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Foreign Investors Surge into Cambodian Condo Market

Edit Voa News 09 Apr 2016
In just a couple of years, the city has become practically unrecognizable from its former low-rise persona, adopting the cluttered mayhem of Thailand's Bangkok. There is scarcely any sign of town planning or vision, just brand-new or yet-to-be-completed multistory condominiums on practically every inner-city block....

The Hurley Maker’s Son by Patrick Deeley review: The making of a poet

Edit The Irish Times 09 Apr 2016
This, however, is no ordinary summation of works and days ... A successful career in the classroom followed, and there are cheering vignettes from the author’s Ballyfermot school, not least those showing “the songs and folktales” that came with children’s families from the inner city to be sources of instruction and reservoirs of memory ... Teaching didn’t take in the sawmill, and the Callows was replaced by confusing city streets....

Man arrested after naked woman found dead in Sydney river

Edit The Guardian 08 Apr 2016
Police say the man was ‘standing over’ a dead and naked woman in the Parramatta river in Sydney’s inner west ... Residents near Cabarita Park in the city’s inner west reported hearing screams and yelling before the discovery was made just after 11.30pm on Thursday ... “We do not believe it’s a random attack ... Police confirmed several crime scenes throughout the inner west and inner city were being examined ... ....

Mapping Sydney's creative clusters

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Apr 2016
Horrorshow sings of the joy of flying in over the inner west as they return from tour and Spit Syndicate wrote a song, Beauty in the Bricks, celebrating its laneways and cul-de sacs ... "A place like Newtown or the inner west, it has a creative energy to it ... For instance, artists have been ejected from inner-city warehouse space in Surry Hills, Glebe and Chippendale and more recently the Mungo Scott flour mill in Summer Hill....

Bali nine 'lieutenant' arrested after naked woman's body pulled from river at Cabarita

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Apr 2016
A man once known as the "lieutenant" in the Bali nine trafficking ring has been arrested after a naked woman was found dead in Sydney's inner west ... Part of a nearby street in Breakfast Point was blocked off, and police said a number of crime scenes had been set up in the inner west and inner city....

Cross River Rail may need 'innovative funding' to help cover cost

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 08 Apr 2016
The private sector could be forced to make a significant contribution to the $5.2 billion cost of expanding Brisbane's inner-city rail capacity, with what the acting Premier Jackie Trad calls "innovative funding" ... ....

Irishman opposes extradition to face double murder charges

Edit The Irish Times 08 Apr 2016
The pair, from Ballybough in Dublin’s north inner city, were found in the front seat of a burning car close to Ravensdale Forest, Co Louth, in March 2012 ...    .  . ....

Germany to Get Tough on Dirty Diesels by Empowering City Bans

Edit Bloomberg 08 Apr 2016
German towns and cities plagued by car and truck pollution will soon get the legal tools they need to ban older diesel vehicles from streets where emissions are highest ... Town and city councils will not be compelled to enforce bans and won’t be permitted to place blanket restrictions on inner-city limits for vehicles not fulfilling the latest NOx standards, said Flasbarth....

Home invader Ricky Slater-Dickson's burglary spree before his death

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Apr 2016
The terrified 22-year-old woman was repeatedly punched during the home invasion in the inner Newcastle suburb of The Junction just one week before Slater-Dickson lay unresponsive in ... It is understood detectives are sifting through burglaries throughout Newcastle and inner-city suburbs near where Slater-Dickson was living in Hamilton South....

Bosch Is `Discussing' Investment in Digital-Map Consortium HERE

Edit Bloomberg 08 Apr 2016
“We’re currently discussing this,” Dirk Hoheisel, who oversees mobility technology at the closely held German manufacturer, said Friday at a press conference in Stuttgart ... Hoheisel said searching for parking spaces accounts for about 30 percent of urban driving in Germany, and municipal authorities across the globe are keen to reduce inner-city traffic ... ....

Boy remanded over fatal Halloween stabbing in Dublin

Edit The Irish Times 08 Apr 2016
The boy was ordered by Judge John O’Connor at the Dublin Children’s Court to appear again on May 6th ... Lorcan O’Reilly (21), from Robert Emmet Close in south inner city Dublin, was stabbed in the nearby Oliver Bond flat complex in the early hours of November 1th last year ...    .  . ....

Story of cities #18: Vienna's 'wild settlers' kickstart a social housing revolution

Edit The Guardian 08 Apr 2016
Inner-city lots had the advantage over the periphery of being developed amid the city’s existing infrastructure; the high-line and underground transport network, and the sewage and water systems ... Streeruwitz, architect and partner at Studio Vlay, which is currently engaged in planning one of the biggest inner-city urban developments at Nordbahnhof....

The Housing Struggle

Edit Huffington Post 08 Apr 2016
He spent months in Milwaukee, Wisconsin living first in a trailer park and then in an inner city rooming house documenting the experiences of eight families he met ... “Most Americans, if they don’t live in trailer parks or in the inner city, think that the typical low income family lives in public housing or benefits from some kind of ......
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