Hong Kong must establish a strong sense of “one country” and firmly observe it in order to correctly handle the city's relationship with the central government, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-n ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... in south-central China. Experts from around the country discussed the “urgent” need to build China’s own human rights discourse system. Chinese thinkers argue that the western discourse, including on ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... Shatin-to-Central line, which they said showed poor governance by the administration. Carrying signs and chanting slogans, the protesters, including members from several pro-democracy parties, started ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... ments and central banks of some of America’s largest trading partners to artificially lower the value of their currency, generally with the intention of influencing the exchange rate and trade policy” ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... r. The US central bank expected another rate hike in December, three more next year, and one increase in 2020 as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least three more years of growth. Severa ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a new message for financial markets: watch the data on jobs, wages and inflation for signals on monetary policy – not the US central bank’s words or forecast ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
In a press conference on Sept. 13, European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi presented a fairly optimistic economic outlook with risks to the downside as well as to the upside. While the Gove ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
China’s central bank left short-term rates unchanged on Thursday, choosing not to follow a benchmark interest rate rise by the US Federal Reserve despite the risk that it could that it could put renew ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
... ations in Central America and the Pacific. Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province, has routinely accused China of using dollar diplomacy and bullying to lure away its allies, charges Bei ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
... e for the central government to consider tightening the pre-sale system, if not scrapping it altogether. Currently, regional pre-sale system varies. In some regions, developers can obtain the pre-sale ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
... t. The US central bank still foresees another rate hike in December, three more next year, and one increase in 2020. That would put the benchmark overnight lending rate at 3.4 percent, roughly half a ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
With the Federal Reserve widely expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday, financial markets are focused on whether signs of an acceleration in US economic growth will prompt the central bank to r ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
... le in the central government questioned why the Security Bureau took so long to impose the ban. He said that's because the bureau wanted to be very careful before doing so and imposed it fully accordi ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
... meet the central bank’s price target would be a laudable, and significant, endeavor. Meanwhile, the government’s fiscal priorities need a major overhaul if the country is going to get onto sustainabl ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the unorthodox measures central banks took to douse the fires of the global financial crisis have left a smoldering terrain that still casts a pall ove ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
... e China’s central bank governor Yi Gang, top securities regulator Guo Shuqing, National Social Security Fund Council chairman Lou Jiwei, as well as former central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan and form ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-20
History buffs have bemoaned the damage that Typhoon Mangkhut has caused on a heritage street in Central, but there is hope now that the affected structures will be repaired and reinstalled. The Develo ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-19
... de facto central bank -- on Monday launched the so-called faster payment system (FPS), an arrangement that will help speed up transactions and ensure more efficient retail payment services. With par ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-19
