... utes over land acquisition for industrial development create serious barriers to economic growth. In much of Africa, density is not a problem, but in Rwanda competition for land, driven by high and r ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
... n the mainland, they have very good destination knowledge. This system could be changed with minimal effort by the simple expedient of increasing the number of licenses and lowering the fees. At a str ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
... ng Kong Island. Thus, the boundary between China and the Crown Colony shifted from Victoria Harbor to a straight east-west line that runs from the mosquito-ridden wilderness of Kowloon Fort to the Sto ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... Henderson Land (00012.HK) chairman Lee Shau-kee and Hanergy Thin Film Power Group (00566.HK) chairman Li Hejun are joint fourth. Baidu's Li Yanlong brings up the rear. But Li Hejun is a weird choice ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
... e on the “land problem” in Haiti, claiming that the local government had imposed various restrictions on land use, thereby causing severe delays in their home construction program. However, some suspe ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-19
I mentioned in my column last week that, under a corrupt political and business environment, mainland enterprises will have to curry favor with those in high places. Sometimes these firms are run by w ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-18
Scores of villagers from Northeast New Territories staged a protest at the Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling on Sunday, demanding that the government redevelop the land into a public housing project inst ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
... oning the land, water, and air. We are transporting invasive organisms around the globe and overharvesting commercially or nutritionally valuable plants and animals. The more people there are, the mor ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
... ina. High land cost is another factor that is driving away foreign investors. Industrial land cost in China is even higher than that in the US. And marginal competitiveness in labor cost can’t offset ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-15
... Shanghai Land Holdings and perverting the course of public justice. In April 2006, Mao was found guilty of fraud in relation to letters of credits worth HK$89 million. Tsang pointed out that the maxi ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
... ng Kong Island. Ng said earlier assessments done on the building may have neglected its value to the history of the local pawn shop industry. Several groups started a petition this month against its d ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... insula of land east of Nice, France, was sold at HK$175,000 per sq ft for a total of HK$1.13 billion, the Standard reported. Still, the price of his home on the Peak is peanuts to Ma, who is still wor ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... bution of land and water sources in individual states. Economically, Johor is among the wealthiest states in Malaysia, and has collaborated with Singapore on building the Iskandar Development Region, ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
Mainland property developers China Overseas Land and Investment Ltd. (00688.HK) and China Resources Land Ltd. (01109.HK) are expected to be among worst hit by the renminbi depreciation because a big p ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... labor and land costs. And the currency would appreciate after accumulating considerable capital. The Japanese yen, for example, surged to 80 against the US dollar in 1995 from 200 in 1985. However, cu ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
... Henderson Land sales manager Thomas Lam Tat-man. Kwong sold the 940 square foot flat in Double Cove for HK$13.3 million, or about HK$14,600 per square foot, a record price for a unit at phase one of t ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
... ing for a landfill. Confidential official documents seen by the newspaper show Leung ordered in a meeting in August last year that the 104 hectare Area 137 fill bank, adjacent to the South East New Te ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
... s for the land it releases in dribs and drabs, so that the fat-cat developers can build luxury homes to absorb hot money from all over the world. When have our officials ever made the interest of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-11
... it family land in most situations. And yet a survey of women in three rural Indian states by the international land-rights NGO Landesa found that two-thirds did not know of any woman who had inherited ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-11
It's not unusual for a property developer to trumpet a record-breaking deal to justify a hefty land premium it paid for a tender in the same district. A case in point is Sun Hung Kai Properties. Hong ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
