The government has launched a five-year pilot scheme to lure talent as part of efforts to drive Hong Kong's innovation and technology development. Secretary for Innovation and Technology Nicholas Yang ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-23
With its booming startup ecosystem, Asia has made great strides in technology and innovation over the past couple of years. Despite being a hive of investment activity, however, the regional market re ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-23
More young Chinese couples are joining the ranks of DINK families (Dual Income, No Kids). Given this, some Chinese academics have suggested that childless people or parents of just one child should be ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
UK wage growth slowed again in June. Since the Brexit referendum, disposable income has failed to keep pace with consumption, forcing households to draw on their savings and borrow more. This is unlik ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
JD.com is the country's second-largest e-commerce platform after Alibaba Group. It has collaborated with internet giants such as Tencent Holdings and Google as well as with US retail major Walmart as ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
China Biologic Products has received a US$3.9 billion all-cash offer from a consortium of investment firms, valuing the Beijing-based firm at slightly above an earlier buyout proposal from a CITIC Cap ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
Venezuela slashed five zeros from prices as part of a broad economic plan that President Nicolas Maduro says will tame hyperinflation but critics call another raft of failed socialist policies that wi ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
A steep downturn in heavyweight Chinese internet stocks and recent weakness in half of the so-called FANG group have some investors worried that a key component of Wall Street’s nearly decade-long ral ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-20
Several Tesla Inc. shareholders have told Reuters they are concerned that the electric car maker will have to pay more to fund its growth if it becomes a private company and loses the ability to sell ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-20
政府邀請學會出席上周的《施政報告諮詢會》,坦白說,每次我參加這類官方主辦諮詢會,看着一個又一個左膠不斷要求政府 ...全文
Meituan-Dianping, an online food delivery-to-ticketing services platform, is seeking a listing hearing and approval next week for its planned Hong Kong initial public offering, IFR reports, citing sou ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-16
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has sent subpoenas to Tesla Inc. regarding chief executive Elon Musk’s plan to take the company private and his statement that funding was “secured”, Fox Busi ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-16
Prominent hedge fund managers appeared to have made bets that the US economy will continue to expand despite increasing concerns about a broadening trade dispute between the United States and China, R ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-15
Tesla Inc.’s board named a special committee of three directors to decide what to do about chief executive Elon Musk’s potential offer to take the electric car company private, although Musk has yet t ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-15
What could Beijing do to offset the adverse impact of the escalating US-China trade war? Fighting back with tariff hikes or limiting the damage by further depreciating the renminbi may not work well. ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-14
Short sellers betting against Tesla Inc. trimmed their exposure to the electric car maker’s stock after chief executive Elon Musk gave new information about his proposal to take the company private, R ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-14
Hong Kong has seen a spurt in fraud cases involving fake business emails, police said on Sunday, urging corporations to be more vigilant with regard to computer systems firewalls and internal communic ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-13
The West Kowloon terminus for MTR Corp.'s Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link is set to open in six weeks' time with a popular dim sum restaurant as one of its anchor tenants. Tim Ho Wan, a ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-13
Tesla Inc. and its chief executive Elon Musk were sued by investors for allegedly fraudulently engineering a scheme to squeeze short-sellers, including through Musk’s proposal to take the electric car ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-13