As part of an exchange program in South Korea held in October last year, I had a chance to visit the Songdo International Business District, a smart city on a reclaimed island near the Incheon Interna ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
JD.com has snapped up a hotel in Beijing for 2.7 billion yuan (US$398 million) as part of efforts to fuel its growth in China's highly competitive e-commerce market. A subsidiary of JD.com has acquire ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
One of the world’s most densely populated cities, Hong Kong, is facing a proliferation of wild boars as the large mammals stray increasingly into built-up areas. And while some residents welcome sight ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-04
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC will open a virtual reality (VR) theme park in Hong Kong on Friday, fueling market speculation that it plans to exit the smartphone market and focus on the VR business. ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-17
Recently I took my students at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to an incubation center in Shenzhen to explore the developments in our neighboring city. Known as China’s Silicon Valley o ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-26
Is Hong Kong really dying? That was the topic of a seminar last week organized by veteran politician Emily Lau Wai-hing at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club. A controversial topic at a sensitive venue, ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-22
Is Hong Kong really dying? That was the topic of a semi ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2018年11月22日
Different generations of Hong Kong people probably have different impressions of Russell Street, which is known among locals as Mouse Street because it used to be a squalid neighborhood infested with ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-15
Following the inauguration of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, Tung Chung, a calm village on the northwestern coast of Lantau Island, was jolted by the presence of thousands of mainlanders who swoop ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-05
Cross-border bus services using the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) will be limited to short haul routes in the initial period after the new infrastructure facility is put into operation, accordi ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-22
Not so long ago, a foreign video blogger, or vlogger, visited Hong Kong and shot a video of the city’s rail system, praising the MTR for providing what was deemed the best railway service in the world ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
Sears Holdings Corp. has started to miss payments to vendors, adding to concerns about its future after sources said the US department store operator was preparing to file for bankruptcy in the coming ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall in China's Guangdong province on Sunday after wreaking havoc in Hong Kong and Macau and killing potentially more than 50 people in the Philippines. Packing winds of more ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-17
Over the past two decades, Jack Ma has been the personification of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. – in fact, of China's e-commerce. So his announcement on Monday that he will step down as chairman of the ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-11
Less than two weeks before the much-anticipated opening of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL), a large shopping mall near the Kowloon West terminus was found to have developed cr ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-10
OneCHARGE Solutions, a Hong Kong-based startup founded in 2017, is gaining traction as it offers electric vehicle (EV) chargers along with a mobile application (app), allowing its customers to access ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-27
JD.com is the country's second-largest e-commerce platform after Alibaba Group. It has collaborated with internet giants such as Tencent Holdings and Google as well as with US retail major Walmart as ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
Two of the biggest changes brought about by internet firms are the redirection of customer traffic and the enhancement of engagement with customers. In the past, people typically preferred to go downt ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
Coils Lam Wai-chun, who founded the groceries and snacks chain 759 Store in 2010, has died. He was 61. In a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, CEC International Holdings Ltd., the parent of 759 S ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-20
