Hong Kong's finance minister Paul Chan announced in his budget last year HK$4,000 handouts to some of the city's poorest people. As the government does not provide an online application system, citize ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-01
... le to our city. Most of the medical schools on the exam waiver list of the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) are European, US and Commonwealth tertiary institutions; only eight mainland universities hav ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-31
... k how our city would look in 20 or 30 years’ time with or without new people coming in. Surely, we will be poorer in the long run without the energy and determination of newcomers. The book is called ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
The government will allocate extra funding to the Hospital Authority (HA) to help place the agency in a better position to hire more people and reward overworked staff in the city's public hospitals w ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
... ce in the city, and this inspired him to launch Asia’s first internet service provider and later introduced a free web-hosting service called Cybercity. The venture was eventually bought by an America ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
... ining the city’s demand for land are based on our projected social and population growth. The task force should have assessed the impact of different population policies on our demand for land. Yet ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
... n Israeli city of Kiryat Gat between 2018 and 2020. That agreement had included a promise by Intel to spend 3 billion shekels on local suppliers. Intel is planning to build its new factory at Kiryat G ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-29
... irst-ever citywide trial of Smart Mobility applications in Wuxi city of Jiangsu province in the Mainland, in collaboration with Huawei and other industry players. In the Technovation Summit organised ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-29
... er by capacity, according to the report. The stake will be purchased from Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings, which currently owns 91.13 percent of Hyundai Oilbank. The deal will help Aramco expand its ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
... ld RTHK’s City Forum on Sunday that moving some of the patients to rehabilitation hospitals would not only cause the current problems to spread but also involve extra administrative work while invitin ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
... n" as the city's public expenditure on education amounted to only a low percentage in GDP. The figure was at 3.3 percent, even lower compared to that of Kazakhstan, which stood at 3.6 percent. However ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
To foster Hong Kong's growth, one strategy is to make the economy more innovative. Examining the city's state of innovativeness will help authorities formulate appropriate measures for supporting inno ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
... Hangzhou city bureau of the Chinese central bank. Yi faces the challenge of reviving global and domestic investor interest in Chinese equities, which have lost a quarter of their value from a year ag ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
... nt in the city-state. The factory is scheduled for completion in 2020. Tax rate may be also playing a part in the equation. The corporate tax rate in Singapore is 17 percent, and the local government ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-25
The Lunar New Year comes early for pre-schoolers after the government suspended classes in all kindergartens and childcare centers in the city from Saturday, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Se ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-25
... ng in the city's public hospitals. As Hong Kong battles a winter flu crisis, the HA on Wednesday released videos showering praise on the hospital workers and expressing gratitude for their efforts to ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
