New World Development Co. (00017.HK) is slashing rents for some tenants at its shopping malls, a move aimed at helping retailers that are facing difficulties due to a sales slowdown. The reduction in ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
There is perhaps no better way to garner support for universal suffrage than to play up the prospect of a second term for Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. While universal suffrage 2.0 and CY Leung 2.0 ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
Immeasurable losses! Endless internal friction! An end to the stock market rally! All that could be the outcome if Hong Kong's political reform bill fails to get passed in the legislature later this m ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
What is Henry Tang up to? The former chief secretary, who lost out to Leung Chun-ying in the 2012 chief executive election, made a big splash Wednesday by launching a new organization that aims to "se ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
What a powerful rally in the Hong Kong stock market! When investors came back from their extended holiday, they must have regretted not spending more because they found themselves at least 10 percent ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
The Wharf (Holdings) Ltd. (00004.HK) expects operating conditions to remain challenging this year, with the conglomerate particularly concerned about a slowdown in the retail industry in Hong Kong and ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
Wharf (Holdings) Ltd. (00004.HK) has directly benefited from Hong Kong's retail boom in recent years. Take its flagship Times Square in Causeway Bay. It continues to draw strong traffic despite the pr ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
After three decades running the empire of the late tycoon Pau Yue-kong, Peter Woo Kwong-ching will call it a day. That makes him the longest-serving, and probably most successful, son-in-law at the he ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
Peter Woo Kwong-ching, chairman of The Wharf (Holdings) Ltd. (00004.HK), said he has "zero interest" in running for chief executive, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Tuesday. Woo said he will c ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd. (00001.HK) has unveiled the listing documents for CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. (CKH Holdings), the new holding company in a major restructuring involving the privatization of ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
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
