For much of the year, investors have been fixated on when the Fed will achieve "liftoff" – that is, when it will raise interest rates by 25 basis points, or 0.25 percent, as a first step toward normal ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
Well-meaning people have been warning Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying that he needs to avoid doing the sort of things he does if he wishes to avoid confrontation, but they entirely miss the point -- C ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
Secretary for Education Eddie Ng Hak-kim has come under fire for refusing to scrap the controversial Territory-wide System Assessment for Primary 3 students this year, Apple Daily reported Thursday. N ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
Britain has unveiled plans for sweeping new surveillance powers, including the right to find out which websites people visit. The government said the measures are vital to keep the country safe but cr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
Prosecutors called for South Africa's "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder and sent back to jail for shooting his girlfriend, challenging a court's decision to sentence him for a l ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
“So they will prosecute me under the national security law for attempting to overthrow the government? "Is that what they will do if I boo the national anthem?” Leung Man-kit was putting on the goalke ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
Malaysia is encouraging its schools to teach more classes in English as manufacturers and company chiefs say a deteriorating command of the language is hurting the country’s competitiveness. Over 90 p ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
Cleaning staff at a museum in Italy showed what they thought of an artwork being exhibited there. The art installation of empty champagne bottles and spent party poppers reopened on Tuesday, three day ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
A debate is raging in the mainland over the death in Hong Kong last week of a visitor from Heilongjiang province. The media and bloggers blame the failure of the authorities to curb cut-price tours an ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
US plans to send warships or military aircraft within 12 nautical miles of China's artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, possibly within days, could open a tense new front in Sino-US riv ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
Hong Kong's real estate market has started to cool down recently, arousing heated debate on whether the trend will continue. In this article, rather than expressing my opinion on the property market, ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton deflected harsh Republican criticism of her handling of the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. She urged her questioners in Congress to put US national ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
Fearing a disastrous outcome at presidential and legislative elections in January, Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang finally took the plunge and replaced its original presidential candidate, Hung Hsiu-chu, w ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
Is Carrie Lam being needlessly prickly and touchy on the issue of the administration's response to the lead-in-water crisis? The chief secretary may, of course, have good reasons to insist that govern ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
Chinese medical scientist Tu Youyou's Nobel Prize win has fueled fresh investor interest in mainland pharmaceutical firms and also ignited a heated debate about the Chinese herbal medicine sector. Int ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
A gathering of Roman Catholic bishops from around the world was thrown into disarray Monday when a magzine published a leaked letter to Pope Francis. The letter was from from conservative cardinals wh ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-13
Lawmakers from the so-called functional constituencies have often been accused of being out of touch with reality and divorced from the needs and concerns of ordinary citizens. Representing special in ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-09
While the public has been focusing on the debate over university autonomy, Hong Kong's anti-graft agency surprised the city by charging former chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen with misconduct whi ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-06
Hong Kong has entered an era where the truth hides behind appearances, where it remains unspoken amid a cacophony of voices and explanations. One very disturbing example is this week's rejection of th ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
Recently, Chen Zuo’er, a former deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, created a firestorm of controversy by saying that Hong Kong has not “decolonized” according to the law. As a ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-01
