... 2,000 per square foot of gross floor area. The main building on the site was demolished in 2013 by the seller, Ho Min-kwan, a granddaughter of Hotung, after the government refused to declare it a hist ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
... he 66,000 square foot site, which it won at tender in 2013. It paid a token HK$1,000 for the right to occupy the land for 10 years. The plan for the three-storey campus has been put up for public co ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
... ea of 700 square feet, will last for two years. Representatives from real estate agents in the area said the HK$1 rent is very attractive, but business starters need to be creative to sustain their op ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-19
... these 300 square foot units will be priced at about HK$1 million and sold to young people from the middle- and low-income groups. But to realize the dream, he needs to solve one practical problem: how ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... about 300 square feet each in size will be built by redeveloping Tai Hang Sai Estate, a private housing estate in Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon, through Hong Kong Settlers Housing Co. The flats will be sold t ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... below 70 square meters have outperformed larger flats. For example, property prices in the New Territories, which mainly offer starter homes, have soared more than 140 percent since the 2009 financia ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
... Tiananmen Square student movement in 1989. Today’s Umbrella Movement is no exception. Every advocate or participant, no matter which organization he or she is representing, shares the responsibility o ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
... 5,000 per square foot range -- but above that for Housing Authority’s Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) flats, according to the report. The units will target groups that cannot afford private housing, but a ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
... a public square and areas around it and prohibit the use of tents, sleeping bags and fire-hazard equipment. Also, loudspeakers are banned when the chamber is in session, Apple Daily reported Wednesda ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
... e “Public Square (眾坊街)". Hawking was largely prohibited in most parts of Hong Kong but authorities tolerated the activity in Temple Street as they felt that locals would otherwise be unable to make a ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
... ies 28.78 square kilometers of the city's Pudong New Area. State-run Xinhua News Agency reported last month that the State Council had submitted a proposal to the National People’s Congress for the es ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
... st, a 300 square foot flat typically costs HK$4 million today, with 30 percent or HK$1.2 million paid upfront. A prospective buyer has to save HK$16,000 each month for five or six years just to cover ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
... tween 151 square feet and 397 sq ft. “Green form” applicants -- lower-income people living in public housing -- and Hongkongers on the waiting list for public rental housing will be eligible to buy th ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
A jump in rent is forcing Australia’s Dymocks to close its flagship bookstore in Hong Kong, Apple Daily reported Monday. Dymocks is paying HK$570,000 in monthly rent for the 4,000 square meter space o ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... aten in a square outside a mosque in Jeddah, watched by a crowd of several hundred who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) and clapped and whistled after the flogging ended. Badawi made no sound du ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... yuan per square meter (sq m). Excluding some apartments that will be subject to price caps, the winning bid works out to more than 50,000 yuan per sq m, the paper noted. Just two days earlier, a cons ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
... the Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop in New York. But a year later, when even more people from all over China flocked into the Bund area in high anticipation of another dazzling show on the last ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-06
... with the square in front of the building, will be open only between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. Second, the number of protesters will be capped at 850. Third, use of tents, sleeping bags and equipment for sta ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-06
... ank North Square Blue Oak, was quoted as saying. “China is saying that as a WTO member, it’ll have to abide by WTO rules.” Rare-earth prices surged as much as tenfold after China slashed export quotas ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-06
... Tiananmen Square protests, had not been given that honor. There were reports that top cadres had suggested that he be buried in a section of the cemetery reserved for middle-level officials, but his ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
