Many Hong Kong people think Taiwan could be another Hong Kong on the assumption that the growing influence of Beijing on Taipei could gradually bring the island under Chinese rule. But after the lands ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
An existing naval facility off the Philippines' Palawan island is being quietly developed into a military base for US troops. However, while construction is continuing, there has been no confirmation ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen pledged to overhaul Taiwan’s flagging economy and maintain peace with mainland China, even as she called on Communist Party leaders in Beijing to respect the island’s demo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... th of the island and took a job there two years ago after graduating. He has a local girlfriend, and most of his friends are in Kaohsiung. Things are a lot cheaper there than in Hong Kong, and the pac ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-16
Saturday's presidential election in Taiwan, the only place in the Greater China region where we can see real democracy in action, will be the most one-sided contest in the island since Lee Teng-hui wo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
Thousands of Hong Kong people, including politicians, media practitioners and students, are traveling to Taiwan to observe the conduct of the general elections on the island on Saturday. It's certainl ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... n Peak in Island South and Twelve Peaks on The Peak. The developer will be contributing 30 percent of the 20,000 new units expected to come onto the market this year, said Louis Chan Wing-kit, chief e ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... e, Lantau Island will be developed with 14 tourist facilities and attractions, along with the expansion of the Hong Kong Disneyland, Leung said. The government also plans to develop Kai Tak into a tou ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
... 2015, the island state had 3.9 million local residents out of a population of 5.5 million. Foreign workers account for 30 percent of the city’s working population. They have also created many social i ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-13
... rs of the island's public. Taiwan independence was still something unmentionable back then: the KMT accused DPP of separatism although the latter had already veered from its explicit pro-independence ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-13
... treasure island -- I wasn’t actually there for the books. Instead, it is the story behind the founding of the bookstore that captivated me. In the 1960s when the local authorities were planning to re ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
... s home on Island Road in Deep Water Bay before the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court, Apple Daily reported. Her lawyer told the court it was Gomera's first time to work as a domestic helper in Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-11
After nearly two years of deliberations, the Lantau Development Advisory Committee (LanDAC) has submitted a report on issues related to potential new development initiatives for Lantau Island. The rep ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-11
... ed at the Island West Transfer Station before being taken to a landfill. After discussions with the Environmental Protection Department, police authorities, in continuing efforts to recover the newbor ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-08
... ntain the island's distance from the mainland in their own interest. The elections are an internal affair of the island's 23 million people, but since Taiwan is the only fully democratic political ent ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-08
... the High Island Reservoir East Dam. "Photography has turned me into a wild boy who enjoys the beauty of nature from a homeboy I used to be," Yuen said. Asked how he finds time to attend to his school ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-08
... Hong Kong Island regional headquarters began to question people in the neighborhood of a warehouse for books published by Mighty Current. The warehouse, located in an industrial building opposite MTR ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-08
... the South Island Line -- will proceed without a hitch, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. The express line that will connect Hong Kong and Guangzhou will entail total journey time of 63 minutes ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
... ts in the island-state, ten times the number of monthly property transactions, according to the Institute of Estate Agents. In comparison, there are only 1,840 agents in Australia’s New South Wales st ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
China will allow transit stops in Taiwan for its citizens traveling from three Chinese cities, allowing people from the mainland to travel on from the island for the first time. The change is another ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
