... ce of the Land Fund. About 50 per cent of the Future Fund is set aside for incremental placement with the Exchange Fund's long-term growth portfolio to be built up gradually over a period of around th ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
... edictable land and flat sales and stamp duties for revenue cannot sustain Hong Kong forever. Only a fraction of Hong Kong people pay income tax. Most registered businesses do not pay taxes. Aside from ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
... edictable land and flat sales and stamp duties for reve ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2019年02月28日
Last week, the government announced that it would accept the recommendations put forward by the Task Force on Land Supply, including the one that suggests taking back 32 hectares of land within the Fa ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
... owing mainland economy. So there's reason to tighten our belts. Those who belong to the "sandwich class" like I do feel left out again. It's good we've got a 75 percent tax rebate like last year, but ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
... the Sino Land (00083.HK) development, each of which, except for one, is a two-bedroom unit measuring 522 square feet. The good thing is the Liaison Office is exempted from the 15 percent buyer's stam ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
... tenir, in land-scarce Singapore. "I felt this was my opportunity to do something that would make a difference, an opportunity to fight the good fight,” he told me. Swan believes vertical farming can i ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
... e no hard land border ever appears between British-ruled Northern Ireland and the rest of Ireland. European Council President Donald Tusk told May that the EU needs clarity that whatever the bloc migh ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
... inate all land-based ballistic missiles with striking ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers in their arsenals. However, recently Trump announced that he is determined to pull the US out of the treaty, and ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-22
Almost immediately after the government had announced that it would partially claw back land from the Fanling golf course as recommended by the Task Force on Land Supply, the Hong Kong Golf Associatio ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-22
Secretary for Development Michael Wong Wai-lun said the first phase of the Lantau reclamation project will begin as soon as 2025 with the aim of constructing an artificial island with an area of about ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-21
The administration is inclined to accept all the eight options to boost land supply as suggested by an expert panel, including the controversial conversion of a golf course, government sources said. D ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-20
... ce, the inland city has been relaxing the Hukou policy for young talents over the last couple of years. Under the latest rule, those under 45 with university degree will be granted a Hukou in the city ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-20
The Development Bureau is set to hold a press conference on Wednesday to officially respond to the final report submitted by the Task Force on Land Supply at the end of 2018. Government sources have r ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-20
... ntries by land and sea. Maduro calls the aid a US-orchestrated show and denies any crisis despite many Venezuelans’ scant access to food and medicine. “We seek a peaceful transition of power but all o ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-19
... take in a land plot in Shanghai to settle the obligation. But that is only a stop-gap measure. It’s estimated that the company has an outstanding debt of over 200 billion yuan, of which more than 50 ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
As part of an exchange program in South Korea held in October last year, I had a chance to visit the Songdo International Business District, a smart city on a reclaimed island near the Incheon Interna ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
