... barren islands with a population of slightly over a million. One may wonder how history would have been if Zhoushan was ceded in perpetuity after the First Opium War in 1842. It was said that Britons ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
... anti-mainland sentiment among some Hongkongers, the Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) warned fans of the Hong Kong team to “behave themselves”. The HKFA has also taken steps to avert possible cla ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
... , the mainland's higher education system does not fit Beijing’s ambitious new blueprint, which did not touch too much on education. In fact, China's higher education system has to go for quality rathe ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying sparked a controversy earlier this week by calling for a study on land use to make way for the construction of affordable housing in country parks. Even before that, Le ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
... in urban land economics at the University of British Columbia, she also took courses in Asian Studies. But while many people thought Eng’s Chinese appearance and ability to speak some Cantonese were ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
... ntry park land with "low ecological value" for housing use. Let’s be clear about one thing: Hong Kong’s country parks are a remarkable and priceless innovation that came into being thanks to the fores ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
... crease in land sales and stamp duty, as stock market woes in mainland China and potential interest rate hikes in the United States are likely to drag down land prices and equity transaction volumes. L ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-13
... ux of mainlanders coming to work and study, Hong Kong has come up with a "small" solution for its housing problem. It basically amounts to this: If the size of the cake remains the same while the numb ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
... 's enough land in the hands of developers for private housing. They will build luxury residences but not mass housing. So a problem that is blamed on shortage of housing units is in fact an issue conc ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
Vista Land & Lifescapes Inc. will buy Starmalls Inc. in a 33 billion peso (US$698 million) deal that combines the residential and shopping mall units of Philippine billionaire Manuel Villar, Bloom ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying welcomed proposals to designate some of the land reserved for country parks for residential use, saying the homes to be built in those areas could be sold to young peop ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
... hanges to land-use rights for country parks to residential purposes. Hong Kong needs an additional 9,350 hectares, thrice the size of Sha Tin, to meet its housing needs by 2044, the think tank said. ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
... reenfield land in Tai Po under a 2008 land deed. The deed allowed HHCKLA to pay a vastly discounted price of HK$140 per square foot to the government. Visitors have been complaining about lack of park ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... labor and land costs in recent years have weakened the competitiveness of the nation’s exporters, the ministry said in a report. Beijing has set a 6 percent year-over-year trade growth target for this ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
In recent years, the acute land shortage, stemming from poor planning by previous administrations, has substantially clipped the wings of the Hong Kong government in different policy areas, from housi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-07
... flight to land on a remote Alaska island and in September another flight from Perth was diverted to Indonesia after an engine failed - passengers panicked as they saw flames streaming from a wing. Als ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... on Syrian land". In an audio message posted on a Twitter account used by the group, Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate insisted on Wednesday it was behind the crash. The claim could not immediately be ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... to boost land supply to facilitate new home construction, Leung said. The remarks came despite some observers warning that property prices in the city may have already hit a peak and that the market ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... s able to land big clients including CLP Power, CSL and MTR Corp. Then the company moved into more technical projects like e-mail marketing system and web content management system to ride new trends ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... d from Ireland where the aircraft was registered. It said the search was continuing across the 9 square kilometer crash site. Security sources said intelligence agencies had obtained a copy of the pas ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
