Hong Kong fell three places from its previous spot on the annual democracy index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The EIU's 2017 Democracy Index, which was released Wednesday, showed ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-01
... tempts to place advertising income above all else when it came to business priorities. Confronted with questions from lawmakers as well as users, the US tech giant's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-01
... lready in place – such as large buildings in New York – will do well. But the law does not offer much of an incentive to invest in new capital, either by launching a new company, developing new produc ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-01
... from 4th place to be a “strong market No. 2” behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) in 2018, partly due to the cryptocurrency boom. Samsung’s mobile division, which competes with A ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-01
... ng app "a place to exchange and transact virtual currencies, loans, and insurance." In addition, it said it "aims to actively promote research and development of technologies such as blockchain.” Once ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-31
... -friendly place. For example, dogs and cats are still banned from transport systems such as buses and trains as well as most public leisure facilities, not to speak of retail outlets. Take my constitu ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-31
... 0 yuan -- placed it at the lowest rung among Chinese provinces in 2017. The figure marks less than one-tenth of Hong Kong's GDP per capita (HK$354,600) – although both cities had similar 3.8 percent g ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-30
Airbnb, the online marketplace that allows people to lease or rent short-term lodging including vacation rentals and homestays, has announced plans to grow its Experiences program. The American compan ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-29
... nt to the place I couldn't find his name tag (that happens to a lot of "freelance" and retired doctors, I suppose). So I took my chance with another doctor. The new doctor, a lady, told me the medicin ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-29
... es taking place in Hong Kong every year. And even though deaths caused by child abuse have remained relatively rare over the years, everybody knows that the official figures only represent the tip of ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-29
... nd a good place to start would be with these all-too-common failings: 1. Misallocation of capitalZero and negative interest rates have arguably prolonged excess capacity and prevented well-run firms f ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-29
... the first place if they have plans to sell assets, or sell their companies. It's estimated that Sunac added 1.4 trillion yuan worth of land last year, the most in the sector. Roughly 70 percent of the ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-26
... ", as the place of origin on the product labels. To reprint the labels and repack, it could easily cost NT$3 to 4 million (or roughly HK$800,000 to 1.06 million) each time. To many small businesses in ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-26
... s been in place for quite a little while, the difference is the US troops are now coming to the ramparts.” Speaking at the Thursday morning news conference, Ross said: “People are using some predatory ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-26
... upied the place for eight hours. A standoff happened between the protesting students and some female staff. A video clip shows Lau using foul language while confronting the female staff. Last year the ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-25
... s been in place for quite a little while, the difference is the US troops are now coming to the ramparts.” Pressed about Mnuchin’s remarks, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said at a daily briefi ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-25
... ake Yiu’s place and run for the Kowloon West seat for the pan-democratic camp if that happens. However, Fung announced on Monday that he decided he will not be the Plan B choice. He revealed during th ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-24
... ok in one place and make it much easier for people to manage their data,” Sandberg said at a Facebook event in Brussels on Tuesday. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the biggest overhau ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-24
... el out of place in this melting pot of ethnicities and nationalities. I was the poster child for Hong Kong, receiving a global education in an "international city where East meets West and the old mee ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-23
... lready in place when she bought it. Separately, Dr. Priscilla Leung Mei-fun, who chairs the Legislative Council’s panel on administration of justice and legal services, criticized Cheng for refusing t ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-22
