Even before the West Island Line extension of the MRT opens on Dec. 28, Kennedy Town, which the new line will link to Sheung Wan district, has been experiencing a sea change. With their eye on the fre ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
... Hong Kong Island saw less than one minute of blackout, and Kowloon and New Territories less than two minutes a year in average. This compares with one hour, six minutes in Shenzhen and one hour, forty ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
... ntre. The island has built an enormous exhibition and convention center. According to the HNDMA, 6,500 companies have registered in the district with a total registered capital of 320 billion yuan. Bu ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
... Hong Kong Island because he was afraid to die," Chen said. Chen tied Young's conduct to recent efforts by Britain to hold China accountable for its obligations under the Sino-British Joint Declaration ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
... Hong Kong Island and Lamma, will keep the current power rates unchanged next year, as falling fuel costs offset rising operation expenditures, Wan Chi-tin, managing director of Power Assets, was quote ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
... link and Island South rail. One obvious reason for the budget-overshoot is the timetable conflict among the projects. Because of the delay and complexities of the ventures, construction firms are abl ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
... that the island's former leader Chen Shui-ban, who is serving a long jail term for bribery, could be released on medical parole. Though authorities have denied such plans, the matter hasn't come to r ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-12
The West Island Line extension of Hong Kong's mass railway system will open on Dec. 28, Ming Pao Daily reported Thursday. The three-kilometer section connects Sheung Wan district with Kennedy Town, wi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
... degrees.” Island nations worried about sea-level gains as well as other countries facing climate extremes want to limit the average surface temperature of the globe to no more than a degree or 1.5 deg ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
... the Long Island Land Trust and other local charities I have long supported.” Watson, who was awarded the prize together with Francis Crick, has been ostracized by many in the scientific community sin ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
... f in Port Island, Crescent Island, Tung Wan at Double Island as well as Tsim Chau. The size of the affected areas averaged 100 square meters each. The survey also found that the number of marine speci ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
An army general has warned that China is not ruling out the use of force to resolve the Taiwan problem after the island's Beijing-friendly ruling party suffered a bruising election defeat last month. ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
... ls in the island last weekend, reflects the depth of people's misgivings about China. Now, will Beijing learn the lessons and take some corrective measures? And, will authorities show some statesmansh ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
... st of the island nation, the local weather bureau said, packing winds of up to 195 km/h with gusts of up to 230 km/h. It was expected to strengthen to a category 5 storm before slamming into Eastern S ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
... ify as an island under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea into an artificial island big enough to accommodate an airfield and a harbor, the largest Chinese naval facility in the Sprat ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
Saturday’s elections in Taiwan were the worst electoral result for the Kuomintang since it arrived on the island in 1949. They were also a heavy defeat for Beijing and its strategy for reunification. ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... views the island as a breakaway province. Ma's resignation from the party post does not affect his position as president. He is serving his second, and final, four-year term, which ends in 2016. But t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) was routed in five out of six mayoral races in last weekend's elections, a clear sign that many of the island's residents have lost faith in the Ma Ying-jeou administration. ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
... cross the island, 620,000 people were voting for the first time. As they did in the occupation of the Legislative Yuan in March, the young people were protesting not only against the ruling Kuomintang ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... on of the island's political status, the Financial Times reported Monday. On Saturday, the Kuomintang, Taiwan’s nationalist party, suffered a resounding defeat at the hands of young voters worried abo ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
