... ngenious, sharp and clever. That's good. We certainly need to have our wits around this year in Hong Kong," she said in a video greeting. "It's a year that should not be about monkey business but abou ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-05
Struggling Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp Corp. has chosen Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group as its preferred bidder in takeover talks, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. A successful ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-05
... eceived a sharp rise in complaints of desecrated urn graves in the villages of Sha Kong Wai, Ngau Hom Tsuen and San Hing Tsuen. Many of the damaged urns were repaired while some were buried undergroun ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
... ve posted sharp tumbles, saddling investors with hefty paper losses. A strengthening US dollar and tepid demand are putting downward pressure on commodity prices. Sagging trade and falling freight rat ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
... acquired Sharp Corp.’s LCD television factory in Mexico for US$23.7 million, as the financially embattled Japanese firm offloaded some of its assets. In October, China Communications Construction Co. ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
... y between sharp and volatile short-term price movements in financial markets and more gradual long-term structural adjustments in the real economy. Unlike in the past, when Chinese policymakers were a ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
... t further sharp slide in its currency. If those things do not happen, hedge funds would attack the Hong Kong market and the Hong Kong dollar again. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Jour ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-30
... t allow a sharp devaluation of the currency, because that will lead to increasing capital outflows. Moreover, as the International Monetary Fund has decided to add the renminbi to its special drawing ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-27
An unusual cold wave sweeping across many parts of Asia and North America helped oil prices stage a sharp bounce on global markets last week. The rebound may have also stemmed from perceptions that th ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
... s and the sharp income disparity between rural and urban areas. Returning migrants tend to be more worldly and wealthy than when they left, as well as more entrepreneurial, Minter wrote. The number of ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
... ents drew sharp criticism, with netizens accusing Leung of playing politics on the back of homeless people. There is also suspicion that the visit to the cold shelter was a publicity stunt, with Leung ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
Middlemen are enticing people from South Asia and Southeast Asia to come to Hong Kong as refugees with promises of housing and jobs. They are mainly responsible for a sharp increase in fake asylum see ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... ve posted sharp falls. Even some blue-chip housing estates like Cityplaza have gone through deep corrections. Meanwhile, the price ratio between large flats and small and medium-sized units has starte ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-23
The signs are there -- an A-share market meltdown, a sharp renminbi devaluation, turmoil in the Hong Kong stock market and a falling Hong Kong dollar. So, are we seeing a replay of the 1997-1998 Asia ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... anks to a sharp drop in arrivals from the mainland. That puts the casino city back to where it was in the pre-casino deregulation era. Walking past the almost empty Grand Lisboa baccarat tables and sl ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
Taiwan's Foxconn group has made a 625 billion yen (US$5.3 billion) offer to acquire Japan's Sharp Corporation, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Sharp is expect ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... wards its sharpest slowdown in a decade on the back of rising US interest rates and a strong US dollar. Some hedge funds are taking bets again on Hong Kong breaking the currency link in order to salva ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
Foreign firms are scrambling for deals with Iran as the Gulf nation ordered a sharp increase in oil output to take immediate advantage of the lifting of international sanctions. Other companies, howev ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... enminbi’s sharp devaluation also shocked global markets. Although the central government managed to control the onshore renminbi exchange rate, the spread of rates between that and the offshore exchan ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... cted in a sharp increase in the number of Polish participants in a recent HKTDC Food Expo. “Hong Kong has been the gateway to the Chinese market for our food industry,” said Lucjan Zwolak, deputy pres ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
