Alarmed at rising capital outflows from the country, China is said to have tightened the rules related to fund repatriation by multinational firms. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange has in ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-02
“I am a slave here. My son brought me here to be an unpaid nanny and helper to his children. I cannot drive and dare not answer the telephone because I cannot speak English.” Madame Leung Siu-mei was ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-01
The government announced that it received a notification from Beijing about the lifting of mainland entry restrictions for some lawmakers and others in Hong Kong. With the eased rules, opposition figu ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-01
A lawmaker has urged authorities to come clean on the problems encountered with the new air traffic control (ATC) system at the city's airport, alleging that there have been far more glitches with the ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-25
Facebook Inc. has quietly developed a censorship tool that could persuade China to allow the world's biggest social media network to re-enter the world's second largest economy after a seven-year ban. ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-24
The abrupt interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law by the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) triggered a new round of political confrontation between Beijing and the pan-demo ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-16
It turns out CY Leung did not take his oath properly, so some people are saying he has been in office illegally. This emerged after a video clip of the 2012 swearing-in ceremony went viral on Wednesda ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
Despite the fact that the 2017 chief executive race is a small circle election, it is significant because Beijing's choice of a person for the job will serve as an indication of whether its policy tow ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-02
November is shaping up to be an eventful month. First there's the US presidential election. Hillary Clinton could lose support as a result of FBI's decision to reopen its investigation into her emails ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-01
Last Friday, news started circulating in mainland media that UnionPay would ban from the next day the use of its cards to pay for Hong Kong insurance policies, but the company denied it. A day later, ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-31
China UnionPay Co. has banned mainland customers from using their bank cards to buy insurance products overseas other than accident and medical-related policies. The country's biggest bank card provid ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-31
Few schools can match the flexibility of A-School, the first primary and secondary through-train school in Hong Kong. A-School already enjoys greater freedom in writing its curriculum under the direct ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-28
Even though Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has recently been plagued by sex scandals and is lagging behind Hillary Clinton in every major poll, he remains highly popular among white ev ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-28
How long does it take to swipe a card 200 times and get the paperwork all signed? The answer is about an hour, according the China Securities Daily. But Hong Kong insurance agents are more than happy ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-24
A European space lander reached Mars on Wednesday, but there are growing fears that it has been lost. Older European and US spacecraft already in orbit relayed data of the lander's six-minute descent. ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
A Mars lander left its mothership on Sunday after a seven-month journey from Earth and headed toward the red planet's surface to test technologies for Europe's planned first Mars rover, which will sea ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
Former financial secretary Antony Leung is praising John Tsang as a suitable choice for Hong Kong's next chief executive. Leung said his predecessor is the one person "most capable of uniting Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-04
Saudi Arabia has long relied on oil to fuel its economic growth and development. Last year, oil accounted for about three-quarters of the kingdom’s total export revenues and around 90 percent of gover ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
About half of China's infrastructure projects do not have economic value as the costs have been larger than the benefits, according to an article published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-15
Sitting around is unproductive but being relentlessly sedentary is bad for your health, countless research have shown. So, does crossing your legs while sitting add to the problems? Naresh C. Rao, a d ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-24
