... nger marketing tactic. Scarcity is typically one of the factors that make a show hot. Wong could choose to charge a lot more, but if he did, he would be under a great deal of pressure to make sure his ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-29
... and preventing monopoly, and as such, Tencent and Alibaba simply can’t say no to the consolidation. The arrangement means consumers can choose to use their UnionPay accounts for settlement even when t ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-28
... un in Sha Tin earlier that day. Claiming that he had not committed any traffic offense, the man told the police that the ticket seemed to have been altered. Following an investigation, police picked u ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-27
... y will continue to support him," he said. The underlying message from Lou is that China remains very much restrained in its response to Trump's action. China, in fact, wants to avoid a trade war with ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-27
... of protecting the Nam Sang Wai wetlands and its precious eco-system, Apple Daily reports. Located in the north of Yuen Long and crisscrossed by the Kam Tin River in the New Territories, the Nam Sang ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-26
... tually hurting its income-generation capability. Then there is the risk of lawsuits. More than 50 million users have been affected in the scandal. If they sue Facebook, the company may need to spend a ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-23
Hong Kong’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is mulling over an overhaul to make local auditors shift from a self-regulatory to an independent regulatory regime. That would put Hong Kong on par with ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-22
... atory scrutiny. Facebook saw its shares plummet as much as 6.8 percent on Monday, the biggest slide in four years. More than US$36 billion was wiped out from the Internet giant's market value. Wylie d ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-21
... its operating company getting valued at as much as US$30 billion. Jinri Toutiao was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. The app, whose name translates as “today's headlines,” doesn’t have its own staff ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-21
... rom the Rating and Valuation Department shows that 3.8 percent of the city’s total number of flats are vacant by the end of 2016, compared with the peak of 5.9 percent in 2006. This suggests that the ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-19
A family dispute in Sha Tin, where three responding officers were shot by a man using a service revolver he grabbed from one of them, raised concerns about the adequacy of training for frontline staff ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-16
... ed at boosting the regulators' capability to enforce financial deleveraging and risk control. The CBRC also issued a document reducing the provision coverage ratios to as low as 120 percent for banks ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-15
... anghai listing. From application to approval, it only took the company 36 days, setting a new record. Most other applicants need to wait three to four years. The approval process has actually slowed d ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-14
A major fire broke out at a wetland area in the New Territories on Monday, prompting worries about potential damage to the eco-system in the vicinity. At around 3 pm, a blaze took place at Nam Sang Wa ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
... ed at Sha Tin Station, all of the passengers aboard were asked to disembark and take the next train, and the train with graffiti was moved to a spare platform at the Mong Kok East station before it wa ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
... nt in Lam Tin. As Man was driving the route number 681 bus that was heading to Hong Kong station in Central from Ma On Shan town center, the vehicle rammed into a concrete barrier on Lei Yue Mun Road ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
... ck, suggesting hackers may have shorted bitcoin futures in anticipation of the panic the hacking would bring. It’s estimated that Binance has lost around 10,000 bitcoins, equivalent to US$120 million ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
... s, has continued to fall back. That shows the city still has ample liquidity. Still, we must bear in mind that the Fed has introduced five rate hikes since late 2015, and the Fed fund rate has risen t ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
... s are shifting the focus from GDP growth rate to growth quality, of which jobless rate is an important indicator. Getting a full picture of the job market will enable local governments, corporates and ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-08
... o the Sha Tin Police Station on March 5, claiming to have lost HK$600 to the scam. The three police stations are still investigating the case. No one has been arrested yet. Police urged the public to ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-08
