Media companies should make good use of information on social media but diversify their news sources, said Ros Atkins, host of Outside Source on BBC World News, citing his experience during last year' ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
Facebook is seeing a surge in the number of small and medium-scale enterprises advertising on its social network. From just about a million firms a year and a half ago, SME advertisers on Facebook ros ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
Hong Kong has taken a step forward in strengthening its position as a key private-equity (PE) hub in the region. On Friday, the government gazetted the Inland Revenue (Amendment) Bill 2015 that seeks ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
Lai See, the longest-running column of Hong Kong’s largest English newspaper, may soon have its last run. South China Morning Post's highly popular business gossip column will end when Howard Winn, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
Violent protests by radicals against parallel traders in Hong Kong have made headlines north of the border. Reports of the ill-treatment of visitors from the mainland, regardless of whether they are s ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
A New Delhi-based non-profit organization has partnered with Tata Communications to land a spacecraft on the moon. Team Indus is one of the 18 finalists for Google’s US$30 million Lunar XPRIZE, an int ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
If you want to know what mainlanders feel about Hong Kong nowadays, there is no better place to go than social networking platforms such as WeChat and Weibo. Last week, the two sites buzzed with angry ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
The bitter political showdown over Hong Kong's constitutional development and the overwhelming influx of tourists and immigrants from the mainland caused tension, prejudice and even hatred on both sid ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
Hong Kong has long been renowned for its highly competitive mobile market, which is largely due to the open market policy the government has adopted since 1990s. However, the market has entered a cons ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
Wealthy Chinese have been pumping up property prices in many cities around the world by utilizing various investment immigration schemes. This has led to growing complaints among locals about unafford ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
It may come as a surprise to some that there are only 15 air quality monitoring stations (12 general and three roadside) in Hong Kong to cover the city's 1,100 square kilometers. One reason is that a ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
The suspension of Mexico’s US$3.75 billion high-speed railway project is not indefinite but just a “temporary and domestic” measure, the country's top diplomat in Hong Kong told EJ Insight in an inter ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
Serial entrepreneurs could play a bigger role in nurturing local entrepreneurship, following the example of Silicon Valley, according to a top venture capital executive Conrad Tsang, chairman of the H ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
Israel is planning to establish a US$200 million loss-protection fund exclusively for Chinese investors who embark on venture capital (VC) and private-equity (PE) initiatives in Israel. Eligible subst ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
Supply of Redmi Note 4G, a smartphone produced by Beijing-based Xiaomi Inc., has remained tight in Hong Kong since the official launch of its enhanced version two months ago. Redmi Note, or Hongmi Not ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-26
Quick, somebody throw hot chili oil in my eyes. Like you, I read the story in EJ Insight and other publications about the inauguration of the Hong Kong Army Cadets -- a paramilitary group for young Ho ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
Hong Kong's property market will come under some pressure in 2015 due to expected interest rate hikes in the United States, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist said. US rate adjustments, wh ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
A business-to-business gem and jade trading platform debuted on Thursday on the Guangzhou Commodity Exchange, aiming to establish standardized and trustworthy trading processes in an industry that lac ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
Hong Kong people mostly haven't had good feelings about Leung Chun-ying, as they see him as a Beijing puppet and a roadblock to political reforms. One solace for the embattled chief executive, however ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
Hong Kong will allocate an extra HK$150 million (US$19.35 million) to extend the Cleaner Production Partnership Program and encourage Hong Kong-owned factories in Guangdong province to adopt cleaner p ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
