... Overseas Land & Investment (00688.HK) three years later. He had been the firm’s executive director and chief financial officer since 2002, untilYang Guoqiang, the founder and chairman of Country ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-06
Under the one-party dictatorship in the mainland, high ranking officials rarely consult the common people before making any decision, because they believe they, as the ruling class, are almighty and o ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-06
Hong Kong's integration with mainland China is expected to accelerate in the next few years, with several cross-border infrastructure projects coming on stream. These include the high-speed railway an ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-05
... he city's land and resources bureau chief. Chen had not been invited to the meeting. Mainland media reported that Chen had complained to friends about being oppressed and targeted by his superiors. He ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-05
Hong Kong and Shenzhen will jointly develop an 87-hectare site in Lok Ma Chau into a technology park. The agreement comes after both sides settled a long-runing dispute over ownership of the land, the ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-04
... the Holy Land in the study of Cultural Revolution. Because of its historical, political and geographical uniqueness, the city has long been the world center for the study of the Cultural Revolution, ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-30
... ge in the land use of the West Kowloon Cultural District a secret to the public before announcing the deal? Are there any conditions behind the deal? The project, which will showcase the treasures of ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-28
... grotto’s land bank. “Hmm…” said SC “…looking at the voting patterns over all the past AGMs, if we didn’t deploy all the votes from our Car Park spaces, I fear that the owners wouldn’t agree with anyt ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-28
... erted farmland and aged structures can still be seen in the village. Getting off at Luk Keng minibus terminal, I set off for Kuk Po, walking along the coast. On the left was a dense mangrove forest in ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
... occupied land that Palestinians want for a state. The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has had an acrimonious relationship with Obama, believes the Obama administration ha ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
... mbers and land-based missiles – the three legs of the nuclear triad – are expected to reach the end of their useful lives. Maintaining and modernizing the arsenal is expected to cost about US$1 trilli ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
... m the mainland, seem highly bullish about Hong Kong's property market. The HNA Group, a leading Chinese developer, just bought two premium residential plots in the Kai Tak area for HK$14.249 billion, ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-22
... th. While land is increasingly expensive in China, it is almost free in the US, Cao said. Meanwhile, the US government offers various incentives to attract manufacturers. Although labor cost is lower ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
... ourney on land and water as boars are known to be good swimmers. An airport police officer told Apple Daily that they are perplexed as to how the animal was able to break into the apron area, which is ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
... when they land to ensure their human waste containers aren’t empty, a three-member panel said in an order. Satwant Singh Dahiya, a resident near New Delhi’s airport, filed a case in October saying hou ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
... ps to Scotland where her younger son was attending school and receiving treatment for spine problems. The Immigration Department didn’t bother with any explanation for the flat refusal, citing “confid ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
I have been discussing with a number of mainland scholars what the major economic themes will be for next year. I believe reform of state-owned enterprises will be one of them. The latest Central Econ ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
... n the mainland since the 1980s. It bought huge tracts of land in Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta to grow its laminates and printed circuit boards business. These land plots became extremely ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
... nate some land plots as “land for first-time homebuyers only”, on which the government and private developers can build new homes available only to local first-time homebuyers. He added that these new ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
... ks helped land her a string of wealthy husbands. She had a penchant for calling everyone "dah-ling" in her thick Hungarian accent, the news agency said. Along with her two sisters, Eva and Magda, she ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19