We all know about Hong Kong's sky-high property prices, but can we put a figure on what the market is worth in total? According to the government's Ratings and Valuation Department, the total rent whi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
The government has been urged to launch affordable housing schemes that would allow middle-class families to pay only 3 percent of the property value as down payment to enable them to acquire their ow ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
Hong Kong movie director Clifton Ko Chi-sum lit a firestorm on the internet Tuesday when he posted that students who go on a hunger strike might as well consider setting themselves on fire. Netizens s ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
Businessmen and taxi drivers are happy to see their business gradually recovering after traffic along Nathan Road began flowing again, RTHK reported Wednesday. The owner of a drugstore was quoted as s ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
Bread and milk: staple foods it's hard to imagine could ever be too different from one's childhood days. But hold on. Some might consider the enormous range of products on bakery shelves today to be ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
Everyone knows the Chinese Central Government’s Liaison Office exerts a lot of influence over how Hong Kong is run, but not too many people realize that it is also a heavyweight player in the local pr ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
Hong Kong has seen its ranks of super-rich swell to a record 3,335, according to the latest survey by Wealth-X and UBS, with one of the striking features being that women make up one-fourth of the lis ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
Parents have been scrambling to secure school places for their kids only to find that students have been on an extended summer holiday because of the pro-democracy protests. Ironic perhaps, but findin ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
In Hong Kong, it pays to build in the price of property into the break-up costs when love ends. Take the interesting case of Canto pop diva Faye Wong, 45, and actor Nicholas Tse, 32, rekindling their ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
China’s Communist Party has announced that a plenary session of its Central Committee will meet next month and the focus will be on the rule of law. While no one expects the party to allow a fully ind ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Soaring home prices are making more Hongkongers eye government-subsidized apartments, with many families viewing the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) units as their only chance to have an apartment in the ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-15
Who can Mickey Mouse and company play with when he comes to Shanghai? Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, or the Boonie Bears, perhaps? "Who knows?" said Stanley Cheung, chairman of Disney Greater China, ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-04
Citigroup has told its senior staff that they will receive fixed monthly payments in addition to their salaries to compensate for new rules limiting their bonuses to up to twice the level of base sala ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
Nearly three years after his death, Steve Jobs is being rediscovered. For instance, people are unearthing his inspirational 2005 Stanford commencement address hidden inside every Mac computer. In Fran ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-27
Ever since the release of an environmental impact assessment and cost analysis for Hong Kong's proposed third runway, the project has become a lightning rod for clashing ideas and opinions. Some of th ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-21
Wall Street banks are considering moving some of their London-based operations to Ireland amid concerns that the United Kingdom may one day exit the European Union, the Financial Times reported. Sourc ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-18
Hong Kong's incoming airport chief is pushing back against claims he has zero experience in the aviation industry. Fred Lam, chief executive of the Trade Development Council (TDC) has been appointed b ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
The Consumer Council is sensing not-so-good vibrations from machines manufacturers claim can help with weight loss. The council investigated the claims of makers of seven vibration plates promoted as ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-17
Confusion reigns over the state of two more "wells" along the path of MTR Corp.'s planned Shatin-Central Rail Link. An archaeological survey of the line was due to finish in December but had to be ext ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-23
Casino king Stanley Ho Hung-sun is probably right. He once kidded that many Hong Kong property developers are so jelly-belly they can't even put on their socks. Physical fitness may be the furthest t ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
