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
... icks. The landscape was transformed at a rapid rate. Now, it is a desert, and the ruins of temples and shrines are pockmarks on once-fertile land that fed half a kingdom. Over 2,000 holy sites still ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-12
... s biggest landlords would react given that the HK$86 billion Leung mentioned is more than what they made in the past year combined. No.1 landlord Sun Hung Kai Properties made US$31 billion, followed b ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
... for more land to be made available for housing development. -- Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
... Henderson Land are offering inducements including stamp-tax rebates, first and second mortgages to keep buyers coming, the report said. The strategy has helped the developers avoid outright price cuts ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
... enough to land her in the top 10. The most talked about movies in the world include Furious 7, the last movie of Paul Walker, which was shown after his tragic car crash. It is eclipsed only by Star Wa ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... omic hard landing owing to a structural rebalancing toward a new economy that relies on services and household consumption. This can be seen in the overtaking of the secondary sector by the fast-growi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... acres of land in Chile and neighboring Argentina for preservation. VF Corp., the biggest jeans maker, which is based in Greensboro, North Carolina, acquired North Face for about US$25 million in 2000 ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... ld affect land prices as well as local government revenues. Transferring oversupply into public housing can achieve multiple goals. Companies can sell their inventory to government at cost, which woul ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
