... from one square to another. It is not. The MTR Corp. has started tunneling – or more precisely, brick-laying – beneath the harbor for the HK$80 billion, 17-kilometer Shatin to Central Link that will ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-28
... f about 1 square kilometer. That figures is less than the estimated 400 or 500 fighters who seized the city on May 23. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-23
... fered 398 square feet in average space in 2014, down from 417 sq ft in 2004 and compared with 465 sq ft in 1994. One good example that shows how public home residents have to put up with smaller space ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-20
... rs or 188 square feet, translates into HK$27,600 per square foot, making it more expensive that some of the new residential units in the market. For example, an entry-level flat at Tak Bo Garden in Ko ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
... f 630,000 square feet. It quickly became a key shopping and recreational facility for residents in the district. Back in those days, many foreign visitors would do last-minute shopping at Kowloon City ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
On Sunday more than 110,000 people attended the annual vigil at Victoria Park to remember the victims of the bloody crackdown on the student-led democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989. They w ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-06
... about 100 square feet with very basic equipment and appliances, is one they can call their home one day each week. The two, who have been working overseas for nearly two decades, said domestics must l ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
The annual mourning over the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre should come to an end, and Hong Kong people should focus instead on local social movements, the student union of the Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
... ts of new square footage have been built — and continue to be built — in many US cities, resulting in slowing rent hikes. Back to the future? In addition to weak pricing power and some disappointment ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-02
... 0,000 per square foot. Now, what do we tell those seeking a roof over their head, especially the youngsters who earn just about 10K as they start off their careers? The mathematics is really daunting. ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
This Sunday, thousands of people are expected to gather at Victoria Park to remember the bloody crackdown on students at Tiananmen Square 28 years ago. Over the past few years, however, the number of ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
... es try to square tough anti-terrorism measures with a more humanitarian approach to refugees. On economic policy, he has offered reform in exchange for investment. And, given his tough stance on Russi ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
A democracy march held on Sunday afternoon to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on June 4, 1989 drew the least number of participants since 2008 with only a few students joinin ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
... t the per-square-foot price of Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) flats at Kornhill Gardens reached HK$16,700, a historical high for HOS flats in the city. Property agents were quoted as saying that there we ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-26
... ast 4,000 square feet of commercial space worth hundreds of millions of dollars is being sacrificed. The building has a site area of 350 square meters and the plot ratio for non-residential land use i ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-22
A man plowed his car into pedestrians in New York City's packed Times Square on Thursday, killing an 18-year-old woman and injuring 22 people. The driver, a 26-year-old American citizen named Richard ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-19
... 0,064 per square foot in terms of potential gross floor area, it marked the world's costliest commercial land plot, a transaction that is bound to fan the flames of the already red-hot property market ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-18
... s, 56,600 square meters of office space and annual rental income, if fully let, of about 400 million pounds. Hong Kong institutional and private investors own an astonishing 12 percent of retail space ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-18
... tentially square off against one another. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on May 16 Translation by Alan Lee with additional reporting [Chinese version 中文版] – Contact us at engl ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-17
... ,231) per square meter in April, or US$858 per square foot, followed by Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xiamen. The report recommended policymakers keep restrictions in place to further stabilize prices, and u ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-16
