A government task force will initially focus on 12 options to help increase land supply for public housing. The group held its first meeting on Wednesday. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
... supply of land, just as we’ve seen in Hong Kong. For example, the capital city Beijing has a massive population of more than 22 million. There may only be enough land for several thousand jointly owne ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
... ng enough land to build houses on and soaring property costs will be cut by half because demand will be cut by as much. Let's admit it: we live in a tiny city so we have to share. But how do you expec ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
... nding new land and expediting the development of brownfield sites in order to boost land supply. Land shortage lies at the root of our ongoing housing affordability crisis. If the administration fails ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
... only mainland city to have land linkages with both Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions (SARs), to attract more companies from Hong Kong. At an investment promotion event at the end of ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
... only mainland city to have land linkages with both Hon ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2017年09月07日
... oking for land amid the housing shortage, can't seem to maximize the value of a prime site. And if it wants to make people happy, a Hong Kong Eye, and a small one at that, just won't serve the purpos ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-06
Lands Department Director Thomas Chan Chung-ching said The Entertainment Corp. Ltd (TECL) fared better in terms of technical know-how and also offered a higher rental during the tender exercise for th ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-06
Hong Kong authorities are expected to boost new-home supply by utilizing some tracts of farmland in the New Territories for property development projects. The potential scheme will be aimed at helping ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-06
... y for the land expired last week. The new operator, The Entertainment Corp. Ltd. (TECL), did not go public until Monday night with a press statement. TECL said it was in discussion with Dutch Wheels, ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-06
... ctors. As land prices kept spiking in recent years, new development sites have becoming increasingly unaffordable for small developers with limited resources. Smaller developers with annual sales reve ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-06
The Observation Wheel at the Central waterfront may be torn down if the current and the former land-lease rights holders fail to reach an agreement over the terms for resumption of operations. After b ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-04
... s and homeland, and their destabilizing actions will be met accordingly,” said General Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, Pacific Air Forces Commander, who made an unscheduled visit to Japan. “This complex mi ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-01
... perator's land lease contract. Located close to Pier no. 9 and no.10 at the Central Piers, the giant wheel, featuring a height of 60 meters, was opened to the public in December 2014. The Development ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
... Force on Land Supply, saying most of them are from the establishment camp. Lam was reportedly surprised to hear that the appointments to the task force were not impartial and defended herself by sayi ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
... xperts, a land-based or submarine-based nuclear missile can be fired within 5 to 15 minutes after the president has ordered the strike. In theory, if heads of the NMCC and USSTRATCOM suspect that the ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
... housing, land production and supply as well as industry diversification, giving Hong Kong a good run for its money. Living spaces Compared with Singaporeans' spacious living conditions, more than 270 ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
The two-month long military standoff between China and India over the disputed area of Doklam, a piece of no-man's land of around 100 square kilometers in the southern tip of Tibet, finally ended in p ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
... Soon, mainland buyers rushed into Hong Kong. Not only individuals, Chinese developers have also rushed in, aggressively snapping up land plots in Hong Kong in recent years. That has added more fuel to ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
