... ur later. Twelve people were injured. The 48-year-old owner of the flat, surnamed Lui, suffered serious burns and was sent to an intensive care unit inf North District Hospital, where he is in stable ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
... nt in the twelve months to January. As the economy keeps improving, interest rates are bound to rise, may be a few times this year as well as next year. Three rounds of quantitative easing (QE) have i ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-08
... al. TPP's twelve members include important US trade partners such as Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Mexico and Canada. A main goal of the accord is to set trading rules in Asia, which TPP partners believe ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-18
A court in eastern China on Wednesday sentenced a former Communist Party chief of Nanjing city to twelve-and-a-half years in jail after finding him guilty of corruption. The Ningbo Intermediate People ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-15
Twelve MTR passengers crossing the border on Thursday ran into two unfortunate incidents that caused them serious delays and forced them to return to Hong Kong. Their first encounter with bad luck beg ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-26
... ency. The twelve dancers are meant to portray Jia Baoyu and the different women in the novel, but it's not at all clear. The best was the opening work "The Enigma of a Stone" by Ho Ying-fung, which at ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-12
... xt six to twelve months. Investors should not expect any policy stimulus in the near term. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on July 28. Translation by Julie Zhu [Chinese version ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
... nt in the twelve months to March, while Nanjing saw a rise of 17.8 percent and Beijing 17.6 percent. The rapid acceleration of prices in several Chinese cities was attributed to an easing in monetary ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... tivities. Twelve units will be offered for rent this year, while the rest will be rolled out after the external scaffolding is removed early next year. Suki Chau Hei Suen, Group Project Officer of SJ ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-20
... system. Twelve nurses faced misconduct allegations but nine had their charges dismissed for lack of evidence, the report said. Brian Wang said he has accepted the nurses' apology, adding he will l ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-14
... have been twelve cases of debt default by Chinese issuers, according to mainland media reports. So far, market fear has been contained, as five of those bond issuers eventually paid investors back the ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-19
Islamic State bombers attacked a natural-gas plant north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 12 people. It was the fifth straight day of offensive by the extremist group that have left more than 12 ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
... as jumped twelve-fold between 1997 and 2007, according to Dr Constance Chan Hon-yee, director of the Health Department. Taking the population overall, one in every 10 people in the city now has diabet ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
Money is fleeing from penny stocks after a brief surge in their prices at the end of last month, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Wednesday. Twelve of the 20 stocks that fell the most on the Ho ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
... orldwide. Twelve percent of global goods trade is already conducted in e-commerce channels. Moreover, a country needs not develop its own Silicon Valley to benefit. Countries on the periphery of the n ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
... and 2011, twelve of them were caused by fatal injuries inflicted by either their parents or guardians, and half of them died in their homes. In fact many children in our city, mostly from underprivile ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
Raw Irish oysters are being blamed for bringing down 21 people with food poisoning in a week after eating in a Tsuen Wan restaurant. Twelve -- four men and eight women aged 27 to 30 -- were taken ill ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
Twelve Pacific Rim countries signed the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Feb. 4 in Auckland, New Zealand. These 12 members will have two years to complete the ratification process. T ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-20
Twelve Pacific Rim countries have signed the biggest trade deal in history, cementing a United States initiative aimed at wresting influence from a booming China. The ambitious Trans Pacific Partnersh ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-04
