At this rate Hong Kong, once Asia's tourist capital, will soon be known as a cut-price theme park for Guangdong day-trippers.
Another commonplace technique for multinationals to lower their tax bills - a variation on the transfer pricing theme - is for the head office in one country to charge all the national subsidiaries a large fee for "management services", such as accounting.
In their new report the FAO and OECD also reiterated their support for measures to improve productivity, market information, policy coordination and risk management in order to stem price volatility, themes that are set to be endorsed by G20 farm ministers at their meeting next week.
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Given the rising price of theme park tickets, Google Street View may be an economical way for the armchair traveler to get a Disney fix.
It will have a separate entrance and admission price from the theme and safari parks already at the site, though combination tickets will be available.
After an employee opened the door to a man holding a bouquet of flowers, a delegation of six or seven men, all masked except one, entered playing The Price is Right theme song on a bluetooth speaker.
Whether an item would command a higher price in a themed sale or a traditional sale is impossible to discern.
That is why rising rents, not rising house prices, were a theme in Germany's recent elections, with even the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union showing sympathy for some kind of "rent brake .Germany's renter-heavy housing market has unique historical and cultural causes and interesting consequences.
Eisner rolled in big bucks for Disney by raising ticket prices at the theme parks.
On June 2, Disney raised entry prices to its theme parks in California and Florida.
