... adjoining land in Hambantota district. Sri Lanka’s ports authority will retain the remaining 20 percent. Officials expect the deal to be completed by early January. The port, in Hambantota, lies along ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-09
... surge to land supply shortage and said it cannot be solved simply by suppressing demand. They agreed on a few key points. First is that chronic supply demand imbalance is set to continue amid excess ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
... tinue and land safely, as it only needed one engine to fly. “We are very perplexed,” Saigol was quoted as saying. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA/CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
... sues over land for public housing in the New Territories. Only after voters in the recent Legco election delivered a killer mandate to Mr. Chu was the government forced to face up to its double dealin ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-02
Like hapless losers at the roulette table, Hong Kong government officials are planning to place even bigger bets on their reckless Disneyland gamble, the difference being that they are leaving other f ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-25
... ong lacks land? Just look at Kai Tak. The large swathe of emptiness where weeds run riot in the heart of Hong Kong contrasts very unfavorably to the pearlescent harbor and the neighboring legions of h ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-22
... open grassland appeared in front of me, I felt excited even though I was aware of the fact that it was just a mistake. The place was Sham Chung in Sai Kung. All over were once lovely rice paddies, sai ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
Vietnam is extending a runway on an island it claims in the South China Sea in apparent response to China's building of military facilities on artificial islands in the region. Satellite images taken ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
... is shrewd land and stock investments, pay the 40-year-old? The answer is in the ad. Lau wrote: “Prior to the break-up, I maintained and took care of Ms. Lui and have given her lots of money, jewellery ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-15
... madly for land regardless of the social costs it entails. Despite this, however, Leung's housing policy has by and large remained a failure, if not a total flop. Leung's “spicy measures” to curb skyro ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-15
... ck of the Land Justice League; Lau Siu-lai of Democracy Groundwork; Edward Yiu Chung-yim, representing the architecture functional constituency; and Shiu Ka-chun, representing the social welfare secto ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-11
... rgers and land acquisitions. In April, it bought a majority stake in Shenzhen-listed Calxon Group (000918.CN), in a US$553 million deal. Evergrande also planned a backdoor listing in mainland China by ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-10
... mple, mainland property plays are likely to pay at least 10 percent dividend this year given their record-breaking contracted sales. Also, mainland banking stocks would continue to pay above 5 percent ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-08
... cause the land it occupies still has to undergo rezoning before a schoolhouse can be built. -- Contact us at [email protected] TL/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-07
... te if the landlords stand up against the government policies. That said, the wealthy need not really fret about the real-estate. Over the years, no matter how hard the government tried, property price ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
... uable farmland and water while displacing crops for food. Looking for an alternative source, LanzaTech came up with naturally-occurring microbes that grow on gases rather than sugars. The company atta ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
... ions from land passenger transport shrank by 23 percent, or even 39 percent if the Paris ring road is excluded. In 10 years, car traffic in Paris has decreased by 30 percent and the number of cars has ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
A unit of HNA Group Co. outbid Hong Kong developers including Cheung Kong Property Holdings Ltd. with an HK$8.84 billion (US$1.1 billion) offer for government land in the former Kai Tak airport area. ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
One can never figure out Swire Properties. Just when everyone is raising prices for their autumn harvest from wealthy mainland uncles, the British luxury property developer chose to slash the rates fo ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
... he Empire Land Commercial Centre. A notice confirming the construction site's safety was seen posted just outside the premises, stating that the most recent inspection on the scaffolding was carried o ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-01
