Sharp Island North (橋嘴洲北) was found to have the highest coral coverage in the latest Hong Kong Reef Check conducted by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. The island has a coral co ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... nd Lantau Island, which will become a new centre for retail, business, tourism and exhibitions. Also, the soaring number of passengers commuting between Hong Kong and Shenzhen requires a review of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-05
... from the island's then President Chiang Kai-shek, and lived there until he passed away in 1990 at the age of 95. It's fair to say that Ch'ien never recognized the legitimacy of the Communist Party re ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
... yang Palm Island Resort in Guangdong. Hong Kong-based New World China said it will realize a one-time profit of about 5.4 billion yuan from the transaction with Guangzhou-based Evergrande, China's sec ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... mined the island's efforts to climb out of US$72 billion in debt and forced it to take drastic measures to keep public services running. But Moody's said the ratings agency would "continue to view def ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
... emocratic island and weeks ahead of elections. Taiwan's two jailed spies were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006 for their activities, the defense ministry said, but declined to elaborate. -- Cont ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
... Hong Kong Island and galvanize the takeoff of the New Territories. Ben Lee is the writer of this article. Why HK should promote balanced development of districts (Nov. 7, 2015) -- Contact us at englis ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-28
Taiwan’s stock market rose after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou met in November, highlighting the island's positive attitude toward deeper cooperation with the mainland ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-28
... rtificial island are also causing construction delays as the island has been found moving seven meters away from where it is supposed to be, Ming Pao noted. Asked whether the department had tried to c ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-27
... eaders of island nations such as the Seychelles and Marshall Islands that are threatened by rising sea levels. The fact that over 170 countries have put forward targets and strategies to curb their gr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-25
... Hong Kong Island on Monday. Both were being detained for further questioning. The investigation is continuing and police are not ruling out more arrests. -- Contact us at [email protected] KZ/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
... Hong Kong Island to see a doctor." Following the complaints, the government then built the Kowloon Hospital, catering to the needs of the non-Chinese, he notes. "The site was carefully chosen. Initial ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-21
Looking at the map, I often see Lantau Island as a tiger cub with Chi Ma Wan peninsula (芝麻灣半島) as its front paw. Chi Ma Wan, which translates into Sesame Bay, is known for its correctional institution ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-21
... Hong Kong island with several other cyclists, Apple Daily reported. Policemen and paramedics found the man in a coma due to head injuries, and rushed him to Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan, where he was ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... rn Lantau Island has led to 292,000 tonnes of food waste having been piled up at landfills, a situation that the commission said could have been avoided if not for the EPD’s serious underestimation of ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... Hong Kong Island and the seat of the Archbishop of Hong Kong. The site is the only freehold land with unlimited time ownership in the city, granted in pursuant to the Church of England Trust Ordinance ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
The Philippine military said it is looking into intelligence reports that an Islamist militant group had beheaded a Malaysian businessman held captive since May on the southern island of Jolo. Abu Say ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... om in the island nation. That continued until the Japanese bubble burst in the '90s. A recession then forced some Japanese investors to sell US property assets at low prices as the firms sought to rai ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... southern island of Mindanao, has had an on-and-off Muslim insurgency dating back to the 1970s. A large part of the Muslim population are peace-loving people who have been trying to integrate into the ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
... ed barren islands with a population of slightly over a million. One may wonder how history would have been if Zhoushan was ceded in perpetuity after the First Opium War in 1842. It was said that Brito ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
