... es of 700 square feet each. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is blaming the lack of land for the housing problem in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the New Territories villagers are competing with all other Hong ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
... Bauhinia Square in front of government headquarters; and the Occupy protest site in Admiralty. Ou told Apple Daily on one of those occasions that it took him less than 10 seconds to strip, do his pus ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
Three student leaders went on trial on Monday over their alleged involvement in the “Reclaim Civic Square” action a few days before the Occupy movement began in 2014. Joshua Wong, 18, convenor of the ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
... l hundred square feet. Hong Kong's average living space is 161 square feet per person. More than half of private units are less than 50 square meters -- virtually shoeboxes that might house four or mo ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... ies 1,500 square feet and is listed at a monthly rent of HK$1.2 million (US$150,000). The luxury watch company reportedly paid a monthly rent of HK$1.5 million starting in 2014, when the rent was rais ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... ss 97,000 square kilometers (37,000 square miles). Leo appeared unscathed after the incident, but was taken to a children's hospital for observation, The Telegraph reported. – Contact us at english@hk ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... hin 1,772 square kilometers. The city will have six sub-centers by then. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Feb. 22. Translation by Julie Zhu [Chinese version中文版] -- Contact us ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-27
... 3,000 per square foot, limited opportunities for the younger generation, and so on. The realtors always say the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will drive up housing prices further. However, they might be forgett ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
... 9 million square feet of attributable land bank in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and Sydney at the end of December, 56.5 percent of which was residential. [Chinese version 中文版] -- Contact us at ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
... of 70,000 square meters for startups and other technology companies by 2020. The project cost, estimated at around HK$4.4 billion, will be borne jointly by the government and Hong Kong Science & T ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... Tiananmen Square in 1989 has ensured stability in the mainland in the ensuing decades. Here in Hong Kong, the Tung Chee-hwa administration awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal to Yeung Kwong, a mastermind ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... Tiananmen Square in 1989. There is to be no discussion of so-called western values in China’s universities. Only Marxism can be taught. Did no one tell President Xi Jinping and his Politburo colleague ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... than 4.5 square kilometers with 500,000 curved mirrors – some as high as 12 meters – cost around US$700 million. But it is intended to be only one part of a huge solar compound extending over 30 sq k ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
... open-air square in front of the Tin Hau temple. The fish smelt good and exotic. Much of the dynamics have been contributed by a seafood restaurant, which has managed to draw quite a lot of foreign vi ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-20
... Tiananmen Square protests. A qualified leader should stand up to represent the people of Hong Kong and not yield easily to pressure from Beijing, Tang said. For Hong Kong to make any progress, he said ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
A member of student pro-democracy activist group Scholarism who was accused of attacking a security guard during the "Reclaim Civic Square" action by students in 2014 walked free Thursday. An Eastern ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
... a 30,000 square foot land for US$7 million to build a new factory in the country. [Chinese version中文版] -- Contact us at [email protected] VW/JP/GG ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
... ut of 110 square meters of pavement, the official said. Describing the incident as the "most violent" since Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, Lai said there was "a small group of rioters masking th ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-17
... possible square foot for retail space -- only about 1,900 square meters of the 3,200 sq meter lot is used for that. The project didn’t stall, leaving prime land unused. Even though it’s a short hike ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-13
... least 100 square meters. And a large open space to air-dry the fresh tea leaf." The entire processing should be done within 20 hours. During the hours, tea makers should take shifts to monitor the who ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-08
