Crowdfunding is not a modern invention. As scholar Nadine Scholz points out, the construction of the plinth of the Statue of Liberty was possible only after 160,000 New York citizens made donations in ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation twice interviewed Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on Sunday. The first investigation took place i ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-14
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is being investigated by US securities regulators for its accounting practices. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked the Chinese e-commerce giant to volun ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-26
Philippine senators have wrapped up their investigation into the laundering of US$81 million stolen from the Bangladesh central bank. The two senators who led the probe lost their re-election campaign ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
Expectations that the next hike in US interest rates could take place in the summer are reasonable, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said Thursday, joining the chorus of voices predic ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he is willing to talk North Korean leader Kim Jong-un out of his nuclear weapons program. The presumptive republican nominee told Reuters in a wide- ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
The Foreign Correspondents' Club, the popular watering hole for journalists in Hong Kong, may need to give a serious thought about moving into larger premises. Yes, the press club may soon have more p ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Albert Einstein once remarked that "logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Right now, in the modern world, technology is transforming our lives in ways that go beyond o ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Shocking. Meteoric. Inexplicable. It’s tough to explain how Donald Trump has muscled his way into American politics, but those are a few words tossed around by observers when they are forced to descri ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-12
英國樓市踏入2016年仍穩步攀升，當地按揭貸款機構Nationwide首席經濟分析師Robert Gardne ...全文
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So far this series on my favorite Chinese stocks has focused on big names like Tencent (00700.HK) and Fosun International (00656.HK), which are sector leaders with strong, focused management. But hidi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
HSBC Holdings Plc (00005.HK) will no longer provide mortgages to some Chinese nationals who buy real estate in the United States. The policy change came amid Beijing's efforts to stem the outflow of c ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-29
Star Wars, last year's biggest blockbuster movie, inspired copycats to dress the part and parade in the streets from New York to Paris and Shanghai. Now, Darth Vader, the Storm Troopers and their gala ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-27
The case of the five missing booksellers has now become an international issue. It's not just because two of the personalities involved are foreign nationals, or because it could be a violation of the ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
Baidu Inc., China's search engine giant, has joined efforts to push the automobile industry to the driverless-car era. And Wang Jing, senior vice president in charge of the company's autonomous drivin ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
Until recently, the usual thinking among macroeconomists has been that short-term weather fluctuations don’t matter much for economic activity. Construction hiring may be stronger than usual in March ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
Leung Chun-ying must envy Lee Hsien Loong, not just because Lee runs his Facebook page far better than he does. While nubile young women, including at least one porn star, popped up as Leung’s friends ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
World-renowned architect Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘), who designed the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong's Central, was attacked by his health attendant at his town ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
So how was the response to G.E.M.'s concert in London, the last stop of her World Tour? "G.E.M. Get Everybody Moving X.X.X. Live” was a tough act to follow, considering the Hong Kong pop diva charged ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-25
What would improve your life significantly? A university degree? A well-paid job? A comfortable home? Melinda, a young mother from Madagascar, would reply: A toilet. It is, in fact, the need of 526 mi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
