China's A shares rallied 5.6 percent on Monday on the back of seemingly neutral comments from Chinese President Xi Jinping. The market turnover hit a three-year high. Last Friday, Xi talked about supp ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
... h cost-cutting cost and reforms in order to help them boost their earnings. The private-equity giant intended to do the same with Kraft Heinz. But the restructuring process turned out to be much more ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
Lenovo’s (00992.HK) latest results came as a pleasant surprise as the company had been struggling in recent years. While the advance of mobile technology is getting all the attention, Lenovo does not ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
... rcent starting from 2021. These new tax initiatives, apart from the carbon tax, are targeting local residents rather than corporates or foreign investors. Currently, Singapore maintains a corporate ta ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-22
... r in arresting runaway property prices, which, if unchecked, could harm the development of Shenzhen’s high-tech industry. Huizhou also boasts a long history and great living environment, offering pote ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-21
... year, boosting the city’s total population with Hukou to above 9 million. The city aims to increase that to 12 million by 2020. The city’s talent policy is going to serve a number of purposes. For sta ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-20
... Airbus continued to plough ahead. Airbus believed the demand for hub to hub routes would explode, as it would be more economical for airlines to ferry more passengers at a time through major “hub” air ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-19
China Minsheng Investment Group (CMIG) recently failed to make a bond repayment. The group was jointly set up by 59 businessmen in 2014. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attended the signing ceremony back ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
... ed by existing rules, and viewers are used to embedded ads. That is another advantage Amazon Live enjoys. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Feb 14 Translation by Julie Zhu [Ch ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-14
Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) is buying a stake in Reddit, one of America’s top free-speech forums. The deal has stoked fears among Reddit users about potential censorship and bre ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-14
... ns. It continued to offer attractive remuneration to employees. But all of a sudden, at 6 a.m. on Feb. 8, over 600 pilots or over half of all the airline's pilots staged a strike, the first time in it ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
... on attracting the maximum number of visitors to make quick money. Given the city’s limited space and capacity, this short-termism is already hurting the reputation of the city as a top holiday destin ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
... s are starting to hold sway in the nation’s 60 billion yuan commercial movie market. Financially, Chow is still enjoying great success. Two years ago, Chow sold 51 percent of his movie company PDAL to ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-11
... hat is waiting to be had from Jockey Club's Mark Six Chinese New Year snowball draw. If you are planning to win, here are a few tips on how to get that elusive winning combination of numbers. Just don ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-08
... reat marketing for Calbee as it showed that the manufacturer was using quality ingredients for its products – in this case, fresh potatoes imported from France. In the past, Calbee used to procure mos ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-04
... and inflating their book value. This could explain the widespread use of impairment charges. It looks like this will be the first test for the new CSRC chairman, Yi Huiman. The regulator has issued i ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-04
... and inflating their book value. But if the acquisition fails to pay off, goodwill will have to be reassessed and marked down. More than half of companies issuing warnings cited goodwill write-downs a ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-01
... en circulating early last week that a new CSRC head would be appointed soon. On Jan. 24, the state mouthpiece Securities Daily dismissed it as fake news, citing unnamed sources. However, on Jan. 26, t ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-31
Hong Kong's overall law and order situation continued to improve last year, with the number of crime cases and the crime rate both falling to levels not seen in more than 40 years, the city’s police c ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
