Chinese regulators want several domestic funds to postpone new outbound investment products amid a capital flight that is undermining the yuan and spooking global investors. China's stock markets are ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-29
Where is the bottom line for the yuan's depreciation? My bold guess is the Chinese currency will hover in the range of 6.7 and 7.0 against the US dollar in the onshore market until the end of this yea ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is busy fighting for pricing power over the renminbi exchange rate. But pushing up Hong Kong interbank rates and draining the offshore renminbi pool is a double-edge ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
The Hang Seng Index is down 9 percent, or more than 2,000 points, in the first six trading days of the year while the China Enterprise Index is off 11.8 percent. That means most investors have suffere ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
Hong Kong's general air quality improved last year compared to 2014, but high ozone levels, which mainly stem from vehicle and factory emissions in China's Pearl River Delta region, need to be brought ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
Some political figures and celebrities have been advocating the "local economy" concept in Hong Kong. They encourage things like purchasing goods in locally-owned stores or growing our own vegetables ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
When 19-year-old Jamella Lo died in October after being stricken with primary pulmonary hypertension and needing a lung transplant, her death highlighted growing public concern about organ donation. L ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
I remember it was during my first year in university that the Sino-British talks over the future of Hong Kong began, and my graduate thesis was on the principle of “one country, two systems”. Over the ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
Four out of ten people who suffered cheating spouses said they harbored thoughts of committing suicide or inflicting some physical harm on the partners, a Hong Kong survey has shown. According to the ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
The life expectancy of humans has been increasing thanks to technological progress. In Hong Kong, it's 81 years for men and 87 years for women as of 2013. That's nine years longer that it was 30 years ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-19
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) came under fire for urging schoolchildren to plant and grow a potentially poisonous flower as part of a program to promote a "green culture" among s ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
Chinese authorities will use the upcoming Central Economic Work Conference to review the macro situation and plan further steps needed to stabilize growth. Premier Li Keqiang said at a seminar last we ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
Turkey pledged to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe in return for about US$3.2 billion in aid and other incentives from the European Union, under a deal struck on Sunday. Following a meeting be ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
MSCI Inc. said last week it will add 14 US-traded Chinese stocks to its largest indexes, including the MSCI China Index and MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The move has reignited investors’ hope for A s ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
The offshore renminbi weakened by as much as 4 percent following the one-off reform of the daily fixing that the Chinese central bank carried out Aug. 11. However, the Chinese currency has recouped h ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
People are becoming more aware of their wants and needs. For the majority, those might finally align and become the same thing. Today, people are prepared to live with less while living more. In the n ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
Hong Kong's property sector is facing multifaceted risks that make it difficult to predict the market's outlook, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Ceajer Chan Ka-keung said. The risks ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
Learning to write computer programs has become a growing trend among schoolchildren around the world. To prepare our next generation for the raging global tech boom, I have been repeatedly calling on ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
Each autumn, China’s Communist Party sends more than 350 of its top bosses to an army-run hotel in Beijing to discuss, behind closed doors, the issues facing the state. This year’s plenum coincides wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
The 18th CPC Central Committee will hold its fifth plenary Session at the end of this month. The meeting is likely to cut the economic growth target to 6.5 percent for the 13th Five-Pear Plan period f ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-24
