... ommanding landmark? There's the Hong Kong Monetary Authority for one. In 2001, the de facto central bank made news by splurging HK$3.7 billion of taxpayers’ money for the purchase of 14 floors of Two ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
... ng to mainland China, can be given better play by having large editorial teams in Hong Kong. Imagine, for instance, how many more interesting stories the global media would have dug up on the missing ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
... tion as a land bridge to India and the Indian Ocean is […] vital. The 'One Belt One Road' transport scheme is Xi Jinping’s signature initiative, and Burma is a lynchpin. China would like a new railway ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
... es, dams, land use, rail, highways, buildings, vehicles, appliances, and much more must all fit together into a working whole. Such a system cannot be overhauled through small incremental steps. A dee ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
... ltimately land in the government’s lap if the fund fails. The Malaysian government has directly guaranteed at least 5.8 billion ringgit of 1MDB debt and issued a letter of support for an additional US ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
Henderson Land Development Co. (00012.HK) has encountered strong resistance from a group of villagers in New Territories as the property developer sought to take control of some farmland that it bough ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-26
Hong Kong planning officials are being accused of looking the other way when a powerful former village chief and his family allegedly broke land development regulations. Green group Conservancy Associ ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-25
... ing in to land in Hong Kong, Apple Daily reports. Cabin crew used a spare key to enter the toilet after repeated attempts to get the man to open the door. They found him with a bloodied neck from slas ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-25
... required land in Causeway Bay instead. Meanwhile, the legislature kept stalling the funding for the mint, as the project was expected to be unprofitable. The mint finally opened in 1866, operated for ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... trip over land and sea to Europe. They have been told his picture was not among those of the survivors. "Is he alive or dead? His mother has not eaten food for days," said Ali Nur, his 23-year-old cou ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... , illegal land grabs and other grievances. Many people try to use petitions to bypass the legal system and directly bring complaints to the attention of government officials, a system that dates back ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... visas and land new jobs, she said. -- Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-21
... shire, England, produced many outstanding politicians, writers, Nobel Prize laureates and Olympic players. Last May, the government approved a land plot of 6,200 square meters in Tai Po for the local ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-21
... Henderson Land Development Co. (00012.HK) chairman Lee Shau-kee set up offshore companies with the help of Mossack to manage their assets. There has been no suggestion that any wrongdoing was involved ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
A woman was killed in Henan province last week after she and her husband, both in charge of a local church, were buried alive by a group of villagers who threatened to take a piece of land belonging t ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
... ng Kong Island constituency and Lai possibly joining the race in Kowloon East. Alex Chow and Lester Shum, along with other campus comrades, have formed a new alliance with Shum deliberating on a crack ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
... es to the land use, a process that could take seven to 10 years, factoring in the time of construction. Hui said the residents participating in the protest are aware they may be violating the law with ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
A Chinese military aircraft has for the first time landed at a new airport on an island China has built in a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea, state media said Monday. The incident raises t ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... of the island -- in other words, dishing out more land for property development. However property developers are powerful people, and their voice carries far more weight than that of ordinary citize ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
... 950s, mainland China prohibited the supply of live pigs to Hong Kong, causing prices of pork, fish and vegetables to skyrocket. Renowned food critic Chan Mun-yan commented that while it looked like a ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
