A wait of one minute for a taxi, much fewer people on Senado Square, and food that's still delicious -- what else can we ask for in the casino city? This week I took a day off in Macau, which is exper ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
The conflict between Urban Renewal Authority (URA) chairman Victor So and the agency's outgoing managing director Iris Tam could have stemmed from more than just the purported differences between the ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
It's a dreadful prospect but an independent Hong Kong is a notion that keeps coming back like a bad dream. And it's all thanks to Beijing loyalists who find it useful in diverting attention from the o ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
Netizens assailed the Town Planning Board for approving a plan to demolish the Boathouse restaurant in Stanley and build a 10-story hotel on the site. “It’s a shame to have this beautiful building dem ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
A key trade union representative is being accused of inexperience during negotiations on standard working hours which ended with controversial proposals. Stanley Ng, chairman of the Hong Kong Federati ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
Gowell, a Hong Kong-based education company, has raised US$1 million in the first round of its fundraising from a group of venture-capital funds including Fresco Capital and Nest Investments. Gowell w ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
A multi-sectoral panel has failed to reach consensus on standard working hours after two years of talks. Instead, the Standard Working Hours Committee is recommending that the matter be left to indivi ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
It has been a game of back-and-forth for two pro-Beijing figures these past days -- but mostly a lot of going back. On Tuesday, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying walked back a plan to persuade Chinese a ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
Hong Kong companies with factories in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) have seen their number fall by over 40 percent since 2006. And the trend is expected to continue in the Year of the Goat. Firms are pu ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
Many Hongkongers still cherish fond memories of the city's old Kai Tak airport. A place where many of the now-elderly citizens probably took their maiden flight overseas, the airport has been an integ ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
Macau Legend Development Ltd. (01680.HK), a satellite casino running on the license of gaming giant SJM Holdings Ltd. (00880.HK), is urging the government to consider the interests of all casino opera ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
This year’s policy address is a box office failure: it was delivered two weeks ago, and public response remains lukewarm. Even the housing strategy that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying called the "he ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
Federation of Hong Kong Industries chairman Stanley Lau Chin-ho has urged the management authority of Shenzhen's Qianhai special economic zone to specify the types of industries that it is seeking. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
How much vitality do our leading Hong Kong corporates have? One approach is to look at the age of the chairman. Generally speaking, the older the boss gets, the fewer are their corporate exercises. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
Former justice secretary Elsie Leung Oi-sie said imposing the mainland’s national security law on Hong Kong would be inappropriate and unnecessary, Ming Pao Daily reported Thursday. Beijing is draftin ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
Former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa held another press conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday, his third since September last year, to register his personal views on Leung Chun-ying's policy address just ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
Hongkongers should not look at China’s national security from the viewpoint of “outsiders”, Tung Chee-hwa said. The city’s first post-colonial leader said Hong Kong will legislate a national security ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
A nephew of Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho has been held for questioning over alleged involvement in a prostitution racket. Alan Ho was one of dozens arrested Monday by prosecutors in the gaming encla ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
A former bar captain at a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Macau has been arrested for substituting cheap wines for 50 bottles of top Burgundy wine, Apple Daily reported Thursday. The real bottles ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
In November, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a settlement in which six banks would be fined a total of US$4.3 billion for manipulating the foreign-exchange market. And ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
