Live in a shoebox. Work for long hours. Forget about job security. Toil for peanuts. That’s the Hong Kong lifestyle. We're not complaining. Or probably we are. But our city has much more to offer, and ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
Health Secretary Dr. Ko Wing-man says the government will try to introduce a voluntary health insurance scheme as early as possible through an agreement with the insurance industry before the required ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
The place: the Bank of East Asia boardroom. Huddled around chairman David Li Kwok-po -- whose family holds a controlling stake -- is a who’s who of powerful Hong Kong bankers, as well as a son of Li K ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
It's not very often we get inspired by a story about a prisoner. But here we are talking about Thomas Kwok, former co-chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, who seems to always have a positive message u ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
More than 10,000 people are expected to turn out for this year's Hong Kong Pride Parade, a march in support of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT). The parade will take place on Nov.7 fr ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
US authorities on Tuesday charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a Macau real-estate mogul and four others for an alleged bribery scheme. John Ashe, a former ambassador to ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-07
The government whines and whines about the falloff of tourists visiting Hong Kong, inevitably trying to blame protesters for the decline while its massive bureaucracy does its best to make this place ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-03
When exactly did a simple modern convenience – the escalator – become a deadly hazard? We seem to hear about escalator malfunctions all the time, the latest being an unsettling incident at the Panda ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
Fifty-two Hong Kong students grouped into 18 teams will leave for the US on Friday to participate in a one-week boot camp that aims to enhance the youngsters' ability in problem solving, product desig ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
China's largest ride-hailing company is joining forces with San Francisco-based counterpart Lyft in a deal that allows them to serve each other's passengers. Lyft users traveling in China will have ac ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-17
In times of turbulence, real estate is probably the most stable asset class. In turn, the most stable real estate market is London, which probably has the most international investors. That explains w ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
More than two weeks after explosions tore through a chemical warehouse complex in Tianjin, details about the company that owned it are coming to light. Within two years, Rui Hai International Logistic ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that killed seven New Yorkers has triggered an effort to mandate citywide inspections and cleaning of air conditioning cooling t ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
Some people might find it strange that a banker in New York would quit his well-paying job to start a restaurant in Hong Kong. But that's just what Syed Asim Hussain, a Hong Kong-born Pakistani, did. ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-01
Hong Kong is definitely the Asian hub of the global news industry. If you still need convincing, just walk the streets of Wan Chai. In this dense harborfront area, you will find the offices of some of ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
No one can deny that living in Hong Kong is expensive. The latest annual survey by the New York-based human resources consulting firm Mercer finds our city the second most expensive among 207 urban ce ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
Philip Morris International Inc. plans to sell over US$1 billion worth of shares in its Indonesian operation, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the situation. The New York ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
Welcome to the circus. Special effects firm Digital Domain (00547.HK), a remnant of a bankrupt US Hollywood company, rose 1200 percent for no valid reason. It then crashed 60 percent after one of its ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
Expect the online mudslinging between mainland and Hong Kong netizens to intensify. In fact, for mainlanders, saying a good word about Hong Kong may even be considered politically incorrect. Posts on ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-29
Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche was in the middle of a media interview in Hong Kong when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25. As news of the tragedy arrived, the renowned Buddhist scholar and te ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
