Keppel Corp plans to build an international school in Tianjin, China. It is teaming up with education groups EtonHouse International and Chiway Holding to develop the first international school in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City. The three partners will also jointly develop residential apartments on an adjoining site 10-hectare site. Together they plan to invest as much as 1 billion yuan (S$220...
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City
COULD Singapore spark the green revolution in China, a country recently named in a University of California report as the world's "biggest polluter"? This possibility is being raised as the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City — the first collaboration of its kind between Singapore and Beijing since the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) in 1994 — takes off. Using the lessons from the Housing and Development...
The mega eco-city project in Tianjin, which is jointly planned by China and Singapore, will be completed in 10 to 15 years. But a glimpse of the whole city can be seen in as early as three years when a start-up area is completed, according to National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan, who is leading the Singapore team in the project. This urban development will not take place at the expense of the...