China's latest round of interest rate cuts is expected to result in a 2 percent drop in the banking sector's net profit for this year, according to a report by Credit Suisse. Net interest margin is ex ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
India is set to roll out a nationwide goods and services tax as part of efforts to boost economic growth. India ’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed the Constitution Amendment Bill, which ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
Star Ferry Co. Ltd, which operates the iconic heritage ferries that ply between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, is planning to add a new landmark on the city's famed harborfront. The company, whose hist ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
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
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
China's latest interest rate cut may have limited boost for the economy. The official Purchasing Managers Index has improved to 49.9 from the January level, but still below the benchmark 50 expansion ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
Marijuana is no longer illegal in Jamaica but only for personal use and in small amounts -- and cultivating it is still against the law. Parliament passed a controversial law allowing the possession o ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-26
Investors should sprint like antelopes in the new year, thinking fast and acting swiftly, to get the best returns in an environment marked by continued deleveraging and sideways market movements. If p ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
In the 17-year history of the special administrative region, there were two times that Beijing has kept Hong Kong on a tight leash. The first was in 2003 after the failed enactment of the national sec ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
Only a year ago, Shanghai police won public approbation for its competent handling of the huge crowd that gathered at the city's waterfront area to celebrate the coming of 2014. By official estimates, ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-06
They have hardly caught their breath but there's no time to lose. So Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are plunging into their jampacked itinerary hours after arriv ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy campaign has reached the endgame, and the student leaders find themselves with very little room for maneuver. Full of passion and idealism, their followers remain stro ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
Bottom line: Sony's stalling fortunes in China's smartphone market are the prelude to its eventual pullout, while Lenovo's high-end push with the Motorola brand is likely to fall flat. The latest news ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-10
For the sake of safety, protesters should leave Occupy Central sites. This is the appeal given in separate statements on Sunday by former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa and former chief justice Andrew ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
With thousands of mainland students coming to Hong Kong every year to pursue their academic dreams, the city's property rentals get an additional push, giving the locals -- ok, the non-property owners ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
The Hong Kong government is making contingency plans in case Occupy Central pushes through with its planned sit-in protest in the main business and financial district. Government departments have been ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-20
We are not sure what to make of reports that Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and some of his cabinet ministers have joined or are going to sign on to a campaign against Occupy Central. But w ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-30
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) injected HK$12.65 billion (U$1.63 billion) into the interbank market for the first time since 2012 to stop the Hong Kong currency from rising against the US dol ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-02
The People's Bank of China (PBoC) said on Thursday that it will expand the liberalization of foreign-currency deposit rates in Shanghai, part of efforts to eventually free up interest rates nationwide ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-26
Ripples of China's anti-corruption campaign are being felt in the upper echelons of the nation's top political advisory body with the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) strippi ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-25
