Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion, a discovery thought to be the first scientific confirmation of the impact of climate change on coastlines in the Pacific, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
... st living land mammals. Males of the shaggy, hump-shouldered species weigh up to 900 kilograms and stand 1.8 metres tall. They once ranged by the tens of millions across the continent, most notably th ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
... esidents. Land in rural areas generates more profit and enjoys government support. As a result, migrant workers and even those already with non-agricultural residence favor agricultural residence in o ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-09
... ports. It landed safely at 4:34 a.m. local time on Saturday. The plane encountered the turbulence above Kalimantan, Indonesia’s part of Borneo, the general manager of Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport said. A ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-09
Yim Tin Tsai (鹽田梓), which literally means “little salt field”, is a small island in Sai Kung. It is accessible by private ferry service. Around 200 years ago, a couple surnamed Chan moved in and start ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-06
... g turning land in country parks into concrete jungles in the Northeast New Territories. Construction projects would put the bees in danger, because of the massive removal of plants -- their food sourc ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-06
... ong Disneyland Resort. A video of a female US soldier singing Cantonese pop songs in the theme park has gone viral on social media. Hong Kong families also hosted soldiers and showed them the city, ac ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-05
... price of land in Tokyo was exorbitant in the prime Ginza district. Stores, restaurants and bars moved to higher floors of those malls to save on rent. These malls usually had elevators, as customers ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
Last November I went on a vacation with my father to Taiwan. For 11 days we took the train and rented bikes and explored the island. It was a wonderful time, of course, but seeing their homes and thei ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
... le in Thailand, popped up on Chinese television and asked the Swedish government not to help him – certainly an odd thing to say for someone who was clearly in deep trouble with the Chinese government ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
... for more land acquisitions. The developer will adjust its strategy for the replenishment of land reserves according to market conditions and its peers' positions, the Hong Kong Economic Journal quote ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
... 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
