Russian tourists are downgrading their holiday plans, opting for cheaper overseas destinations or domestic travel, amid the nation's economic troubles and a rapidly devaluing currency, Financial Times ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
Up to 4,000 students and citizens attended the "democracy sessions" at Tamar Park in Hong Kong's Admiralty district during lunch hour and in the evening on Tuesday, Apple Daily reported. Students from ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-24
A 67-year-old building on Wellington Street in Central has been classified as Grade III historical building by the Antiquities Advisory Board. The structure, owned by Nam Wah Ink Company, an ink manuf ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-17
Apple's new wireless payment service could help boost sales of iPhone 6 with its larger screen more suited to such transactions, Reuters reported Thursday. The new service is expected to claw back mar ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
Small cake, big business. It is that time of the year when we share the traditional Chinese pastry at family gatherings and celebrate friendship with business partners. It's the Mid-Autumn Festival, t ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-08
Go easy on the warpaint -- this is the message that men have proffered to members of the opposite sex in a recent survey on women's make-up habits. A study conducted in Britain on behalf of beauty bra ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-03
Lights across Britain were switched off for an hour on Monday night in a tribute to the dead of World War One, inspired by the prophetic observation of Britain's foreign minister on the eve of war 100 ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
... taxi industry,” Kim Kyung-ho, head of the city's transport department, was quoted as saying. In a statement released on Monday, the local government accused Uber of legal breaches and said it was dev ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
... eader has stirred a debate as he poured cold water on the Occupy Central movement and the massive July 1 pro-democracy rally, deeming them as unnecessary. In a sermon at St Paul's Church on Sunday, Kw ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
Eight students from the English Schools Foundation and one from St. Paul's Co-educational College have scored the full mark of 45 in this year's International Baccalaureate Diploma program, local news ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
If you've been having mosquito bites, you probably live in one of nine Hong Kong districts with serious infestation. A monthly index measuring the extent of the distribution of aedine mosquitoes surge ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-24
Language is no barrier to love -- even the cross-species kind as one animal experiment in the US Virgin Islands showed 50 years ago. Over 10 weeks in a flooded house in St Thomas in 1965, neurologist ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-11
Financial firms on Wall Street have started beefing up their trading desks again, betting on a pick-up in the credit markets, Bloomberg News reported Friday. Nomura has added ten people to its US corp ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-23
A real-estate agent in Detroit picked up the telephone and heard an unusual request from a customer in China. "I want to buy 100-200 homes. I have no time to see them. You see them on my behalf and bu ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
Chinese listed firms received a total of 77 billion yuan (US$12.3 billion) in subsidies last year from different agencies of the government, enabling some loss-making companies to swing to a profit. T ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-28
Purchases of new homes, excluding government-subsidized affordable housing, in Shanghai surged 45.1 percent to 288,500 square meters last week, the highest seven-day volume registered in the city sinc ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-01
Following is a summary of major news and comments in the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the parent publication of EJ Insight, on Thursday, Feb. 13: TOP STORIES Nan Fung pays 12-year-low unit price for ho ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-13
Regulators in the United States have widened their investigation into the hiring practices of leading Wall Street firms in China, Bloomberg News said Monday, citing a report by the New York Times. Gol ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-09
In early December, Prime Minister David Cameron will lead a large British trade delegation to Beijing and appeal for more Chinese investment, students and tourists. On October 22, about 1,500 restaura ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-22
Time was that state-owned conglomerate China Minmetals Corp. could do no wrong. Back in 2008, it was the darling of the propaganda apparatus, with cheerleaders touting its buying spree as an example o ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-01
