... l reform. Twenty seven pan-democratic legislators have applied to join the Public Works Subcommittee and the Establishment Subcommittee which are mainly responsible for public works expenditure approp ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
Twenty-three more restaurants and shops in Hong Kong have been found using recycled oil products, Ming Pao Daily reported Friday. Sixteen were ramen shops, including Japanese restaurant chain Sapporo ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-26
... total of twenty conditions and four suggestions made by the council, as well as submit detailed information regarding measures for nature preservation, before construction can officially begin, counc ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-16
... e factor. Twenty-one percent said they experienced gender discrimination while 17 percent said they faced sexual harassment. Hong Kong's overall 18 percent discrimination rate in workplace is still wa ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-05
... members. Twenty-five percent said they were uncertain, or did not know, and 26 percent said no. Chamber Vice Chairman Lester Ross told reporters the major expansion of enforcement was welcome in prin ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
Twenty-seven pan-democrats will vote down Beijing's election reform package for the 2017 chief executive election, raising the likelihood the proposal will not pass muster in Hong Kong's legislature. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
Twenty-six years ago, US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble entered China by introducing its Head & Shoulders shampoo. China is now the group’s second biggest market and accounts for about ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-27
Twenty-six pan-democratic lawmakers have signed a joint declaration vowing to reject any electoral reform proposals that fail to meet international standards, Ming Pao Daily reported Wednesday. Freder ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-20
Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O) decided to pull its US$80 billion offer to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) on Tuesday, abandoning plans to create one of the world's largest media conglo ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
... ,600 teu (twenty-foot equivalent units) container ship is as long as four football fields with a beam of up to 49 meters and could have an insured cargo value of US$250 million, he said. In the event ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
... 1 march. Twenty-five were released on bail, mostly lawmakers and student representatives. Their profiles were consistent with claims the police targeted specific groups, Yeung was quoted as saying. – ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-31
... In 2011, twenty-four regions in China raised the minimum wages with an average hike of 22 percent. And 25 provinces and municipalities have increased the minim wages with an average rise of 20.2 perc ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-11
... ly child. Twenty-nine of 31 provincial regions in the Chinese mainland have relaxed the decades-old one-child policy, allowing couples to have a second baby if they meet the eligibility criteria. -- C ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-10
... Lai said. Twenty-three lawmakers in the pan-democratic camp condemned the arrests as "repression of the freedom of protest" and said it was creating “white terror". Labour Party lawmaker Cyd Ho Sau-la ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-04
... th rates. Twenty years ago the World Bank adjusted its estimate of China’s per capita GDP by 34 percent. In 1998, the economist Angus Maddison estimated that Chinese real GDP growth averaged 7.5 perce ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-30
... building. Twenty-one people were arrested. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, his top aides and Legco President Tsang Yok-sing condemned the violence. On Saturday, Secretary for Development Paul Chan sa ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-16
... he paper. Twenty-four men and four women were arrested in Hong Kong and cash worth HK$11 million was seized. An officer of the city's Organized Crime and Triad Bureau was quoted as saying that the gro ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
The best review of Thomas Piketty’s "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" that I have read so far is the one published by my friend and frequent co-author Lawrence Summers in Michael Tomasky’s journal ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
... c for Fu. Twenty-five years ago he was a student helping broadcast news about students’ democracy movement to Hong Kong. Weiboscope is now offering its June 4 special edition for the public at http:/ ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-29
Thomas Piketty’s impressive and much-discussed book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has brought considerable attention to the problem of rising economic inequality. But it is not strong on solutio ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
