... that the central government has realized that its discriminative measures against private firms in recent years is one of the main factors leading to faltering economic growth and fading market confi ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-23
Leighton Contractors (Asia), the entity responsible for building the underground platforms at Hung Hom Station for MTR Corporation's HK$97.1 billion Shatin-Central Link (SCL) rail project, said on Mon ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-23
... official Central News Agency said the incident was the island’s deadliest rail tragedy since 30 were killed in a 1981 collision in northern Taiwan. "We will use all our strength and efforts for the r ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-22
... owth. The central bank earlier in October announced its fourth reserve requirement ratio cut of 2018 to cut funding costs, while the government has signaled it would increase infrastructure spending. ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-22
... t Party’s Central Committee, the largest of China’s elite ruling bodies. He was previously the vice governor of the southeastern coastal province of Fujian. Macau Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai-on ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-22
... ha Tin to Central line. The so-called hi-speed railway to Guangzhou also had its share of problems and cost overruns but it is essentially a political project and has little to do with real transporta ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... atorship. Central authorities can tighten their red-line grip any time they want, he said, while insisting that he will never change his position or views. Slamming the government’s decision to disqua ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
A senior Beijing official said acts aimed at achieving Hong Kong independence must be punished in accordance with the law, adding that both the Hong Kong SAR and central authorities must have “zero to ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... ent. Most central bank governors and finance ministers are worried about escalating trade conflict between the United States and China. The International Monetary Fund has revised down global GDP grow ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... k China’s central bank announced the fourth reserve requirement ratio cut this year, stepping up moves to lower financing costs amid concerns over the economic drag from a trade dispute with the Unite ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... years the central government in Manila has been largely unable to bring these local barons into line. However, things have begun to change ever since Duterte took office, with the drug war he has init ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... country's central bank chief and a senior official of the SOE watchdog. Yi Gang, People’s Bank of China governor, told the G30 International Banking Seminar on Sunday that the central bank will step u ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... ed by the central government to draw overseas-educated Chinese elites by offering them juicy cash rewards. The reason is that “The Thousand Talents Plan” has recently come under intense scrutiny of th ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... European Central Bank, and the German government have erred in insisting on rigid enforcement of the EU Stability and Growth Pact, particularly the 3 percent-of-GDP cap on fiscal deficits. Although s ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
US Federal Reserve officials are largely united on the need to raise interest rates further, despite criticism from President Donald Trump of the central bank's tightening moves, according to minutes ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... fist, the central government wouldn’t be piling pressure on the SAR administration over the enactment of Article 23 of the Basic Law at least in the short run. That also explains why Lau was barred fr ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
... ernments, central banks, traditional financial institutions, and real-world currencies as evil concentrations of power that must be destroyed. Blockchain fundamentalists’ ideal world is one in which a ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
... lt around central banks’ loose policies and the famous “bubble of everything”. And therein lies the problem. After twenty trillion dollars of reckless monetary expansion, risk assets, from the safest ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
... ant,” the central bank chief said. “Tremendous uncertainties [are] ahead of us.” Yi said China’s monetary stance is still basically neutral, without an easing or tightening bias, adding that he believ ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
... claim the central bank dismisses, Reuters noted. His treasury chief, meanwhile, has criticized China for recent declines in the yuan’s value, and said Washington wants to make currency issues a centra ...More
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