Singapore is a city often compared to Hong Kong, largely because of their similar economic success despite being small and having limited natural resources. While Hong Kong has made a smooth transitio ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... ductivity gap between emerging and developed economies has barely narrowed; in absolute terms, it has more than doubled. Indeed, though average productivity growth in emerging economies has accelerate ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... he wealth gap in Hong Kong is quickly widening. The Gini Index of our city has already reached 0.475, far exceeding the dangerous level of 0.4. By increasing the amount of the sweeteners, the governme ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... -year age gap between Bradley Cooper, 40, and his co-star Jennifer Lawrence, 24, in Serena, due out in May, even if that doesn't happen much in real life. Two new films are signaling a shift in Hollyw ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... s funding gap will begin tonight, tomorrow morning," the official said. Options include allowing Athens to issue more short-term T-bills and using European Central Bank profits on Greek bonds, he said ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... here is a gap between the time the budget is drafted and when it is published and announced. As such, it may not be the best platform to launch new property rules, which have to take into consideratio ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
... "The wage gap used to be 100 percent but has narrowed now." The peak was between 1980 and 2000, when companies rushed to relocate their factories from Hong Kong to the PRD to take advantage of the che ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
... e digital gap between the rich and the poor in society. In fact, several local players like 3 HK, China Mobile and CSL are offering the so-called 4G Lite services to tap the lower-income groups; they ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
... the price gap of dual-listed shares. However, the market has gone in the opposite direction. A shares have posted whopping gains because of policy support and speculative retail investors, but the Han ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
... ridge the gap among the different factions so as to facilitate a pragmatic dialogue over the pros and cons of setting up the bureau. Unfortunately, things didn’t happen the way I'd hoped. The controve ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
... the price gap between estates near the historical bottom. However, there is rising risk of possible government intervention. Already, the government has taken action three times after the last financi ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
... said the gap between the pump prices and crude oil prices depends on rent and labor costs. The Environment Bureau, which oversees fuel retailers, defended the firms Thursday, saying the council’s met ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
... ng wealth gap and the soaring cost of urban housing, as in Hong Kong. The sixth election for President of Taiwan will be held in the Year of the Sheep; everyone expects Tsai Ying-wen to win, becoming ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
... widening gap between the government and the public. Andrew Leung, chairman of the pro-government Business and Professionals Alliance, said a wider survey will help legislators gauge the public pulse ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
... fears the gap between Greece and other European countries may be too wide to overcome, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “It is currently not possible to assume a successful conclusion of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
... han in Singapore and Taiwan, which has emigrants of 150,000 and 480,000 respectively. Emigrants represent about 4 percent and 2.1 percent of the population in Singapore and Taiwan. Large numbers of em ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-04
... s a large gap between the revenues reported for 2010-2012 and the money that its parent spent on buying equipment from HTF during the period, the Financial Times reported. While many players in the so ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
... he wealth gap in the city. In fact poverty in our society would be less severe if the government had been more proactive in its housing policy in the past decade. Recently, business tycoon Lee Shau-ke ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
... the price gap between luxury goods bought in China and those purchased overseas. Also, fake luxury goods have been flooding the domestic market, scaring away consumers, the report said. -- Contact us ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
... nents. Singapore took the second spot in the Index of Economic Freedom with a score of 89.4 points. The gap between Hong Kong and Singapore narrowed to 0.2 point from 0.7 in 2014. The report stated th ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
