... ty had to take to the streets to make their voices heard. In fact that incomprehension is mutual, for I can't figure out why it is so difficult for Tung to truly understand what our young people reall ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-27
... rman Chan Tak-lam said. The supply of the Chinese currency in the city has become tighter recently, although interbank offered rates remain stable, the Hong Kong Economic Journal quoted Chan as saying ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-27
The Urban Renewal Authority (URA) is under fire over its plan to allow single persons to buy flats at its new housing project in the former Kai Tak airport. Four URA non-executive directors, represent ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
... rt in Kai Tak. He noted that the HK$20 billion multi-purpose sports complex will be built on a valuable piece of land, which otherwise could have been used to ease the housing shortage in the territor ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... se not to take the lump-sum pension gratuity in order to get more monthly pension. “I’m good at investment. All I have is cash and two rental properties. And my financial consultant is taking care of ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... has also taken steps to avert possible clashes between fans of the two sides, Apple Daily reported Monday. At a joint press conference Sunday with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, HKFA c ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
At the fifth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party late last month, Beijing set the tone for the country's economic planning for the next five years. The government has ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
... e keen to take on longer treks, there's the big three -- Jat’s Incline, MacLehose Trail and Wilson Trail. I have been going mostly south, jogging casually toward the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in the mo ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
... eung Ming-tak was walking along a sandbar between Tanjung Rhu Beach and a nearby islet with his son, aged nine, and daughter, 11, at about 4 p.m. Tuesday when the children fell into the water. He dove ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-13
... rman Chan Tak-lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, who reportedly received a total of HK$9.92 million last year. But the de facto central banker is generally not considered a memb ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-12
... r of Shun Tak Holdings Ltd. (00242.HK), who visited Mexico in June this year. "We’re trying to get her interested in real estate opportunities in Mexico," said Rozental, who leads his consulting firm, ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
... rman Chan Tak-lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, who wrote in his blog that the fund basically turned around at the end of the month. He said the manager of the sovereign fund, ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
... them was taken to hospital. The other, a 70-year-old surnamed Lai, who broke his glasses and injured his face when he passed out and fell to the ground, insisted on not leaving the queue. Lai ended u ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... ted. Chik Tak-ming, a technical supervisor at Hong Kong Water Works Professionals Association Ltd., said the materials could be debris from the sponge heads of cleaning tools that came off when cleane ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
Hong Kong's de facto central banker, Norman Chan Tak-lam, said the countercyclical measures in place to curb excesses in the property market will be removed only when signs of a downtrend in home pric ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
The stock market's response to China’s latest economic data, particularly the 6.9 percent GDP growth in the third quarter, indicates that the market has begun to accept the “new normal”. Although fixe ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-31
... rman Chan Tak-lam said. The de facto central bank has pumped HK$4.65 billion into the interbank market on Friday to defend the dollar peg from breaching the strong end, sending the aggregate balance t ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
... Dr. Tsang Tak-yin, an epidemiologist and a member of the Hong Kong Society for Infectious Diseases, said mosquito infestation in a single district does not mean a dengue outbreak. Dengue infections in ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
... ited have taken their toll on our economic and social development. As the growth outlook for Hong Kong stays gloomy and Leung’s popularity remains at a record low, it is apparent that Beijing’s patien ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
When it comes to clamping down on money laundering, Hong Kong Monetary Authority chief executive Norman Chan Tak-lam is the man we look up to to lead the fight. But it seems some people think he could ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-13
