... '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
... adjacent land into the existing terminals is a welcome move. Now all it needs to do is speed up the process. It will not only support port operations and enhance our handling efficiency but also posi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
Apple Pay, Apple Inc.’s mobile payment system, is set to land in Hong Kong next year, but executives at local banks don't expect it to have much of an impact, Apple Daily reported Thursday. When Apple ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
... n the mainland. Some even said his words “have shocked 1.3 billion people”. After 30 years of economic reforms, it is apparent that the so-called “Chinese model” has run into a dead end. Unless China ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
... half the land and the Chinese the rest. The Chinese will finance the park's development alone. Jalisco, which at the weekend emerged relatively unscathed from Hurricane Patricia, is home to Guadalaja ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
Don't tamper with history, the developers of Avenue Walk in Wanchai appear to have learned. They have now decided to rename the project to reflect its historical roots. Sino Land Co. Ltd. (00083.HK) a ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
... nd enough land to accommodate the extra population. The former colonial government passed the “Country Parks Ordinance” and introduced systematic afforestation across the territory in 1976 in order to ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
... ol of Thailand -- on their way to Buckingham Palace. After all, in the 1950s, when Xi was a mere child and Elizabeth was already queen, chairman Mao Zedong set for China the seemingly impossible goal ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
... farm more land than monogamous ones in the same village, the Thomson Reuters Foundation said, citing a study involving 3,500 households in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
