French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, whose sophisticated, playful designs and colorful knitwear helped redefine Parisian luxury in the 1970s and 1980s, has died after a long battle with Parkinson’s d ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-26
... ks about blazing a new trail. The city’s civil servants, while upright and professional, somehow lack the vision to move forward. After all, they are mere implementers rather than policymakers. There’ ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-11
Chinese fashion house Trendy International Group Co., owner of the Miss Sixty jeans brand in Asia, is planning a domestic initial public offering as soon as the end of next year, Bloomberg reports, ci ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-25
The word “mainlandization” has appeared more often than ever in Hong Kong media over the past few years, and all for the wrong reasons. When many fear that the city is being consigned into the obscuri ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-29
Fuelled by a delicious Hong Kong-style breakfast with Chef Mok Kit-keung -- executive chef of the Shang Palace restaurant in the Kowloon Shangri-La hotel -- we started doing some serious shopping insi ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-24
I was honored to be able to hang around with Mok Kit-keung, executive chef of the two-Michelin-star Shang Palace restaurant in the Kowloon Shangri-La hotel, at Tai Po Market from 9 a.m. on Saturday. M ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-17
... ow fiber glass boxes stacked together, the entire structure resembles an 'unzipped wall', offering curious spaces and movements both within and without. The Danish firm has a vision for practical and ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-15
India is set for the highest monsoon rainfall since 1994 as the odds of La Nina increase, Bloomberg reports. Farmers are increasing the planting of rice, corn and oilseed crops as a result. Weather wa ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
It might not be too far-fetched to imagine an Alibaba or Wechat logo on the jerseys of players in the English Premier League now that we have the first mainland Chinese owner of an English football cl ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
An internet storm has been brewing in mainland China over the death of Lei Yang, 29, a native of Hunan province, in police custody. Lei left his Beijing home between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday to p ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
... eets of Milan and Rome. The move reflects China's growing status as a global tourism superpower. It's aimed at more than three million Chinese visitors to Italy feel safe. Four officers, wearing Chine ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-04
The discovery of three planets that circle a small, dim star could bolster the chances of finding life beyond Earth, astronomers said on Monday. The Earth-sized planets are orbiting their parent star, ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
... from mainland China is all too likely to be adulterated, chemically modified or contain toxic insecticides. Recent studies of international food fraud identified China as one of the top achievers in ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
Thanks to Hong Kong's gentrification, the place where you work indicates your standing in the social pyramid. If you commute to Central each day, you are probably a banker, a stock broker, a lawyer or ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Indonesia is proposing joint maritime patrols with Malaysia and the Philippines to counter a murderous Islamic extremist group which claims ties to Islamic State. Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s ca ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
... hort time later. Prince, whose hit songs also included Let's Go Crazy, I Would Die 4 U, Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette and Kiss, was on a US tour as recently as last week. Last Friday, he was br ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... Europe’s largest economy, the consequences of Brexit could be grave. Public opinion in the country is divided on the issue. Some fear that the EU would become less liberal if Britain left. Others, re ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
A scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is taking a saucy approach to promoting Cantonese. Benjamin Au Yeung Wai-hoo, a.k.a. Ben Sir, is a senior lecturer in CUHK's department of Chinese la ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
... Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd. (00012.HK) chairman Lee Shau-kee, rarely shows up at his company's post-results news conference. But he did Monday, following the well-received town hall meeting CK ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-22
... a Pok Fu Lam mansion, reading Shakespeare and Adam Smith -- and fashionable. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) would be someone from the local scholar class who lives in a large, idyllic hou ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
