As if there wasn't enough drama around Ricky Wong and Hong Kong Television Network. Now the network and its chairman are planning to pair TV programming with e-commerce, offering high-spending shopper ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
One week after Washington accused five Chinese military officers of hacking American companies to steal trade secrets, China responded on Monday with a weakly worded statement that said "US spying ope ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
You know something has changed on the mainland when a developer cannot open a eight-story clubhouse in prime Shanghai real estate to give the city's elite the space to rub shoulders. Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
It's called "Fermi's Paradox". It's based on arguments laid out by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. Simply, it states that in the vastness of the universe, there is an extremely high probability th ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
Shenzhen wants to team up with Hong Kong to develop its Qianhai financial zone and make a joint push for policy breaks from Beijing, Ming Pao Daily reported Tuesday. To seal the deal the Qianhai admin ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
This month, European citizens will head to the polls to select the 751 members of the European Parliament to represent 507 million people. The way the election campaign has unfolded marks a small but ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
Hong Kong's government once again finds itself at odds with public opinion -- this time over plans to meet future power needs. The government is pushing to increase the share of electricity imported f ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
Fat Jong Temple, one of Hong Kong's main Buddhist temples located in Tsz Wan Shan, is said to have acquired 21,000 shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. (00700.HK) at HK$510.50 a share for HK$10.725 million ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
A neighbour of Hong Kong's June 4 Memorial Museum plans to fund legal action "at all costs", claiming the museumviolates a binding agreement between the owners of the Tsim Sha Tsui commercial building ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-25
China's securities regulator on Monday unveiled the draft prospectuses of a second batch of listing candidates, taking the total number of initial public offering hopefuls to 46, as authorities prepar ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-24
Hong Kong is quickly emerging as the preferred starting point for China's tech companies that are keen to move outside their home market. Reflecting this trend, video sharing operator LeTV (300104.CN) ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-16
... the creators of an "invisibility cloak" that can make a cat vanish into thin air and a goldfish disappear from a tank. The award -- one of many recognizing a range of silly achievements in science ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-15
Newspaper executives around the world are at their wit's end trying to figure out ways to cope with the onslaught of the internet. With readers and advertising dollars migrating to the online world, t ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-04
Beijing's grip on online investment and third-party payment platforms is tightening and Alibaba Group offshoots Alipay and Yu’E Bao are likely to feel it the most. But Alibaba seems unfazed by the cla ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-28
Concept stocks related to Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province, amid rumors that the three areas will be integrated into a single zone, have become hot picks in the mainland market lately. The Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-25
Most of the items that will be put up for sale next month by Poly Culture Group (03636.HK), the Chinese state-owned auction house, will be off-limits to the public. An archaic bronze vessel from the W ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-24
I don't follow China's domestic banks too closely, largely because all are controlled by the government and their actions are more often directed by policy initiatives than real commercial factors. Bu ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-18
What does China's State Forestry Administration have to do with civil aviation? Not very much, except that in a new set of initiatives promulgated by the State Council this January, this department wa ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-14
Swedish home furnishing giant IKEA is undertaking a massive facelift of some of its stores in China -- and it's not to create more retailing space or attract more customers. Many of these sales outlet ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-13
Qianhai, the special economic zone in Shenzhen that aims to serve as test-bed for new financial and legal reforms in the mainland, is also seeking to become a hotspot for innovative technology start-u ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-10
