... ntia last May with a new three-year mandate. The management shake-up could help to mend fences with the Italian government and fend off the threat of losing its valuable motorway concession. – Contact ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-18
... policies may mean everybody is responsible for it, it may, at the same time, also mean that everybody can pass the buck to each other on this issue. As such, I believe that if the administration has ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-17
... responses may well be part of a political ploy to gain votes in the November district council election. After all, such a proposal was earlier made by the Democratic Party and opposed by the DAB, whic ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-17
... investors may be interested in the HKEx offer despite the cool response from LSE. LSE has a highly-fragmented shareholder structure. The biggest shareholder, Qatar Investment Authority, owns 10.3 perc ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-17
... officials may seem a bit judgmental when they accuse foreign credit rating agencies of not understanding the ground realities in Hong Kong. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on S ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
... 's ouster may make the White House look less hawkish, but it will never turn Trump into a dove. As a businessman, Trump has always embraced the art of deal-making and bargaining, and has been known fo ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
... recession may be around the corner as growth in China loses steam. Property sales by floor area, a crucial barometer of demand, rose 4.7 percent in August year on year, up from July’s 1.2 percent grow ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyberattack on its national parliament and three largest political parties before the general election in May, five people with direct kn ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
... e back of May’s resignation, Johnson has adopted a tougher negotiating stance, vowing that Britain will leave without a deal if it has to and stepping up preparations to mitigate possible food, fuel a ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
... ia, which may have an impact on oil prices, I have authorized the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, if needed, in a to-be-determined amount sufficient to keep the markets well-suppl ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
... est since May. Prices were up about 12 percent by 6:50 p.m. (2250 GMT) as gains were capped after US President Donald Trump said he authorized the release of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserv ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
... it rating may go down further, thereby dealing a severe blow to the confidence of various sectors in the city’s investment outlook. Although withdrawing the bill may risk whetting the opposition’s app ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-13
... ee people may have been beaten to death by police officers. Lawmaker Claudia Mo Man-ching, convenor of the pro-democracy camp in the Legislative Council, said on Wednesday that she had obtained full t ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-13
... the odds may seem. As we head into a festival weekend, there will be much reflection among the citizens on the state of affairs in the city and what may lie ahead. At the same time, protest actions w ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-13
... ufacturer may not intentionally invade people’s privacy. Regular users may not notice that their privacy is being disclosed if they have not read the product instruction manuals carefully. Once the Io ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-13
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani may not be the only one to have welcomed US President Donald Trump’s cancellation of peace talks with the Taliban. Probably, so did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in t ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-13
Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros (US$1.10 billion) to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago in a deal that may create a legal precedent for other lar ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-13
... ich Legco may have to tackle when it resumes session in October. These include the national anthem bill and the Lantau Tomorrow Vision project. Some pro-establishment lawmakers have reminded the gover ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-12
