The contrast could not be starker. On Sunday, police in full riot gear cracked down on unarmed student protesters with tear gas and pepper spray in Admiralty, turning it into a virtual battlefield. T ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
It will take a long time to rebuild Hong Kong people's trust in the police, who used tear gas and pepper spray on the protesters on Sunday, Executive Council member Bernard Chan told EJ Insight in an ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-29
Expect no lai see, not even a small token, if you're not a real Buddhist monk. The problem for Kagyu Monlam Office, a Tibetan Buddhist group which is proposing the freeze-out, is that in their finest ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
Wuzhou International Holdings Ltd. (01369.HK), an operator of trade centers and logistics platforms in China, is in talks with Alibaba Group for possible cooperation after securing financing from Ping ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
The political future of Scotland, which will be determined in a vital referendum by over four million voters this Thursday, has come in for much debate in Europe in recent days. Hong Kong people have ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-17
Nexmo Inc., a US firm involved in cloud-based communication services, plans to expand its Chinese business and lure mid-size 'over-the-top' service providers in the country after roping in big names s ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
In a rare news conference Wednesday, former Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa made an emotional appeal to the locals to accept China's proposal on the election process for the territory's next l ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-05
Former director of housing Duncan Pescod, the most senior non-Chinese official in Hong Kong until his retirement in April, is to join the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority next month in the new ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
The United States has prohibited its officials from taking part in the ice bucket challenge although the game originated in the country. Clifford Hart, the US consul general to Hong Kong and Macau, sa ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-22
Chinese firms will be looking to carve off a bigger piece of the Australian beef industry in the next few years as mainland food companies look offshore to feed China's 1.35 billion people, according ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-07
With China's air getting filthier by the day thanks to excessive coal-burning by power plants and some other industries, authorities have been scrambling for alternative energy sources. Against this b ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-07
As public service announcements go, Hong Kong's mass transit railway operator is up there with the most persistent. Passengers are continually warned to mind the platform gap, watch their step and not ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-04
Minmetals Land Ltd. (00230.HK), a real-estate arm of China Minmetals Corp., expects to acquire one million square meters of land within the next five months by spending about 5 billion yuan (US$810 mi ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-04
Chinese TV decoder maker SMiT is expanding into India and Russia, among other emerging markets this year, as it rides the smart TV wave around the world. The Hong Kong-based company has become a domin ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
Although video chat tool Skype allows people to initiate video conference easily, it doesn't meet the needs of business users who look for more advanced and better-quality service. This is where Lifes ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-10
Local governments in China have begun to scale down their protectionism on new-energy carmakers, offering a better chance for non-local producers to compete better in various markets within the countr ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
Former Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa should resign as an independent director of Alibaba Group, a Beijing law firm said Tuesday, claiming Tung's role in Alibaba could conflict with his vice ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
H3C Technologies, the world's second largest IP-based products and solutions provider, hopes to boost its ties with Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) by supporting the internet giant's planned private bank. ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-26
Private-equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) firms are turning cautious about investing in Chinese firms due to escalating competition in the country in various industries, the Hong Kong Venture Capit ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-25
FTSE Group expects to include China's A-shares into its global benchmarks in the next three to five years as the country opens up its markets further and undertakes financial deregulation. "It depends ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-24
