... ect, heat island effect, micro-climate studies, non-building areas, building gaps, etc. have been incorporated into the urban planning ordinance in the following decades. Urban design guidelines from ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
... yuan, the island's main airport just south of the capital Taipei, for their flight back to China when the accident happened. The driver and the tour guide, both from Taiwan, were also killed. "The fir ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
Beijing will ignore the verdict handed down against it last week at the Hague and will continue to develop disputed islands in the South China Sea, first for tourism, and then send more civilian settl ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
China will continue build structures on disputed islands in the South China Sea, regardless of foreign opposition. Navy chief Adm. Wu Shengli told his visiting US counterpart, Adm. John Richardson, th ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... only the islands, islets, reefs and surrounding waters. Manila and Hanoi are at tenterhooks because other than their territorial claims, freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is also at stake. ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... tween the island and Hong Kong. She will have to bear all the costs herself as she has to get the apartment cleaned up and sanitized after the deadly stink. This is not the first time a Taiwan landlo ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
... e Spratly Islands, claimed in whole by China, Vietnam and Taiwan and in part by the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, were technically speaking islands but were either low-tide elevations with no terr ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
... e largest island in the Spratlys. But on the same day, Taiwan dispatched a warship to the area, with President Tsai Ing-wen telling sailors that their mission was to defend Taiwan's maritime territory ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
... Ms on the island, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The hacked ATMs were manufactured by German company Wincor Nixdorf, the same supplier of ATMs used by many banks in Hong Kong, the newspaper s ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-13
Lantau Island has seen large amounts of medical waste wash up on a beach, posing a health risk to local residents, according to a concern group. The medical waste is believed to have originated in Chi ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-13
... Hong Kong Island, the Buddha or the Disneyland on Lantau Island if they want to find rarer tools or creatures. Simply speaking, the game has combined GPS and AR technologies. Players have to walk out ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... on Hainan island; Dalian (大連), a port city in northeastern Liaoning province; and Weihai (威海), a picturesque town formerly leased as a British enclave in Shandong. The China Institute of City Competit ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... Lingding Island in the Pearl River estuary at about 5:05 a.m. on Sunday, and subsequently deployed rescue teams. After learning that more than 10 people fell into the sea, the center dispatched more ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... on Lantau island and New Territories East, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. A spectacular photo taken by a local resident and posted on a Facebook page shows a lightning hitting the sea surface ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying led a team of officials in overseeing a clean-up operation at two beaches on Lantau Island on Sunday, expressing concern at the growing amount of rubbish washing into H ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... outlying islands of Jin Island and Basalt Island. In the south is Tin Ha Shan (田下山), Po Toi O (布袋澳) and Tung Lung Island (東龍島). In the west is Tsueng Kwan O, Fat Tong O (佛堂澳) and Hong Kong Island Eas ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
... Hong Kong Island seat in the Legislative Council. While Wong is seeking to ouster Leung, his platform is conservative in other issues, and this is likely to resonate well with his target voters: execu ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
... nd Po Toi Island, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Facebook photos of flotsam in Nim Shue Wan and Cheung Sha Beach on Lantau Island have gone viral. The massive tide of garbage has made world h ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
... f Crooked Island in 2014. Fok said the pellets resembled those used in body scrub products, which suggests that our waste water treatment facilities are unable to filter out these microbeads discharge ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-07
Media entrepreneur Ricky Wong Wai-kay announced that he is running in the Legislative Council elections in September to represent the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency. Speaking on Facebook l ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
