... h limited land supply has led to prices shooting up. Given this, authorities need to strictly implement home purchase restriction measures to cool off demand in the big cities. By contrast, third- and ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-10
In recent months, cash-flush mainland real estate developers have taken Hong Kong by storm, snapping up land in premium locations at shockingly high prices one after another. The fact that mainland de ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-09
While the Leung Chun-ying administration keeps reiterating that land and home production is high on the government’s agenda, it has failed to stop Hong Kong’s housing woes from becoming intractable. O ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-08
... ll on mainland developers which had bid aggressively for land plots in Hong Kong as they sought to boost their asset portfolios here. As no one is willing to undercut prices, it is reported that only ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-08
... na as mainland authorities carried out inspections and deemed the outlets as posing fire-safety risks. In a statement, Lotte confirmed that operations have been suspended at 23 of its outlets in China ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-07
... way their land and threatening their traditional way of life like the British imperialists did back in the 19th century. For instance, the local people and Buddhists in Hambantota took to the streets ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
... peting to land the first spent booster vertically back on Earth. Bezos did it first after a suborbital mission, but Musk accomplished the feat by landing the main portion of a Falcon 9 rocket that del ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
... The Annex Land Building, and Wan Chai Computer Centre. The group sold the Mass Mutual Tower to Evergrande for HK$12.5 billion in 2015. It still holds Harcourt House, Causeway Place and the Zenith. [Ch ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-02
... ays: "Our land of sharia has been constructed with spilt blood." It then shows pictures of martyrs indicated as "al-Turkistānī", or men from Turkestan, the name many Uighurs use for Xinjiang. One of ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-02
... policy on land premium for sites used for religious purposes will be reviewed to support the development of religion, Lam said as she stressed that religion leads people towards kindness, benevolence, ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-01
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
