Many of the recent consultation papers put forward by the government stress on Hong Kong’s land shortage while ignoring other equally pressing issues, such as how to rescue our shrinking and nearly mo ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-08
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, who is set to complete a year in office as Hong Kong's top leader in about a month, said she is enjoying her job so much that "a month feels like a day." Sp ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-07
The government has proposed easing the restrictions that had been placed on food imports from some parts of Japan in the wake of that nation's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. On Tuesday, the Food and ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-06
The resumption of the second-reading debate on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (Co-location) Bill at the Legislative Council is scheduled for Wednesday. Pan-democrats have tabled as ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-04
As the five-month public engagement exercise of the Task Force on Land Supply, or the so-called great debate on land supply, is underway, there is a good deal of attention on the issue of development ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-30
Last week the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), a business education school based in Lausanne, Switzerland, announced its 2018 Global Competitiveness Report, which showed defen ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-29
What is a good way to estimate the value of an app? Well, it's topic that has stirred much debate and a lot of different viewpoints, as well as raised several related questions. Recently mobile games ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-18
The Task Force on Land Supply released a consultation paper recently on the way forward for Hong Kong’s land policy. In the document, the panel laid down 18 options for public consideration as to how ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-15
Hong Kong people are largely comfortable with the idea of reclaiming more land from the sea as a way to resolve the development site shortage and housing woes in the city, a survey showed. According t ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-03
The school mass shooting incident in Parkland, Florida in February has not only re-ignited fierce public debate in the US over gun control, it also sparked a nationwide popular movement for tightening ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-25
Amid the media attention to a potential trade war, a new debate is emerging over whether China’s economy is finally rebalancing. Some commentators have proclaimed that the Chinese economy is rebalanci ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-20
Before the threat of a US-China trade war arose, surging stock markets and corporate profits had obscured the fact that the global economic system is under existential stress. Global financial stabili ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-17
Hong Kong's Director of Highways went to Zhuhai yesterday to meet the officials of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Authority to address public concerns over the mega-bridge that links the three citi ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-09
The question of whether the 172 hectares of land occupied by the Fanling golf club should be taken back for housing development after its tenancy expires in 2020 is expected to be the focus of an upco ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-06
A week after Singapore-based ride-hailing firm Grab Inc. announced it was acquiring its rival Uber Technology’s business in Southeast Asia, Grab co-founder and CEO Anthony Tan revealed to CNBC his nex ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
More new-economy firms are following the big players that have succeeded in listing with dual-class share structure. It behooves Hong Kong to introduce weighted voting rights in order to lure more hig ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-22
A newly elected Hong Kong member of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) has come in for strong criticism from the pan-democrats after he warned that people who call for an end to ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-20
Hong Kong government is keen to transform the city into a regional data hub. But scarce land supply is a major barrier. In 2013, Google was looking at building a cloud data center in Hong Kong. But th ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-19
Facebook is facing several investigations following media reports that a political consultancy that worked on President Donald Trump's campaign gained inappropriate access to more than 50 million Face ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-19
In the wake of a massive fiscal surplus, debate has intensified in Hong Kong recently as to whether the government should offer cash handouts to citizens or commit itself to some long-term and fundame ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-07
