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
Seen this in your dog: head bowed, eyes droopy, ears cocked back? The guilty look isn't really what it looks like, according to a new study on canine behavior. It's the dog's reaction to someone getti ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-18
Pro-Beijing legislators Priscilla Leung Mei-fun and Paul Tse Wai-chun are expected to be appointed vice presidents of the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC), fueling worries in the pan-democ ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-18
Last month’s US$400 billion, 30-year deal on natural gas between China and Russia, the biggest such deal ever, has implications beyond energy resources and bilateral relations. For one thing, it reaff ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
The head of the International Monetary Fund said the organization underestimated the strength of the British economy when warning last year the country risked playing with fire by making budget cuts, ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
Stephen Cheung, president of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd), recalled the heart-pounding moments when he first met Christine in the capital of romance 30 years ago, Sing Tao Daily report ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-04
Hong Kong is pressing ahead with a planned liberalization of its electricity market despite a divided public opinion. The government said importing power from the mainland is the first step in the pro ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
In Hong Kong, where property is a perennial source of political drama and public outrage, one wonders why our film studios have not come up with a movie about the government's highly sensational, if c ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-21
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
All kneel, and so some attention-seeking politicians dutifully did -- and got what they wanted. They were dramatizing their opposition to a government plan to build an incinerator and expand an existi ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-14
The mainland could let more credit defaults play out later this year with the central government appearing to grow more tolerant of the failures, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Monday, citing ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
US fast-food company McDonald's Corp. has unveiled tweaks to its restaurants in a design that combines Chinese and trademark elements, Global Times reported Monday. Kenneth Chan, chief executive offic ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-21
China will meet its 7.5 percent economic growth target this year, Shanghai Daily reported Monday, citing Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China. The government is confident about meeti ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-14
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde on Sunday urged China to put economic reforms ahead of short-term stimulus policies, saying that investment in education and medical car ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-24
Following is a summary of major news and comments in the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the parent publication of EJ Insight, on Monday, March 10: TOP STORIES Bank of East Asia sees funding costs rising ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-10
