Beijing's land market remains hot, with five plots sold at record prices within three days in 2015, China Daily reported. On Wednesday, a consortium comprising China Resources Land and Ping An Real Es ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
Hong Kong officials and tycoons bade farewell to Hari N. Harilela, considered the city's richest Indian, who died on Monday at the age of 92. Among those who paid their respects at the family home in ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
Greentown China Holdings Ltd. (03900.HK) is selling a 24.29 percent stake to China Communications Construction Group (CCC Group) for HK$6.01 billion (US$773.4 million). The sale comes after the mainla ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
Hong Kong actress Michelle Reis was said to have complained once that her flat was too cramped for all her wardrobe and got a huge villa a week later as a present from a tycoon. The story is most prob ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
Cheung Kong chairman Li Ka-shing and other Hong Kong tycoons are being accused of not doing enough to counter the pro-democracy protest movement. The accusations were made in an article carried by sta ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-29
The seating plan says it all and the body language is even more telling. Here, China's rigid communist protocol is cleanly laid out for all to see. It's a delicate art in which what is said is sometim ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Is Asia Television (ATV), the smaller of Hong Kong's free-to-air TV broadcasters, poised for an ownership change? And if so, who is the buyer and what is prompting the interest? Well, rumors regardin ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Seating arrangement in any political gathering and formal group photograph is always tricky, especially so in China where authorities constantly use official events to send signals to the outside worl ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
The Wharf Holdings Ltd. (00004.HK) is expanding its portfolio of investment properties in a bid to reduce its reliance on sales revenues, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. The company plans to ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-13
Burglars broke into the home of a FedEx Corp. Asia executive in one of Hong Kong's exclusive enclaves and made off with an undetermined amount of valuables, Apple Daily reported Wednesday. FedEx Asia ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
Hong Kong stocks opened firmer on Thursday as fears over the Occupy Central movement, triggered partly by downbeat comments from HSBC and Barclays, subsided, helping the market come off the post-July ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-10
It is like destiny. Among Hong Kong's nearly 1,700 listed companies, only one -- Swire Pacific -- has a two-tier share structure. As corporate encyclopedist David Webb noted, the destiny was written i ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-30
When Greentown China founder Song Weiping sold his shares to Sunac (01918.HK) last month, the deal resurrected questions about the former's relationship with Hong Kong conglomerate Wharf Holdings (000 ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-23
Call it a form of corporate social responsibility, or perhaps just another example of government-business collusion. Leading tycoons in Hong Kong have begun to speak up against the Occupy Central move ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-11
Peter Woo, chairman of Wharf (Holdings) Ltd. (00004.HK), is the latest voice among Hong Kong's business elite to denounce Occupy Central, saying the "illegal movement" is making an unwise move by reso ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
Hong Kong retail stocks slumped Tuesday after reports the government is considering a 20 percent cut in visitor visas for mainland tourists. Among the worst hit were Sasa International Holdings Ltd. ( ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-28
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was quick Tuesday to play down an idea to slash the number of mainland visitors to Hong Kong by 20 percent, after apparently discussing the proposal at a meeting of a t ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
Hong Kong's leader Leung Chun-ying is believed to have sought opinions Monday from members of the Commission on Strategic Development (CSD) on cutting the quota for the individual visit scheme for mai ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
Property veteran Song Weiping is known for not folding even in the toughest of times. So now, with things seemingly more or less back on track, why has he chosen to bow out? Over the past few years as ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
What a stark difference a deal can show. One party is moving into top gear with a proposed morale-boosting landmark acquisition while the other is making a dismal yet surprising pullback. The deal in ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
