The maid’s toilet in a 957 square feet penthouse at a housing project in Tai Kok Tsui takes up only 5 sq ft, i-Cable reported. The news video showed well-known home inspector Tsim Chai-nam failing in ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
... tual town square where posts are typically public, allowing strangers to interact and debate issues ranging from politics to popular culture. Even so, both WeChat and Weibo are known to be monitored b ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
On July 17 last year, the government suddenly closed the east wing forecourt of the Central Government Offices in Admiralty, also known as Civic Square. It then erected a three-meter-high steel perime ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
... t is 47.8 square feet, down nearly 30 percent from a year earlier. The survey polled 66 families in subdivided flats in seven districts including Kwun Tong, Sheung Wan and Sham Shui Po during the pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
... wed a 430 square foot flat on Hong Kong Island cost HK$13,517 (US$1,743) psf in April, up 270 percent from HK$3,638 in 2005. Leung has promised around 20,000 private housing units will be completed ne ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
... 00 to 200 square feet in size. The settings are completely different from the statutory plans of the building drawn up in 1963 when there were no rooms across the five storeys, the report said. Repor ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
... 20 to 765 square feet and is partitioned by a foot-high cement wall with metal bars. The Lands Department said anyone who sets up a farm on the rooftop of an industrial building is violating the title ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
... Korea in square meters of housing per capita, having reached a level near – or, in some smaller cities, well above – the European average. As China’s construction frenzy ends, the economy is experien ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
... lat of 45 square meters. The ratio stayed high at 12 in the last quarter of 2014, putting the local housing market in the "severely unaffordable" category and far exceeding the tipping point of 5.1, a ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-20
... K$4.8 per square foot (psf). For aged ones, the rate is HK$7.5 psf. It would cost the owner around HK$2,400 to hire Tsim to inspect a 500-square-foot new flat. Due to the nature of his job, Tsim gets ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-20
... t the 808-square-foot HOS flat in 1997 for HK$1.48 million (US$190,901) and registered it in their son's name under a trust. She said they agreed to the arrangement because they couldn't read English ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-19
... ted a 100-square-foot room in Shenzhen for 850 yuan a month, as Siu’s father has refused to take back the child. Apple Daily quoted a mainland lawyer, Gong Chu, as saying that Chow must legally obtain ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-19
Opposing groups are continuing to pour into a public square outside the Legislative Council building with a vote on a controversial election reform bill expected anytime soon. The measure goes into a ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
... s back to square one. Leong says Hongkongers cannot escape the thought of July 1, 2047 or the reality of a vastly different Hong Kong after that date. Beyond politics, there are important issues tied ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
... te of 700 square meters. Also, consent from at least 80 percent of property owners in any redevelopment project is required. At present, the minimum site area is 400 sq.m. and redevelopment can procee ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
... tiny 288-square-foot apartments, representing a premium of between 6 percent and 15 percent over the prevailing rate. Not only did they offer HK$48 per square foot, which is equivalent to the price l ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
... s company Square Inc., which he co-founded and where he remains chief executive. His appointment signals that the firm is focusing on improving its product, which lets users post short messages, video ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-12
... le of 343-square-foot apartments even went for as low as half-a-million dollars. Now, after 12 years, flats at Amoy Garden are priced at a minimum of HK$4 million. This is consistent with the Centa-Ci ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
... 3 million square meters, compared with 20,000 sq meters in 2009; people have renamed the place "China Island". High property prices are one of the biggest social and political issues in Taiwan. The av ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-10
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Tuesday unveiled an experience center called "Mi Home" in Hong Kong. The 270-square-foot center, located in Hollywood Plaza in Mong Kok, marks the first such facilit ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
