... y 28, but may also signify that the authorities will no longer go easy on arrested protesters. Apart from the serious criminal charges, police are also adopting new ways to deal with the protesters in ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-02
... d persons may have been involved in the recent violent protests in the city, going by the objects seized from them. As news surfaced of the police action, more than 100 people gathered outside the Sha ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-02
... off since May, it has drained nearly US$600 billion of liquidity from the market since November 2014, according to its data. Whenever there was a sharp decline in the balance sheet of the world’s four ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-02
Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, the candidate of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) in Taiwan's presidential election, will need the full support of his partymates to unseat President Tsai Ing-wen of the rul ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... es. Legco may also seek additional funding from the government if necessary, Leung added. On the night of July 1, hundreds of protesters, who were part of a larger crowd of demonstrators protesting ag ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... I agree, may fuel concerns about “mainlandization” of media in Hong Kong. Still, I would argue that as Hong Kong practices “one country, two systems” and is known for a highly diversified and plurali ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... m. Apple may now be selling fewer units of the iPhone, compared with previous years, but it has more than a billion devices currently using all sorts of Apple services and content. The group's prospe ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... next step may be to limit access of Chinese companies, especially state ones, to US capital markets. The next American president, be it Trump or someone else, is likely to continue these anti-China po ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
Economic growth in the United States was just 2.5 percent in 2018 and, according to the latest “advance” estimate, may have slowed to only 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2019. The economy is gr ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... said. The May 7 indictment had been kept under seal until late Tuesday. Liu is believed to be in China, which does not have an extradition treaty with the US. An arrest warrant has been drawn up, acco ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday for the first time in more than a decade but said the move might not be the start of a lengthy campaign of such easing moves. In a statement at t ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... officers may have looked the other way or even colluded with gangsters to teach anti-government protesters a lesson, Hong Kong's anti-graft agency is reported to be examining the events that took pla ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... ng space, may be viewed as ideal for an ascetic with a minimalist lifestyle, but they come with some hazards. Denis Ma On-ping, head of research at JLL Hong Kong, has pointed out that there are certai ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... d MTR Bus may be suspended at any time without prior notice if winds become too strong, it said. Should Storm Signal No. 9 be issued, services in open sections of the railway, Light Rail and MTR Bus m ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
Smartphone fans are awaiting the latest offerings from Apple, Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies, which will come out in the next two months, but they may also have to consider what Google ha ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... an and it may take up to five years to obtain citizenship. There are some more affordable options. Malaysia has a My Second Home program, which only requires applicants to put HK$600,000 in local bank ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... ngs. They may not be in a position to wait for a bear market cycle to end if they need the money in between. On the other hand, retirees cannot afford not to invest given the extremely low interest ra ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... ortfolios may be a good idea because the race towards negative rates of the global economy has only one result: secular stagnation. Central banks will keep risky asset prices, but we cannot forget col ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... on in mid-May. The company has since been given a 3-month reprieve till August 19, and US President Donald Trump has hinted that Washington could relax the sanctions. Huawei’s 23 percent revenue growt ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-30
... September may not bring any radical improvements on its existing flagship devices. The real change will only come in 2020 when the iPhones are expected to transition to 5G. Market focus is now increas ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-30
