International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde warned that emerging markets may face another period of economic instability when the United States raises interest rates this year. The ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
Ukraine is getting an immediate US$10 billion lifeline from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to shore up its struggling finances. The money is part of a four-year US$17.5 billion bailout and is l ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
Greece has won a four-month extension of its eurozone financial rescue after creditors approved a reform plan. In turn, Athens backed away from some contentious proposals and promised to keep its budg ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday announced a new crackdown on terrorism that could deny welfare payments to people seen as potential threats, strip the passports of those with dual nati ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
A fund has been set up to help people who suffered financial losses as a result of joining the Occupy protests last year, Ming Pao Daily reported Friday. The Umbrella Relief Fund was launched by senio ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
Legal scholar Albert Chen Hung-yee has named three politicians with a pan-democratic background as suitable candidates for the 2017 election for chief executive, Apple Daily reported Tuesday. Chen, a ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
Hongkongers were choking on air pollution that hit danger levels in most areas Wednesday, am730 reported, citing data from the Environmental Protection Department. The EPD has raise a public health wa ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
The International Monetary Fund has lowered its forecast for global economic growth for this year and next. The world economy will grow 3.5 percent in 2015, down from the 3.8 percent pace projected in ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
The world's wealthiest 1 per cent will soon own more than the rest of its population put together, the charity Oxfam International says. The prediction will fuel a campaign to pile pressure on the ric ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-19
Switzerland's central bank stunned markets Thursday as it abandoned a currency exchange rate ceiling put in place more than three years ago, sending the franc soaring against the euro. The Swiss Natio ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
The government plans to build a seawater desalination plant to increase Hong Kong's supply of drinking water, Apple Daily reported Wednesday. The plant, to be located in Tseung Kwan O, will cost HK$9. ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
The sharp drop in the price of crude oil since late June has been grabbing headlines worldwide – and producing a lot of contradictory explanations. Some attribute the fall largely to declining global ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
In recent weeks, there has been a chorus of opinion arguing for a sharp increase in global investment, particularly in infrastructure. Former United States Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers asserted ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, recently warned that the world risks a new “mediocre normal” of slower growth. She is not alone in her concern. Economic policym ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
A government prosecutor has been appointed to investigate allegations Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying did not pay tax on about HK$50 million in consultancy fees from an Australian company, t ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-10
The International Monetery Fund (IMF) is warning that the world faces a "mediocre era" of low growth for a long time, according to the Financial Times. IMF managing director Christine Lagarde also sig ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
Lenovo Group Ltd. and Swire Properties Ltd. ranked highest in corporate sustainability among companies registered in Hong Kong, according to a report released on Tuesday. Asia-wide, India’s Tata Consu ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-17
Yumi Suzuki manages a Japanese construction company. That alone makes her a rarity in Japan's notoriously patriarchal and hierarchical society, but that's not why she has been getting a lot of attenti ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-12
Watch out Kermit, you might be outed as someone else. They just did that to Hello Kitty. The cultural icon, who began life as a character on a coin purse in Japan in 1974, has been embraced by countle ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-29
A French court has placed Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under formal investigation for negligence in a corruption case dating back to her days as finance minist ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-28
