... rejected eight points raised by Tsang’s lawyer for court leniency, saying the judiciary has a responsibility to protect police officers who are executing their duties. The alleged attack happened the ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
... te, about eight to 10 times as much as rival products cost, a report from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council says. Oral B has full confidence that there is demand for the product despite its high ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-30
... e of only eight licensed shoe shiners before he died in January from ill health. His widow has since made an application to inherit the licence but was told her attempt was unsuccessful, the Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
... now been eight months since my father and his colleagues were taken into custody,” Angela Gui, 22, said. “I still haven’t been told where he is, how he is being treated, or what his legal status is – ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-26
... et, while eight are from the KMT or have KMT background, and they take up vital posts such as foreign minister, defense minister, and director of the Mainland Affairs Council. The rest of cabinet me ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-24
... country. Eight hundred billion dollars worth of foreign reserves have gone within the past two years, either for paying back debts by SOEs operating overseas, or due to the central bank's extensive s ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-23
... nt on for eight years. Neither side had a name to describe the stalemate. But, in 2000, a Taiwan official, Su Chi, former chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, came up with a brilliant idea: he ca ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-23
... and it is eight years for the severely mentally disabled, which to me is completely unacceptable. To ensure waiting times are kept to a minimum, the government must divert additional resources into bu ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-23
... -- about eight tons of it -- into the water. Attempts were made in the 1950s and 1960s to recover the treasure but all came up empty-handed. It's believed the Goddess of the Sea holds the key to the ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
... installed eight years ago, of 6 percent annual economic growth, a per capita gross domestic product of US$30,000 and an unemployment rate of less than 3 percent. Taiwan's real growth in gross domestic ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
I was in Taipei on May 20 eight years ago and witnessed Ma Ying-jeou win the election for Taiwan's presidency with a lead of more than 2.2 million votes over his rivals. He will step down as presiden ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-19
... e with an eight-point lead over the "leave" side. Sterling may experience some resistance at US$1.45-US$1.457. It remains to be seen if it can stabilize above the 50-day moving average at US$1.433 in ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-19
... ho has an eight-year-old girl. Meanwhile, Margaret Chung, a Hong Kong resident in her early twenties, believes Hong Kong people are panicked that someday Hong Kong "will lose its values and freedoms'' ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
... seven to eight years. Will we see this happen now? This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on May 16. Translation by Frank Chen [Chinese version 中文版] – Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
... ple Daily eight times when asked about his closed-door remarks. He might have a hard time convincing people with long memories to vote for him in the Legco elections in September. Still, you would be ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-17
... rly 1976, eight months before Mao. In 1981, five years after Mao’s death, the Communist Party issued a formal assessment of the Cultural Revolution. In it, the party negated the entire “cultural revol ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-17
... st. Fifty-eight percent of respondents at financial firms say they have had board-level discussions on Brexit, compared to just 34 percent of construction firms. It is important to recognize that if t ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
... ng-jeou’s eight years of opening up.” Another important issue is housing. In Taipei, the ratio of the price of an apartment to average income is 15, the highest in the world. Tsai has called for const ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
... purposes. Eight suicide bombers then entered the facility and clashed with security forces before blowing themselves up, local police officials said. They set three large gas tanks on fire, damaged on ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
... period of eight hours, Fung said. – Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
