In an online forum post that has gone viral in Hong Kong, a female netizen expressed her grief over being called a “bitch” after she told her girl friend that she was making a wrong marriage decision. ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
Automaker Infiniti Motor Company has launched a 12-week entrepreneurship program to help startups develop their business and look for investors. A total of 145 startups from Hong Kong and around the w ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
A major difference between working men and women in Hong Kong is the latter are more likely to quit their job once they get married and have babies. But many would still want to work part-time to supp ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
Although one may find it hard to name even half a dozen local household electrical appliance brands in Hong Kong, the truth is that the city is quite a significant player in the production and export ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
Like apples in a basket, a cohort of scammers can have a few rotten, useless ones. They're not the sort of guys who thought up the courier con (you have an illegal substance in your parcel), the threa ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
Desperate times, desperate deal. We are talking not about Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation but the record-breaking HK$1.5 billion (US$190 million) that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. chairman Jack Ma Yu ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
How quickly people forget. Only three months ago, the Hong Kong government welcomed Uber with open arms, hailing it as a success in its efforts to attract foreign investors. So, when police raided Ube ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
The past is a foreign country. So is the future. And an integral part of the future is big data. Big data is defined by technology research firm Forrester Research as “techniques and technologies that ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
One year at Harvard turned Jeff Chen Hao-ren, a student from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), into a startup co-founder. As an exchange student in the United States, Chen of ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-01
We all love the Octopus card. It's just so convenient. It seems we can’t live in Hong Kong without it. But if you look at how an ordinary day passes north of the border, you may think otherwise. In th ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-31
Honeywell International Inc. has agreed to buy the utility consumption metering business of Britain's Melrose Industries Plc. for about US$5.1 billion. It's the largest acquisition by Honeywell in mor ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-29
Even in normal times, individual and institutional investors alike have a hard time figuring out where to invest and in what. Should one invest more in advanced or emerging economies? And which ones? ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-28
Secretary for Food and Health Dr. Ko Wing-man has sought to allay fears that children found to have excessive lead levels in their blood would experience stunted intellectual growth. Ko said signs of ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
"Fintech" is is a relatively new buzzword that is used to describe technology-enabled financial transactions. Peer-to-peer lending and third-party payment services such as Alipay and Tenpay are good e ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
Beijing has relied on the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) to serve as a stabilizing force for the city's middle class. It wants the pro-establishment party to f ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
The results of the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) examination, a prerequisite for university admission, were published last week, with the majority of the students unable to make the grade. That ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-25
Auto expos in China had in recent years turned into Vegas-style showbiz events as companies deployed scantily-clad female models to draw people to the exhibition booths. Draping themselves over the bo ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
The firm behind the controversial US-based car-hiring app Uber reportedly intends to list itself in mainland China or Hong Kong as early as next year, as part of its ambitions to expand its business i ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
The 5G era is just around the corner. Samsung predicts the next-generation mobile technology will be out on the market by 2020, but Keiichi Makizono, senior vice president of SoftBank, is confident hi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
China has been making major efforts to increase its ability to influence other countries without force or coercion. In 2007, then-president Hu Jintao told the Communist Party the country needed to inc ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
