Hong Kong is now in the midst of a political crisis of immense and unprecedented proportions. Unfortunately, all the city's leaders did over the past few week was pretend as if everything was fine and ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-06
... e Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts on Monday afternoon. The government said in a statement issued on Sunday morning that the police “strongly condemned the radical protesters”, saying that resolute en ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... ay as the city faced major disruptions, with a general strike paralyzing parts of the Asian financial center. Alex Wang, Hong Kong-based analyst with Ample Finance Group, said worries over Hong Kong’s ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... nging the city to an unprecedented standstill. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor addressed the media for the first time in two weeks and warned again that the protests gripping the city are a ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
On the day a historic general strike is happening in Hong Kong, HSBC (00005.HK), one of the city's leading banks, announced the resignation of its chief executive, John Flint, only 18 months after he ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
Power has been restored in most parts of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, after the city of 10 million people went without electricity for more than nine hours due to technical issues, Reuters reports, c ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... re in the city. However, it is said that the administration has two major concerns about pressing ahead with the idea, and this could explain its inaction so far. One, the government is worried that e ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... ic border city of El Paso, where a gunman killed 20 people at a Walmart store before surrendering. Authorities in Texas said the rampage appeared to be a racially motivated hate crime and federal pros ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... full capacity ... why need another one?,” one source said. Another person pointed out that the new factory would not go into production until early October, which makes it less appealing for buyers b ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-02
... ls in the city following the 1967 leftist riots. The move was aimed at allowing the young people to divert their energy and emotions to other things, and focus less on the irksome civic disturbances. ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... tive publicity has come despite colossal spending. China has disbursed billions of dollars to project its soft power around the world. Xinhua, the state news agency, aims to open 200 bureaus by 2020 – ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... ocked the city that the police didn’t use it again. Now, not only tear gas but also rubber bullets and sponge grenades are being used at virtually every protest. It’s like the police have become trigg ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... nd Kansas City Fed President Esther George who argued for leaving rates unchanged. Rosengren and George have raised doubts about a rate cut in the face of the current expansion, an unemployment rate t ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... ocked the city that the police didn't use it again. Now ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2019年08月01日
The simmering tensions in society following the extradition bill crisis have spilled over into the civil service, with many officials dismayed at the recent turn of events in the city. Last week, many ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
Hong Kong adolescents have lower levels of happiness and satisfaction with the quality of life than their Singapore counterparts, according to a university study. The City University of Hong Kong's de ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... nation of city leader Carrie Lam, an independent inquiry into the police’s handling of the crisis and the unconditional release of all those arrested. Some of the activists are due to appear in court ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... ous small city commercial banks risk having outsized significance because of their close ties to the rest of the banking system as well as with bigger shareholders, many of whom are giant companies. - ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... our home city". Speaking to media last Friday, Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung said the way the police force handled the incident at the Yuen Long MTR Station on July 21 “fell short of peopl ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-30
