... a and Thailand. For Beijing, the loss of the US project was the most galling. The deal was announced with great pomp during President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States in September as a good exa ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-14
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying may be right about property hegemony being no longer a prevailing theme in Hong Kong. But what he did not say is why he thinks so. Consider land sales last year. More t ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-13
... Henderson Land Development, which gave me the impression that the breathtaking view of Tolo Harbor was only meant for the super-rich. But I was taken aback when I discovered that at the end of Sam Mun ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-10
... nexplored land in the region of up to 2.5 hectares for agricultural purposes. After five years, they can apply for permanent ownership of the land if their development effort bears fruit. The Russian ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-08
... eduled to land at Hong Kong airport on Friday. There were noises and chaotic scenes worthy of a biohazard emergency as the foul odor began to spread across the cabin, he said. In the end, the flight a ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
... t illegal land seizures, was sentenced to five years; Teng Biao, who offered to defend Tibetan suspects arrested after the Lhasa riots just months before the Olympics opened, lost his license to pract ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
... arms also land in the hands of their buyers in Middle East via the city. Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Treasury Department planned to sanction a Hong Kong-registered ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
... places, Poland, Hungry and Czechoslovakia, that, in their time, ended in "failure" but built up the forces eventually leading to the end of the Communist dictatorship. They were, in other words, part ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
... wants to land a good deal. That is because there will be a limited number of special offers available for each flight. And the price will increase according to different tiers. If you plan travel wi ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
Henderson Land Development deployed around 150 security guards to remove protesters who were trying to occupy a farmland in Ma Shi Po Village near Fanling, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
... sourcing land plots for the construction of residential units. Tang said he had come up with a set of land policies when he was running for chief executive four years ago, including the release of la ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. have each recalled about 1.9 million vehicles due to defective air bags. Volkswagen A.G., Jaguar-Land Rover, BMW A.G., Mercedes-Benz and Daimler Vans have recalle ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
... asing the land supply for residential use, introducing measures to reduce poverty and increasing spending on social welfare. But are these not enough? The fact is that Hong Kong people don't feel the ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
... reclaimed land in Chek Lap Kok near Lantau Island, has been boding ill for the city ever since its July 1998 inauguration. This is because the old airport at Kai Tak in east Kowloon sat in an auspicio ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
... s initial land reclamation work begin on Aug.1 as well, according to AA. - Contact us at [email protected] TL/AC/RC ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
... ve up all land seized in the 1967 Middle East war and agreed to a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees. In 2013, after the initiative's terms were softened to include possible land swaps between I ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
... into its land corridor to the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. And, as a newly released US Defense Department report shows, Pakistan – “China’s primary customer for conventional weapons” – is likely ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
It's said that one square foot of land in Hong Kong is worth its weight in gold. That's why many people live in a shoebox. Despite a falling market, we are no better off than a car, according to a Fac ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
... huge mainland market. A commentary published in a state-owned newspaper offers some insights into the decline of what was once Hong Kong's cultural icon. In its overseas edition on Monday, the Commun ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
... existing land leases are valid beyond July 2047, calling into question whether Beijing's policy on Hong Kong will remain unchanged after that date. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Jou ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
