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
The Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens is in need of major renovation and improvement works, a government-backed review panel has concluded, calling for a relook at the infrastructure at the f ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
The pro-Beijing Alliance for Peace and Democracy is launching a signature campaign to put pressure on pan-democrat lawmakers who have pledged to veto the government's political reform package, Ming Pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
A new pro-establishment website founded by former RTHK host Robert Chow Yung will debut on May 5, just in time to join the second phase of the debate on universal suffrage. The website will be called ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
For students at the Hong Kong Baptist University, going to the Kowloon Tong MTR station means a lot of hassle even though the rail facility is just 300 meters away from the campus. First, the students ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
A wait of one minute for a taxi, much fewer people on Senado Square, and food that's still delicious -- what else can we ask for in the casino city? This week I took a day off in Macau, which is exper ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
The conflict between Urban Renewal Authority (URA) chairman Victor So and the agency's outgoing managing director Iris Tam could have stemmed from more than just the purported differences between the ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
It's a dreadful prospect but an independent Hong Kong is a notion that keeps coming back like a bad dream. And it's all thanks to Beijing loyalists who find it useful in diverting attention from the o ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
