The three district councilors with the poorest attendance record all come from rural committees in the North District, Cable TV reported Monday. Councilor Hau Chi-keung attended the fewest meetings am ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
China's economy has been cooling down since 2008 and uncertainties have been on the rise. This has prompted President Xi Jinping to lay out social stability as a key task for the government. The mainl ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
Hong Kong's longstanding strategy of relying on low-cost foreign domestic helpers to meet the needs of the city's wealthier residents may need to be revisited soon as the economies of southeast Asian ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
Legislator Ip Kwok-him of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) said pan-democrats would face a landslide loss if District Council elections were to be ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
The turn of the Chinese calendar is a few days away, and ill fortune will be swept away as it is every year for incoming luck. But for all the well wishes you get for good fortune, happiness, wealth a ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
Forget iPhone 6 or iPad 3. It's sort of nice to have them, but neither would probably make you scream in delight when your name is announced as the winner of the grand prize at the Lunar New Year offi ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
Islamic State said it was holding an Israeli Arab who had posed as a foreign fighter in order to spy for Mossad. But the militants' claim was denied by Israel and by the man's family, who said he had ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
A card reader widely available in Shenzhen can pick up data remotely and is powerful enough to process encrypted multiple information. The device can read secure data from any card that uses the ISO ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
It may come as a surprise to some that there are only 15 air quality monitoring stations (12 general and three roadside) in Hong Kong to cover the city's 1,100 square kilometers. One reason is that a ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
The "platform" concept is becoming a hot area in China's overcharged internet world, as companies look for newer and better ways to deliver their products and services over a growing number of devices ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
Be careful what you say in front of the telly. Big Brother is listening. Samsung warns its customers that the new privacy policy for its internet-connected Smart TVs allows the company and its partner ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
Jack Ma Yun, founding chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., made a spectacular speech in Hong Kong recently. Ma said he does not care about a person's résumé when hiring. In some cases, he said, an ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
Nine key trends will dominate the digital space over the course of 2015, according to popular British technology websites Dot Rising (.Rising.com) and Strategy Eye (digitalmedia.Strategyeye.com): 1. S ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying put forward in his policy address last month some new measures regarding innovation and technology. Admittedly, this reflects the administration’s commitmen ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
Legendary stock investor Peter Lynch once proclaimed famously: "Whatever the queen is selling, buy it". The remarks, which refer to opportunities in recently privatized businesses, send the message th ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
Night-club operator Magnum Entertainment Group Holdings (02080.HK) may go private and delist from the stock exchange as controlling shareholder and chairman Yip Mow-lum mulls sale of his stake, the Ho ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
Let me confide a brutal and embarrassing truth. I hate my Kindle, and all the books I devour on it. I miss my books… the feel of them, the smell of them, the sense of “place” as I work steadily throug ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
The residential project in Tung Chung developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties (00016.HK) is selling out quickly. SHKP rolled out 300 units in the first batch, with an entry price of HK$4 million. The fir ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
With the European Central Bank printing more money from mid-March, global funds are poised to exit Europe amid bearish sentiment on the euro. At the same time, the Chinese government faces a challenge ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. and Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group have agreed to jointly invest US$10 billion in Citic Ltd. (00267.HK) for 20 percent stake, in a deal that will make them the s ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23