French origin, celebrating both Christmas and Lunar New Year is a highlight because her mixed ethnicity means "double the fun".

However, the Year of the Tiger marks the third year in a row Ms Bogard has missed out on celebrating Tết (Vietnamese for Lunar New Year) with her Vietnamese family in Ho Chi Minh City.