... southern island of Hainan on Wednesday. “We are quickening the full opening of market access for foreign investors in banking, securities and insurance sectors,” he said. Li’s remarks add to speculat ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-28
... h Pacific Island countries. Tsai, who is from the ruling DPP, told reporters that Han’s meeting with Wang is inappropriate because the Liaison Office is China’s key institution for implementing “one c ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-27
... ed on the island about a year ago and to plug existing loopholes in the law to prevent Hong Kong from becoming a convenient hideout for criminals. The chief executive also rejected allegations that th ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-27
US lawmakers have introduced legislation seeking to boost Washington’s relations with Taiwan and raise the island’s international profile, Reuters reports. Senator Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on th ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-27
... ue of the island’s permanent separation from China, and, in Washington, President Donald Trump is treating China as a strategic threat and may use Taiwan to provoke the mainland, possibly without real ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-25
... e for the island. The leadership in Beijing is playing a tough game with the DPP, on the one hand threatening military action to bring Taiwan to heel while on the other heavily dabbling in the island' ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-22
... rtificial islands around Kau Yi Chau and other related works under the so-called Lantau Tomorrow Vision plan. The announcement came after the government accepted last month all the eight options to bo ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-20
... ns on the Island Line remain unaffected. According to Lau, two MTR trains collided with each other during a trial run for a new signaling system in the wee hours of Monday. One of the two trains invol ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-18
Police on Wednesday received a report from a local woman, who said her parents might be aboard the fishing boat that collided with a mainland oil tanker and sank off Lamma Island a day earlier, and as ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-14
Rescue teams in Hong Kong are continuing to search for crew members of a fishing boat that sank in the waters off Lamma Island on Tuesday after colliding with an oil tanker. At around 9 am, a fishing ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-13
... s such as Island East and Kowloon East, but also continues to bring rental increases in Central. Thus, a stable cap rate coupled with still-increasing rent should translate to further price increases ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-13
... le on the island expected to accept it slowly. Chen also said the mainland’s policy toward Taiwan is peaceful reunification, pointing out that any military action against Taiwan will only be aimed at ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-11
... he Lantau Island as initially proposed, the scaled-down plan still remains highly “inflammatory”. As such, one can certainly expect rounds of fierce debates in the meetings of the Finance Committee in ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-11
... ed to the island to stand trial. It is understood that the SAR government has actually been staying in touch with Taiwanese law enforcement officials over the case. In December last year, the Shilin D ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-08
Two people were killed and 16 others were injured on Monday after a Citybus double-decker bound for Hong Kong Island crashed into a mid-sized lorry that had stalled in the middle of West Kowloon Highw ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-07
A man who was reported missing over the weekend after joining a three-day trail running event in Lantau Island has been found safe and sound, with authorities saying it was a case of false alarm. Acco ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
... ed on the island about a year ago. To plug loopholes in the law, the Security Bureau has proposed an amendment to the law to enable the government, by means of a signed directive from the chief execut ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
