A Filipino domestic helper is under custody, facing unspecified charges, after a dead newborn baby was found in a shopping mall toilet last week. The 37-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday after an ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-13
The main reason most small businesses never grow into large corporations is they lack a strong team, blogger and startup investor Lo Kim wrote. When tycoons like Tencent’s Pony Ma Huateng, Wanda’s Wan ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-12
The slump in retail business is casting a big shadow over the property market. But while reports of further downsizing plans of luxury vendors seem to suggest softening demand and more downside to ass ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-12
Police have launched an investigation following the discovery of the body of a newborn baby in a women's toilet at a shopping mall in Sham Tseng, New Territories. A clerk at a shop in Chan Kee Plaza o ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
Three factors determine the success of a shopping mall, according to Wang Jianlin, chairman of the property and entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group. These are location, scale and anchor shop ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
Spring is here, but our struggling retailers have yet to notice its arrival. Last week Li Ka-shing said the economy this year is the worst in 20 years, especially in the case of the retail market, whi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-22
A Lam Tin shopping mall operator is under fire for charging its non-profit tenants management fees up to 80 percent of their monthly rents. Yau Man Investment Ltd. told tenants in Kwong Tin Shopping C ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-15
Swire Pacific Ltd. (00019.HK) plans to restructure the tenant portfolio of its flagship mall Pacific Place following a decline in sales of luxury goods due to a slump in the number of mainland visitor ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-11
Did he really think he could get away with it? Regardless, a 21-year-old Hong Kong man attempted a bizarre watch shop heist in Shenzhen, hoping to cover a huge credit card debt. Naturally, he was caug ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
A 15-year-old is believed to have jumped to his death early Monday in Hong Kong, the second such case in three days involving the student community in the city. Henry Chow Yu-hang, a Secondary Four st ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
As we prepare to mark the International Women's Day tomorrow (March 8), it's a good time to reflect on our women workers and how we can show our appreciation for them. Let's look at China first. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
British retailers are resorting to creative measures to keep customers coming through the door amid a surge in online shopping. They're refitting their once bustling stores with new attractions such a ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
If you haven’t heard of Dan Ryan’s, customers will tell you it’s where they met their husbands or wives, took their families to Sunday brunch or caught a bite to eat before or after a movie. The memor ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
The government of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was dealt a resounding vote of no confidence through the results of the Legislative Council by-election for the New Territories East geographical cons ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
The Mong Kok clashes this month may have dented the confidence of some investors in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Association of Banks has issued a statement expressing concern over the violent protests th ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
The foreign media called last week's clashes in Mong Kok “fishball revolution” when police forcibly removed fishball vendors and other food sellers, as well as their supporters, from the streets. In f ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-17
Some Hong Kong merchants are selling vegetables from the mainland contaminated with heavy metals as organic produce, Apple Daily reported Wednesday, citing the Hong Kong Organic Resource Center. The g ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-17
Officials expect to unveil a master plan for underground malls in four key Hong Kong districts by the end of 2017. These are Tsim Sha Tsui West, Causeway Bay, Happy Valley and Admiralty/Wan Chai. A pu ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-12
The uproar over the Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) examinations is still raging, yet another controversy is brewing on the education front. By the looks of it, nothing can stop this government ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-05
Amazon.com Inc., which opened its first physical bookstore in Seattle in November, plans as many as 400 of them, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the boss of a large mall operator. “You’ve go ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
