... , a small town about 35 kilometers west of Cairo. The camel market buzzes with life before dawn. Trucks, fully loaded, swerve in and kick up storms of dust and sand. Aridness cracks over every pair of ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-30
... naissance town hall of Florence, the city where he used to be mayor, on the occasion of a visit by the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates. – Contact us at english@hkej.com FL/CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-27
I’ve been living in Kennedy Town for nearly 10 years. I like it because it’s quiet and away from the noisy central districts. However, the government is destroying the peaceful life here. After req ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... re than a town hall clerk with a big clipboard. At a time of heightened anxiety about the credibility of the "one country, two systems" concept, he did absolutely nothing to address these fears. Inste ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-23
... pakant, a town in the resource-rich northern state of Kachin, the source of some of the world’s best jade. It is a place where remote mining operations bring wealth and opportunity—but only to the few ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-23
... 2012. The Town Planning Board is conducting a public consultation on the zoning plans for Pak Sha O until Feb. 4. In September last year, village representatives from Pak Sha O, Sai Kung and the Tai P ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... Chung new town and Sunny Bay. At least 50 vessels are passing the waters at the proposed marine park site on a daily basis for the sea reclamation project in Tung Chung alone, Hung said, adding that i ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... es and 32 towns in the region, but by 2014 the numbers grew to 16 cities and more than 320 towns. The urbanization rate of the region has surged to 84.12 percent from 26.56 percent during the period, ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-16
... mese vice town built by Chinese businessmen for Chinese tourists. Last summer, each pangolin scale cost 20 yuan. Some call pangolin meat a delicacy. Other visitors claim they’re after the scaled thing ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-16
... rocess of town planning and impose additional charges for resubmission of applications and modification plans for developers, so as to increase the efficiency of supply of residential units. Legislati ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-13
... Certified town planner Ng Wing-fai said the one to blame for the error is not Google, which developed the program, but the mandatory use of the GCJ-02 coordinate system for Chinese geographical inform ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-13
... n Kennedy Town have an average open space of only 0.77 square meter, which is less than half the size of a coffin. This is expected to further narrow to 0.68 square meter because the Development Burea ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
... , the new town building momentum came to an abrupt halt in the mid-1990s. Thus, the two landfills, which opened roughly at the same time, were the only major developments initiated by the government i ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-11
... arties in town are rubbish? None of them really represent me because they are either too old, or they do not know how to play the political game." Next, Lau went on to ask the lady if she would break ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-08
... es by the Town Planning Board. To bypass the TPB, the developers came up with an ingenious solution: they provide land to indigenous villagers, who then each apply to the Lands Department for approval ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
... Hongguang town for their failure to pay his fees worth more than 200,000 yuan (US$30,500) over a period of three years. As a result, Ma had accumulated huge personal debts, was hunted down by loan sha ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
... lt by the Town Planning Board (TPB). Under the Town Planning Ordinance, approvals from the TPB must be sought before any small houses are built in a green belt zone. The rural council said in its repo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... ject, the Town Planning Board has delayed a decision. Meanwhile, Kerry also sought to modify its original plan. In September, the company withdrew its original proposal and fine-tuned the plan before ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... wok is in town and that he called off the press event after being contacted by mainland authorities. In 2012, Kwok reportedly attended a dinner for members of the campaign office of Leung Chun-ying, w ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-30
... , and the Town Planning Ordinance. As such, dumping mud and other construction waste in the area is illegal, he said. He estimated that the trees destroyed in the mangrove forest will not be able to g ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-30