... taxi industry,” Kim Kyung-ho, head of the city's transport department, was quoted as saying. In a statement released on Monday, the local government accused Uber of legal breaches and said it was dev ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
... eader has stirred a debate as he poured cold water on the Occupy Central movement and the massive July 1 pro-democracy rally, deeming them as unnecessary. In a sermon at St Paul's Church on Sunday, Kw ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
Eight students from the English Schools Foundation and one from St. Paul's Co-educational College have scored the full mark of 45 in this year's International Baccalaureate Diploma program, local news ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
If you've been having mosquito bites, you probably live in one of nine Hong Kong districts with serious infestation. A monthly index measuring the extent of the distribution of aedine mosquitoes surge ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-24
Language is no barrier to love -- even the cross-species kind as one animal experiment in the US Virgin Islands showed 50 years ago. Over 10 weeks in a flooded house in St Thomas in 1965, neurologist ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-11
Financial firms on Wall Street have started beefing up their trading desks again, betting on a pick-up in the credit markets, Bloomberg News reported Friday. Nomura has added ten people to its US corp ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-23
A real-estate agent in Detroit picked up the telephone and heard an unusual request from a customer in China. "I want to buy 100-200 homes. I have no time to see them. You see them on my behalf and bu ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
Chinese listed firms received a total of 77 billion yuan (US$12.3 billion) in subsidies last year from different agencies of the government, enabling some loss-making companies to swing to a profit. T ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-28
Purchases of new homes, excluding government-subsidized affordable housing, in Shanghai surged 45.1 percent to 288,500 square meters last week, the highest seven-day volume registered in the city sinc ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-01
Following is a summary of major news and comments in the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the parent publication of EJ Insight, on Thursday, Feb. 13: TOP STORIES Nan Fung pays 12-year-low unit price for ho ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-13
Regulators in the United States have widened their investigation into the hiring practices of leading Wall Street firms in China, Bloomberg News said Monday, citing a report by the New York Times. Gol ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-09
In early December, Prime Minister David Cameron will lead a large British trade delegation to Beijing and appeal for more Chinese investment, students and tourists. On October 22, about 1,500 restaura ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-22
Time was that state-owned conglomerate China Minmetals Corp. could do no wrong. Back in 2008, it was the darling of the propaganda apparatus, with cheerleaders touting its buying spree as an example o ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-01