... ngs like "Land of Hope and Glory" and "Rule Britannnia". While the students at the school are a mix of British and local Thais, most of the audience singing and cheering were British expatriates livin ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... of graft, land grabs, shady deals with generals and the plunder of natural resources. Suu Kyi said foreign policy is about balance, and China and Myanmar can have a good friendship. – Contact us at en ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... s all the land in Hong Kong. It auctions or lease out plots. The only exception is the site of St. John's Cathedral in Central, the Diocesan Cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island and the seat o ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... siness of land acquisition, project planning and construction. "We estimate that with today's growth and the changes to China's personnel structure, that at least 30 percent of our jobs will be replac ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
As wealthy Chinese increasingly seek overseas properties, either for investment or due to immigration-related reasons, mainland real-estate developers have sensed an opportunity to make their mark on ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... 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
