... ws' cross town rival, the New York Post, is owned by Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate News Corp. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
... with the Town Planning Board to redevelop its 15-storey warehouse in Chai Wan into a columbarium. The proposed Island Memorial Center seeks to provide 120,000 columbarium niches. As to be expected, t ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
... cultural town at the Hengqin New Area near Macau, which is expected to be completed by early 2018. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on March 26. Translation by Vey Wong [Chines ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
... n Kennedy Town on the west side of Hong Kong Island, was recently leased for HK$8,500 a month. Earlier this month, a parking spot in Shun Tak Centre in Sheung Wan changed hands for HK$4 million. Land ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
A senior government official and members of his family have filed applications with the Town Planning Board to build five houses in a village near a beach in Sai Kung, raising concerns that their appr ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
Netizens assailed the Town Planning Board for approving a plan to demolish the Boathouse restaurant in Stanley and build a 10-story hotel on the site. “It’s a shame to have this beautiful building dem ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
... de resort town of Surfers Paradise on eastern Australia’s Gold Coast. Chinese companies are still likely to buy some commodity assets, though not in areas of oversupply such as iron ore. UBS A.G. pred ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
Residents of a tourist town in southern Taiwan are threatening a blockade unless the local government controls an increasing flood of visitors from the Chinese mainland. Sizihwan Bay in Kaohsiung on t ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
A non-profit foundation that seeks to run a shopping mall at the border in Lok Ma Chau will submit its application to the Town Planning Board by the end of the month, Singtao Daily reported Thursday, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
... near the town of Dinsoor. Residents said the vehicle was completely burned. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
... ayor of a town on the northern edge of Tikrit told Reuters on Sunday that storage containers filled with chlorine were found by troops and mainly Shi'ite militiamen when they entered al-Alam last week ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
... ndustrial town of Kanpur in northern Uttar Pradesh state, police officer Rakesh Kumar said. The groom's family tried to persuade the bride to return but she refused. She said the groom had misled her ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
Last month, Islamic State retreated from the strategically important Syrian town of Kobani, which had been occupied for almost six months. For the first time, IS admitted it was defeated. The Islamic ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... ed by the Town Planning Board earlier this year. Janko Lam, local fashion designer and founder of the Classics Anew brand, said the industry is grappling with many problems, including a rise in labor ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... Tin’s New Town Plaza mall got more than two million online shares. Netizens deemed the picture as offering a vivid portrayal of the raging hostility and prejudice in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, there has al ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
... satellite town of Hangzhou. "We tourists became porters for things that were in fact made on our doorstep," he said. Meanwhile, a premium variety of Japanese short-grain rice called hitomebore, anothe ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... l Tamr, a town near where the Observatory said the abductions occurred. Many Assyrian Christians have emigrated in the nearly four-year-long conflict in which more than 200,000 people have been killed ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... theastern town of Potiskum before setting off a blast that killed 16 people, Reuters reported, citing security and hospital sources. A police spokesman said the bomber was a man but some witnesses had ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... ere 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 Cheung when she resigned as an ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
Birdman, 12 Golden Ducks and Penguins of Madagascar have scorched the Hong Kong box office but the hottest ticket in town is a blue-and-white robot cat. It helps that Stand By Me: Doraemon is in 3D bu ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
