Hong Kong actress Michelle Reis was said to have complained once that her flat was too cramped for all her wardrobe and got a huge villa a week later as a present from a tycoon. The story is most prob ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
The market's performance shows that enthusiasm for Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect has waned after its debut on Monday. The cross-border trading scheme has the potential to change A-share investing i ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
In the past month, I have stopped by a different Asian city every week. My freelance work offers the luxury of traveling while working but that means I am constantly trying to race against time and wr ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-14
Earth may be too small for Google's long-term ambitions. The internet Godzilla has leased a Nasa airfield in California on which there are three hangars that could house robotics research facilities a ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
Virgin Galactic engineers are busy putting together a new spaceship that will replace the company's rocket-powered plane that broke apart over Mojave, California, last Friday during a test flight that ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
The fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo won't prevent Richard Branson's space tourism company from having a new spacecraft ready to fly next year. Chief executive George Whitesides said a se ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
Authorities have started investigating the explosion of an unmanned US rocket moments after lift-off from a Virginia launch pad, destroying supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Sta ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-30
It has long been the dream of many a harried motorist: a car that can take to the air at the flip of a button, liberating the driver from the chaos and the gridlock on the roads. Well, research has be ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
A campaign against Occupy Central accepted signatures from members of the public without verifying their identity, according to Apple Daily which sent reporters to sign petitions in Causeway Bay on Mo ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
Two years after a Dutch company announced its plan to establish the first human settlement on Mars, more than 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied to be part of the first manned, one-way voy ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-16
The protests for more democracy in Hong Kong are far from over but the government is already considering who to prosecute and for what offenses. It will be a difficult decision involving complex legal ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-13
Horizons Ventures, a private investment arm of tycoon Li Ka-shing, is likely to invest in a financial technology start-up in the near term after investing in three financial technology companies, acco ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-10
A survey published recently found that 21 per cent of Hong Kong people are considering emigration because of the uncertainty over the future. One of the options on the table is Taiwan. According to fi ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
It was a hot summer afternoon in Beijing. My companion, a professor of politics at a city university, said: “In the US, there are two major parties. In fact, they are two sides of the same party. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
Hong Kong should work toward more autonomy from Beijing given its culture, history and political and economic systems which are different from those in mainland China, Ming Pao Daily reported Monday, ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
Weather permitting, Hong Kong should experience the coming total lunar eclipse in full view. There are no better vantage points than Shek O, High Island Reservoir East Dam or Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong's ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
Page One, the Singapore-based bookstore chain, is set to open a large flagship store at the Harbour City mall in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district, with the facility to include some food outlets as w ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-17
A couple of reports are shining a spotlight on some of the shenanigans happening at former social networking (SNS) superstar Weibo (WB.US), and also on its dimming prospects as it gets overtaken by mo ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-16
One in three internet users in Hong Kong is likely to join a frenzy on Tuesday morning for an iPhone 6, an airline ticket or an early-bird ticket to next year's Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-15
A decades-old traditional noodles shop in Hong Kong is facing closure as developer Lai Sun Group has successfully won a bid for compulsory sale of the premises, Ming Pao Daily News reported Thursday. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
