... Hong Kong Island. Thus, the boundary between China and the Crown Colony shifted from Victoria Harbor to a straight east-west line that runs from the mosquito-ridden wilderness of Kowloon Fort to the S ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... gqin, the island next to Macau. It includes one of the world’s large aquariums, with rare whale sharks, beluga whales, polar bears and other exotic animals. It is several times bigger than Disneyland ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... Hong Kong Island, but that function has now been taken over by the MTR West Island Line, Sit said. If tram lines are removed, Sit said at least 30 percent of road space can be increased along Des Voeu ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
... Wan/ Park Island” over the weekend. “They booked all the barbeque facilities next to mine and were making a lot of fun … making me extremely unhappy.” She then suggested that the estate management ba ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-19
It's been more than 110 years since Hong Kong Tramways first rolled out its electric trains on the streets of Hong Kong island in 1904. Connecting the eastern and western sides of the island, the mass ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
... ighboring island of Hengqin; it aims to develop products for the international market. Chui was criticized by two legislators for lack of progress in redeveloping the old and dilapidated districts of ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
... Hong Kong Island Command who were on their way to Fanling for training. The officers got off and helped the driver crawl out of the car. The road accident became the topic of heated discussion on the ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
... C). South Island Line (East Section) will now cost HK$16.9 billion, up from HK$15.2 billion, although it's on track for completion in 2016. But the Kwun Tong Line extension will have cost HK$7.2 bill ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
Singapore marks this month the 50th anniversary of its reluctant independence in 1965, when the island was abruptly expelled from Malaysia. Professor Wang Gungwu -- a famed historian who was formerly ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
Sri Lanka may be a small economy, but situated along the key Eurasian shipping route, the island country in the Indian Ocean has served as an important transshipment hub. It is also seen as a vital no ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
... Hong Kong Island police headquarters recorded 469 complaints relating to taxi drivers, including overcharging, refusal to take passengers and failing to take the most direct routes to destinations. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
... sense of island identity. Membership of the European Union is a matter of business convenience and ease of travel and buying property – not a feeling of empathy with the citizens of the other 26 memb ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
... finished island reclamation in disputed waters. However, what this means is that China will now move to the next stage, of building infrastructure on these artificial islands, including military faci ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
... of Lantau Island will be developed into a third key business district, after Central district and East Kowloon, and it’s one of the city's most strategic land reserves. Under the bay area plan, there ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-08
... man-made islands was raising tensions and risked "militarization" by other claimant states, Reuters reported. Kerry's blunt criticism of Beijing, in front of his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, is likel ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-07
... The small island state has laid out plans for its economy to rise up the value chain and boost the productivity of its workers. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was quoted by the Straits Times newspaper ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-07
... ss of the Island Shangri-La, a luxury hotel, as their residential address, qualifying them as electors in Chung Wan constituency under the Central and Western District. Democratic Party lawmaker Alber ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-06
... (a Lantau Island development including a cultural village and cable car). However, they have proven to be less attractive to tourists, the study said. By contrast, Singapore and South Korea, two of Ho ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-06
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday confirmed that an aircraft part washed ashore on an Indian Ocean island last week was part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The anno ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-06
Hong Kong people who came down with food poisoning from imported Taiwanese sandwiches are not getting much sympathy from the island's netizens. Some said sandwiches should not be casually brought in b ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
