... e foreign land in terms of lifestyle, warned retired Chinese-American physicist Dr. Yang Chenning. American society is an indulgent one, where students using drugs can be found in almost every high sc ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-12
... to clear land for palm oil and rubber plantations, its top leader won’t tell Singaporeans that their city fumigates neighboring countries as well. Smog that constantly shrouds Hong Kong is also weigh ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-11
... some mainland reporters even call it “bromance”, dates back to their time in Tibet three decades ago. When the elder Hu became party chief of the tumultuous autonomous region in 1988, the younger Hu ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-09
... ating the land shortage in Hong Kong, and apparently there is no silver bullet to this pressing problem. The skyrocketing home prices and the never-ending waiting time for public housing due to an acu ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-09
... increase land supply in the long run, the next government should give priority to developing brownfield sites to make more land available for new homes. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economi ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-05
... rights to land. Ownership of land – whether co-ownership, for a married woman, or sole ownership, for a single female head of household – not only improves economic security and productivity, but also ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-04
... n for mainland tycoons and officials who seek to move their money offshore. Coincidentally, Hong Kong companies, along with Taiwanese businesses, were also China's biggest foreign investors in 2015. M ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-02
What a difference a year makes. Last year, at the 29th ASEAN summit in Laos, a Chairman’s Statement, without mentioning China, “took note of concerns expressed by some leaders on the land reclamations ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-02
A think tank chaired by Hong Kong's first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa urged the government to resume reclamation to boost land supply. In a newly published report, the Our Hong Kong Foundation (OHKF ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-28
... helped me land a job at a refugee center right inside Chungking Mansions. The job was an inflection point. Then I enrolled at a night school and spent four years completing courses to be a qualified r ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-26
... ance, mainland companies investing in Hong Kong property reached an all-time high in the first quarter, with a total transaction volume of HK$36.1 billion (US$4.64 billion), up 213 per cent year on ye ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-26
... e off and land vertically, or VTOLs, with zero emissions and quiet enough to operate in cities. Flying taxis would cut down travel time between San Francisco's Marina to downtown San Jose to 15 minute ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-26
... s and mainland developers are clobbering local rivals in land auctions with outrageously high bids. Beijing understands that Hong Kong people will not fight for more political rights if they are satis ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
... vestment, land and other areas for these cities. As to land policy, cities with demonstration zones are encouraged to reclaim and reuse industrial or mining wasteland. Big projects in these zones will ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-24
... areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development. Later in the week, on Friday, he could sign an order that will fit into his administration's "Amer ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-24
... arcity of land in Singapore, the city-state's military had been conducting drills and exercises in Taiwan for decades and Hong Kong has been used as a transshipment point for equipment. There were no ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-19
... r to take land from the three villages is gazetted. An appeal letter from the villagers was passed to an employee from Lam's office. The Wang Chau saga came under spotlight last year after newly-elect ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-18
... curred on land or on the bridge itself; other fatalities occurring in the sea on boats were, he insisted, "a matter for the Marine Department". Moreover Chan seems satisfied that the Occupation Safety ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-14
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and former Development Bureau chief-turned-Financial Secretary Paul Chan will be remembered for their efforts to increase land supply but also for facilitating what has ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... ns as mainland envoys, supposedly, are not allowed to become permanent residents and have their fingers in the city's property pie. The development falls under the "Hong Kong Property for Hong Kong P ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-11
