... ring over Kai Ching Estate which sparked a scare after it was found to have lead levels more than twice the World Health Organization limit. He said the government is handling the incident poorly. Kow ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... Sun Hung Kai Centre. Quarry Bay’s Taikoo Shing is another Hong Kong district with a sizable cluster of global broadcasters and newspapers. CNN International’s Asian operations center is in Taikoo Pla ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... s for the Kai Tak sports complex to be scaled down to release land to build homes. -- Contact us at [email protected] KZ/JP/FL ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... idents of Kai Ching Estate in Kowloon City have excessive amounts of lead in their blood. Among 74 water samples taken from faucets at 13 public estates, one from Kwong Fuk Estate in Tai Po was found ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
... es at the Kai Tak Development to facilitate Leung's ambition to build new homes. Last month, most of the pro-Beijing lawmakers walked out from the Legislative Council and failed to cast their votes in ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
Thirty-nine residents of Kai Ching Estate in Kowloon City were found to have excessive amounts of lead in their blood following government tests, Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man said. In the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... nt Chiang Kai-shek. Taiwan had a female vice president, Annette Lu, from 2000 to 2008. Nicknamed little hot pepper for her outspokenness, Hung, a former high school teacher and counselor, has been a l ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
Proper and effective internal controls are key to maintaining good governance. The water contamination scandal in Kai Ching estate is a good case study. A proper internal control regime means the cos ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... of Chiang Kai-shek, who died in 1975, the subject was taboo. “You cannot cover up the truth forever,” she said. “If a government does not have the wisdom to deal with history accurately, when it final ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
I suggested in an earlier article that mainland China is the best option for Taiwanese internet startups because of the sheer size of the market. Soon enough, netizens were asking me how exactly this ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-18
... state and Kai Ching Estate in Kowloon City, epicenters of the water pollution scandal, are both on the exemption list. Shui Chuen O Estate in Sha Tin, where unsafe drinking water was also found earlie ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... er at the Kai Ching and Kwai Luen public housing estates. Lam Tak-sum revealed in a radio interview that the same materials he used there were also used in other projects at public and private housing ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
It's bad enough that the government is ignoring the Kai Ching lead contamination scare but it's unconscionable when senior officials rationalize the problem. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said fault ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... osts. Sun Kai-hin, 26, belongs to the last category. He has a humble dream -- to raise a family and have his own place and car. Sun used to teach music in Hong Kong. Shortly after returning from a tw ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... supply of Kai Ching Estate, a three-year-old public housing development in the former Kai Tak airport. Ching refused to answer when pressed twice on whether her remarks were insensitive and cold-heart ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... nd Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists. He rose to national politics after the 1949 founding of the People’s Republic of China, serving as urban construction minister and vice mayor of Beijing before bein ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... scare in Kai Ching Estate and several other public housing estates in Hong Kong has prompted concern among the public whether prefabricated pipe fittings produced by Shenzhen Hailong Building Product ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... water in Kai Ching Estate in Kowloon City. Cheung said on Tuesday that temporary water supply systems are now in place for residents of Kai Ching Estate, which is home to around 5,000 families. Legis ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... s way for Kai Ching Estate, a three-year old development in the former Kai Tak airport. When the first buildings in the complex were completed in 2012, they were hailed as Hong Kong's first green resi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... ucture at Kai Ching Estate, RTHK reported. According to the Housing Authority, about half of the bathrooms and one-sixth of the kitchens, in terms of numbers, in the estate were constructed with modul ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
