A man with a suspected uniform fetish was arrested on Wednesday for theft after he stole a flight attendant's luggage as he got off an airport bus. The incident happened in a Whampoa Garden bus stop, ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
Watch out: Rolex and other Swiss watches may run out of stock soon. To be fair, shoppers aren't exactly scrambling to get into luxury watch stores, the way mainland tourists used to do in front of a f ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
A jump in rent is forcing Australia’s Dymocks to close its flagship bookstore in Hong Kong, Apple Daily reported Monday. Dymocks is paying HK$570,000 in monthly rent for the 4,000 square meter space o ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
Many Chinese are now trying their best to keep their overseas stay or travels a top secret. The reason: if relatives and friends know that you are going abroad, they will surely ask you to buy all sor ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
The Hong Kong Tourism Board said on Tuesday that it will continue its annual New Year countdown with fireworks by the Victoria Harbour despite the recent civil disturbance in the city. The event will ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
Occupy Central ended after 79 days, but Occupy Hong Kong, which has been going on for more than 10 years, has not stopped. Whether it was Occupy Admiralty, Occupy Causeway Bay or even Occupy Mong Kok, ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
Fortune Real Estate Investment Trust (00778.HK) has signed its first property deal with an independent party, buying Laguna Plaza for HK$1.92 billion (US$247.7 million), the Hong Kong Economic Journal ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
Next time you’re in an elevator, on an escalator or charging your mobile phone in a public station in Manila, you could be powering up on solar energy in one of its malls. In fact, solar energy now po ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
If you think gold is yesterday's news, think again. The latest sign it's anything but fading amid plunging world prices is the big bet on the gold retail market by Hong Kong's biggest jewelry chain. ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
Attending China's first-ever World Internet Conference in Zhejiang province last week, Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma asserted that the e-commerce giant's Taobao mall doesn't have any counterfeit goods ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-24
At least 15 Chinese bulbuls were found dead outside the Langham Place in Mong Kok on Wednesday morning, prompting shoppers to call the police to look into the incident, Apple Daily reported. Personnel ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
The Philippines’ largest mall operator said foreign investors should take a closer look at the country to see for themselves the opportunities thrown up by its fast-growing economy. Teresita Sy-Coson, ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
Hong Kong Television Network Ltd. (01137.HK, HKTV) is outpacing i-Cable Communications Ltd. (01097.HK) and PCCW Ltd. (00008.HK) with the launch of its new television service set for Nov. 19, the Hong ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-27
For Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, there is no country that the social networking website operator cannot enter eventually, even China. Although the website is still banned by the Chinese governmen ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
The Link is said to have driven thousands of small shops out of business since it acquired the retail and car park spaces in public housing estates from the government in 2005. Nine years after the li ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-20
China Mobile Ltd. (00941.HK) plans to inject 10.4 billion yuan (US$1.69 billion) into a new-media arm over the next three years, Tencent Tech news website reported Tuesday. Migu Culture & Technolo ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-14
Some people say the Occupy campaign has been hurting Hong Kong's transportation efficiency and overall competitiveness. This is obviously a far-fetched accusation. First, protesters did not occupy th ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
Many Hong Kong people love to shop at Taobao.com, the online shopping mall that offers a wide variety of goods at bargain prices. Having the items shipped to Hong Kong could be quite expensive, so mos ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Department store chain YATA will continue to focus on Hong Kong locals as it believes that depending on mainland visitors will not be a sustainable strategy in the long term, a top executive said. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-18
Page One, the Singapore-based bookstore chain, is set to open a large flagship store at the Harbour City mall in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district, with the facility to include some food outlets as w ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-17
