LeTV, the largest online television network in mainland China, has pledged to pour HK$6 billion in the coming three years to produce and buy content for Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Economic Journal repor ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-02
The integration of CSL and HKT Trust & HKT Ltd. (06823.HK) will show up more synergies in the coming two years, HKT chairman Richard Li Tzar-kai said. Part of the benefits of the merger is alread ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-08
Hong Kong Television Entertainment Co. Ltd. (HKTE), the free-to-air television arm of PCCW Ltd. (00008.HK), will launch its channels as per plan without delay, group chairman Richard Li Tzar-kai said. ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
The High Court found in favor of Hong Kong Television Network (01137.HK) Friday in a judicial review of the government's rejection of HKTV's application for a broadcast license. The court ordered the ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
Hong Kong’s longest-serving mobile chief will call it a day at the end of summer. SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. (00315.HK) chief executive Douglas Li will take his helmet off at the end of ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
China is generally considered a technology follower rather than a leader, but new data shows an exciting trend that could result in the country finally emerging as a global innovator in internet-conne ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
Hong Kong's Executive Council (Exco) has decided not to renew ATV's free-to-air television broadcast license which will expire in November this year, a top government official said on Wednesday. Grego ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is to blame for Hong Kong's messy terrestrial television industry after he refused a license to Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) two years ago. It's almost poetic ju ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
PCCW Ltd. (00008.HK) is looking for acquisition opportunities in India, Europe and the United States to grow its overseas business, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Wednesday. BG Srinivas, who ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
More than 640,000 Hongkongers chose to watch Hong Kong Television Network on Wednesday. The birth of Ricky Wong Wai-kay's new online TV platform sends a strong signal that the government's regulatory ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-21
A homegrown manager is set to take the helm of a 1.8 billion pound (US$2.86 billion) London-listed hotel group with over 100 properties worldwide. Starting March next year, Aloysius Lee Tse-sang will ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-10
Hong Kong Television Network Ltd. (01137.HK, HKTV) is outpacing i-Cable Communications Ltd. (01097.HK) and PCCW Ltd. (00008.HK) with the launch of its new television service set for Nov. 19, the Hong ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-27
A delegation of Hong Kong business tycoons and professionals led by former Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa started a three-day visit to Beijing on Sunday. The delegation includes Cheung Kong’s ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-22
Former chief secretary Rafael Hui Si-yan said he was invited to be the financial secretary in 2001 by then chief executive Tung Chee-hwa, but he declined the offer, am730 newspaper reported on Thursda ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-18
As hype builds for the iPhone 6, telecommunications carriers in Hong Kong and mainland China are going all out to attract customers. SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. (00315.HK), Hutchison Wha ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-04
The Hong Kong Economic Journal Co. Ltd. (HKEJ), the parent publication of ejinsight.com, is now fully owned by a trust company of Richard Li Tzar-kai, the chairman of PCCW (00008.HK), after Lam Shan-m ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
PCCW mobile phone customers will be stung with tariff increases of up to 50 percent following the completion of stage one of HKT Trust and HKT Ltd.'s (06823.HK) brand integration for PCCW-HKT and one2 ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
In Hong Kong, a city obsessed with money and stocks, a good number is all that matters -- whether it's a car plate or a mobile number or a share code. Everyone wants a lucky number, but not everyone c ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-16
State-owned China Mobile (00941.HK), one of the world's largest wireless telecom operators, is trying to lower a psychological barrier that may be preventing it from gaining a bigger share of Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-23
Internet TV set-top boxes like the Xiaomi Box are mounting unfair competition and eating in the pay-TV business of Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB, 00511.HK) by offering a treasure trove of pirated co ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
