... about 89 square meters in size, fairly decent by Hong Kong standards. More importantly, the price tag was just HK$3.6 million. In Hong Kong, that money would probably fetch you only a small place in ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-29
... 9 million square meters of grade A office space, which is nearly three times the existing stock of 7 million square meters, he said. Currently, some 5 million square meters of stock have been occupied ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-29
As the 26th anniversary of the bloody June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown nears, mainland authorities are said to have stepped up surveillance on rights activists and political campaigners in the countr ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
... buy a 400 square foot apartment in the New Territories, it added. Smoking is expensive not only in terms of money spent on cigarettes but also in related medical costs. Professor Vivian Lee Wing-yan, ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
... tempts to square the theory with the evidence was proposed by my late colleague Motoo Kimura, who posited the existence of neutral mutations – gene variants that are neither advantageous nor harmful t ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
... oss 8,460 square meters) to accommodate the 160 exhibitors that represented more than 80 nations. Exhibitors rose by 13 percent from 2013. This year, the trading exhibition and conference was held fro ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
... ith a 500-square-foot home, and he won quite a lot of likes on Facebook. Now if Lau says exactly the same thing, the responses, I suspect, will most probably be harsh and nasty. Hong Kong has a large ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying urged lawmakers to attend a meeting Sunday with Beijing officials in Shenzhen instead of an event on the same day marking the Tiananmen Square massacre, Ming Pao Daily ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
... ght a 286-square-foot Pearl Island unit five years ago. He is now happily living there with his wife, having bought the home for just half a million. Pearl Island is about 15 minutes drive from Gold C ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... 5 million-square-kilometer South China Sea. In recent months China has made other claimants and their common ally, the United States, angry as it undertook land reclamation activities in disputed ter ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... 1 million square feet. It would be larger than the Venetian Macao Resort complex and three Two International Finance Center buildings combined. The 2025 airport master plan gazetted in 2006 gave a mor ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... t a 1,200-square-foot unit in a building which is next to the former Police Married Quarters (now known as the PMQ, a creative and design stores hub) ten years ago for HK$7.2 million (US$930,000). The ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
... isn't in square or rectangular shape, basically I won't be interested. The worst shape is the diamond shape, which refers to flats with tilting main doors. People living inside these units will have ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
... ad. A 210 square foot unit there is selling for HK$4.87 million, so a down payment of HK$1.95 million is needed. If one saves HK$3,000 out of a monthly salary of HK$15,000, it will take 54 years to as ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
... rea of 25 square meters -- five meters wide and five meters high -- and is magnified by cramped space between buildings. Charming Garden, the nearest building, is only 20 meters away. James To, a coun ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
... to 2,100-square-foot in area and shouldn't be more than three storeys high. If Civic Exchange is correct, the government needs to give out 11 to 12 square kilometers of land -- equivalent to one-sixt ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... ze of 100 square meters per unit. The supply has surpassed the annual incremental demand of 8 million units. China’s housing market has a total of 10 million vacant homes, according to Zhu Min, deput ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... a tiny 7-square-kilometer patch of land, declaring it as the "Free Republic of Liberland". The initiative has drawn a lot of attention from the media. It is also interesting to note that Jedlicka cla ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... er 10,000 square feet. Wong Pak-yan, a representative of the civil servants cooperative building society, called the criteria too harsh. “To get 100 percent ownership approval is extremely difficult. ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
... o million square meters of retail space in terms of gross floor area. The airport authority will not sell the new property being developed, but will instead be a partner in the entire venture, said Lo ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
