... Hong Kong visa-free, or even allowed to live here permanently. It's a step forward for Beijing to gradually remove border controls between Hong Kong and the mainland. On Tuesday, Hong Kong and Shenzh ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-05
... of 10,228 visa applications were filed in November, up about 10 percent from a year earlier, according to the Immigration Department. The number for December has not been released. The surge in the ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-28
... echnology visa program under a Donald Trump administration, India's US$150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States, industry sources there say. Companies also plan t ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-09
... ar on the visa stamped on the applicant’s passport, news website hk01.com reports. Requiring the helper to live at the employer’s address is no different from putting the helper on standby 24 hours a ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
... hten H-1B visas. Established in 1990, the federal H-1B visa program allows employers to import up to 85,000 foreign workers each year to fill jobs that require "highly specialized knowledge”. Democrat ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-14
... granting visa-free access for Chinese citizens in 2008, the island has seen a surge in the number of mainland tourists. According to some figures, 2.16 million out of 2.5 million foreign tourists who ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-08
... n need of visa extension are forced to use Shenzhen as a stopover. They cross the border at Lo Wu in the morning, visit Shenzhen for the day and return to Hong Kong in the evening. Perhaps it was the ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
... llenge to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc, WSJ says. Alipay was created in 2004 to support transactions on Alibaba’s Taobao online-shopping site and grew alongside the e-commerce business. It was later s ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-01
... a tourist visa on arrival. Since the beginning of this year, the country has waived the visa fee for all tourists from mainland China and Hong Kong, a gesture aimed at boosting tourism after a devasta ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
... -Pesa is mVisa, a partnership between Visa Inc. and two other Kenyan banks. With US$400 million in 2016 revenues at stake, Safaricom -- M-Pesa’s parent company -- are likely to focus on defending its ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-14
... s relaxed visa rules. But interestingly, the number of Hong Kong visitors to Bangkok has been declining. That's based on chats with well-travelled friends who are now opting for Tokyo or Taipei, inste ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
... nge for a visa to visit the island. His offer was eventually declined by Taiwanese authorities. Chen appears to have mastered the art of pulling publicity stunts in order to burnish his reputation and ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
... o discuss visa policies for Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong. That said, the New People's Party is proud of its good relations with the Liaison Office as it gives the impression that the party can stan ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-13
Imperial Pacific International Holdings (01076.HK) is trying to get the United States government to ease the visa limits for overseas workers in Saipan as the firm seeks to boost the staff strength at ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-12
... ks to its visa-free policy for Chinese tourists, who are visiting Saipan by the hundreds and thousands. The majority of Saipan people are pretty satisfied with their current political status and there ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-30
... even our visa policies. The "One Country Two Systems" principle is really proving to be something of a joke. Well, what else can we say as we learn that a prominent Taiwanese politician has been barr ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-24
... 00 to 400 visa applications every day. By comparison, Myanmar's consulates in other cities could have the luxury of two or three business days for verifying a visa application. But the Hong Kong bran ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-19
Travel agencies in Hong Kong have complained that the Guangdong government caught them off guard by abruptly suspending the popular "144-hour convenience visa" regime for some tourists. Apple Daily ci ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-10
... gle entry visa scheme for tourists who arrive at the international airport and sea passenger terminal of Vladivostok may kick off from October. Chinese investors The free port has so far received 104 ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
... t Chinese visa authorities “are demanding Canadians of Chinese descent apply as Chinese nationals when traveling to China”. The author, Cal Wong, described himself as a Hong Kong-born Australian and s ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-02
