Financial Secretary John Tsang is expected to announce his decision on whether to run for Hong Kong chief executive anytime soon after he tendered his resignation from the government, the Hong Kong Ec ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-13
A woman who jumped into the sea from a New World First ferry in a suicide attempt was saved by the crew. The 46-year-old woman, surnamed Chiu, boarded the ferry at around 9 a.m. Sunday morning in Cent ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
What would you do with an unruly child in the middle of a busy train station? An apparently harassed mother found a way to discipline her little son, but was roundly chastised for it. A photo making t ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
Hong Kong has seen significant capital inflows as international investors sought out safe-havens and high-dividend plays amid an uncertain global macro environment. As a result, REITs and some risk-o ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-12
Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new NATO force on Russia's border from next year, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered s ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-15
Abdominal obesity, also known as central obesity, occurs when excessive abdominal fat has built up around the stomach and abdomen. Men who have a waist circumference of 90 centimeters or above are con ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
US equity markets have yet to bottom out after the Coppock Curve, a measure of trading momentum, tumbled below zero in February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 climbed above 18,0 ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-05
The tea farmers of Yunnan likely never imagined their harvest being used to brew anything but the classic hot beverage. So when Shanghai’s Boxing Cat Brewery teamed up with Beijing’s Great Leap Brewin ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
The question of 2047 was first broached by the young participants of the Occupy movement back in 2014. Now, after less than two years, the issue has come to dominate public discourse in the city. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
Hong Kong bristles with modern edifices and colonial gems. The city’s skyline is a favored canvas to many Hollywood filmmakers and graces postcards and fridge magnets that fly off shelves at souvenir ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
Another escalator accident happened at an MTR station, the third in less than two weeks, when a boy's shoelace was believed to have been caught in the ascending steps. No one was hurt. The latest inci ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
After a two-day correction, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.36 percent on Thursday to close at 3,617 points. Shenzhen stocks advanced 2.65 percent to 12,609. However, turnover on both markets con ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
A recent proposal to the Town Planning Board (TPB) by a retired government town planner to cancel the Central-to-Admiralty segment of the tram service has demonstrated how ridiculous our town planning ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
Hong Kong's de facto central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market in two moves Tuesday as the local currency repeatedly hit the upper end of its trading range against the US dollar. Authorit ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-02
Riding a tram during autumn evenings along with a loved one has been one of my favorite pastimes when I was young. We would get on the tram from Causeway Bay and feel the breeze, then get off in Cent ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-29
I recently attended a symposium in Singapore on "Creative Cities, Creative Minds". Artists, designers and others discussed creativity in Hong Kong and that city. After a discussion, we had a Q&A s ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
The escalator accident that killed a 30-year-old mother in a shopping mall in Central China’s Hubei province on Sunday could have been prevented as two staff had noticed the problem minutes before the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-29
British police are investigating allegations of drug-related offenses involving a member of the House of Lords after a tabloid newspaper published images and video footage of an alleged peer snorting ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-28
A 30-year-old mother was literally swallowed by a defective escalator at a shopping mall in Jingzhou in Central China's Hubei province. But out of that horrific scene, a mother's love was shown. At a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
China’s three growth engines -- investment, consumption and exports -- are showing signs of slowing growth. However, the financial industry expanded 17.4 percent in the first half, more than double t ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
