轉眼間香港已回歸20年,第5屆特區政府首長林鄭月娥及各司局長於7月1日在國家主席習近平的見證之下正式就任。今屆 ...全文
剛履新的行政長官林鄭月娥首次出席立法會答問大會,馬上就為其競選政綱主打的50億元教育開支大計解畫。根據教育局數 ...全文
Chief Executive Carrie Lam has pledged to do her best to improve the relationship between the legislative and executive branches during her five-year term. In her first question-and-answer session at ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-06
科技發展,突飛猛進,一日千里。由Google 研發的人工智能AlphaGo圍棋智慧程式從去年尾起,連續擊敗多名 ...全文
Winning Tower Group Holdings (08362.HK), a food supplier, issued 350 million shares in an initial public offering (IPO) on Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market (GEM). Everything was normal with the de ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
Apple Daily newspaper, which has been a vocal supporter of the democracy movement in Hong Kong, is facing a tough time in its key market. The outspoken daily, launched in 1995 by maverick tycoon Jimmy ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
早前前天文台長在網誌中批評政府不重數理,連大學也撤去數理兩科主修云云。誰也曉得現時社會重視金融、重視經濟,但也 ...全文
For the past two years, the global economy has been growing, but it has swung between periods of rapid expansion and deceleration. During this period, two episodes, in particular, caused US and global ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-06
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Chairman Liu Shiyu recently invited retail investor representative (also an economist) Han Zhiguo to lunch in the CSRC canteen. After the lunch, Han revea ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
A vessel built for Hong Kong's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has earned the title of being the world's largest container ship in terms of carrying capacity. The new ship, measuring 400 meters ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
HNA Group, parent of the Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines, had kept a low profile until the end of last year, when the conglomerate must have realized that given its size and sway, media scrutiny was a ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-22
Walt Disney Co. reported a smaller-than-expected rise in quarterly revenue and lower profit from its cable TV operation as it grapples with higher costs at its cash-cow sports network ESPN. The world' ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-10
It is wrong to blame Hong Kong for causing smog in nearby Guangdong province when the wind comes from the south and blows toward the north, according to a former director of the Hong Kong Observatory. ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-02
European voters, looking at Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency in the United States and the hard road ahead for a post-Brexit Britain, may be turning away from right-wing populists such as Marine Le Pe ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
The Ching Ming festival is always a sad day because it reminds us of our deceased loved ones. However, for people who can't afford a niche for their late parents or grandparents in a private columbari ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
The 2017 chief executive election ended with an anticlimax: the highly popular former financial secretary John Tsang lost by a huge margin, whereas former chief secretary Carrie Lam, who had been lagg ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
We’ve discussed several factors that may trigger a U-turn in Hong Kong’s housing market and concluded that home prices may hit a peak and fall off in third or fourth quarter of this year. But even if ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-30