... et should go up, if that’s the way investors want to interpret the remarks, one cannot argue with that. That said, one must acknowledge that recent developments have, indeed, been supportive of a stro ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
... t -- like gold or the US dollar -- rather than floating freely on the market. Elizabeth White, founder of New York-based crypto startup The White Company, spoke to EJ Insight recently on her stablecoi ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
... n initial goal to help clients holding cryptocurrency wealth to purchase luxury items. In a recent email interview with EJ Insight, White explained the phenomenon of “stablecoin” and discussed the hyp ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
During the heyday of the Chinese empire, representatives of vassal states had to go through elaborate rituals, including the infamous kowtow procedure known as “three kneelings and nine prostrations” ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
... fight the good fight,” he told me. Swan believes vertical farming can improve how we use land. His first project: growing kale, which is unheard of in a place like Singapore. But growing kale indoors, ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
... en things go well. “It is beyond arrogance for American businesses or individuals to boast that they have ‘done it alone,’” Buffett wrote. Buffett also made a possible oblique criticism of Trump’s bra ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
... iles is negotiated between the US, Russia, Europe and China. The INF Treaty was concluded between then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev back in 1987, under which both Was ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-22
Singaporeans aged 21 and above will get a one-off bonus of S$100 to S$300 (US$73.8-221.4) this year. But together with the cash handout, the Singapore government has decided to increase the goods and ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-22
Almost immediately after the government had announced that it would partially claw back land from the Fanling golf course as recommended by the Task Force on Land Supply, the Hong Kong Golf Associatio ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-22
... ng way to go before it witnesses a New Era for its sci-fi movie industry. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Feb 16 Translation by Alan Lee with additional reporting [Chinese v ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-21
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled a nearly US$2,000 folding smartphone that doubles as a tablet, in what would be the most expensive phone on the market. The Galaxy Fold will go on sale on Apr ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-21
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday signaled it will soon lay out a plan to stop letting go of US$4 trillion in bonds and other assets, but policymakers are still debating how long their newly adopted ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-21
A post in a Taiwan chat group on the waiting times in Hong Kong public hospitals has gone viral online, fueling intense discussions on the state of public health systems in the region. Citing a public ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-20
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) has been open to the public since October last year, but its low vehicle flow has raised widespread doubts on the wisdom of current government restrictions on ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
If we analyze the ranking of the main technological companies (2017), there is not a single European entity among the top fifteen. The vast majority are North American and Chinese companies. If we go ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
... ubject to government interference and not comparable to that of Hong Kong or the 20 jurisdictions with which it has an agreement. A report by the World Justice Project in 2017/18 ranked China’s justic ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
... anies and governments seeking innovation. But concerns about data security and customer privacy start to surface. Data governance becomes crucial. Meanwhile, the complexity of data sources makes peopl ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-14
... eng Yuet-ngor announced on Tuesday. It is said that hundreds of mainland representatives and officials, including those from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Guangdong provin ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
