Twenty-seven pan-democrats will vote down Beijing's election reform package for the 2017 chief executive election, raising the likelihood the proposal will not pass muster in Hong Kong's legislature. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
Twenty-six years ago, US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble entered China by introducing its Head & Shoulders shampoo. China is now the group’s second biggest market and accounts for about ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-27
Twenty-six pan-democratic lawmakers have signed a joint declaration vowing to reject any electoral reform proposals that fail to meet international standards, Ming Pao Daily reported Wednesday. Freder ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-20
Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O) decided to pull its US$80 billion offer to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) on Tuesday, abandoning plans to create one of the world's largest media conglo ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
... ,600 teu (twenty-foot equivalent units) container ship is as long as four football fields with a beam of up to 49 meters and could have an insured cargo value of US$250 million, he said. In the event ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
... 1 march. Twenty-five were released on bail, mostly lawmakers and student representatives. Their profiles were consistent with claims the police targeted specific groups, Yeung was quoted as saying. – ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-31
... In 2011, twenty-four regions in China raised the minimum wages with an average hike of 22 percent. And 25 provinces and municipalities have increased the minim wages with an average rise of 20.2 perc ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-11
... ly child. Twenty-nine of 31 provincial regions in the Chinese mainland have relaxed the decades-old one-child policy, allowing couples to have a second baby if they meet the eligibility criteria. -- C ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-10
... Lai said. Twenty-three lawmakers in the pan-democratic camp condemned the arrests as "repression of the freedom of protest" and said it was creating “white terror". Labour Party lawmaker Cyd Ho Sau-la ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-04
... th rates. Twenty years ago the World Bank adjusted its estimate of China’s per capita GDP by 34 percent. In 1998, the economist Angus Maddison estimated that Chinese real GDP growth averaged 7.5 perce ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-30
... building. Twenty-one people were arrested. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, his top aides and Legco President Tsang Yok-sing condemned the violence. On Saturday, Secretary for Development Paul Chan sa ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-16
... he paper. Twenty-four men and four women were arrested in Hong Kong and cash worth HK$11 million was seized. An officer of the city's Organized Crime and Triad Bureau was quoted as saying that the gro ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
The best review of Thomas Piketty’s "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" that I have read so far is the one published by my friend and frequent co-author Lawrence Summers in Michael Tomasky’s journal ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
... c for Fu. Twenty-five years ago he was a student helping broadcast news about students’ democracy movement to Hong Kong. Weiboscope is now offering its June 4 special edition for the public at http:/ ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-29
Thomas Piketty’s impressive and much-discussed book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has brought considerable attention to the problem of rising economic inequality. But it is not strong on solutio ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
... t for the twenty-first century. Such a vision, like all of Europe’s most effective conceptions, would be a blend of French and German ideas. France is currently gripped by the massive success of econo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
Reading Thomas Piketty’s influential new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one might conclude that the world has not been this unequal since the days of robber barons and kings. That is odd, ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
In the online journal The Baffler, Kathleen Geier recently attempted a roundup of conservative criticism of Thomas Piketty’s new book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century". The astonishing thing to me ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
... Hangzhou. Twenty residential projects have had trheir prices slashed and some are offering staggered down payment. The practice all but disappeared after the government cracked down on property specul ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-14
... payment. Twenty-five companies proposed a dividend with a yield more than the 7-day interest rate offered by Alibaba's Yu'E Bao online money market fund. Observers say more listed entities are willin ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-09
