... structure Hub, which shares international good practice and comprehensive data on infrastructure. The hub has a four-year mandate to focus on five main areas: a network to share information on infrast ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... financial hub on Chinese soil, that might give us more bargaining chips in our quest for democracy than any mass movement. This is perhaps the second insight we can draw from Xi’s visit to Britain. Ho ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
... ty into a hub for international non-governmental organizations. Hong Kong has a definite advantage over other Asian cities in becoming a world capital for NGOs, in that we have a highly-developed bank ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
... European hub, and indeed the largest international hub outside Hong Kong, for offshore renminbi, and the opportunities that will bring to the City of London. London has long benefited from its role a ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
Asia is leading the charge when it comes to Machine-to-Machine (M2M) adoption, and Hong Kong could be one of the region’s top innovation hubs in M2M. According to Vodafone’s M2M Barometer Report 2015, ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-24
... erve as a hub that helps students build up their connections with both investors and other entrepreneurs. Coming from diverse backgrounds such as software engineering, medicine, accounting and journal ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
Hong Kong’s appeal as a holiday destination may be declining among mainlanders, but as a wealth management center, the city is attracting more high net worth individuals from China seeking to go out a ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
... -industry hub in the past. Domestic A shares are very likely to stabilize in the last quarter. Beijing will maintain loose monetary policy, with room for further reduction of the reserve requirement r ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... logistics hub as well as a haven for gourmets," he said. “What Hong Kong does best is not ‘zero to one’, but from ‘one to five, five to ten’ -- that is to improve something that already exists, and lo ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... wned beer hub like London or Portland past the current craft craze. Trying the best beers in Hong Kong was, for me, like sipping at the fount of a barrelful of rich culture and community that’s mostly ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-17
... portation hub Singapore, he said. The comments came as Hong Kong's logistics and shipping industry is facing difficulties in building new cargo terminals due to high land premium and other costs. In ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
Macau aims to become the world's tourism education and training hub as the city seeks new ways to attract tourists and reduce its reliance on the declining gaming sector. Hosting the Fourth Global Tou ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-13
The Pearl River Delta region has reinvented itself into a hub for advanced manufacturing, high technology and services. It has climbed up the global value chain at the forefront of China’s economic re ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-12
... an arts “hub”. Sometimes, he would politely remind me about my art deficiencies. On my last day, he came to my desk, looked me in the eye and bade farewell. I have not seen him since. It might be ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-07
... rnational hub of China, Hong Kong no longer has any emotional bonding for mainland tourists. The city’s retail sector has paid a hefty price, and even the broader economy could suffer. In fact, the re ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-05
... financial hub on Chinese soil is still irreplaceable, and, therefore, peace and stability in the city would take priority over everything else under all circumstances. The Occupy Movement might be ove ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
... ’s mining hub has long been forgotten. But during its golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, the mining village of Ma On Shan had an annual output of more than 100,000 metric tons of iron with 60 percent ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-26
... financial hub in order to maintain our competitiveness, so that we can always negotiate with Beijing in a position of strength. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Sept. 22. Tra ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
... transport hub linking the Wan Chai and Causeway Bay areas to the Kowloon Peninsula, as a separate freight and passenger quay was needed when the business and entertainment activities on the island beg ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-19
... facturing hub. The region has a sizable market and strong demand for technological innovation. However, Guangdong also faces many challenges given the economic fluctuations across the country. It has ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-19