To understand where the Chinese economy is headed, it is important to understand the wider context surrounding Chinese debates about what the future holds under President Xi Jinping. The centenary of ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-08
Local and foreign business chambers in Hong Kong issued statements recently calling on the government to take concrete action to defuse the ongoing political crisis. The suggestions included official ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-07
The Federal Reserve has cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points as most have expected. The market is closely watching the Fed's stance on future monetary policy. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-02
A week before suspected triad gang members attacked protesters and commuters at the Yuen Long MTR Station last Sunday, an official from China’s representative office urged local residents to drive awa ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
South Korea’s economy swung back to growth in the second quarter, dodging a technical recession, although the expansion was mostly driven by government spending, suggesting the central bank may need t ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
The recent events in the wake of the extradition bill controversy have shown that the political system in Hong Kong has broken down. Unfortunately, it isn’t up to the people of Hong Kong to decide whe ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-18
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the city’s biggest political crisis in decades was dead and the government’s work on the bill a “total fail ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-09
US employers are hiring workers, but that is only making the Federal Reserve’s job harder. The Labor Department on Friday said nonfarm employers added 224,000 jobs last month – the most in five months ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-08
US President Donald Trump accused Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell of doing a “bad job” and “out to prove how tough he is”, but any move to oust him would likely touch off a legal fight with big ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-27
Over the past two weeks, we have seen Hongkongers staging massive rallies against the administration's proposed changes to the extradition law, which, once passed, would allow criminal suspects in the ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
On Tuesday, at a media session, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngo said she was offering a “most sincere apology to all people of Hong Kong” for the “controversies, disputes and anxieties in so ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-20
Many people would probably think that traveling to Afghanistan must be a very dangerous proposition. But the truth is, a trip to the once war-torn Central Asian country through the Wakhan Corridor can ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-18
I am an ex-soldier. In Singapore my battalion of Gurkhas worked together with the Singapore Police to control rioters, which is where I gained my experience in crowd control by disciplined forces. I a ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-14
The United States blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday that drove up oil prices and raised concerns about a new US-Iranian confrontation, Reuters reports. It was ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-14
It is one of those moments when you are overcome with feelings of pride as well as helplessness, watching young people take to the streets to stand up in defense of Hong Kong's core values. Witnessing ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
US President Donald Trump took a public stance against the use of CIA informants to spy on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying it would not happen on his watch, Reuters reports. “I saw the inform ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
The prospect of a “no deal” Brexit was fast becoming the central battle of the race to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May, with environment minister Michael Gove becoming the eighth candidate ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-27
Fighting back tears, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday she would quit, triggering a contest that will bring a new leader to power who is likely to push for a more decisive Brexit divor ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-24
"If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it." So said Duke Orsino in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. But as it prepares to ring down the curtain on Grappa's, Hong Kong Land appears to be ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-15
