... at of the city?” A local newspaper based in Tai Po ran a cover story that asserts Hong Kong's end is assured if the students' roadblocks continued. Lam called her ministers to a late-night meeting on ...More
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... zens. The city has made a lot of progress since the launch of the Hong Kong Smart City Blueprint in 2017. Examples include a city dashboard that presents livelihood-related open data such as traffic, ...More
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... st in the city. Office workers in Central may be getting jittery as they see street battles between the police and protestors, but the conflicts and violence don't seem to have shaken the faith of ove ...More
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Dear Mrs Carrie Lam, I am a graduate student at Cambridge. I was born in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong is the place I call home – it is the city where my family and friends are living in, and where I recei ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-14
... ern China city to cheaper locations nearby. Dongguan is just half an hour’s drive away, hence it is one of the main beneficiaries of the trend. In 2015, it only cost 15 to 18 yuan per square meter to ...More
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... cking the city since June became increasingly violent. The third source said Alibaba was confident that the company could overcome the negative sentiment in Hong Kong financial markets caused by the d ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-13
The situation in our city has continued to deteriorate. On Monday morning, a traffic police officer fired live rounds including one hitting and wounding a protester in Sai Wan Ho, while a man of diffe ...More
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... rt of the city’s Central business district during the lunchtime rush hour. Wearing now-banned face masks and dressed in office wear, they marched and hurled bricks onto roads lined with some of the wo ...More
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... ns in the city for seven days from Jan. 19 to 25. A total of 1,284 wet-goods stalls and 18 fast-food stalls will be put up for auction. – Contact us at [email protected] TL/JC/CG ...More
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... wers, capacity and independent investigative capability necessary to match the scale of events and the standards required of an international police watchdog operating in a city that values freedoms a ...More
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Shenzhen's housing and construction bureau announced on Monday that all residential apartments smaller than 144 square meters in the southern city will be exempted from the luxury home tax. The move i ...More
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Hong Kong saw more clashes on Wednesday as anti-government protesters paralyzed parts of the city for a third day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalation of ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-13
... rity, the city's de-facto central bank, introduced virtual banking, allowing both financial and non-financial firms to operate a virtual bank in the territory, with an objective to promote financial i ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
... ct in our city's judicial independence in the long run. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Nov 6 Translation by Alan Lee with additional reporting [Chinese version 中文版] – Conta ...More
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... owing the citywide mayhem that began early in the day, Lam said bluntly that demonstrators will never succeed in getting their political demands met by stepping up the violence. "If there's still any ...More
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... top-tier city or not does not really matter so much. As home prices were very high in his home town, Li decided to look elsewhere among the smaller cities. He visited several lower-tier cities, inclu ...More
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Riot police fired tear gas near the City University of Hong Kong on Tuesday morning after people set up road blocks to disrupt traffic in Kowloon Tong. The protesters were responding to calls for a se ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
... wards the city where opposition protesters and police set up barricades and armed themselves for a potential showdown. Police said the crowd was marching down from the nearby city of El Alto, even as ...More
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