... y relaxed visa rules for mainland residents to visit the city. And there are also signs that authorities are softening their stance on a proposed total smoking ban on casino floors. Will these policy ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
Canada has received just six applications for its pilot immigration program for millionaires, Reuters reported. That is a pale shadow of the thousands of applications for its investor class visa, scra ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... without a visa. Less than 20 per cent are staying on to complete the seven years they need to acquire a Hong Kong identity card. In 2014, 16,000 mainland students came to study in Hong Kong's tertiary ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
The number of mainland visitors to Hong Kong under the individual visit scheme has dropped 10 percent in the first 28 days of June from a year earlier after the central government restricted visas fro ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... ned their visa policies in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In 2009, the outstanding number of refugees in the territory soared to more than 6,000 from 1,600 three years earlier. At the same time, the Ho ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
... ssue me a Visa or not, but if I do have the chance and channel, I will continue to do what I do," she said. – Contact us at [email protected] FL/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... e initial visa will be for one year, which can be extended for two years according to the success of the business and then a further two years. They must be in Taiwan for at least 183 days each year. ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
... ply for a visa-like entry permit in order to visit the mainland. The move is an inducement from China to Taiwan ahead of the island's presidential election in January, Reuters said, noting that Taiwan ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-15
... s because Visa and MasterCard, which operate the dominant payment networks, recently standardized their “tokenization” card security service and made it free, preventing payments services from chargin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... rCard and Visa on the new service, which will be compatible with 90 percent of magnetic-strip card readers, the company said at the time. Samsung initially wants to have between 15 and 20 percent of i ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... as denied visa for fear that he might disrupt the meeting, all of the lawmakers attended the meeting. Rather surprisingly, all the pan-democrats looked the other way when Leung was not allowed to come ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-04
... ciency of visa issuance, and are mulling relaxation of investment rules to attract Chinese businessmen. The article first appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on May 19. [Chinese version 中文版] - ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-01
... d student visa requirements by using counterfeit Chinese passports, he said. The defendants are men and women aged between 19 and 26. They are currently living in several cities where universities are ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-29
... cility on visa-related violations, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing spokesman Luis M. Martinez. It is the latest sign of cooperation between the US and China on cross-border crime. The ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-29
... ard giant Visa said: "It is important that FIFA makes changes now, so that the focus remain on these going forward. Should FIFA fail to do so, we have informed them that we will reassess our sponsorsh ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-29
... one-year visa subject to renewal after one year, then two, then two and then three years. Now, mainland Chinese talent who have secured a job offer in Hong Kong are able to enter the city with a two- ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
... promise a visa waiver to Ukrainians from next year and to give Ukraine the promise to be a potential EU member state. “Easing visa restrictions is only possible once all preconditions have been met,” ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
... after his visa expired. That view was supported by immigration director Uk Heisela. “We’re following our immigration law,” he said The businessman’s lawyer, Benson Samay, denied Polonsky had overstaye ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
... d a valid visa while the others entered Hong Kong illegally, Guo said. The gang spent more than half a month scoping out mansions in Kowloon Peak, also known as Fei Ngor Shan, before choosing the res ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-15
... lax their visa policies. With the boom in leisure travel, Chinese airlines will be offering more seats on China-US routes than US-based carriers this year for the first time, Mark Clarkson, business d ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
