... Group of Twenty (G20) convened a meeting in April 2009 to discuss measures against tax havens including putting Hong Kong on the list, but the proposal was dropped as a result of China's opposition. ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-09
They are just twenty-somethings but that's not stopping them from launching ambitious plans to make their way into the local legislature through new political parties they founded. Some want a referen ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
... al In The Twenty-First Century, describes the rise of inequality that is resulting from low GDP growth. Joseph E. Stiglitz’s book Re-Writing The Rules Of The American Economy: An Agenda For Growth And ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... er said. “Twenty years ago, nobody wanted Baibing jade (a kind of colorless and translucent jade), but now they are sometimes more expensive than the usual green type.” For those interested in jade as ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
... has spent twenty years earning a living as a butcher. Xiao loved to paint when he was young, but he couldn’t make a living out of it. So he gave up and began selling pork in a wet market. In 2010, he ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-01
... the past twenty years, Dan Ryan's didn’t raise the prices of its dishes much, quite to my surprise. Perhaps it is precisely because of that reason that the landlord thinks the restaurant's earnings g ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-31
... lization. Twenty-first-century globalization, driven by digitization and rapid changes in competitive advantage, can disrupt local industries, companies, and communities and cause job loss, even as it ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
Twenty-three runners were hospitalized after problems suffered during a marathon event in Qingyuan in Guangdong province last Sunday, according to mainland media. Of them, five were said to be in seri ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
... Works and Twenty-First Century Fox (FOX.US). In fact, Aguilar is coming to the Huayi venture from Oriental DreamWorks, the DreamWorks-SMG joint venture. The new Huayi studio will make films for China, ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-15
... ergarten. Twenty pupils between three and five have been hospitalized with fever since Feb. 25. One of them had the influenza B virus in a test sample. The Center for Health Protection (CHP) said all ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
... Kong some twenty years ago. He is a living example that a nod to the city's core values makes one a Hongkonger. There's no other viable way to differentiate between Hongkongers and outsiders, as other ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
... ion TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), unchanged from 2014. Average revenue from each TEU, however, plunged 10 percent from a year ago. The company expects 3.7 percent growth in demand for shipping ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products, a unit of media giant Twenty-First Century Fox, is looking at opportunities that may allow it to build a Fox-branded theme park in China, following previous mo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
... t in ten, twenty years." Wong noted that shop rental cost was only around HK$10,000 a month twenty years ago, while monthly revenues used to hit HK$200,000. But now rents have skyrocketed to HK$60,000 ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... elt” and “Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road” will do the same, with newly built or upgraded infrastructure facilitating the flow of trade, investment, culture and ideas – and thus supporting sha ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... e attack. Twenty people, including an Algerian, an Austrian, a German and a Dutchman, were wounded. "A group of soldiers of the caliphate in Indonesia targeted a gathering from the crusader alliance t ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... is month. Twenty-one Hong Kong retailers signed up as tenants, including cosmetics chain Sa Sa International Holdings Ltd. (00178.HK), fast-food chain Maxim's MX and apparel vendor Giordano Internatio ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
... a fight. Twenty years ago she sat at the helm of the Equal Opportunities Commission. One of her most high-profile spats was to take on the Secondary School Places Allocation system which saw boys bei ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
... burden. “Twenty years ago, had I not gone into the design business and instead bought retail properties, it would have turned out to be a lot more rewarding financially,” Young told Hong Kong Economi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-05
... reported. Twenty-one people were wounded in the shooting, which ranks as the deadliest instance of US gun violence in three years. San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan said at a Thursday news co ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
