... oles as a hub for the OBOR initiative: its financing center, professional service center and information and data center. Since China’s opening-up began decades ago, Hong Kong has been the major sourc ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
China will widen a pilot anti-graft scheme to four more regions beyond the business hub of Shanghai as it seeks to rein in business activities by the families of senior government officials, Reuters r ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
... ecome the hub of "New Europe" and is looking aggressively for foreign investment and business opportunities. Besides, China is now the largest trading partner of the Czech Republic apart from the Euro ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-14
... financial hub and international city will be wiped out. Hong Kong used to be the only goose that laid the golden eggs for a backward China. Now, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shanghai are also laying golden ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-14
... central "hub" for the consumer, and 5G, with its superior capabilities, will facilitate this. I believe that, within a decade, Hongkongers will no longer use cards to withdraw cash from ATMs or make ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-13
... financial hub status in the region, a Hong Kong government official said. He said the government will step up promotion of Hong Kong's financial services industry overseas to attract more investors. L ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
... l startup hub after Silicon Valley. Chan met Israel’s Chief Scientist Avi Hasson in May last year. Being responsible for allocating government funding to tech firms, Hasson shared the logic behind his ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-07
... nly Asian hub for global media ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-07
... ng as the hub of mega events. Part of the money will be used to turn three trams into mobile pubs during the Hong Kong Sevens, allowing tourists aged 18 or above who are staying in Hong Kong for less ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
A Starbucks executive has picked Hong Kong as the Asian headquarters of her growing social networking business targeting financial companies. Clara Shih, Starbucks' first Hong Kong director, has signe ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
... anagement hub for China or the whole of Asia, it should step up efforts in development of the Fintech sector, leveraging on technology and robust regulation advantages. This article appeared in the Ho ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-01
Admiralty is not only a key location for Hong Kong's financial sector businesses, it also serves as a hub for many high-end restaurants and luxury hotels in the city. But personally, when it comes to ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-31
... rnational hub with innovative, technology-driven start-up businesses. In addition, Hong Kong employees are not as driven to upskill in technology as their Asian neighbors, with only eight in 10 employ ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
State-run conglomerate China Merchants Group has made an informal bid to buy London's Baltic Exchange, becoming the latest contender for the business that has been the hub of the global shipping marke ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-17
... a budding hub for teaching and research despite its brief history. Quacquarelli Symonds ranks it sixth in the world’s top 50 universities under 50 and 116th overall out of 700 in its 2015 report. Poly ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
... business hub of Sao Paulo and the capital Brasilia, protesters marched in a nationwide call for Rousseff to step down, raising pressure on lawmakers to back ongoing impeachment proceedings against he ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
A car bomb exploded at a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and wounding 125 in the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
... rnational hub for tech start-ups. High-tech industries now account for 12.5 percent of its GDP, and their products represent almost half of the country's exports. Moreover, Israel is currently spendi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
... te equity hub in Asia, the city can also provide PE financing for the initiative. In Asia, PEs are commonly engaged in financing for the infrastructure, logistics and energy sectors. For the projects ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
Macau's anti-corruption agency has begun an investigation into the city's former top prosecutor, Reuters reports. It is the highest-profile graft case in the world's largest gambling hub in a decade. ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
