... for renovating existing public hospitals and building new ones. But it appears he has failed to address the root problem of our public health care service, which is the acute shortage of doctors and n ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-02
... afford a tiny flat even if they save up most of their earnings. This middle-income, low-asset class may be among those who struggle the most in the city. Taking into account the tax rebates, higher c ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-02
... e man pointing what looked like a pistol at the bank clerk. Police said the man fled after bank employees had stuffed around HK$70,000 in the bag, and ran toward an MTR station. Police launched a larg ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-01
... ears, the Tin Shui Wai Hospital is still not fully functional. About 1.3 million people live below the official poverty line. A quarter million people live in jail-sized subdivided homes. The wait for ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-01
Taiwanese shoppers began flocking to supermarkets and grabbing as much toilet paper as they could right after the Chinese New Year. Prompting the scramble for toilet paper were online rumors that toil ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-01
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今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2018年03月01日
A woman and her young son were found dead in a private vehicle in Sha Tin on Tuesday in a case that the police have classified as 'murder-suicide". According to the police, at around 11 pm on Monday t ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-28
... rtedly setting his sights on Jaguar, Land Rover and Jeep as well. The Chinese automaker bought an 8.2 percent stake in Swedish truck maker AB Volvo for US$2 billion in December last year. The Daimler ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-28
... ed and continued to buy more overseas assets. Wang Jianlin, chairman of Dalian Wanda and once China’s richest man, said in a speech at Harvard University in November 2015: "Overseas investment will ce ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-27
... r, the meeting with her group, the Alliance of Monthly-Pay Bus Drivers, which had been planned to be held on Monday, seems to have been called off. Addie Lam, deputy head of KMB's communications and p ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-26
... ber of listing criteria the Foxconn subsidiary is not able to meet, the group is widely expected to get exemption treatment, mainly because of its leading status in the electronics product manufacturi ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-26
The High Court began hearing the case of five men accused of rioting in Mong Kok two years ago, with the prosecutors urging the nine-member jury to find them guilty, the Hong Kong Economic Journal rep ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-23
... ash, affecting a large number of citizens. If that happens, the growth of the real economy would be derailed and financial turmoil would ensue. But soon after issuing their hawkish remarks, the offici ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-23
... stly targeting local residents. Some economists believe the government is aiming to hike GST and roll out e-tax in order to expand the tax base, paving the way for cutting corporate tax in coming year ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-22
... le in Sha Tin on behalf of the city on the second day of the Lunar New Year. This year, there was a bit of drama as the fortune stick picked by Sha Tin rural committee vice-chairman Lee Chee-kee for t ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-21
... e been posting robust economic growth in recent years, and as such, residents there have less motivation to work overseas as maids. Such changes in demand and supply have led to a general shortage of ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-15
... been sprouting across China over the years. In fact, Zhao, who created Binance in July 2017, is a latecomer. So how was Binance able to stand out and become the world’s third largest cryptocurrency ex ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-15
... n, translating into an annual income of US$610 million. To put things in perspective, Binance's income amounts to roughly one third of that of the Hong Kong bourse (based on Hong Kong stock Exchange's ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-14
A number of Chinese companies have opened over 40 unmanned outlets across the country, hoping to improve slim profit margins in the retail business by reducing staff costs. These operators include e-c ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-13
... bout parenting. Reacting to the controversy, Yuen Kwok-yung, a microbiology professor at the University of Hong Kong, went on radio to rebut Tse’s message, calling it “totally wrong”. The Hong Kong Me ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-12
