... let was acting head of the Foreign Correspondents' Club when it hosted on Aug. 14 a luncheon speech by pro-independence activist Andy Chan Ho-tin in defiance of warnings from the government and pro-Be ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
... itburo meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, it was surprising that key words and phrases like deleveraging and housing market curbs were not mentioned at all, going by the statement r ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
Shenzhen authorities have vowed 10 billion yuan in assistance to bail out troubled listed firms. And various districts in China's capital city of Beijing have also unveiled similar measures to support ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
... rther boosting his wealth. Though Wong was able to build his own business empire and successfully had it listed, he then suffered badly from his stock investments, and was put behind bars for four yea ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-01
... ing, resulting in the worst single-day performance for the counter since it was listed in 2001. Moutai, considered a bellwether of China’s consumer stocks, is the premium white liquor brand in the cou ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-30
... say, pointing out that the discounts on Saturday and Sunday won't benefit millions of office-goers who had suffered the most on Oct. 16, when there was an unprecedented lengthy service breakdown on f ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-30
All 189 people on board an Indonesian airliner that crashed into the sea on Monday are feared dead, Reuters reports, citing officials. Lion Air flight JT610, an almost new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was trying ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-30
... of protecting such data. As big data specialist Herbert Chia said, in order to bring out the value of big data, one has to properly organize and analyze the data and define the parameters by which su ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
An Indonesian aircraft with 189 people on board crashed into the sea and sank on Monday soon after taking off from the capital, Jakarta, on a flight to a tin-mining region, Reuters reports, citing off ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
... an escalating trade war with the United States. Beijing has tried to soothe investor concerns and restore confidence in the private sector via tax cuts and a reduction in financing costs. By contrast ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-26
Beijing’s market rescue efforts fueled a rally in A shares and the Hong Kong market. It was short-lived, however. Both markets fell again on Tuesday, reflecting fragile market sentiment. President Xi ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-25
... the relisting plan shows its confidence in China’s A-share market and the economy. Li Hejun and his subsidiaries hold a 66.6 percent stake in Hanergy Thin Film. He needs to spend around HK$71 billion ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-24
... An escalating US-China trade war is believed to have contributed to the latest economic slowdown and stock market sell-off in China. But Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and several other influential acad ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-23
... lue, prompting some "forced selling". There are fears that such forced share sales could trigger a financial crisis. Amd this situation, China's Vice Premier Liu He, People's Bank of China (PBoC) gove ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-22
... ium consisting of New World Development, Nan Fung Development, Chinachem Group, China Overseas Land & Investment, Wharf (Holdings) and Sino Land. China Overseas Land is the only mainland Chinese d ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-22
... lays affecting the new Sha Tin to Central line. The so-called hi-speed railway to Guangzhou also had its share of problems and cost overruns but it is essentially a political project and has little to ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... ups. Chan Tin-chee, assistant director at the department's identity card division, said existing smart Hong Kong Identity Card (HKIC) holders will be invited to one of the nine newly established Smart ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... contradicting comments from the country's central bank chief and a senior official of the SOE watchdog. Yi Gang, People’s Bank of China governor, told the G30 International Banking Seminar on Sunday ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... on, Tenky Tin kai-man, vice chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, said it is not that people in the film industry have been unwilling to follow legal procedures but that they have no kno ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
... the escalating US-China trade war and tighter scrutiny of the tech industry. Several billionaires from the industrial sectors have managed to buck the downtrend. That includes He Xiangjian, founder of ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
