The military coup in Turkey has been quashed, easing some of the market concerns over geopolitical risks. The Japanese yen and gold both fell back on Monday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
... s, Duncan Wong, director of security and data sciences at ASTRI, told the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Blockchain is often described as one of the most promising financial technologies that is applicab ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
As I commented in a previous article in May, Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) chairman Barnabas Fung Wah had proved to be unfit for the job. Fung has been incompetent and negligent, and has also fai ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
... president Wong Yiu-keung said. Wong said the club faces a HK$100,000 (US$12,900) deficit, mostly from rent. It occupies 200 sq. ft. in IN's Point which it had rented for HK$1 when it opened in 2001 an ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... ed at the Wong Tai Sin station, several MTR staff boarded the train, but the man had dropped his cigarette butt into the platform gap and left. The MTR Corporation said a verbal warning was issued to ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... rs Helena Wong Pik-wan and Wu Chi-wai are expected to keep their seats. However, the party’s other candidates are seen securing only 4.2 percent, 3.1 percent and 3.1 percent of the votes in the Hong K ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
... comedian Wong Cho-nam and wife Leanne Li (who both regularly work in China) and singer Hins Cheung (who posted a map of Red China that includes Hong Kong, Taiwan and the disputed Paracel and Spratly ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
... r Anthony Wong expressed his regret for having supported Leung, saying that the chief executive had failed to move Hong Kong to progress. And just recently, another former Leung loyalist, Dr. Gabriel ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
... was told. Wong Ping-kuen, a former shareholder of California Fitness, is seeking to get the company liquidated. But no details about the potential deals were disclosed, RTHK said. The High Court was a ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
The abrupt resignation of Rebecca Li Bo-lan, the deputy commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and the acting head of the agency's investigative unit, grabbed headlines, ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-13
... man Peter Wong Tung-shun in April. Translation by Chloe Chow [Go to Video] -- Contact us at [email protected] CC/DY/CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-12
... reported. Wong Wai-kin, senior scientific officer of the Observatory, said the thunderstorm was mainly caused by high temperature resulting from the downdraft of a tropical cyclone near Hong Kong and ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... vironment Wong Kam-sing, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Cheung Kin-chung, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Chan Ka-keung, Secretary for Development Chan Mo-po, and Secretary for Hom ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... man Ricky Wong Wai-kay is leading the Anyone But CY bandwagon, which is the one and only theme of his high-profile bid for a Hong Kong Island seat in the Legislative Council. While Wong is seeking to ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
Speaking at a forum organized by the civilian think-tank Path of Democracy last weekend, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor outlined her "seven visions for Hong Kong". At the end of her speech ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-07
London silver price soared to a two-year high on Monday. The metal surged more than 7 percent in Asian trading hours, crossing the US$21 per ounce mark for the first time in two years. It marks a jump ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-06
The start of the nomination period for the Legislative Council election is just around the corner. Although voting will not take place until September, we can almost predict with some certainty that a ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-06
