The question of whether the 172 hectares of land occupied by the Fanling golf club should be taken back for housing development after its tenancy expires in 2020 is expected to be the focus of an upco ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-06
Even the golden Goldman Sachs may be struggling to stay in expensive Central. Well, there are other places in Hong Kong to choose from. A local report says the top US investment bank has signed a five ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
No, it's not a tiger. Police said the animal spotted by a couple on a hiking trail at the Ma On Shan Country Park on Tuesday looked like a leopard cat, easing public concern that a tiger may have reap ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-07
After acquiring a nearly 10 percent stake in Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler AG to become its biggest shareholder, Zhejiang Geely Holding, the parent of Geely Automobile Holdings (00175.HK), now controls ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-28
A rout in global equities deepened in Asia on Tuesday as inflation worries gripped financial markets, sending US stock futures sinking further into the red after Wall Street suffered its biggest decli ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
Dr. Edward Yiu Chung-yim, the ousted lawmaker representing the Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape functional constituency, is set to run in the geographical constituency of Kowloon West ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-21
A committee looking into land supply issues has suggested that privately-owned idle farmland in the New Territories be put to use for residential development to alleviate the city's housing problem. ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-20
As the old trading adage goes, “trees don’t grow to the sky”; markets will correct at some stage. I previously said that economies all over the world were showing positive growth, which is rarely seen ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-28
US President Donald Trump’s administration is expected, by Nov. 2, to announce its choice, subject to Senate approval, to succeed Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve Board in February 2018. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-27
I had earlier set a two-year target for Hong Kong's benchmark index at 40,000, with the forecast resting on the assumption that China will succeed in its economic restructuring attempt. Some of my fri ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-20
A government task force will initially focus on 12 options to help increase land supply for public housing. The group held its first meeting on Wednesday. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
David Tang Wing-cheung, the Hong Kong entrepreneur who founded the high-end fashion brand Shanghai Tang, died in London on Tuesday at the age of 63. Tang died after battling liver cancer for some time ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
A number of mainland Chinese property firms, including big names such as China Evergrande Group (03333.HK) and Country Garden Holdings (02007.HK) as well as some smaller developers like Guangzhou R&am ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-28
Fears are growing that leaked palm oil from a sunken ship in Chinese waters could lead to an environmental disaster. Fishermen are concerned that the large amount of leakage will produce red tide and ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-08
Hong Kong's anti-graft investigators have for the first time revealed details of their painstaking and multi-year probe that led to the convictions of former chief secretary Rafael Hui, former Sun Hun ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-07
What is the formidable CNN afraid of in Hong Kong? Well, it just seems to be this: the ever-rising property rental costs. For 18 years, the global news network has operated out of Taikoo Place, settli ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-24
The Federal Reserve has approved plans from the 34 largest US banks to use extra capital for stock buybacks, dividends and other purposes beyond being a cushion against catastrophe, Reuters reports. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-29
Hong Kong government has been focusing on boosting the supply of public housing in the past two decades, but the new units have come at a cost: ever-shrinking living spaces. According to a Hong Kong E ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-20
Property magnate Thomas Kwok will have to return to Stanley Prison to finish his jail sentence, after the Court of Final Appeal this morning dismissed appeals from him and former Chief Secretary for A ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
