... n manipulating data on product specifications for at least 10 years, involving more than 500 customers worldwide. Almost all automakers in Japan and the US are affected, as well as airplane manufactur ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-18
... likely sitting on some decent profit today. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Oct. 17 Translation by Julie Zhu with additional reporting [Chinese version 中文版] – Contact us at ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-17
... y by selecting 50 stocks from 18 industries to represent the nation’s robust new economy. Nifty Fifty refers to the 50 popular large-cap stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1960s and 1970s, w ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-16
... y, but getting results is the difficult part, and here is where Hong Kong suffers a real disadvantage. We all know Hong Kong lacks technology firms on a sufficient scale. This makes it hard to foster ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-16
... on by creating two “separate” property markets, i.e., the existing private market that freely allows sales and purchases of properties, and the Starter Homes scheme, in which flats are off-limits to i ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-13
... et of boosting the home ownership ratio from 50 percent to 70 percent within a decade. He pledged to provide 85,000 housing flats each year. Unfortunately, the city’s economy was battered by the 1997 ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-12
... its escalating fares; neither does it plan to privatize the rail firm. So a small rebate will only serve to direct attention away from other more important matters like housing. Lam also introduced a ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-12
Many have viewed economists as individuals who live in ivory towers, spouting ideas and theories that may not work in real life. Richard Thaler, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, is ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-12
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the city's de facto central bank, has unveiled seven initiatives in relation to FinTech development. The move has been applauded by industry participants. Still, many ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-11
... s been writing exclusively in English for years, he has a deep emotional and cultural connection to Japan, and said that “a large part of my way of looking at the world, my artistic approach, is Japan ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-10
... road near Tin Kau Bridge, which caused some cyclists to lose balance and fall. Also, there were a number of dangerous U-turns. Some volunteers were unfamiliar with the route map and could not help poi ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-09
... el, benefiting companies like PFJ. Self-drive tours are becoming popular in China. The market badly needs a one-stop service for renting a car, buying insurance, planning the itinerary and shopping fo ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-09
The Lands Department is investigating allegations that the Link REIT has been renting out parking spaces in subsidised housing estates to non-residents in breach of regulations, Apple Daily reports. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-06
... f the existing virtual banks has been able to challenge the dominance of traditional big banks so far. Let’s look at some examples. In the US, First Internet Bank and Bank of Internet USA are two lead ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-06
... our", visiting all the 50 states and meeting with leaders and ordinary people in each of these states. These are all clues that the Facebook CEO might be setting his sights on the world of politics. A ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-04
... re in Sha Tin and received a replacement after the shop determined that the device could not be repaired. Apple Hong Kong confirmed there has been such a case and said it is investigating. The company ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
... uen long, Tin Shui wai, Ma On Shan and Tseung Kwan O, causing many pedestrians to complain about street obstruction and some people fretting that they can't find public parking space for their own bic ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
... tch consulting firm Ecorys completed a 300-page report in May 2015 on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU. In the report, whose findings have only recently come to lig ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
The Lands Departments is cracking down on illegally parked bicycles. On Thursday, it cleared away 29 such bicycles in Tin Shui Wai, including 23 from bike-sharing app GoBee.Bike, Apple Daily reports. ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-29
... s into setting up their Asia Pacific IT headquarters here. Still, Hong Kong needs to enhance its data operation capability. If we can find out ways to harness value and business opportunities from a h ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-29
