... y Bay and Tin Hau MTR stations for several hours. While most of those who attended the vigil were locals, there were also foreigners who were concerned about the June 4th incident and mainlanders who ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-05
... ei, preventing the firm from securing US components and technologies, the ban would leave China with little choice but to put more effort into building its own core technologies. Such initiatives coul ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-05
... among multinational corporations. But American authorities have deliberately targeted Alstom. Such differential treatment leads to speculation that the US government could be assisting General Electr ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-04
This year’s UEFA Europa League final was held in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. Intriguingly, the nation is actually quite related to the currently escalating US-China trade war. Azerbaijan straddles th ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-03
China's largest e-commerce firm, Alibaba Group, is reported to be planning a second listing in Hong Kong in the second half of this year. The news provides some cheer for Hongkongers against the backd ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-29
... s kept writing letters to MUJI’s headquarters, requesting the brand to reopen stores in the city. Tadamitsu Matsui was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm from Hong Kong consumers, and as a result, MUJI cam ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
... is interesting aspect prompted a viral joke online that perhaps the so-called US-China trade war is actually a battle between the US and Shenzhen. More seriously, the news illustrates the significance ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
... r next meeting. But something must have changed Trump's optimism after that last tweet, and he has not mentioned China in his tweets until now. The way I see it, both the US and China appear to have m ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-24
... deteriorating sales revenue in China is the key cause. MUJI’s same-store sales revenue fell 4 percent in the second half of last year, from a 0.2 percent decline in the first half. It marks the first ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-24
... eports, citing foreign media accounts. Wong and Li were two of the defendants in the case linked to the Lunar New Year clashes between demonstrators and police during a government crackdown on unlicen ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-23
In a previous article, I wrote that Taiwan has the potential to replace Hong Kong as a unique bridge between China and the United States. Now, the worsening US-China tech war might create just the kin ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-22
... iculty getting re-elected. All eyes are now on another vice-chairman post, currently occupied by the 66-year-old Cheung Hok-ming, who is reportedly not seeking re-election this year because of his poo ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-21
... 12, allocating 20,000 researchers and a yearly budget of US$400 million, a very significant sum compared with Huawei’s limited profitability those days. Some questioned this move, but Ren saw this as ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-21
... disappointing bottom-line figures. First, Marugame Seimen outlets reported a 0.5 percent dip in revenue to 89.9 billion yen, while net profit slumped 11 percent to 12.4 billion yen. The company attri ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17
... flation eating up hard-earned savings and the lack of investment knowledge could be the key reasons. Not a few are sitting on a cash pile of over HK$1 million thanks to sustained robust economic expan ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-16
... China, hurting the data center industry in Guizhou. Also, the provincial government has signed a deal with California-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to build a track for a futuristic high ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-14
... I will continue to be produced in compliance with the standard of the International Civil Aviation Organization, with the holder's personal data and facial image stored in digital form in the contactl ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-10
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett revealed during Berkshire Hathaway's latest annual shareholder meeting that the company has been buying Amazon shares. Buffett said he wasn’t the one who pulled the ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-10
... are operating without proper licenses. If caught, operators pay fines, which they consider as part of the basic costs of running the business. The most common type of prize is stuffed toys. While mos ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-09
... 00, generating a 200 percent return for the seller. T.Mark is a three-storey shopping mall about 25,000 square feet big. An experienced investor bought it for HK$414 million in September 2012 and subd ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
