The rule of thumb in presidential protocol is that when the leader of your country is hosting a foreign dignitary, don't say embarrassing words about them. Never mispronounce their names, for instance ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-22
An explosives-laden suitcase left in Sydney Airport for more than three weeks after a sniffer dog training exercise has embarrassed Australian police and forced officials to apologize. The bag contain ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
For Chinese government officials, an omission is better than an error of commission. That is what Wang Qishan, China’s anti-corruption chief, told the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conferenc ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-04
Mainland companies remain the top source of bad debts for Hong Kong exporters, according to a survey conducted the public opinion program of the University of Hong Kong released on Thursday. The study ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-11
United States fashion retailer American Apparel faced a social media barrage after a picture of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster surfaced on its Tumblr page. The company deleted the offendin ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-07
A Hong Kong man who, along with a female companion, drove into the People's Liberation Army (PLA) barracks in Hong Kong in April has won a reprieve as authorities decided to withdraw the trespassing c ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-04
Weibo may be a few years younger than Twitter and based on the US microblogging site but the mainland incarnation may have a few things to teach its American cousin about e-commerce income. Since sell ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-03
“Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everybody else: WE DON’T CRASH EVER!" So screams the site's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, in "The Social Network", the semi-fictionalized account of th ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-20
WinSun has proved it can meet a print deadline like no other. The Shanghai-based company put itself to the test and used its giant 3D printer by building 10 houses, each more than 200 square feet, in ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-20
Declining inflation in many major economies is consistent with negative output gaps (which occur when actual output is lower than potential output). It may also indicate that output gaps are being und ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
For too long, China's interest rates have been kept far below the nation's nominal GDP growth rate. They are now rising as authorities move to reduce financial repression. The rise in domestic bond yi ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-19
Police detained seven people from China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) (00386.HK, 600028.CN) after at least 55 were killed in an oil pipeline explosion in eastern China last week, Bloomberg ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-26
