In Britain these days, one can’t avoid hearing and seeing more and more about the wretched campaign to spit in the face of the world (and of reality) and quit the European Union. Visiting the United S ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
Research studies have found that too much sitting is harmful. Standing workstations have been widely promoted as better and healthier. However, will office workers free themselves from occupational pa ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... Lehose to Chris Patten. But the three local chief executives post-handover have all paled in comparison. So, if incumbent leader Leung Chun-ying is given a second term, it will mark 25 years of Hong ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
... gs,” said Chris Welsh, secretary-general of Global Shippers’ Forum, which represents cargo owners. “I expect the four existing alliances to become three after the merger shake-up and some carriers bei ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-13
It's like they never left. Chris Patten and his family are renewing ties with their former home with a pair of old family photos that are going viral on social media. The pictures, taken before the 19 ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
... logy from Chris Wat for insulting the mentally ill, Ming Pao Daily reports. The Hong Kong Council of Social Service and the Hong Kong Joint Council for People with Disabilities accused Wat of pushing ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
... doing it. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, said in his last Policy Address in October 1996 that “my anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Peking, but t ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
Traditional banks in Hong Kong have begun to invest more in development and promotion of digital services. The moves come amid a shift in consumer behavior as more people go online for all their bank ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-19
... governor Chris Patten made these remarks in a column "The Closing of the Academic Mind" that appeared on the online op-ed platform Project Syndicate last month. What Patten was referring to was the t ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-17
... cial, and Chris Hui, director of agency for development and investment at A.G. Wilkinson & Associates, were both quoted as saying that they expect more properties to be sold at below-market prices ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-17
... et Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, the largest listed steakhouse in the United States, has been having the best run. The share price of the US giant is up 250 percent over the past five years. Food is one of ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-04
It wasn’t anything we haven’t heard before. But in a year in which #OscarsSoWhite dominated headlines, awards host Chris Rock’s tone-deaf joke at the expense of Asian kids was a cheap shot. In case yo ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
... comedian Chris Rock's stinging humor. Rock relentlessly mocked the academy for its second straight year of all-white acting nominees, Bloomberg reports. “I’m here at the Academy Awards, otherwise kno ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
An intervention recently by Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last colonial governor, into the discussion over erosion of civil liberties in the city has, yet again, ignited debate over the British colonial l ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-27
... roviders, Chris Williamson, Markit’s chief economist, was quoted as saying in a statement. "Any bounce-back from the weather may therefore prove to be only a temporary improvement in a steady downward ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
I would wager that I have been chancellor of more universities than anyone alive today. This is partly because when I was governor of Hong Kong, I was made chancellor of every university in the city. ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... rves, and Chris Patten, the last colonial governor, left in place a system of politics that would allow Hong Kong people to administer Hong Kong. -- Contact us at [email protected] TL/AC/FL ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
... governor Chris Patten and former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian, among many others that it had attacked in public for standing up against the Communist Party. And so in virtually declaring war again ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-29
... protest. Chris Webster, dean of the faculty of architecture, met with the student representatives in person for five minutes. Meanwhile, HKU Academic Staff Association chairman William Cheung Sing-wa ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
... um," said Chris Lane, a telecommunications analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in Hong Kong. Lane said this is why phone operators in India have lower profits than their peers in other parts of ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
