... rs on the island and their money is flowing rapidly into the property market, despite attempts to restrict it. Vote for Tsai and the DPP and we can slow or turn off the tap of tourists, investment and ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
... 5 for the island's Bun Festival. Details are still being discussed among the ferry company, the Transport Department and residents' representatives. A total of 80-100 seats, out of 1,400, may be reser ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
Star Ferry Co. Ltd, which operates the iconic heritage ferries that ply between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, is planning to add a new landmark on the city's famed harborfront. The company, whose hist ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... d Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu Islands in China’s official documents): “The Senkaku Islands are territories under the administration of Japan and therefore fall within the scope of the commitments under Ar ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... wins the island's 2017 presidential election, Liu said. Chu, a likely KMT presidential candidate next year, said on Saturday -- before the high-profile meeting with China's top leader -- that he will ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
Facebook does not always get it right, sparking complaints about everything from privacy settings and censorship to how it displays ads on news feeds. But put an entire community of Swedish islanders ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country. Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television. The ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
Eric Chu Li-luan, chairman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang, said the island can and will play a greater role in the global community based on the 1992 Consensus with mainland China, Ming Pao Daily repor ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... th on the island of Bali in 2013 after she was convicted of trafficking drugs, the news agency said. Customs officers found cocaine worth an estimated US$2.4 million hidden in a false bottom in Sandif ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... isolated island of prosperity. Indeed, just 100 miles inland, in California’s Central Valley, unemployment rates remain in the double digits (11.2 percent in Fresno and 10.4 percent in Modesto), with ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... ion on an island facing the main promenade. But tickets for classical music, western and Chinese opera and other upmarket performances will be out of the budget of a majority of Zhuhai’s 1.5 million p ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... in Rhode Island on government scholarships. Singapore subsidizes the bulk of tuition fees at local universities for its citizens, making the cost about S$7,950 a year for an arts and social sciences ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... the South Island line. Leung said MTRC understands the concerns of the public but has to be realistic in projecting the time it needs for construction, given the technical difficulties it has encounte ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
... Mansion, Island Crest and Sorrento are the three most expensive estates on the MTR line in Central, Sai Ying Pun and Kowloon stations, respectively. Most interestingly, the price gap between Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
... on Lantau Island is another place that has fallen into the hands of mainland visitors. More than 60 percent of the campers there are mainland visitors. As the campsite is now flooded with mainlanders, ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
... nd Po Toi Island are among the country parks that have been hit the most by garbage. Chu Hon-keung, another environmental activist, said the huge amount of garbage in country parks is a reflection of ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-28
... rn resort island of Jeju from Incheon, west of Seoul, when it sank off the coast on April 16 last year. Most of the victims were high school students on a field trip. In November, a lower court convic ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-28
... two Lamma Islands. Many of the sites owned by the army lie right next to urban districts and have barely been utilized since the handover. The garrison currently operates a dozen military sites across ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
When the State Council designated Hengqin island as a special zone in April 2009, Macau thought it had won the lottery. Here was 106.5 square kilometers of land, just 200 meters away at its closest po ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
... e Italian island of Lampedusa killed hundreds in October 2013. But Italy ended the operation in October 2014. The EU replaced it with much smaller operations run by Frontex, the EU’s border agency, th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24