... ration of young people has grown up without understanding what happens when interest rates rise. An entire generation of old people has forgotten what happens when interest rates rise. It’s highly pos ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
... minds of young people in Hong Kong, the overwhelming majority of whom don’t speak any Korean. Local Cantopop singers have taken a back seat to their Korean counterparts in our pop music market. In fa ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-28
... o protect young workers during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis has created a perverse incentive for employers to lock young workers into a minimum wage. Tsai isn't waiting for politicians to com ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-28
Youngspiration, a political force for localism that emerged from last year's Umbrella Movement, did not do too badly in the recent district elections. Dr. Kwong Po-yin, one of its nine candidates, won ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
... that the young lad who stepped into Frank Hessy’s music shop in Stanley Street in Liverpool and bought a guitar for 17 pounds, would go on to change the world with his music? Diehard fans must visit ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
... that the young generations of Hong Kong are more open-minded, tolerant and responsive to people from different ethnicities. We should take that as a positive development and continue improving on it ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
When young entrepreneurs have their boots on the ground, they will have full confidence to present their ideas to the world. "We are always told by our mentors that our products should not be detach ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... fforts of young students to put creative ideas into effective words. Creative writing skills are important in the internet era, as most media companies are competing on the quality of their stories, E ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... eath to a young girl who was bullied at school so badly she wanted to commit suicide. People from the Balance called this kind of death "Mercy", while death sentences to criminals were called "Justice ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... r who was young enough to be his child. Last month, the signatures on the divorce papers sealed the fate of our relationship like a death sentence and I felt as if I were walking on broken glass ever ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... d-looking young man with soulful eyes. He has a mild stutter. Ricky is raggedly handsome with shoulder length hair that parts in the middle. He often lets the strands of his front hair drape down like ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... ver, most young people aged between 18 to 25 do not have confidence in “one country, two systems”. Of these respondents, 62 percent said they do not trust the central government, and 63 percent said t ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... systems". Young people took to the streets in protest, ending in a 79-day street occupation last year. Their specific grievance concerning genuine universal suffrage was just part of a bigger issue -- ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
No visitor to the Middle East can avoid noticing the yawning gap between the educational, entrepreneurial and occupational aspirations of the region’s young people and the harsh reality that deprives ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... rding the young protesters. But have they forgotten that suspects should be presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court? Are the police now playing the role of a judge by ascertaining their guilt? ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
A female clerk stole more than HK$1.5 million (US$193,495) from a law firm by forging signatures on 30 checks to please a young barrister. The 51-year-old employee, surnamed Lam, was arrested in Nove ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
A trio of piracy-related stories are in the headlines as we head into year-end, reflecting the recent focus that Beijing has put on an issue that is likely to get big attention next year. Leading the ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
... number of young entrepreneurs, but none of them is comparable to the size of Cyberport’s Smart-Space. The local tech hub now boasts a total floor area of 75,000 square feet of co-working space, with a ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
I’m interested in family business successions and spent quite a number of years studying Japanese companies that have been around for generations. There are 5,586 companies worldwide that have existed ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
... he has a young son. Ah-fai said he has now recovered from the trauma after two years of counseling at CFCSC, but he is still wary of letting others know about his divorce. Paulina Kwok Chi-ying, a ce ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
