Douban, China’s fifth most popular social media platform, was virtually shut down over the weekend. The website is mainly for reviewing books and movies, but users also share photos and post messages ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-10
行政長官林鄭月娥宣布10月16日是立法會開始新一年度會議的日期。按慣例，立法會每年首次會議，都是由行政長官向立 ...全文
Hong Kong, in the eyes of many folks from around the world, is many things: a major global financial hub; a tourist heaven; a cultural melting pot where East and West strike the perfect balance, and t ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
At least three new US stock exchanges are expected in 2020, potentially lowering trading costs as the upstarts try to take business from the incumbents, while also adding complexity to the marketplace ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-20
US congressional committees are due to start voting next week on legislation supporting human rights in Hong Kong, with measures under consideration including annual reviews of the Chinese territory’s ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
When world leaders gather in New York later this month for the annual United Nations General Assembly meetings, they will have much to discuss besides climate change and sustainable development. In pa ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-12
Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma was due to step down from the Chinese firm on Tuesday, leaving his handpicked successor a daunting task of steering the US$460 billion juggernaut at a time when the mark ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-10
Retailing giant Walmart will stop selling ammunition for handguns and some assault-style rifles in all its stores across the United States, responding to calls for action following a string of mass sh ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-04
The Brexit “Leave” campaign has been billed as an effort to “take back control” by restoring “sovereignty” to the United Kingdom’s Parliament. It is thus deeply ironic that one of the first moves of t ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-02
The United Kingdom's opposition Labour Party said it will trigger an emergency debate in parliament next week to try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking the nation out of the European Union wi ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-30
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced plans to suspend parliament for more than a month before Brexit, enraging his opponents and sparking a fresh political controversy. On Wednesday Johnson ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-29
US Federal Reserve policymakers were deeply divided over whether to cut interest rates last month but were united in wanting to signal they were not on a preset path to more cuts, Reuters reports, cit ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-22
Limiting marriage to between a man and a woman will remain China’s legal position, a parliament spokesman said on Wednesday, ruling out following neighboring Taiwan in allowing same-sex marriage, desp ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-21
Direct observations from a NASA space telescope have for the first time revealed the atmospheric void of a rocky, Earth-sized world beyond our own solar system orbiting the most common type of star in ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-21
French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to calm the "yellow vest" movement and find a way to address the issues by holding a so-called grand debate can be a good case study for those who seek solut ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-14
The tension between Beijing and Taipei is heating up. China's film regulator said on Wednesday that mainland's movie industry has been barred from participating in Taiwan's Golden Horse film awards ev ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-09
Hundreds of people gathered at the world’s most famous zebra crossing on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the day the Beatles created one of the best-known album covers in music history and an ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-09
To understand where the Chinese economy is headed, it is important to understand the wider context surrounding Chinese debates about what the future holds under President Xi Jinping. The centenary of ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-08
China’s film regulator on Wednesday said it was blocking the mainland movie industry from participating in Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards without a giving a reason, in the latest sign of rising tensions ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-07
Two mass shootings that killed 29 people in Texas and Ohio reverberated across the US political arena, with some Democratic presidential candidates accusing President Donald Trump of stoking racial di ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
