... on to the Town Planning Board, a consultancy firm had recommended the elimination of the tram line between Central and Admiralty to ease traffic congestion in the business district. -- Contact us at e ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
... ed by the Town Planning Board require all building projects inside any wetland reserve to pass an EIA before they begin. The EIA report commissioned by MTRC in early 2000 concluded that the digging of ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-18
... nto a new town). But judging by its recent actions, it has already made up its mind. In the case of Tai Wo Ping, the government assures us no structures will be allowed in the country park and its ad ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-18
... HK), "The Town of Subdivided Flats" -- as it has been nicknamed -- launched sales earlier this month. However, there have already been eleven cases of deposit forfeiture, the report said, citing data ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
... e eastern town of Heidenau. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-15
... rough the towns Middletown and Cobb. Officials are describing the blaze as "unheard of" this season, according to Reuters. Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in areas ravaged by the bl ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-14
... y its new town planning based on these estimates might create ghost towns, although it’s an unlikely scenario at this time. The government’s 2001 population projections for 2011 was 7.5 million, 456,0 ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-07
... he nearby town of Cocula, Reuters said. "That event never took place," one of the investigators, Carlos Beristain, told reporters on Sunday, citing evidence from the site. "There should be a refocusin ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-07
... led "Chinatown" or "Little India". They came into existence not by choice but by necessity. If we want to live a decent and dignified life in a foreign country, we can learn a lot from how the Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
... on to the Town Planning Board to rebuild the hotel into a 25-story office building. But the answer is also yes, because despite the fact that the recent sharp decline in the number of tourists is not ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
... e textile town of Bandung to the south. The contract for a 150 km rail line linking the two cities, which would have cut the journey to 35 minutes from about three hours, had provoked stiff rivalry be ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
... Hungarian town of Bicske about 40 kimoters (25 miles) west of Budapest which hosts a major refugee camp, and police lined the platforms. Some migrants at first left the train but then forced their way ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
... urged the Town Planning Board to remove trams from the streets of Central to ease the traffic congestion in the district. The proposal, initiated by a retired government planner, is quite disappointin ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-29
... ulate the Town Planning Board. This was followed by a flurry of almost unbelievable government explanations for the decision to give New World a new management contract lasting until 2035. Among the e ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-28
... a retired town planner that it is faster to walk than to take a tram. Another example is the “Citizen Tree Lovers” group set up by environmental group Green Sense on Facebook to promote a territory-wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-28
... said. The Town Planning Board last week gave conditional approval to the project that was jointly put forward by NWD and LCSD. Under the plan, the promenade would be closed off for three years for ren ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-28
Sit Kwok-keung recently tabled his submission to the Town Planning Board seeking to remove the tram line between Admiralty and Central to increase the road space by 30 per cent, so as to ease traffic ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
The Tsim Sha Tsui harbourfront enhancement project, which has come under fire for not being contracted out through open tender, was approved by the Town Planning Board (TPB) even as 95 percent of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
... n eastern town where violent anti-refugee protests erupted at the weekend. The surge in migrants seeking refuge from conflict or poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia has confronted Europe with ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
... ng in the town of Tikapur against a government-backed plan to include their area in a hilly province, part of a regional overhaul envisaged in a new federal constitution expected to be finalised this ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25