Germany is expected to approve a third bailout for Greece amid a brewing party revolt against Chancellor Angela Merkel for her stance on the deal. Lawmakers are expected to vote overwhelmingly in favo ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-19
In Hong Kong, there are three Uber services available, Uber Black, Uber Taxi and Uber Van. Uber taxi is similar to licensed taxi and it charges based on the meter. Uber Van is quite similar to GoGoVan ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-15
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
It has been 70 years since the end of the Pacific war but Japan is still struggling with its aftermath. Different governments in Tokyo have expressed regret and made restitutions to countries under it ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
For the last month, political and public debate in Britain has been dominated by one subject – the ‘invasion’ by migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Television stations give live ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
Back in 2002, former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa marked his second term with one of the biggest political shake-ups in Hong Kong’s history -- the introduction of the principal officials accountabili ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
Auto expos in China had in recent years turned into Vegas-style showbiz events as companies deployed scantily-clad female models to draw people to the exhibition booths. Draping themselves over the bo ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing said he would run for chief executive in the 2017 election if he were 10 years younger. Tsang, 68, is the elder brother of Tsang Tak-sing, who was d ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
Every July, economists, business leaders, non-governmental organizations and politicians from around the world gather in Aix-en-Provence, France, for the three-day Rencontres Économiques forum, organi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
An outdoor advertising campaign that makes very creative -- some would say creepy -- use of Hong Kong's public buses has drawn a lot of online chatter as well as criticism. Netizen Twiggy Tang said in ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
Thank goodness, Hong Kong appears to have reached its saturation point when it comes to those scantily clad teenage models who descend on the annual book fair to promote their photo-album books. None ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
Wan Li, a Chinese politician known for his economic reforms, publicly chose the side of the hardliners in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Wan died Wednesday at the age of 98 in Beijing. He was a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
A panel from Japan's lower house of parliament has approved legislation that could allow Japanese troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, Reuters reported. Ruling coalition lawm ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
Greece's lawmakers approved tough new austerity measures demanded by European creditors as a precondition to begin talks on unlocking an 86 billion euro (US$94 billion) bailout package. After more tha ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
It is probable that after 60 days of intense debate in Washington, D.C., and conceivably Tehran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed on July 14 by Iran and the UN Security Council’s ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
Greece needs a 30-year debt relief including a dramatic maturity extension and annual transfers to its budget, according to a secret International Monetary Fund (IMF) document. Details of an IMF study ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
An ethnic Nepali student has become a member of Lingnan University's debating team, showing off his Cantonese language skills, Ming Pao Daily reported. Chandan Rai, 22, who moved to Hong Kong with his ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
United States Secretary of State John Kerry wants negotiators to take as much time as as they need to hammer out a nuclear deal with Iran. “We are here because we believe we are making real progress t ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
The Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTR) admitted this week that the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) will run over budget by HK$20 billion (US$2.6 billion), in part as a result ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
There has been considerable debate recently about what could lie in store for Hong Kong when the "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement comes to an end in 2047. A day after the government's political ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
