“I assume that the police are listening to my telephone calls,” the reporter said. “So I say nothing that does not appear in my articles or is not already public information. "If I have other things t ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
The Hong Kong stock market has entered into an era of wide swings this year, and investors should move against the crowds from time to time. Aggressive investors could use derivatives to increase thei ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
As the date draws near for announcement of the results of the Central Allocation for entering Primary One in September, anxious parents have been asking questions regarding the "door-knock appeal", a ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
The recent visit by Zhang Dejiang (張德江), China’s top legislator and key decision maker on Hong Kong affairs, may help a little to increase harmony in a deeply divided city. The conventional wisdom is ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
The stock market has been focusing on the interview with an unnamed “authoritative person” published in the People’s Daily last week. Several rumors last week also heightened the market's volatility. ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
Fifty years ago this month, Mao Zedong launched China’s Cultural Revolution – a decade of chaos, persecution and violence carried out in the name of ideology and in the interest of expanding Mao’s per ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
Both market sentiment and technical analysis have turned pessimistic in recent days. That has proved my earlier projection that the market has gloomy outlook in the medium term and will continue to be ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
A Hong Kong company has been named in a US court order relating to an international psychic mail fraud that has scammed more than one million Americans, including the elderly or infirm, out of more th ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
The Chinese Communist Party’s first ever National Security Education Day has come and gone. Like most of the party's awareness campaigns, it was largely ignored, and left behind is a collection of puz ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
Last week, it was revealed that the Chinese government has approached several international public relations companies to work with Beijing in a program to improve China’s global image. This columnis ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
Thanks to Hong Kong's gentrification, the place where you work indicates your standing in the social pyramid. If you commute to Central each day, you are probably a banker, a stock broker, a lawyer or ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
The diplomats have done their job, concluding the Paris climate agreement in December. And political leaders gathered last week at the United Nations to sign the new accord. But implementation is sure ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
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
"Great minds" think alike. It appears that the top 1 percent of Hong Kong's richest think and feel like Communist cadres. They all believe wealth management services at home are not secure enough and ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
It appears that nothing can hold back the young activists who are making a determined push into Hong Kong's political scene via new parties ahead of the September Legislative Council election. Young y ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
Sometimes it is not easy to tell who is naïve and who is not – if we look at our university students and our senior citizens. Yes, university students can at times seem like they are yet to get out of ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
I stayed in Hong Kong this Easter holiday, and I took my family to the Tung Wah Charity Carnival for some fun. However, the long queues made the day truly exhausting. I had a chat with carnival staff ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
As I have mentioned several times recently, do not underestimate the Federal Reserve’s dovish character. However, if you overestimated the European central bank’s dovish character, you may also lose ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
In a recent interview with the South China Morning Post, Feng Wei, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, gave his views on the recent Mong Kok clashes and Legislative Council by-e ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
Several moves taken by Beijing in recent years in relation to Hong Kong, such as the publication of a white paper on "One Country, Two Systems” by the State Council in June 2014 and the so-called "Aug ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
