Anna Leung stood with her trolley in the Hong Kong Kong Book Fair. “There are many books to look at and many other items to enjoy here. But it is not the fair it was in 2019. We are in a new world now ...More
EJ Insight2025-07-21
樓市下行，繼有發展商把旗下項目轉售為租後，市區重建局夥發展商合作的重建項目也加入轉租行列。據悉，該局與信置（0 ...全文
Uber driver Mohammad Lucky navigates his South Korean KIA car through the crowded traffic of central London. “This is an electric car (EVs). I liked it enough to spend 700 pounds on my own charger at ...More
EJ Insight2025-07-04
On Monday, more than 230 people packed into the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) for an emotional farewell to David Webb, the city’s most prominent activist investor, whose website has defended retai ...More
EJ Insight2025-05-13
For financial journalists of my generation, we used to feel the boom of Hong Kong as an international financial centre: big mergers, full-house restaurants in Central and shark fins lunch. Those were ...More
EJ Insight2024-10-31
中環MY CENTRAL高層C室，實用面積662方呎，2房1套間隔，享海景，月租叫價4.2萬元，放盤不足一星期 ...全文
In 1954, Mao Zedong established a corps of militia settlers in Xinjiang and ordered them, like the early Jewish settlers of Palestine, to till the land and secure possession of it. Even he could not h ...More
EJ Insight2024-10-10
中環MY CENTRAL高層D室，實用面積811方呎，3房1套間隔，望海景，月租叫價4.9萬元，最新以4.5萬 ...全文
The background is a snow-covered field in east Ukraine whose trees and vegetation has been destroyed. Speaking to the camera is a Chinese in a Russian army uniform, tears in his eyes. “I am going to d ...More
EJ Insight2024-02-28
When I arrived in Taiwan in the summer of 1981, the island was under martial law and producing radios and sports shoes. Today, it makes the world’s most advanced semi-conductors and has just held a bo ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-29
Monetary-policy watchers are currently divided into two groups. But perhaps both sides should pause and reflect on where we were 18 months ago and where we are now. On one side of the divide are those ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-09
The Western-led global economic order had a bad 2023. Surprisingly, the primary cause was not the emergence of an alternative order led by China, as some had anticipated. Instead, it was internal stre ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-19
With clockwork inevitability, the proposal by a number of US lawmakers to introduce the Hong Kong Sanctions Act provoked a locust swarm of vitriolic protests. The idea of sanctioning 49 Hong Kong offi ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-21
There’s no doubt that today we’re in the grip of a remarkable and quite unprecedented societal shift that is radically changing the geography of work. A shift that, by enabling people to choose to wor ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-20
Recently, we have seen the 10-year US government bond rise above 5 per cent again, while a 30-year mortgage in the US has reached 8 per cent. The market expects that the high interest rate levels crea ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-15
Those who know me would know that I have long been a fervent advocate of promoting competitive debating – in both English and Chinese – across China, including, of course, in Hong Kong. Yet debating i ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-08
中環MY CENTRAL中層C室，實用面積663方呎，2房間隔。單位新近以每月3.4萬元租出，實用呎租逾51元 ...全文
