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
A cup of espresso in Hong Kong is double the price in London. And for the price of a pair of jeans in the city, you can buy at least two in New York. Indeed, prices are going up in Hong Kong, which ha ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
As tensions continue to simmer between Hongkongers and mainlanders, many young people from across the border now refuse to admit that they would have liked to make Hong Kong their home. The reason for ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-15
To what extent should governments regulate or tax addictive behavior? This question has long framed public debate about alcohol, tobacco, gambling and other goods and services in many countries worldw ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-15
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 84, plans to retire as chief executive of 21st Century Fox Inc., and he will hand over the reins to his 42-year-old son James, Reuters reported, citing a source familiar wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-12
For several years now, Hong Kong has been putting in place various tax measures to discourage mainland Chinese from buying property in the city. Taiwan, too, has put up hurdles to make it difficult fo ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-10
Wall Street financier John Paulson has broken the record set by Hang Lung Group’s Ronnie Chan Chi-chung and his brother Gerald, who donated US$350 million to Harvard University less than a year ago. T ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-04
Sepp Blatter said Tuesday that he will step down as FIFA president amid a widening corruption investigation into the world soccer's governing body. In an unexpected announcement just four days after h ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
United States prosecutors expect more arrests after seven senior officials of soccer's world governing body were held by Swiss authorities in a corruption investigation. However, they would not be dra ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
In February Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah suggested introducing the food truck culture into Hong Kong. He wants to encourage young people to start their own business and boost local tourism ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-15
Hong Kong police have come under fire over the detention earlier this month of an intellectually disabled person in connection with a murder case. A 30-year-old male suffering from autism and intellec ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
"My father has set a good example for me. He is a successful businessman in other people’s eyes but to me, he is a modest person who never gives up," says Linda Ching (程頌蓮) in the December 2014 issue ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
Yale University graduate Noelle Hancock, 31, had a US$$95,000 job as a journalist in New York City. Four years ago, inspired by a tropical screensaver and hungry for a vacation, she broke the lease o ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
After steering TVB during the golden age of Hong Kong television and presiding over the Hong Kong Economic Journal (EJ) for nine years during which he created a bilingual financial news media, Robert ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
