... As far as town planning is concerned, we have lost Lee Tung Street, Choi Yuen village, the northeastern New Territories and the northern Lantau Island one after the other, and we are on the brink of l ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-10
Breweries are popping up all over the city, and craft beer bars are taking up sizeable spaces in areas ranging from Kennedy Town to Ap Lei Chau. Not seen on this scale before, craft brewers are creati ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
... ." Across town at the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship group, the tone was less conciliatory. "What will we do next? Tell Prayuth that, although it seems he is winning, this is not a vic ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
The Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte identified about 160 incumbent and former town mayors and executives, judges and policemen allegedly linked to the illegal drugs trade, stepping up a name-an ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
... me in the town of Darya, a suburb of Damascus, to escape relentless bombardment by Syrian armed forces. Having already lost a year of primary education in his hometown, where it was simply too dangero ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-04
... more new towns. Our town planners and bureaucrats are all firm believers in the town planning doctrines laid down by English town-planning expert Ebenezer Howard back in 1898. According to his doctr ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-02
... ing-class town near Rouen, northwest of Paris, where the 85-year-old parish priest, Father Jacques Hamel, was leading prayers. "They forced him to his knees and he tried to defend himself and that's w ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-27
... lissat, a town in western Greenland. At that time, he informed his friends that he was preparing to join a group that would undertake a helicopter trip to see glaciers, Ming Pao Daily reported. Since ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-26
... (威海衛), a town leased as a British enclave in China’s Shandong province, from after World War I to the 1950s. They were mainly garrisoned at the Government House and on the Peak. The pioneer batch of ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-25
... e villas, townhouses and green boulevards named after counties in England. Yiu of the CUHK said the post-World War II era, particularly the 1950s and '60s, was characterized by rapid urbanization and ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
... rn German town of Wurzburg, the husband and his daughter's boyfriend suffered the most serious injuries, according to RTHK. The couple's son, who was also with them, escaped unhurt. Officials said the ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
Saturday's Kennedy Town fire which killed four people may have been started deliberately. Public broadcaster RTHK is citing early investigations by the Fire Services Department which indicate the poss ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... cturesque town formerly leased as a British enclave in Shandong. The China Institute of City Competitiveness has another list. Its top five are Guangdong’s Zhuhai (珠海); Xiamen (廈門), a port city in Fuj ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
More than 5,000 people have signed up on a petition to express their objection to a planned demolition of the Cadogan Street Temporary Garden in Kennedy Town. The park had been incorporated into a Ke ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... k to Cape Town with his wife after a holiday in southern Turkey. "We ducked behind a counter but I stood up and watched him. Two explosions went off shortly after one another. By that time he had stop ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-29
... y game in town”, relieving elected government leaders of their responsibility for pro-growth policies and the fiscal decisions they control. A less risky and time-tested route for stimulating demand w ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-27
... lready in town since March and has kept his lips sealed, to hand over the hard disk to their agents? Also, why is the Ningbo public security bureau leading the investigation when it could have been mo ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-22
... lk of the town for his unwavering advocacy of Hong Kong independence. Thanks to the internet, the traditional print and broadcast media no longer have the monopoly on the dissemination of information, ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-22
... ackeys in town are responding to the latest episode of this saga. TVB, now being ridiculed as CCTVB for parroting Beijing’s views, has angered its audience after it abruptly scrapped an interview with ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
... ing up in town, even inside MTR stations. Halina’s shop sells a set of fishballs, usually six pieces, for HK$10, eight pieces of fish siu mai for HK$15 and a bowl of bean noodles "shark's fin" soup fo ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-10
