Samsung Electronics has high hopes for its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S9 series. But while the South Korean company calls its new product a game changer, particularly its camera, fans may be a bit ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
China’s tech giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (00700.HK), worth a combined US$1 trillion, are on a retail investment binge, forcing merchants to choose sides amid a battle f ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-20
The wet market along Graham Street offered a plethora of vivid scenes in the afternoon light. Next to walls of wooden boards wrapped in white cloth, colorful fruits and vegetables of all shapes and si ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
Armed officers patrol a train station where television screens and giant posters warn of the threat from militants. Nearby, fake gunmen storm a shopping mall in one of many recent terror attack simula ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
According to research firm IDC, the big-data and business analytics market would grow globally from US$150 billion in 2017 to over US$210 billion by 2020. Singapore has tried to make the best use of c ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-31
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another" is a famous quote attributed to Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. We're reminded of this saying as we look at retail sector players on the stock market and ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-24
People from other places may find it hard to imagine, but Hong Kong, although such a small city, can accommodate more than 50 million tourists each year. Of course, most of them are from the mainland. ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-27
The number of movie theaters in Hong Kong has been falling since the 1980s due to competition from other forms of entertainment such as the television, video games and karaoke. The rampant piracy in t ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-15
China's retail market has been beset by a number of challenges over the last five years -- an anti-corruption campaign, economic slowdown, overseas purchasing, and retail oversupply. The biggest influ ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-14
Europe’s biggest property firm Unibail-Rodamco is to buy US and UK mall operator Westfield Corp. for US$16 billion. The deal is seen as a defensive move to create a global leader in a sector grappling ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-13
Café de Coral, Hong Kong's biggest fast-food restaurant group, has seen its share price tumble to a 52-week low. The company has suffered a setback in mainland China expansion, prompting several store ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-21
Last month, pro-democracy parties such as the Democratic Party, Demosistō, the League of Social Democrats, the Neighborhood and Worker’s Service Center, the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and Peo ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-20
Lazada has no pressure from parent Alibaba to become profitable, focusing instead on winning market share, chief executive Max Bittner said. “Southeast Asia, for them, is hugely exciting. They see it ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-09
The annual Alibaba Singles Day shopping festival is coming this weekend. As hundreds of millions of people splurge online and media attention will be focused on a big screen updating the sales figures ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-08
The Housing Department said the long-awaited border mall in Lok Ma Chau, called The Boxes, has been issued a temporary occupation permit. Legislator Wong Ting-kwong, the initiator of the project, said ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-07
In her policy address, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said she is going to review the existing export control on powdered infant formula, which has been in place for over four years, givin ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-27
The government is under pressure to take measures after three student suicide cases were reported in one day on Thursday. One of the victims, an 18-year-old secondary 6 student, was saved by passers-b ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-13
Police are looking for three men following a daring robbery at a jewelry store in Tsim Sha Tsui on Tuesday. At around 10am, a trio of thieves smashed windows of a Chow Sang Sang Group shop with hammer ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-19
Police are looking for two men who tried to rob a man carrying a backpack containing US$3 million in cash at Fanling Town Centre. The victim chased one of the suspects, 16, who had grabbed his backpac ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-19
A 69-year-old woman who collapsed while riding an escalator at a shopping mall in Sha Tin died on Monday morning. The incident happened at the New Town Plaza, a Sun Hung Kai Properties-owned mall in S ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-18
