... increase land supply and build more new towns. Our town planners and bureaucrats are all firm believers in the town planning doctrines laid down by English town-planning expert Ebenezer Howard back i ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-02
... Singapore Land Transport Authority, will road test a concept that many companies investing in automated driving believe offers the fastest path to making such technology commercially viable, Reuters r ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-02
... ng Kong’s land tenure regime and policy changes may be scratching their heads: Isn’t it that new land leases are good for only 50 years since the 1997 handover? How come a new development has a land l ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-28
... 23. Upon landing, she handed her passport to a customs officer as part of normal procedures. The officer examined it and returned it in a few minutes. Then the woman found to her horror the words "F* ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-28
... ssed, the land of hope and opportunity, the descendants of those early refugees have turned in upon themselves. The demagogue's proffered solutions have no substance beyond empty catch phrases, "Make ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-26
Lo Wu is probably best known as the busiest land port of entry between Hong Kong and mainland China. The border crossing handles an average of 225,000 travelers a day, according to the latest official ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
In many mainland cities, one or two public housing buildings are usually found next to a premium office plaza, a five-star hotel or a luxury residential project, thanks to the adoption of a "tie-in" g ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
... bbed the “land-based Aegis”, the THAAD is a highly advanced anti-ballistic missile system operated by the US army and specially designed to intercept short-to-medium-range ballistic missiles. Talks be ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
... s any new land reclamation in the harbour. It saved the harbor from being almost completely filled in, but it has also made the government hesitant even to build new piers or marinas, which would req ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... strips of land in the city’s already dense residential areas. There was a public outcry when residents in Shau Kei Wan learned that the government has included a tiny plot of 476 square meters in its ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
On Monday, when Masayoshi Son announced his Softbank Group is buying British chip designer ARM holdings, he told the media it was the brightest day in his life and he couldn’t help being excited about ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
China will continue build structures on disputed islands in the South China Sea, regardless of foreign opposition. Navy chief Adm. Wu Shengli told his visiting US counterpart, Adm. John Richardson, th ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... rocketing land prices. That may exert a drag on economic growth. The authorities are likely to ramp up public spending to offset dropping private investment and the cooling property sector. The broad ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... reckless land clearance and over-harvesting have taken an irreversible toll on the natural environment, resulting in large-scale pollution, widespread soil erosion and desertification across the coun ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
... Spratly Islands, claimed in whole by China, Vietnam and Taiwan and in part by the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, were technically speaking islands but were either low-tide elevations with no territ ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
Apart from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, also bearing the impact of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union is the tiny British overseas territory of Gib ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
China is refocusing its territorial claims in the South China Sea to land resources after an international tribunal rejected its historic rights to disputed waters. The State Council, China's cabinet, ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
Investors are increasingly wary of political risks amid integration between Hong Kong and mainland markets. For example, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has taken on Link REIT (00823.HK). But the sh ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-13
England will find itself out on a limb if Scotland and Northern Ireland decide to split from the United Kingdom following the Brexit vote. If the break-up happens, UK will cease to be a genuine global ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-13
Chinese developers have been slowing their land buying in Hong Kong, joining their local counterparts in sitting out a slump in the property market. Bloomberg is reporting that mainland developers who ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-13
