... uccessful land grabs by Da’esh in Syria may attract the most extreme elements of Xinjiang to join their ranks, or at least be inspired to put their twisted ideas into practice without actual support f ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-19
... ns of mainland China are still grappling with housing oversupply. More cities have removed home purchase restrictions, and property developers are keen to offer discounts to boost sales. The central g ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-19
... p small island states, for example, cope with “loss and damages” from sea-level rise. But they rejected demands for formal acceptance of legal liability. This was a reasonable outcome in a difficult s ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... liance on land sales as the main growth engine of the economy. The policy collapsed due to poor formulation and execution, leading to the biggest crash in the property market in Hong Kong history. B ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... , and the land where the Border Gate building is located, which it rents from the adjoining city of Zhuhai in Guangdong province, will now be included in the SAR, it said. Fernando Chui Sai-on, chief ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... nt in mainland China. "Creativity is the defining centerpiece of our time — powering us into the future. Establishing a creative paradigm is not easy; only through education and the rule of law can we ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... ina Sea island chain, the Paracels, after a naval showdown with then South Vietnam in 1974. Hanoi still protests China's occupation. More recently, China's placement of an oil rig in disputed waters f ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... military land in the long abandoned Sai Wan barracks. Although it has suffered damage over the years, including during World War II, the original markings are still legible. Ken Ching, a surveyor, sa ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
In Hong Kong, a capitalist society where the free market system and the principle of active non-intervention are often hailed as sacred cows, almost everything is seen as a commodity, including land. ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
... hose Sino Land Co. (00083.HK) and Hopewell Holdings (00054.HK) in a joint-venture effort to redevelop the street into a modern shopping area. After 12 years of revamp, the street has finally re-opened ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
Demand for post-graduate courses in Asia is surging, driven by young people seeking to become entrepreneurs or looking to land managerial jobs. Multinational companies are targeting MBA graduates from ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
... r for mainland agents, no matter how distasteful the prospect, given that we are already halfway through the construction of the rail link. This is exactly what we saw last week when the Transport and ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... lf of the Land Fund to be entrusted in the LTGP. The portion will be worth about HK$100 billion as part of the larger Land Fund that amounts to over HK$200 billion. Expansion of the LTGP has gathered ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... y air and land forces and reduced to eating uncooked corn and sleeping on rocks, he was cited as saying. "I really regret it now. They were wrong. You won't enter heaven by killing innocent people. We ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... gion with land-to-land long-range strike capabilities. As for Tanzania, its military is equipped with a wide variety of Chinese-made weapons including jet fighters, tanks and armored personnel carrier ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
... that swampland has been filled in and dozens of trees have been cut down. A piece of land as large as 7,000 square meters around the nearly abandoned Cheung Uk village in Sha Lo Tung, which is famous ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
Hengqin, the special economic zone adjoining Macau, has received approval from the State Council to double its land area and promised a warm welcome to projects from Hong Kong and Macau. Niu Jing, dir ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
... turn its landlocked neighbor into a vassal state – just as it had “assimilated” the kingdom of Sikkim in 1975. Having terminated the centuries-old monarchy and declared the country a republic, Nepal’ ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-12
Some people opt to stay back and live in the land of their birth, while some make their way to foreign lands, sometimes just drifting into a particular place. There's no right or wrong in whatever pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-12
... e. In mainland China, home prices will diverge greatly from city to city. There are two indexes frequently used to evaluate investments in residential property: the ratio of the home price to househol ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-12
