It pays to be thick-skinned if you're a start-up entrepreneur. Typically, they're the kind of people who win the all-important first funding for their ideas because they have the right attitude. It's ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
... eks is still doing quite nicely, with the shares worth more than double their price a year ago. But anyone who bought LeTV shares amid a wave of euphoria that began in April might be doing less well. ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
It seems like only yesterday -- well, no more than seven years ago -- that you could get an English-style breakfast, complete with a cup of hot milk tea, at a family restaurant like Yeh Lam Kwok for H ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-23
... h were small and medium enterprises. It found only one of these companies was founded by women. Recently, a friend of mine introduced me to Grace Woo, an American-born Chinese who works in Los Angel ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-20
... started all season until Game Four of the Finals, and Stephen Curry each had 25 points for Golden State, while James again led the way for the injury-hit Cavaliers with a game-high 32 points. "I've s ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union may have to consider treaty changes if that is what it takes to keep Britain in the EU. She is confident that conditions can be created for Brit ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
The US Senate on Tuesday passed legislation reforming a government surveillance program that collected millions of Americans' telephone records, Reuters reported. The bill will now go to the White Hou ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
... Island Villa are available for below HK$3 million, with a unit going for as low as HK$2.25 million, according to Apple Daily. That would be a good defense for Lau Ming-wai, son of tycoon Joseph Lau L ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... tart by selling accessories like earphones. But this addition of three major western European markets hints that Xiaomi is moving ahead aggressively with its global expansion and could even start sell ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
A contest is on among mainland A-list movie stars Tang Wei, Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbing and Li Bingbing and even Hong Kong’s Isabella Leong Lok-si to play China's national tennis icon in the upcoming movie ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
A Mother's Day prank on Cambodian television backfired, the producers being accused on social media of cruelty to a teenage girl. Autumn Allen, 13, an American singer living in Cambodia, had just perf ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
... ng Kong following the launch last year of a landmark Hong Kong-Shanghai bourse link. As someone living in China who has daily contact with local investors, I can personally say that people here regula ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... grass really greener on the other side? To start with, there's the language situation. Singapore's multicultural mix naturally presents an obstacle, unless one's goal is to learn or raise children na ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... in the fall. This year could see a continuation of that pattern, with reports that the medical device units of global conglomerates Siemens, General Electric and Philips are all being probed over whe ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
As top lieutenants grovel for support as they push a controversial political reform package, Hong Kong's embattled chief executive, ironically, is in Boston, home of an iconic protest that escalated i ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
Yale University graduate Noelle Hancock, 31, had a US$$95,000 job as a journalist in New York City. Four years ago, inspired by a tropical screensaver and hungry for a vacation, she broke the lease o ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... US$100 million check but wouldn't allow pictures of it, AP reported. It was just a down payment on his night's takings, which could total more than US$200 million by the time pay-per-view sales are t ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
At the pace technology is developing, even the most tech-savvy of consumers will find it hard to predict the next big thing in mobile devices. First there were smartphones, then smart watches. But eve ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
... or his brilliant putting closed with a two-under-par 70 to match Woods' tournament record low of 18-under 270 for 72 holes, Reuters reported. Woods achieved the mark when he clinched his maiden major ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... aomi is calling the decision to sell its phones through traditional retail stores a tactical move, in a nod to the less advanced state of India's internet compared to that in its home market. While th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
