In yesterday's Academy Awards, La La Land was mistakenly announced winner for best picture instead of Moonlight. The mistake was quite embarrassing, especially as the La La Land producers had begun to ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-28
Moonlight, an African-American coming-of-age tale, won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, beating favorite La La Land after an embarrassing onstage gaffe over the announcement, Reuters reports. In ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
... stionable land deal in northeast New Territories to a purported case of drink driving. Chan was appointed financial secretary last month, but his term of office will end in July when a new administrat ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
... cord low. Land prices and home values surged last year, and industrial profits increased by 8.5 percent after dropping the previous year. Some of that cash trickled down south to Macau, where junket o ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
Growing up in the shadow of Lion Rock, I have developed a strong affection for this magnificent mountain. A hundred years ago, when the entire Kowloon Peninsula was a rural farmland, Lion Rock stood o ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
... some mainlanders curious about the disgraced top leader and the treatment he received. “He would still be pampered, travel in a chauffeured limo with a big entourage and enjoy all the political perks ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
... crease in land sales revenue, which by its very nature is quite sensitive to market cycles. Conservative though the 2017-2018 budget may be, it doesn't follow that the next budget will be adopting a s ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
... urces and land the account holders in trouble, and keeping cash piles at home also considered risky, corrupt officials are thinking out of the box literally when it comes to places to hide their bankn ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-23
... ocated on land once used for Hewlett-Packard’s Cupertino campus. Apple acquired the land in 2010 when Jobs felt the company had outgrown its current facilities and needed a new campus where staff coul ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-23
Financial Secretary Paul Chan said the government will continue to boost land supply to meet an increase in demand for homes. In his Budget speech, Chan said 28 residential sites will be up for sale i ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
... -expected land sales income boosted overall revenue to HK$559.5 billion, 12 percent more than the initial estimate. Meanwhile, government expenditure is expected to reach HK$466.7 billion, some HK$20 ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
While benefiting landlords, surging home prices have left young people upset about the dimming prospects of owning their own place. Here is a wild idea that might help. The government can create a hom ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
Compared with other policy issues such as housing, land and education, transport is a relatively less discussed subject among the four chief executive candidates in their campaigns, even though they m ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-21
... may well land Trump in another legal squabble in the US, where the president is barred by the constitution from accepting “any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any kin ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-20
... n the mainland. Once he had returned to Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kee, one of the five booksellers, gave a chilling account of his arrest and video false confession under duress. This sort of propaganda gar ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-17
... ed by mainland businessman Xiao Junfeng in November last year, data from the Land Registry show. An inspection by Apple Daily reporters revealed that the interior of the house is in a dilapidated cond ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-17
... ot enough land. The truth is, the problem is not a shortage of land but a shortage of money. Contrary to what most people think, the Housing Authority (HA), not the government, pays for the constructi ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-17
“Our goal is to provide public housing accommodation to 60 percent of our population, through more efficient land use, and by increasing the supply of public sector housing and redeveloping old public ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-15
... asures on land provision, financing, talent development and infrastructure in the future. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Feb. 11 Translation by Julie Zhu [Chinese version 中 ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
Most cities increase land supply to tame soaring home prices. However, Beijing has taken the opposite view. Cai Qi, the city’s new mayor, said Beijing would reduce the area of construction land supply ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
