Hong Kong's financial sector had long been dominated by traditional institutions, but in recent years the city has seen a rising number of fintech startups trying to push their way into the market on ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-21
A Sri Lankan monk arrived at Hong Kong airport at midnight in September 2015, with nothing but the address of a Chinese Buddhist temple in Yuen Long. He hailed a taxi and arrived at the temple at 2 a. ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-16
Boston Dynamics, a US-based tech firm, plans to start selling its SpotMini robot next year, with the offering currently in the pre-production stage. The company’s founder, Marc Raibert, announced at a ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-14
Recently, we had news that a real-estate developer had turned down a request made by the Social Welfare Department to provide space for building a community support center for autistic patients, among ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-09
Facebook Inc. will soon launch a dating service to match millions of people on the world’s largest online social network and nudge them into spending more time there. The service, which Facebook had c ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
Global trade and supply chain logistics providers DP World and Virgin Hyperloop One are introducing an on-demand delivery service. Called DP World Cargospeed, the service is "an international brand fo ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-30
Simple lines, pure black blocks, and rounded shapes: how could these forms bring a sense of peace in the world of chaos? It’s been a question on my mind since I visited Peter Yuill's exhibition, The A ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-27
WeWork, a US provider of shared workspaces, is pursuing plans to expand in Southeast Asia. The New York-based startup aims to establish its presence in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippin ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-26
Recently, in the space of one week, two reports emerged about FIFA-related developments that could profoundly affect the future direction of world football. The first report concerned proposals for an ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-24
A popular saying goes, "An inch of land is worth a feet of gold". In Hong Kong, where property prices are among the loftiest in the world, this means that it is not only the actual living space that c ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-19
Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology conquered the financial world in 2017. As we see more capital gravitate towards promising virtual currencies and initial coin offering (ICO) projects, technolo ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-17
Originally known as Antshares, NEO is China's first open-source blockchain, and has been dubbed as "China’s Ethereum." Despite China banning crypto trading and initial coin offering (ICO) projects sin ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-16
Almost everyone in Hong Kong has to work hard to realize their dream home, and that dream is getting more and more expensive through the years. Consider John Slosar, the outgoing Swire Pacific chairma ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-10
Digital currencies such as bitcoin have caused a financial frenzy in the West, and some of the leading players in this new sector are now looking to Asia for business growth opportunities. Seeking to ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-09
Even the golden Goldman Sachs may be struggling to stay in expensive Central. Well, there are other places in Hong Kong to choose from. A local report says the top US investment bank has signed a five ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
Held in Hong Kong in late March, the GREAT Festival of Innovation offered a series of keynotes and masterclasses involving industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and futurologists from the United Kingdom, H ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
The opening of the mega-bridge to Macau and Zhuhai draws closer by the day, with Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor traveling the full length for the first time last Friday. On March 15, the 7 ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
The impact of Facebook’s data leak scandal may have been underestimated. Let’s look at the issue from different angles. At least 50 million Facebook users’ data have been harvested by Cambridge Analyt ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-23
The Japanese government announced on Tuesday that it will promote space-related startups in the country by offering them monetary assistance via a 100 billion yen (around US$940 million) fund. The fin ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-23
You don't count as part of the Big Four unless you are in the core business district, right? Wrong! Just take a look at Ernst & Young, the accounting and consulting giant that is set to have a ne ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-16
