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
... le. A 395-square-feet two-bedroom flat there is now selling for around HK$4.2 million (US$540,000), 20 percent more than a year ago. The property market has easily outperformed the local stock market. ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... eeding 90 square meters can apply for as much as 1.2 million yuan from Jan. 1, the report said, citing local fund administrators. For second-home buyers, the upper limit is still 800,000 yuan. The 1.2 ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
President Xi Jinping has demanded an investigation into a New Year's Eve stampede in Shanghai that killed 36 people and injured 47. The crush happened in Chenyi Square in the city's historic Bund dist ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that were brutally suppressed by the army, Reuters said. This could be a reason why so many Chinese students leave to study in the US. A total of 274,439 Chines ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
... to 10,000 square nautical miles on Tuesday, officials said. The US military said the USS Sampson, a guided missile destroyer, would be on the scene later in the day. -- Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... " The per-square-foot rent for Genesis, which has around 240,000 square feet up for rental, will reportedly range from HK$16 to HK$20. According to ADC, the sub-rented work spaces will range from 300 ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... K$600 per square foot for farmland with direct road access to downtown. Farmland in remote areas fetches about HK$180 per sq ft. The government has been paying HK$969.60 per sq ft for land it has been ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... vided 165 square feet unit). Sun Hung Kai, meanwhile, sold 960 units in The Wings 3 development at Tseung Kwan O. The second-hand market also had a strong year, with Mayfair Garden in Tsing Yi topping ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
... ing 116.2 square kilometers, will include zones in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. The Fujian FTZ, covering 118.04 sq km, will include industrial areas in Fuzhou and Xiamen, and Pingtan, a new industr ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
... 3.69) per square foot, higher than the average of HK$25.20 per sq ft for mansions in the same district. The survey found that over 30 percent of the families have a monthly income below HK$10,000. At ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-23
... 4,000 per square foot for their properties. But when the redevelopment is completed next year, the luxury flats are expected to be sold at a whopping HK$20,000 per sq ft. Even the cheapest unit may co ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-23
... ed 16,900 square feet of space, potentially worth up to HK$12.16 million a year in rental income if the entire floors are rented out. The office tower, which opened in 1975, was the subject of a high- ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
... has 106.5 square kilometres of land, three times that of Macau, and is just 180 meters across a narrow stretch of water at the closest point. When the State Council designated it a special zone in Apr ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
