The number of new coronavirus infections inside China, the source of the outbreak, was for the first time overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere, with Italy and Iran emerging as epicenters of the rapidly ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in central China’s Hubei province rose by 116 on Friday, health officials said, less than half the number of deaths from the day before, when Japan reported ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
China reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in two weeks, bolstering a forecast by Beijing’s senior medical adviser for the outbreak there to end by April, but World Health Organization ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-13
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in central China's Wuhan, investors have been looking for theme stocks that could benefit from the crisis. Stocks of companies that make or distribute masks ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-05
Global airlines have suspended or scaled back more direct flights to China’s major cities amid an increase in travel warnings and decline in demand from passengers due to a growing outbreak of coronav ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-30
Macau must be heaven for mainland tourists, while Hong Kong is shunned. Most, if not all, of the 27,000 hotel rooms of the six licensed casino operators in the former Portuguese enclave have been full ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-20
The Hong Kong government has acquired greater legal powers to fight contagious diseases following the outbreak of mysterious pneumonia cases in central China. Under the new regulations, the government ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
Hong Kong, like many cities across the world, is grappling with growing congestion and inadequate transport systems. Even though 90 percent of all passenger trips in Hong Kong are made on public trans ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker has died at 92. He headed the US central bank from 1979 to 1987 and was best known for having waged a war against inflation and pushed interest rates to ov ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-12
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers’ club in Basel, Switzerland, recently conducted an in-depth evaluation of the unconventional monetary policies that have become the no ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
Following another day of violence and chaos, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor called an emergency meeting with her principal officials late Wednesday night to discuss ways to handle the esca ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-14
Since late June, food delivery service provider Foodpanda has waived the minimum order value requirement and delivery fees in a move to further penetrate the local market. “Competition on price in thi ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
How attractive is Hong Kong from the viewpoint of startups? Real estate services provider Savills assessed 30 cities from around the world with criteria ranging from the volume of inward venture capit ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
