... 2013. The gap between escalating housing prices and affordability continues to widen. The UK is also desperate for more land to build houses. A UK scholar calculated that since the early 1980s, Brito ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
Two expatriates living in Hong Kong recovered a World War II grenade while hiking the Wong Nai Chung Gap trail in Happy Valley, Ming Pao Daily reported Thursday. With the help of a metal detector, Dav ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-12
Women are less competitive than men. With that finding, three US professors argue in a new paper that women earn less than men. But the gender pay gap is not that simple, which is why people can't sto ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
She could have lost her right hand, but a little girl was lucky enough to keep it after she stuck her arm into the gap between a glass door and the jamb at a shopping mall, Apple Daily reported Tuesda ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
... he gender gap in labor force participation would deliver 54 percent of those gains. Aligning rates of part-time work would provide another 23 percent and shifting women into higher productivity sector ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
The number of videos viewed each day on Snapchat has tripled since May to six billion as the messaging app closes the gap with social media giant Facebook Inc., according to a Financial Times report. ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... about the gap between their savings and the amount of money needed to support themselves in retirement. Insurer Aviva said in a study that every European needs to save an additional 2,000 euros (US$2, ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-07
... edibility gap between where the government says growth is and where the market believes it is. The document calls for orderly realization of yuan convertibility on the capital account. That would be a ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
... with the gap between onshore and offshore markets narrowing. That indicates foreign investors are less bearish on the redback. The renminbi has stabilized over the last two months or so as a result ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
... ucing the gap between payments and rebates. The ideal carbon price would depend on the objectives of the agreement. A price of US$1-2 per ton would generate US$14-28 billion, enough to fund the deploy ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
... cultural gap is so immense that people get a shock and never recover from it. Chinese is definitely a very hard language for others to learn. Being able to communicate is one thing, but becoming prof ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
... ere was a gap between the National Coal Association's statistics and the National Bureau of Statistics figures. Now the national figures have progressed, and more accurately reflect the situation." A ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... structure gap”. Our best chance of meeting the world’s growing infrastructure needs is to use multilateral development banks’ unique relationships with governments and the private sector to coordinate ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... id a huge gap is present between property price levels and the purchasing power of home buyers, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Tuesday. He said the factors that have supported the uptrend in ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
... edibility gap between the official data and market perceptions. Beyond the GDP target, attention will focus on the relaxation of the one-child policy, with all couples now allowed to have two children ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
... the huge gap between the two sides in the concept of universal suffrage, how can the Chief Executive hope to achieve the goal of pushing democracy in Hong Kong? Encouraging harmony: Hong Kong people ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
... 4 billion gap in the amount of funding needed for TB interventions in 2015. Raviglione said it is time to start funding TB at a level that can make even more of a difference in curbing global deaths. ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
... ridge the gap and monetize the company’s rich network of small local brands, artists and designers, Kwok started organizing events. He groups his contacts into different themes and holds pop-up market ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
... osing the gap on Japan’s 3.5 percent and South Korea’s 4.2 percent. The long and winding road Xi’s “one belt, one road” vision -- a grand design to loop together more than 60 countries in Asia, Europe ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
... narrowing gap in interest rates between US and China will exert more pressure on the Chinese yuan. Capital outflow could gather momentum against such backdrop. As much as US$140 billion has fled out o ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-24
