... echnology go far beyond entertainment. At Taipei Viveland, for example, there is a booth that enables users to travel to the past through the use of a VR headset that makes them feel like they are a ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-17
... wants to go home to be with his family and lead a peaceful life, according to RTHK. He said the first thing he hoped to do after being released is to have a nice chat with his wife, because while in ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-16
... rges will go up 13 to 18 percent, depending on the plan, according to an announcement Tuesday. Prices for its popular standard plan, which allows streaming on two devices at the same time, will rise t ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-16
... in May’s government, to be held at 1900 GMT on Wednesday. With the clock ticking down to March 29, the date set in law for Brexit, the UK is now ensnared in the deepest political crisis in half a cen ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-16
... hour are going to directly benefit from the pay rise. According to the MWC, the wage rise is going to cost local employers an extra HK$800 to HK$930 million, or a mere 0.1 percent of the total salar ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-15
... s broader goal of letting regional forces fight for common goals like countering Iranian influence in Syria. Trump’s threat coupled with a call on Turkey to create a 26-kilometer buffer zone to protec ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-15
... inland cargo increasingly does not need to go through Hong Kong anymore, as China builds more highways, railways, ports, bonded zones and free-trade zones. That has eroded Hong Kong’s role as a transs ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-14
You may not like it in China because there's no Google or Facebook, unless you have access to virtual private networks, which, although banned, are still available from some clandestine providers – or ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
... ecided to go for it as face recognition technology has become mature. Such facial recognition systems have gradually been in use at the e-Security Gates since September last year, with the identity ch ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
... l Team of government funds, which includes China Securities Finance Co, Central Huijin Investment, and the national social security fund, had bailed out the domestic stock market from time to time. Zh ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
The government is set to raise the statutory minimum wage (SMW) to HK$37.5 per hour from the current HK$34.5. The new SMW rate, proposed by the Minimum Wage Commission and approved on Tuesday by the E ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-10
... , and the Government Flying Service rushed to the scene to put out the fire and save the people stranded on board and at sea. Although more than 20 crew members of the vessel were successfully rescued ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-09
... having to go through an Apple TV set-top-box. For Apple, the move represents a significant shift in its content offerings strategy, given its well-known penchant for restricting the access for its ser ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-09
... • "If we go bankrupt, our competitors will too." • "We hold the pandemic risk capital required by the regulator and that’s enough. It is only calculated assuming a mortality spike due to something li ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-08
... s have to go through China's Unionpay or NetsUnion Clearing Corporation. Octopus and JETCO probably were not going through the two designated organizations in executing cross-border payments. They n ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-08
... e lack of good lending targets. Given the importance of the property sector and the relatively low risk of mortgage assets, and the positive signal from numerous local governments that are easing the ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-07
