... arm could land its owner in jail for up to 10 years if convicted of violating the firearms and ammunition ordinance, barrister Albert Luk said. -- Contact us at [email protected] BT/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
... to change land-use and provide more land for more public housing... should come to the cold shelters to listen to what the street-sleepers said," Leung wrote. The comments drew sharp criticism, with n ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... rd to hit land - it killed over 6,300 people. The Philippines is crazy about glitz and glamour, with numerous pageants dedicated to babies, children, youth, men, women, lesbians and gays organized by ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... vember, a landslide killed 90 people at a Kachin jade mine. Combine all of that with the ceaseless ethnic strife between the 8,000-strong Kachin Independence Army and the largely Bamar central governm ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-23
... canal and land transport system for grain supply, Xi'an became the capital. But Kaifeng, known as Bianzhou in the past, turned itself into a major north-south grain transport hub, eventually replacing ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-23
... ceeds and land sales. The views expressed in this article are those of Yi Zhu, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... iven high land premiums and construction costs, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Thursday. The high construction costs are the result of the government's protection of local labor by barring th ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... y -- high land prices and skyrocketing rent -- there is no way it can realistically help tech startups. Giving away short-term subsidies is not enough. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
Executive councilor Cheung Hok-ming, allegedly derived an economic benefit from a housing project in Tai Po built under the New Territories Small House Policy, hk01.com reported Tuesday. Land Registry ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
... hat urban land prices have been bid up while the environment’s “carrying capacity” has been exhausted. Then there are demographic challenges. The working-age population has peaked and the share of ret ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
... large mainland cities have always been a magnet for people from small cities, towns and villages. That's the reason big cities are getting more densely populated and are the focus of corporate investm ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
The Planning Department expanded the village-type development zone in Pak Sha O, Sai Kung, by 140 percent in its zoning plans issued last month. The extra land could be used to build 29 “small houses ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... nipulated land sales and development plans, news portal hk01.com reports, citing hundreds of Land Registry documents. The alleged profiteering involved Dragon Cove and Cenfa Villa, both in Tuen Mun. T ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... enough to land her the new crown given that her competitors have grown up in places such as New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Melbourne, Auckland and even South Africa, not to mention Singapor ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... secured a landslide victory in Saturday's election by grabbing 6.89 million votes. On the other hand, CY Leung only got 689 votes to win the race for the top post in 2012. But while Tsai got a popular ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... . All mainland cities edit their per capita GDP statistics in similar fashion. The 2014 figures of Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, all converted into US dollars, were US$15,847, US$15,184 and US$ 22,7 ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... d regular land sales since 2005, which he blamed for the shortage in housing supply and the surge in home prices. He said although home prices declined to a low level in 2003 due to a weak economy and ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
The White House is preparing to announce as soon as Friday an overhaul of how the United States manages coal development on federal land, Reuters reported, citing unnamed government and conservationis ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... up in mainland China in support of the project. It aims to involve more than 60 countries along the ancient trading routes between China and Europe in a new partnership to build trade and infrastructu ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
Harbour Park, a new apartment complex developed by Hong Kong Ferry Co. Ltd. (00050.HK) in Cheung Sha Wan, is expected to offer small units at prices below HK$3 million, its sales agent Henderson Land ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
