... d for its star-studded membership: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, former HSBC chairman William Purves, Toyota Motor Corp. chairman Shoichiro Toyoda and several other international business heavyw ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-23
... ocal five-star hotel. Some Hongkongers' eating practices are truly shocking. Barbecued pork is a case in point. Many people around the world -- Koreans, Japanese, Brazilians -- love grilled pork, but ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-18
... six three-star restaurants, including 8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana, the only Italian restaurant outside of Italy to have received three stars. – Contact us at [email protected] FC/RA Read more: Hong Kong tr ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-17
... football star Lionel Messi to Liu Xiaobo’s widow Liu Xia, but his narrative, from the time he said he was abducted in Yau Ma Tei on Thursday to the time he found himself on a beach in Sai Kung on Fri ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-15
... f its own start-ups. The well-regarded venture firm was an early investor in Uber and said in the lawsuit that it owns 13 percent of Uber and controls 20 percent of the voting power. A spokesman for K ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-11
... lubs, Red Star Belgrade, become sponsored by Gazprom. Later, there was intense speculation that the Russian energy giant was on the verge of purchasing Red Star, rumors which have now dissipated follo ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-10
... contrast, Starry Lee Wai-king, chairperson of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) and the party rookie Holden Chow Ho-ding swept to an easy victory in the Super ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-09
... s VPN and Star VPN, on the grounds that these apps would enable public access to “inappropriate content”. And Apple, which immediately did as it was told, has come under fire from Chinese netizens for ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-07
... Beijing. Stars blocked from performing in China include Lady Gaga, Bjork and Bon Jovi, who have all met or expressed support for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Recently a Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-04
China is considering a plan to import domestic helpers from the Philippines to five big cities, and offer them up to 13,000 yuan, or about HK$15,000 per month, according to the Philippine Star newspap ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-03
... 2010 with stargazing facilities, is an ideal location run by the Hong Kong Space Museum for 24-hour observation by amateur star lovers. Four sets of 20x80 binoculars are installed, among others, to vi ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-01
China plans to deploy Filipino household workers to five major cities including Beijing and Shanghai, the Philippine Star newspaper reports. China is offering up to 100,000 Philippine pesos a month, o ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-31
Football star Lionel Messi is said to have sent an autographed picture in a bid to cheer up Liu Xiaobo when the Chinese rights activist was ailing in a mainland hospital before his death earlier this ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-26
... redit has started to emerge. First, in cities, coins and petty cash are replaced by mobile apps and ecosystems. The cashless phenomenon is not much unlike Hong Kong's Octopus scenario – except perhaps ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-26
... Bauhinia Star in 2002, the year of his retirement. Clean image stained Fast forward 15 years after Kwok’s retirement and the former graft-buster has a new passion. He told the Hong Kong Economic Jour ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-18
... urse, the star-studded, critically-acclaimed Infernal Affairs (無間道) trilogy, hailed as a magnum opus among Hong Kong crime movies. But that was all like a flash in the pan. The Hong Kong cinema has be ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-14
What's in a name? Well, if we look at swimming star Stephanie Au, her Chinese name marks a typical example of the ancient rite of naming a baby according to the "five elements" - wood, fire, earth, me ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-10
... being the star trader of the firm or the industry is of course attractive, and young traders do have a bigger ego than perhaps employees of other professions; but it is hard to attribute misconduct mo ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
Hollywood actor Daniel Day-Lewis, 60, has announced his retiremement from acting. “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor,” The New York Times quoted spokeswoman Leslee Dart as saying ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-21
... achieved star status, freely talked about the choice stocks of the day, sighting the activity of certain big players in pushing prices of those stocks higher or lower, as if this is a daily routine. ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-19
