Demand for post-graduate courses in Asia is surging, driven by young people seeking to become entrepreneurs or looking to land managerial jobs. Multinational companies are targeting MBA graduates from ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
... in 2017. Young people are compelled to delay marriage and having children by a sluggish economy that has pushed up youth unemployment. The average age of first-time South Korean mothers is the world' ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
... f today’s young adults will rise much more slowly than those of their parents. Any increase will depend entirely on improvements in education and training, which are absent from the data, and from inv ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
A young Thai woman living in Hong Kong was found dead at her home in Shek Kip Mei on Monday in an apparent suicide after suffering from depression and work-related stress. The victim, who was 21 years ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
After coming under growing assault over the last two years from the private sector, state-run behemoth UnionPay is finally fighting back by launching a mobile-based payment service to counter rival pr ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
It is a fact that most young people in Hong Kong prefer to maintain a separate sense of identity from their brethren in the mainland. The "us" and "them" feeling has only grown following the social an ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
Last week, four young people became the first students from China to receive a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, which began selecting candidates from the Middle Kingdom for the first time this year. Ch ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
If we still need convincing that young Hong Kong people simply want to be called exactly that -- not "young Hong Kong Chinese people" as Beijing prefers -- here's another statistical evidence. In a re ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
When you look at Nana Ou-Yang's hands, don’t be surprised at the rough calluses on the 15-year-old's fingertips. They are evidence of the hard work that has gone into the young Taiwanese cellist's ach ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-12
... y role of young and highly educated entrepreneurs in the course of economic development and technological advancement in the mainland, has been officially jettisoned by the party leadership. Ever sinc ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
Bad news for Hong Kong residential developers and owners but good news for young people. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying recently told a group of secondary students that he is determined to bring down ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
... from the youngsters' perspective, Ng shares some insights on what motivates the current crop of entrants to the workforce. As most kids born in the 90s come from financially stable families, money is ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... owder for young children will be reduced to 5 percent from 15 percent while infant formula powder will be cut to 5 percent from 20 percent. Tariffs on diapers will be lowered to 2 percent from 7.5 pe ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
A 20-year-old man was killed early Wednesday when his car crashed head-on into a double-decker bus in Sha Tin amid wet weather. Leo Siu Wing-kit was driving a Toyota Mark X toward Kowloon at about 7:4 ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... ion," Lee Young-mi, a senior executive director of head hunter firm Careercare, said. South Korean students are the largest ethnic group in the United States after China and India. But their number ha ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
... g? Wong, younger brother of the popular duo behind the influential 1980s rock band, was forced to come out and explain after Leung posted images from a party in which he performed. The pictures quick ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
... d attract young entrepreneurs, So said. When asked whether the entry barrier is set too high, So replied that it is reasonable as "rent wouldn't be low in crowded places". Simon Wong Ka-wo, president ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
Wireless carrier Unicom (00763.HK; CHU.US) is giving the clearest signal yet of a coming shakeup in China's telecoms space, with disclosure that it's exploring a potential pooling of infrastructure re ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
