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Golden Emperor Properties has continued to actively give back to the community. Our company hosted a Charity Banquet in Admiralty last week and we are delighted for the support from our community of clients and the amount of donations and sponsorship received. The banquet was a meaningful evening to enjoy some wine and cuisine in addition to entertainment performed by a guest singer.

The banquet received an overwhelming amount of donations and support from Mrs. Alice Lee, Sales Director of Golden Emperor Properties, Mrs. Cubie Chan, Product Director of Golden Emperor Properties and Professor Herman M.C. Lau. Our community of clients were especially generous with their support and donations. All proceeds of the event, excluding Golden Emperor’s administrative cost, will go the Hong Kong Stroke Association to aid and encourage stroke survivors undergoing recovery and psychiatric treatment and provide additional support to their families.

Photo Above: Ms. Alice Lee (fourth from the left), Sales Director of Golden Emperor, joins our clients for a group photo.

Photo Above: Professor Herman M.C. Lau, sings along with our guest singer, Yuen Yuen.

Photo Above: Mrs. Cubie Chan (second from the right), Product Director of Golden Emperor, poses with our clients.

Photo Above: We received a large amount of support and donation for the evening.

Photo Above: Golden Emperor Properties, as the host of the night, donates HKD 20,000 to The Hong Kong Stroke Association.

Photo Above: Mrs. Alice Lee, Sales Director of Golden Emperor, receives a certificate from The Hong Kong Stroke Association.

Photo Above: Professor Herman M.C. Lau donates a collection of red wine to the night for charity and received a generous amount of support from Golden Emperor’s community of clients.

A French breakfast by the Rivera, an afternoon stroll on the Great Wall of China and a night admiring the starry sky in the plains of Alaska, is a day soon-to-be possible. UK Reaction Engines Limited (REL) is now performing extensive research on an aircraft to take its riders from point to point in the world within just 4 short hours.

The Sabre Engine

Skylon, REL’s aircraft, will be powered by a new high-tech engine, SABRE. The company has began early testing on this superior engine and has plans to perform the first test flight in 2019. REL asserts that the speed of SABRE will be capable in generating a speed 5 times the speed of sound or send a rocket-like craft into space at 25 times the speed of sound into the Earth’s orbit.

Mr. David Willetts, UK Minister for Universities and Science, believes Skylon will completely alter our way and experience in future travel.

Willetts expresses, “The engine being developed by Reaction Engines is a potential game-changer in terms of space technology. This successful testing validates the assessment made of the engine concept by the UK Space Agency back in 2010 and is yet another example of the UK’s world class space industry. It would be a fantastic achievement if we could one day use this home-grown technology for our own commercial space launches.”

A Cheaper Space Travel

In July, 2013, with initial testing by European Space Agency (ESA), UK invested a total of £60 million to develop a prototype of the SABRE engine, citing the viability of the core technologies based on the testing done by ESA. In June, 2014, ESA’s service study reported that Skylon may potentially, be the first and the most effective space travel invented in modern age.

Each Skylon aeroplane is estimated to cost around US $1.1 billion to build. The cost is seemingly expensive but UK’s Association of Aeorspace Universities suggests if Skylon is launched, the revenue generated could cover the initial manufacturing and operating costs and make profits for its operators once the service is established in the industry.

REL has also undergone research to review the possibility of Skylon as a commercial aircraft and found that the upright seats could be suitable for a 14-day trip in the air if it stays in zero G-force. It would, ultimately cost about €350,000 per person, which very few could afford. But REL states that the cost will drop significantly once the technology becomes common and standardized.

Hybrid Engine System

SABRE requires a high-technology cooling system, which can intake air from the engine within one-hundredth of a second (0.001 s) and cool the air from over 1000 degrees Celsius to -150 degrees Celsius, to increase the efficiency of the engine.

SABRE is also a hybrid engine. Besides the cooling system, the other engine is capable of reduce the weight carried by the quantity of oxidizers during the combustion process, which is equivalent to the engine of a rocket.

Source: Tomorrow Science

Behold, for the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine will soon debut in the UK. GE Renewable Energy will launch its 12mW Haliade-X project in partnership with ORE Catapult off shore in Blyth, UK after 5 years of testing and research and an investment sum of US $400 million. The wind turbine, is scheduled to complete assembly by 2019 and be in full operation in 2021.

Haliade-X will stand high at a height of 260 meters with the world’s largest 12MW electric rotor, with a large diameter of 220 meters across comprising of 3 blades each extending at 107 meters. She will not only be the largest wind turbine in the world, but the most powerful with a gross capacity factor at a high 63%. Haliade-X can generate 67 GWh annually, 45% more AEP than the most powerful machines on the market today.  One Haliade-X turbine can will generate enough clean power to supply to 16,000 European households.

The future Haliade-X and the present Haliade 150 6MW wind turbines are currently under structural testing at Blyth’s ORE Catapult lab complex. Engineers and specialists will perform a series of design validation on the mega machine’s major electronic and cooling systems. System architects are at the same time creating an IT-based data collection system, set to be the world’s strongest computed design validation system.

Manufacturers have expelled their effort into mega-scale wind turbine research and production. Mega scale turbines can bring a higher profitability to customers and provide significant savings as one mega scale turbine can replace a dozen smaller ones. Such technology can additionally decrease the complicated installation processes, minimize the maintenance cost and time, and increase the efficiency and performance of the machines.

Mr. John Lavelle, president and CEO of GE’s offshore Wind business, said the agreement and partnership with ORE Catapult is a significant collaboration as it would help accelerate the development of ground-breaking technology into wind turbine engineering. “Traditional testing methods rely on local winds and conditions and would therefore limit testing results. With ORE’s professionalism and expertise, we will be in a better position to adapt our technology to improve the technology performance, reduce unplanned maintenance, increase availability and power output and also create new features to meet customers’ demands,” he continued.

UK Energy and Clean Growth Minister, Claire Perry agreed with GE’s approach to the turbine project. “Through our Industrial Strategy, we will be able to make UK a leader in renewable resource technology and this offshore wind project will gain a large amount of support from the crowd and create more job opportunities for the nation.”

The world’s current largest wind turbine is Denmark’s Vestas’s 8.8MW wind turbine and its internal restructure has increased the capacity by 0.4MW installed in the Scotland EOWDC earlier this year. If GE successfully installs Haliade-X off the coast of England in 2021, this ground-breaking technology will take the throne to be the largest wind turbine installed in the world.

Source: Energy Trend

This month, the English royal family will welcome the long-awaited wedding for Prince Harry and his bride-to-be, Megan Markle. The nuptials will take place at Windsor Palace on May, 19^th, two weeks from now. England will spend a fortune on this wedding costing at £32 million. According to CNBC, however, although the wedding will cost the country a fortune, the wedding will generate a £100 million capital for UK businesses.

Since Kensington Palace announced the location of the wedding, Windsor’s luxury hotels have additionally been capitalized and have been fully booked on the wedding day. One hotelier opposite of Windsor Palace, which offers a panoramic view of the palace, costs £3,000 per night with a complimentary ‘royal champagne package.’ For decades, the royal family has always been England’s spotlight and a tourism attraction. In addition to the revenue that Windsor’s local tourism will generate, Prince Harry’s wedding will likely bring the tourism sector over £100 million worth of businesses country-wide. The tourism board of UK stated that Prince William’s wedding in 2011 brought England a capital gain of £2 billion in the years that followed.

Brand Finance, a UK-based financial consulting company expects the wedding to bring the UK £1 billion of revenue in the coming years; £30 million generated in the tourism sector, £15 million from the fashion industry from Markle’s fashion influences, with the rest from advertisement firms, food and beverages and products commemorating the wedding.

A bakery in the countryside of the London may pass its days dearly and calmly every day, but to the Edward Durkin of Heidi Bakery, the story is different. May 19^th will be the busiest day for this 100-year-old home-style bakery. In 1918, Edward Durkin’s family opened a small bakery across from Windsor Palace. From then on, four generations have worked together to run the bakery. The owner tells CNBC, “Prince Harry’s wedding is the biggest event in our bakery’s history and we are taking full advantage of the day.” The shopping mall where Heidi Bakery is located is offered a royal warrant, which gives the businesses the official status as a supplier of gifts in Windsor.

Local businesses are already reaping from the rewards of an influx of overseas tourists. Prince Harry’s American bride, Markle, was born in Los Angeles and many believe that the wedding will introduce the English Royal traditions to other countries especially to US where Americans love new and fresh stories. Brand Finance expects tourists to hail from mainly the US, India, Argentina, India and Bangladesh.  Durkin said, “all the hotels are full, so I am envisaging the town is nearing full capacity.” With limited space in Windsor, London’s significantly more expensive hotels in Notting Hill and Kensington have also capitalized. On the wedding day, many will commute to Windsor in order to experience the festivity of the royal wedding.

CNBC’s article expressed that Markle will become England’s top fashion icon following the footsteps of Princess Diana and the Duchess of Cambridge. Her garments and accessories will become a consumer sensation. Markle will not be the first ‘Royal Fashion Influencer,’ as the Duchess of Cambridge, married to Prince William in 2011, initialized a ‘Kate Effect,’ where her casual style and its ‘everyday’ pricing produce a strong influence over the crowd. According to Newsweek’s prediction, the Duchess helps generate about £1 billion worth of revenue every year for the UK fashion industry by boosting sales of local and global labels.

Many UK-based businesses are also tackling this opportunity for growing businesses. England’s penmaker launched a luxury set of fountain pens ‘The Chapel,’ to commemorate the wedding, encrusted with Californian golden poppies and nicknamed ‘delicate feminine appeal.’ Royal Crown Derby, the oldest English china manufacturer, launched a limited-edition set for Prince Harry’s wedding designed last October. Prince William’s wedding has significantly increased the company’s revenue and in 2011, businesses soared by 10%. Other vendors and businesses taking advantage of this royal festivity includes Windsor & Eton Brewery with their limited brew, “Windsor Knot.”

Source: Chinaso

Manchester, UK, is an investment hot-spot attracting investors worldwide while undergoing a number of redevelopments with MediaCityUK and Spinningfields offering a range of job opportunities to a young work force residing at the city’s core. In the next years, over 100 multinational and financial corporations will establish their regional office and headquarters including BBC, ITV, HSBC and Barclays in Manchester’s CBD. Now is the time to invest in the city’s property and commercial rental market before the market soars.

Golden Emperor Properties is delighted to offer rare restaurant properties in Manchester’s prime city center which will attract a large crowd. With a 250 years leasehold, properties have a starting NFA of 2,200 square feet and prices at £780 per square feet. Buyers can enjoy an immediate rental yield of 5.5% per annum with tenants already occupying the space. Hurry and don’t miss this rare investment opportunity. For inquiries and assistance, please contact us.