It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That line from Charles Dickens' 1859 novel "A Tale of Two Cities" can best describe Hong Kong's current situation as Beijing seeks to tighten its g ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-11
Did Qatar buy its way into the 2022 World Cup? Three of the biggest World Cup sponsors want to know after claims the oil-rich Gulf emirate made secret payments to officials of football's world governi ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
With just days to go before the World Cup football tournament kicks off in Brazil, a fierce debate continues to rage whether the struggling nation should have taken upon itself the massive task of hos ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
The pictures of Ocean Park's planned water world are impressive. Submitted a couple of weeks ago to the Environmental Protection Department, the concept drawings show a series of indoor and outdoor wa ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
The British owner of a car that killed eight feral cows on Lantau Island last year was fined HK$5,000 (US$655) on Wednesday for failing to provide information about the person who was behind the wheel ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
At the average conference, over the course of several days and several dozen presentations, I usually expect to hear only a handful of truly original ideas… but not here at the Strategic Investment Co ...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
Reading Thomas Piketty’s influential new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one might conclude that the world has not been this unequal since the days of robber barons and kings. That is odd, ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
Jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo has received an unlikely support from a group of "princelings", children of China's political elite, who has quietly urged the Communist Party le ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang is not known for his comedy but on Thursday night he resorted to a joke on an RTHK program in response to questions about political pluralism in the city. As ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
The IMF's warning came on Wednesday. If China's property prices go over a cliff, Alfred Schipke, the International Monetary Fund's senior resident representative in China, said, the impact on the coun ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
Organizers of the "Occupy Central Movement" civil disobedience campaign scheduled for July have staged a mock voting exercise on Sunday, in rehearsal for a civil referendum to be held on June 22 to il ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-05
Is she calling on pan-democratic legislators not to oppose the government’s universal suffrage blueprint for the 2017 chief executive election? Or is she actually asking Beijing for more leeway in the ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-05
Hong Kong people are spoilt for choice in terms of entertainment, with the options ranging from playing video games to watching Korean drama series through the Xiaomi Box at home. But even as the new ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-30
In Hong Kong, it threatens a student's future. In Colorado, it's a legal retail product. And in Yunnan, it's an economic high. Cannabis has ignited debate about drug policy in the city with the arrest ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-28
The Washington Post and the United States unit of Britian's The Guardian newspaper have won this year's Pulitzer Prize, the most coveted award in journalism, for their coverage of secret surveillance ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-15
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is at the heart of a debate surrounding this year's competition for the Pulitzer Prize, the most coveted journalism award in the United States, China Daily reported Monday ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-14
Hong Kong will lose out to other Chinese cities within five years if local lawmakers do not take quick decisions and clear important legislation, business tycoon Allan Zeman has warned. The South Chin ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-09
The "one share, one vote" principle ensures that those who have more of a firm's share capital have more influence over the company but it does not necessarily equate to investor protection, Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-08
Chang Yung-chian founded the Shezidao publishing company in Taipei and has been in the business for nearly 40 years. At its peak, the firm had NT$100 million (US$3.28 million) worth of revenue a year, ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-31
