Japan ramped up its criticism of China's land reclamation and offshore platforms in disputed seas Tuesday in a hastily revised annual defence report. The 500-page white paper, approved by Prime Minist ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... acquiring land later this year and begin construction of new projects in April 2016. It will develop 13 million square meters of space over four years. Currently, GLP has 11.8 million square meters of ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
China has gained a reputation for fake milk powder, fake eggs, fake Rolexes and fake Chanel bags. So, it was no surprise to find that fake cops in the mainland were making threatening phone calls to H ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... ificial islands in the disputed Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, according to satellite imagery of the area. Beijing claims most of the South China Sea, with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malay ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... ay have a land area larger than India, but its 17 million people are spread mightily thin. And second, they have for most of the last century sat as a sterile “buffer zone” between Russia’s soft under ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
"Gee whiz... The rent is more than what I can earn in a month." "Damn, my landlady just hiked the rent by half!" These are the common grumblings that you hear in Hong Kong. The housing woes become esp ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... Tuen Mun land auction, set for later this year, as part of plans to build more warehouses. Lau said rental costs are unlikely to ease anytime soon amid limited supply of storage space. The company ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
Low-quality pipe fittings manufactured in the mainland are being sold for as little as 1 yuan (16 US cents) each in Shenzhen, fueling speculation that they may be the cause of the lead-tainted water s ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... llowed to land. He also asked for an emergency unit to be on standby. A total of 14 fire engines and an ambulance were dispatched to the runway after the fire department was alerted at 6:03 a.m. The p ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... aying the land premium to the Housing Authority, for mortgages to fund their investments in stocks during the market rally earlier this year. They may have to give up the flats if they sold their hold ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
China and North Korea will open a border trade zone in the latest effort to boost economic ties despite tension between the countries. The Guomenwan trade zone will cover 40,000 square meters of land ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... te in mainland China. However, since Francis became pope, there has been a chance for Sino-Vatican relations to improve. In March, he told Italian media, "We are approaching China." The pope revealed ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... rs in mainland China. Gambling accounts for 50 per cent of Macau’s GDP, 84 per cent of fiscal revenue and about 21 per cent of the workforce. No one anticipated the dramatic impact on Macau of Preside ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... rights to land development in the complex, hoping to earn from future leases. Also, it is considering selling naming rights to buildings. Translation by Vey Wong [Chinese version中文版] -- Contact us at ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
China is offering exploration rights on six oil and gas blocks to private firms in a pilot program aimed at opening the nation's energy resources to non-state entities. The Ministry of Land and Resour ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... sday, the Land Transport Authority said on its Facebook page. The trains normally arrive at two- to three-minute intervals during the morning peak hours. The North-South link will also be shut from 11 ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... acres of land previously owned by the military, would have seen the construction of hundreds of luxury apartments to meet the strong demand for such homes. Luxury condominiums and grade-A office spac ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
Laughing as his cap flew off in the Andean highland wind, Pope Francis flew into Ecuador on Sunday to start a "homecoming" tour of South America, where he will champion the rights of the poor and the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... ng Kong Island via Mong Kok and Central, was HK$1 for a single journey. The bus fare today is HK$9.80. Records show a mid-range, 1,750 sq ft home at Mei Foo estate, which was built in 1968 as one of t ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... ctares of land each year. The city’s housing market correction came to an end and picked up until July 1997. Between 1981 and 1984, housing price tumbled 40 percent to HK$600 per square foot. It rose ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
