... uld spoil land along its route and exploiting the crude from tar sands will contribute to climate change. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... mily owns land in Kwun Tung, where a new town development is being planned. Mok cited family reasons in quitting her job as a political assistant to Labor and Welfare Secretary Matthew Cheung, as did ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
... n the mainland, as well as weak export markets in Europe, the US and Japan. All this is bad news for Hong Kong people. For the past 30 years, a job in a Hong Kong firm in the PRD, which is more likely ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
... tion, mainlanders are now increasingly turning to South Korea's Jeju Island, helping it become one of the hottest new immigration destinations in Asia. Easy access from China's main cities, good educa ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
... Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd., who is believed to have offered the buyer a 20 percent discount for the bulk purchase. The deal is the largest single property purchase made by the Liaison Office ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
... s and the land registration system. – Contact us at [email protected] FL/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
... rights to land adjoining Zuckerberg's backyard in 2012, had planned to start construction on a new mansion. But he later offered to sell his interest in the land so that Zuckerberg can gain more priva ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
... Kai Tack Land Investment formed by Ho and Au acquired plots near the coastline in the early 20th century. Reclamation projects were started subsequently to meet the demand for upmarket housing when m ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
... ll be mainlanders flocking into Hong Kong, since many local residents will be leaving the city for a short break during this period. But there will be more incoming tourists than outgoing residents. I ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
Hong Kong is 30 years behind Singapore in farming. Why? Last month, the Hong Kong government proposed setting up an Agri-Park, which may cover an area of 80 hectares of farmland, to boost Hong Kong’s ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
... ments use land as collateral to take out loans to fund infrastructure investment, then finance repayment by relying on revenue from subsequent land sales. As the property boom wanes, their debts becom ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
... K), a mainland property developer, issued four tranches of US dollar bonds to raise cheap funds. The coupon rates range from 8.875 percent to 12.875 percent, with maturity dates in 2017, 2018, 2019 a ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
... ng Kong Island and Kowloon rather than in the New Territories. As of Feb. 1, temporary transactions on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon were up 3 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively, from the previous w ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
A pilot and his wife navigated and landed a plane using Apple iPads after the aircraft's electrical systems failed, the International Business Times reported. They used information from the tablets to ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
... to obtain land banks for long-term use. Times Property reported a 30 percent year-on-year jump in net profit to 1.28 billion yuan (US$200 million) in 2014. Revenue from recognized property sales rose ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
It’s common sense that prices of commodities are a gauge of economic conditions. Hong Kong’s runaway home prices are thus a reflection of land (and property) undersupply and robust demand fueled by th ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
... ing their land in the area at a discount. What about coordinating their efforts with China Overseas Land or Fosun, both of which have participated in land auctions in the city in the past two years? T ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
... rthern Ireland and the Balkans, called "war among the people" – a kind of struggle that is rarely decided on conventional battlefields by traditional armies. These hybrid wars are fought using a wide ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
... . Regular land sales were also abandoned in favour of the newly introduced mechanism of land sales by application, and the construction of public rental housing flats also slowed down. When Donald Tsa ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
... ot of mainland immigrants actually have professional qualifications or rich work experience. However, many of these people have discovered that their qualifications are not recognized or needed in the ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
