... 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
... he narrow gap between dual-listed insurance plays has also shown bullish sentiment among foreign funds. China Pacific Insurance Group has an A-H price gap of 11 percent while Ping An Insurance Group ( ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
... dress the gap between the rich and the poor in the process of urbanization. The urban land area in East Asia expanded at an average of 2.4 percent per year during the decade to 134,800 square kilomete ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
... ing their gap with their rivals in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and in some aspects mainland universities have even taken the lead. However, it hasn’t changed the fact that universities on both sides of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
... a is in a gap between national security laws, and so it is simply illogical to say the mainland's "national security law" can apply to Hong Kong, since the law doesn’t even exist yet. Besides, the Bas ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
... the wide gap between Beijing and Hong Kong on the implementation of "one country, two systems" principle. The former Hong Kong leader should reflect on Hong Kong people's concerns over the toughening ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21