Hong Kong retailers are cutting prices and formulating other strategies to cope with slower growth amid changes in the consumption behavior of mainlanders and a shift in consumer base, the Hong Kong E ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-11
... he Ho Man Tin Estate street. The shooter has been arrested. In a door-to-door search of the building after the shooting rampage, policemen with machine guns found in the suspect's home, which is about ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-07
Sometimes small is really beautiful -- and also profitable. A luxury flat on the Peak costs cheaper to rent per square foot than a Sham Shui Po subdivided flat, a car park slot in Tin Shui Wai or a co ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
Lands Department Assistant Director Anita Lam allegedly bought an 80,000 square foot plot in Kam Tin, Yuen Long, for HK$18.8 million (US$2.43 million) two years ago, after the Development Bureau publi ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
... o and Sha Tin. According to the Hospital Authority, there were over 10,000 cases related to birth defects in 2012. Cheung Tak-hong, chairman of the Hospital Authority committee said, the increase coul ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-04
... in Ho Man Tin after suspending its operation in July 13 because of lack of workers. He has lost about half of his staff since the start of the year, prompting him to cut business hours by half to 12 h ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-01
... units at Tin Lee Court in Tai O for no more than HK$897,300 each. Such a bargain, even for a 450 square foot unit, has not been seen in the past 20 years. There's a small problem, though. Management ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-24
... flats in Tin Lee Court in Lung Tin Estate on Lantau Island were referred to as the cheapest ones in HOS history, but the monthly management fee for the flats will average HK$4.27 (US$55 cents) per sq ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-24
... uesday, citing a survey conducted by Centaline Property Agency Ltd. on 85 major residential estates in the city. City One Shatin, a popular choice among students from mainland China, has seen rents ri ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
... buy five tins of cookies -- the maximum a person is allowed to buy at the shop at a time -- you can land a commission of HK$60 (US$7.7). Mainland visitors are said to be desperate to get their hands ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-30
... ent), Lam Tin (32.7 percent), Sai Kung city (30.6 percent), Yuen Long Town Centre (20 percent), Tsuen Wan Town Centre (25.5 percent), northern Kwai Chung (20.4 percent) and Tsing Yi (22.8 percent). Sa ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-24
... tation in Tin Shui Wai district and the Lok Ma Chau spur line. In this case, the bus driver barred a passenger who had six boxes, saying "this is a bus, not a lorry". A local netizen named Isis took a ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-23
... 14), Lam Tin to Lok Fu (June 15), Po Lam to Sha Tin (June 16), Tai Po to Sheung Shui (June 17), Yuen Long to Tuen Mun (June 18), Kwai Fong to Tsuen Wan (June 19), and Central to Charter Garden (June ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-06
... ing Leung Tin-wai, head of the department of journalism and mass communication at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Leung, who was personally invited to join station by Ho in 1972, said the latter's unwa ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-05
... se to the Tin Hau and Causeway Bay subway stations were brought to a standstill by the high number of participants, many of whom wore black to mark the event. Organizers of a June 4 gathering in Tsim ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-05
... ge's Lung Tin Estate. Prices will range between HK$641,000 (US$82,391) and HK$897,000 for flats from 475 to 485 square feet, Apple Daily reported Wednesday. The prices are within the means but possibl ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-04
... School in Tin Hau evaded the questions, saying that they had no comment about the bloodshed. One student said it is “troublesome” to exonerate those involved in the protests, while another said “we sh ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
Hundreds of priceless Song Dynasty relics may have been destroyed at the ongoing construction of the MTR Shatin-Central Line because the Antiquities and Monuments Office, the government agency in char ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
... On Shan, Tin Sum and Tseung Kwan O, Ming Pao Daily reported Tuesday. These included a python, a cobra and two bamboo vipers -- all captured alive -- but six others had slithered out of sight by the ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
The Link Real Estate Investment Trust (0823.HK) is testing the waters of a move into private commercial real estate, selling off an initial five shopping arcades that make up less than 1 percent of it ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12