The Hong Kong government is celebrating the success of the Kai Tak Sports Park which opened in March last year – nearly 600,000 people have attended major sports events there. In a written reply in Le ...More
EJ Insight2026-05-31
Just two days before the end of 2025, the unexpected news was announced that the Hong Kong Ballet has not been renewed as a venue partner of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Grand Theatre after March 202 ...More
EJ Insight2026-01-05
The agreement signed by Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump on Thursday marked a truce in the economic war between the two nations but not a treaty. Each side got something they wanted – Beijing ag ...More
EJ Insight2025-10-31
Roald Sagdeev was a leading Soviet scientist who saw how his government destroyed its supremacy in science. Since 1990 a resident of the U.S., he is seeing the administration of Donald Trump do the sa ...More
EJ Insight2025-09-15
Macau’s history tells an extraordinary story. By the 16th century, the Portuguese had reached the southern Chinese peninsula, establishing a trading base by 1557. Besides merchants, clergymen arrived, ...More
EJ Insight2025-09-07
America is at war. It is a weaponless war on three fronts - a war with itself, a trade war with the world, and a Cold War with China. There will be no winners. The outcomes can only be measured by whi ...More
EJ Insight2025-06-11
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China this year will fall for a second year because of worsening ties with the United States and Europe and increasingly difficult conditions for foreign companies ...More
EJ Insight2025-05-28
Britain shrinks to mid-size nation In the summer of 1925, London hosted the British Empire Exhibition at the newly built Wembley Stadium, with space for 125,000 people. It later became the national fo ...More
EJ Insight2025-05-22
“She was a schoolteacher in Hong Kong and now works as a cashier in a supermarket in Britain. I think she and her husband would like to come back but it is a question of face. How would she explain he ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-23
A quarter of the 21st century has nearly passed. Looking back over the past 20 odd years, Hong Kong has experienced two epidemics, and has witnessed great ups and downs socially, politically and econo ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-11
Seven years ago Yen Po-Wen (顏博文) was chief executive officer of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Taiwan’s second largest maker of semi-conductors, a global company headquartered in Hsinchu, ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-15
“He saved the 30 million people of northeast China. Disregarding his own safety, he handed over the evidence (to the Lytton Commission).” This is Wang Jianxue (王建學'), a professor at the Communist Part ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-08
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
