New York's Columbia University has developed a smartphone attachment to test for diseases such as HIV and syphilis. It works almost just as well as expensive lab equipment, is a lot cheaper, and there ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
News that US social networking site Tumblr is eying the China market looks intriguing, as it would come not long after professional networking site LinkedIn entered the market and as industry titan Fa ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
New York City regained its status as the top choice of global commercial real estate buyers, unseating London and highlighting the appeal of US properties in general, according to a survey of internat ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
Figures released by the Hong Kong government this week on the flow of people across the border show a flood of mainland visitors. Everyone knows that. But, surprisingly, they also show that an even la ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
Technology innovators and CEOs seem positively giddy nowadays about what the future will bring. New manufacturing technologies have generated feverish excitement about what some see as a Third Industr ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
Funds raised from initial public offerings (IPOs) in Hong Kong are likely to remain over HK$200 billion (US$25.8 billion) next year, compared with an estimated HK$225 billion this year, KPMG says. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
Occupy Central ended after 79 days, but Occupy Hong Kong, which has been going on for more than 10 years, has not stopped. Whether it was Occupy Admiralty, Occupy Causeway Bay or even Occupy Mong Kok, ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
It took me some time to track down the man who created the South China Morning Post's longest-running column, Lai See. The light-hearted daily selection of gossipy tidbits in the business section was ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
The United States Federal Reserve System is the world’s most important central bank. Its decisions about interest rates and financial regulation reverberate through global markets and affect millions ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
The house The Godfather built is up for sale. That's right, the English Tudor-style mansion made famous by the 1972 Oscar-winning movie about a New York mobster family can be had for US$2.895 million. ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-14
One World Trade Center, America's tallest tower, welcomed its first tenants on Monday as the 104-story skyscraper opened at the site of the twin towers that were brought down by terrorists on Sept. 11 ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
United States health officials said medical volunteers returning home from Ebola-stricken countries will be monitored but not quarantined, Reuters reported Tuesday. Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said the make-up of the nomination panel for the 2017 election "might offer some room for maneuver" with student protesters, the Financial Times reported Tues ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was missing from an official event marking the 69th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party, sparking speculation he is no longer in charge, the New York Times reporte ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-10
“I’m a very modest man,” Narendra Modi, who as a young man sold tea by the railroad but who became India’s prime minister in May, told 18,500 cheering fans in New York’s Madison Square Garden last wee ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
Strengthening 'two systems' After China's State Council released its white paper on the "one country, two systems" policy, many Hong Kong people became worried that the city would gradually shift to a ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
After helping push gold prices to record highs three years ago, China's return-hungry investors are doing a similar thing now to property markets around the globe. London has been a particular focus a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
Coffee is on him but the big tab goes to you. A 30-minute coffee meeting with Eric Schimdt is inspiring frenetic bidding on a charity auction site, with one bidder upping the ante to US$16,000. Charit ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
Clients are pulling out of Barclays’ “dark pool” after a US lawsuit accused the British bank of misleading them about high frequency activity in its private trading venue, the Financial Times reported ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
It is not often that a man gifts another male a self-made art piece in a show of friendship. And it's even rarer that both publicly recommend each other for the top job in the city. But then take a lo ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-21
