Another one bites the dust. Soaring rents are being blamed for news of the demise of a second Hong Kong steakhouse in a week. Louis’ Steak House in Wan Chai has been around for 41 years. It survived S ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
The Chinese government has spent at least US$70 million buying Hong Kong properties over the past 12 months, official records show. Three sources close to Chinese officials told Reuters the move refle ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-01
Central bankers from around the world are suggesting that they are ready for a US interest rate hike and that they would prefer that the Federal Reserve make the move without further ado, Reuters repo ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
Tenders for two public housing projects have been suspended after eight more children were found to have excessive lead in their blood in a widening water contamination scandal. The projects -- a publ ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) opened Tuesday the city's first 3D printing support center in a bid to help local manufacturers tap the new technology. "It houses the most comprehensive spec ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-19
She lost her man, but at least she got the money. Not a bad deal for former beauty queen and singer Cally Kwong Mei-wan, who sold a four-bedroom apartment she had acquired from her former boyfriend, H ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
If these were not in rainbow colors instead of black or if they came with assault gear, they might be mistaken for a terrorist mask. But they're nowhere close and they even have a name -- facekini. It ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-29
One in four of workers in Hong Kong, whose income is under HK$15,000 a month, will have to work overtime if the proposed standard of 44 working hours a week is applied, Ming Pao Daily reported on Wedn ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
China's freeze on initial public offerings has seen hundreds of millions in fees evaporate for now, with 38 companies blocked from share sales before underwriters could push them out of the pipeline. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
The government is setting up a cross-departmental task force to look into water safety issues following the discovery of excessive levels of lead in water supplied to some units at a public housing es ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
Tens of thousands of residents in at least five public housing estates may be at risk of drinking unsafe water, after excessive lead content was found in water samples from Kai Ching Estate in Kowloon ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
On July 2, Secretary for Economic and Finance Lionel Leong announced that Macau would initiate austerity measures if gaming revenue in the month did not reach 18.35 billion patacas (US$2.3 billion). H ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. is buying the island's biggest cable television operator in a US$2.3 billion deal backed by Morgan Stanley's private equity unit. The group is nearing agree ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
Over the past year, the global economic environment changed markedly and in unexpected ways. Energy and commodity prices plunged. Growth in China (which accounts for about 40 percent of global growth) ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
Hong Kong won't be getting its own national security law soon, after the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee passed a new one for China on Wednesday. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying sa ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
Wim Hekstra, chief executive of Sun Life Hong Kong, is a sports enthusiast who often participates in local and overseas marathon and triathlon races. He once finished a local half-marathon in one hour ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-20
It's about time junket operators changed their role from intermediaries for VIP rooms to regular staffers of casinos, an industry expert said. David Chow Kam-fai, chairman and chief executive of casin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
We all know that one of the most exciting moments in a romance is when a man and a woman, who have yet to formalize their relationship, drop hints of affection at each other in a subtle, if ambiguous, ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-06
“Go less to movies and travel less to Japan.” This advice to young people from Lau Ming-wai, son of Joseph Lau Luen-hung and chief of Chinese Estates Group, has drawn some hefty backlash, although com ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
When one thinks of street art, it's easier to imagine those vibrant and colorful graffiti on pavements, walls and exteriors of buildings in the urban landscapes of the United States than in the street ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-15
