Redevelopment of an Ap Lei Chau shopping arcade is on hold after two local representatives raised residents' objections to plans to transform the area into a "Canton Road-style" shopping mall targetin ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-28
As if there wasn't enough drama around Ricky Wong and Hong Kong Television Network. Now the network and its chairman are planning to pair TV programming with e-commerce, offering high-spending shopper ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
Anyone know Kojiro Hyuga? If you're under 30, the name won't ring a bell. If you're from mainland China, you haven't heard it in 20 years. But if you're a football fan from Hong Kong, you're going to ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) may still be waiting for a broadcasting license, but that hasn't prevented founder Ricky Wong Wai-kay from embarking on other initiatives. In a seminar held by the ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
American fashion retailer The Gap Inc. plans to open 35 stores in China this year and boost market share by adopting a multi-channel, multi-brand strategy. Jeff Kirwan, president of Gap's China divisi ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
Jumei {聚美優品}, which claims to be the largest e-tailer of beauty and cosmetics products in China, had last month filed for an IPO in the United States. The offer, which could be completed next week, ha ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
Pacific Place restaurant Domani has become such a fixture in the city over the last six years that its imminent closure prompted Italian consul general Alessandra Schiavo to write to the owner to say ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
Four years after its high-profile withdrawal from China's online search market over censorship issues, global Internet giant Google (GOOG.US) is showing increasing signs that it is gearing up for a ne ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-30
Goodman Group, an Australian integrated industrial property development and management company, plans to spend more than US$100 million a year to expand in China in the next two to three years, the Ho ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-29
Gearing up for a huge initial public offering, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is doing everything it can to justify a high valuation, which estimates peg at anywhere between US$100 billion and ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-25
British luxury fashion brand Burberry Plc has opened a virtual store on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Tmall shopping site as part of its plans to expand in China, the Wall Street Journal reported Thurs ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-25
Tencent (00700.HK) promises that it will just take a few clicks. In less time than it takes to say open sesame, merchants will be able to set up an official site on Weixin Weijuju {微俱聚}, Tencent's new ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-23
Build it, flog it online and they will come. That is the basic concept behind the latest e-commerce iteration known as O2O (online-to-offline). Businesses are increasingly embracing O2O to drive onlin ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-22
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index (HSI) edged up in quiet trade Thursday, a day before the long Easter holiday. The market will reopen next Tuesday. The HSI rose 64 points or 0.28 percent to close ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-17
There is no dearth of inspiring stories of startups making it big by setting up shop on Alibaba's e-commerce platform. Now, internet giant Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) is promising the same kind of opp ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-14
Google Glass brings forth visions of the future: It allows you to instantaneously videotape what you see, obtain accurate facts about someone you're meeting just now, get directions as you walk down a ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-11
A United States listing is a badge of honor for many companies, virtually guaranteeing overnight fame and sky-high valuations. But that idealized version of the US stock market is beginning to fray an ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-02
China's biggest shopping center, as measured by the total sales of tenants, during 2007-2012, the golden years of luxury sales boom in the country, was not any of those grandiose malls and arcades loc ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-21
Powerlong Real Estate Holdings Ltd. (01238.HK) will help Carrefour's supermarkets in Fuzhou to develop their online-to-offline (O2O) business platforms, the Chinese firm's chief executive said on Thur ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-13
Following is a summary of major news and comments in the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the parent publication of EJ Insight, on Tuesday, March 11: TOP STORIES Hong Kong, mainland stock markets seen weak ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-11
