More than a dozen protesters staged a rally against parallel trading at a shopping mall in Tsuen Wan on Sunday. Members of the Population Policy Concern Group and the North District Parallel Imports C ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
The US homeland security chief has warned shoppers to be "particularly careful" after a radical Islamist group based in Somalia threatened to launch attacks on Western shopping centers, including the ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
Wharf (Holdings) Ltd. (00004.HK) has directly benefited from Hong Kong's retail boom in recent years. Take its flagship Times Square in Causeway Bay. It continues to draw strong traffic despite the pr ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
A three-year-old boy from mainland China was injured on Tuesday when a three-meter-tall cherry blossoms plant fell at the atrium of Times Square in Causeway Bay, Ming Pao Daily reported. The accident ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
Even the most naïve person would not regard the chaos that took place at New Town Plaza in Sha Tin on Sunday as an isolated case. In fact, it was the continuation of similar chaos that broke out in Tu ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
Hong Kong witnessed a fresh protest Sunday against parallel-goods traders, with several dozen people congregating at a Sha Tin shopping mall where a large number of mainlanders were snapping up Lunar ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
Residents of the New Territories, the Immigration Department and police can expect another tough year of even more mainland tourists and parallel traders, despite the increasingly bitter protests agai ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
During a visit to Hong Kong last year, Alibaba chief Jack Ma sounded a warning for mall operators as he said that brick and mortar vendors are doomed in the face of rapidly-expanding e-commerce. Now, ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
The apm shopping mall in Kwun Tong has apologized for using two goats in a Lunar New Year promotion campaign that raised funds in the name of Médecins sans frontières (MSF) without the charity's conse ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
It's bad enough that on any given day, our immigration checkpoints are overwhelmed by visitors from the mainland and our government is hard pressed to do anything about the situation. But when we hear ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
A Hong Kong security agency that provides cash transport for leading banks is in the headlines again after a guard left his weapon at an ATM machine. The weapon was spotted by a resident next to a Ban ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
A shopping mall catering to the needs of parallel goods traders and individual mainland travelers may open near the border at Lok Ma Chau in September, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Friday. ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
Parallel traders are becoming an increasingly annoying -- and, some think, insolvable -- problem for Hong Kong. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has revealed government plans to build a shopping center ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
Taobao, the online shopping mall under Alibaba Group Holdings, has started using unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver goods in three major Chinese cities, the Sky Post reported Thursday. Alibaba has te ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
Mainlanders are getting a little help from state media with their Hong Kong Lunar New Year shopping. The People's Daily on Tuesday published a lengthy article about the best places to shop and which h ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-04
Tech billionaire Jack Ma hogged the headlines on Monday when he unveiled a HK$1 billion fund for Hong Kong's young entrepreneurs even as his company is embroiled in a public squabble with Chinese regu ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
Hong Kong Television Network Ltd. (HKTV) (01137.HK) has opened an online mall which it hopes will be the biggest in Hong Kong. HKTV distributed HK$100 in spending money to more than 1.23 million regis ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
When Guangzhou’s first low-tax shop opened on Friday in a downtown district, it attracted 5,000 people, many of whom queued for three hours. By lunchtime all the stocks of diapers and milk powder had ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
Visiting a Chinese New Year fair is one of the popular activities in Hong Kong during the annual holiday, which falls in February this year. Hoping to cash in on this are several enterprising youth wh ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
The slump in the Japanese yen has made traveling to Japan more appealing. But those who can't go there need not fret. They could also take advantage of the weak currency right here in Hong Kong, and t ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
