In short order, Xiaomi has soared to No. 3 in the world behind only Samsung and Apple. The question is what will it take to haul it to the top? Answer: Time. Founder Lei Jun is confident Xiaomi, which ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-21
Student representatives' petition visit to Beijing was foiled last weekend even before they could board the plane. Upon arrival at the Hong Kong airport, the three delegates from the Hong Kong Federat ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
Scholarism co-founder Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai Yiu-ting are featured on Foreign Policy's list of "Leading global thinkers of 2014". They are cited in the category o ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-18
The religious force has played a major role in many social upheavals. It's probably because the religious sector has a natural inclination towards such values as justice, social responsibility and fre ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-17
A bipartisan bill seeking to revive scrutiny of political developments in Hong Kong has been filed in the United States Congress. The draft legislation is based on a 1992 law that provides for annual ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-14
Hong Kong returned to China's sovereignty 17 years ago, but a significant portion of the city's population has yet to embrace the Communist Party's rule over the former British colony. Beijing has gra ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
If nothing else, the student protest movement has raised political awareness among Hong Kong's young people and made its leaders a force to reckon with. Next year, the rising politicians could take th ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
More than 40 days after it began, the student-driven pro-democracy protest shows no sign of ending. Student leaders are debating how to take the movement to the next level and when, but the standoff w ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-07
Ricky Wong Wai-kay finally has something to really cheer about. After being thwarted in his bid to secure a free-to-air television license in Hong Kong last year, the boss of Hong Kong Television Net ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
United States President Barack Obama is not opposing the Myanmar government's decision to bar Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from running in next year’s presidential election, Reuters repor ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
The father of a 14-year-old girl in India invited her alleged rapist to dinner, then killed him, the Indian Express reported. Furious after learning his daughter was pregnant, he fed the 45-year-old r ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is prepared to consider Britain's exit from the European Union if it goes ahead with plans to restrict freedom of movement, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. Merkel ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman who renewed a debate in the US about physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people, has ended her life with lethal drugs available under Oregon's Death W ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
Hong Kong regulators must have felt a tinge of regret as they watched Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s successful listing on the New York Stock Exchange last month. They lost the chance to host what prove ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
A video that shows a woman being pestered by men on the streets of New York has gone viral, sparking renewed debate about harassment endured by women and minority groups. The two-minute video shows ac ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
The Occupy Central movement's organizers are said to be looking to turn themselves in to the police even before the current campaign comes to an end, as they want to show to the public that they don't ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-30
Yvonne Leung, president of the University of Hong Kong Students' Union, has won high praise from the media and the public for the debating skills that she displayed at the government-student talks on ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
A US federal jury has found three American former Blackwater guards guilty of manslaughter and weapons charges and a fourth of murder in connection with the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed Iraqis in Baghda ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
Several lawyers and scholars are said to have provided advice to the five student representatives who will be holding talks with government officials Tuesday evening. The experts who counseled on poli ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
You better watch out. You better not cry. Better not pout. I'm telling you why. The Umbrella IPO is coming to town. Jicheng Umbrella Holdings, China's top umbrella exporter, has just filed for an ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-17
