Some of US President Barack Obama’s email correspondence was obtained by Russian hackers last year, The New York Times reported, citing senior US officials briefed on the investigation. The breach of ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
Europe’s ongoing malaise has reignited the old debate over which form of government produces better economic performance. Are authoritarian regimes, with their ability to ram through unpopular choices ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
With pan-democrats refusing to accept the proposal laid out by the government for the 2017 chief executive election, pro-Beijing lawmakers are stepping up their rhetoric. The campaign to make opponent ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
The US-based Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association has attacked Hong Kong's plan to ban e-cigarettes, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Wednesday. Ray Story, the group's founder and chi ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
By the time American voters go to the polls next year to elect their next president, one thing’s for certain: China will have been put through the wringer. US presidential candidates, you see -- wheth ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
Now why would the government want to secure 14 votes from the pan-democrats? Citing an unnamed source from the administration of Leung Chun-ying, RTHK reported on Monday that the government is aiming ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
A former Blackwater security guard has been sentenced to life in prison and three others have received 30-year terms in the 2007 massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad. Nicholas Slatten, 31 ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
It's a dreadful prospect but an independent Hong Kong is a notion that keeps coming back like a bad dream. And it's all thanks to Beijing loyalists who find it useful in diverting attention from the o ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
Malaysia's lower house of parliament has passed a controversial anti-terrorism bill that the government says is needed to tackle the threat from Islamic extremists, BBC News reported. The bill reintro ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
With China set to lead a new US$50 billion international financial institution, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), most of the debate has centered on the United States’ futile efforts to ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
China found itself unable to keep silent as a debate heated up recently among netizens in Japan and South Korea over where cherry blossoms originated, am730 reported Tuesday. He Zongru, chairman of th ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
The German pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps last week was treated for suicidal tendencies years ago before he received his pilot's license, according to German prose ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
The annual Boao Forum for Asia kicked off Saturday in China's southern island province of Hainan, setting the stage for fresh debate over possible policy initiatives. Among the topics in the market is ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
Hong Kong's media industry used to be the envy of the region as a respected voice, not to mention the quality of its newspapers, radio and television stations. That's as recently as 1997 when Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
The rivalry between Hong Kong and Singapore in the financial and trade sectors has, not surprisingly, stretched into the aviation industry, with both cities aiming to be the No.1 transport hubs in the ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
There’s always a debate over two different investment approaches: top-down and bottom-up. In the former approach, one first looks at the broad economy and industries before looking at individual comp ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
This year marks the 35th anniversary of City Forum, the longest-running program produced by public broadcaster RTHK. Joseph Tse Chi-fung, the show's host since 2004, will turn 60 this October. "I have ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
A man was beaten up mercilessly by a group of fellow South Asians outside the Oriental 188 shopping center in Wan Chai Sunday afternoon, causing shock and anger among the general public. As a video cl ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is no doubt the city’s most powerful person, although his popularity among the people is another matter, of course. But all the more so, Leung, in the disch ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
A joint exposé last month by the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4 has highlighted the "MPs for Hire" scandal in Britain. Undercover reporters posing as representatives of a fictitious Hong Kong-based PR ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
