On the day that news broke of Mr Li's stake, Hongkong Land's share price soared by 22% and that of Jardine Matheson by 11%.
Kerkorian, a World War II pilot, a boxer and an eighth grade dropout, hung out his shingle in Las Vegas in 1962 with a small land stake.
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At Friday's council meeting Sedgemoor District Council decided to sell its 60% stake of the land and enter into a development agreement with Tesco which would give it first options on building on the site.
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"We're kind of the poster child for the infrastructure component of what's at stake in the coastal land loss issue, " Ted Falgout, director of Port Fourchon, told the Louisiana Explorer in 2003.
Companies have a lot of money at stake in this Internet land grab, both brands that want their own vanity domains and the Internet registries that will profit by selling the new URLs.
Vanke, China's largest developer by revenue, will buy the stake from Singapore's Keppel Land Ltd.
But a lord without a seat and without land, without a stake in national debate, with less money than the Sunday Times elite, without purpose, does not have the cachet that once was his.
Leading the debate on 6 July 2011, Antoinette Sandbach AM called for a change to the planning systems and for communities to have a stake in the economic and social development of land.
There are hundreds of cases pending involving natural resource use on tribal land, with billions of dollars at stake.
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Mulally's first step is to get rid of distractions like Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo (it's keeping its stake in Mazda) and throw the company's global resources behind the blue oval.
However, if Washington believes its national interests are at stake, then it would put its forces in harm's way even for a land little known to its people.
The Land of North-Rhine Westphalia recently resolved to sell its 17.5% stake in WestLB.
Other assets up for sale include a stake in Aer Lingus as well as parts of the Irish forestry service, but not its land.
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