The case of the five missing booksellers has now become an international issue. It's not just because two of the personalities involved are foreign nationals, or because it could be a violation of the ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
Baidu Inc., China's search engine giant, has joined efforts to push the automobile industry to the driverless-car era. And Wang Jing, senior vice president in charge of the company's autonomous drivin ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
Until recently, the usual thinking among macroeconomists has been that short-term weather fluctuations don’t matter much for economic activity. Construction hiring may be stronger than usual in March ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
Leung Chun-ying must envy Lee Hsien Loong, not just because Lee runs his Facebook page far better than he does. While nubile young women, including at least one porn star, popped up as Leung’s friends ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
World-renowned architect Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘), who designed the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong's Central, was attacked by his health attendant at his town ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
So how was the response to G.E.M.'s concert in London, the last stop of her World Tour? "G.E.M. Get Everybody Moving X.X.X. Live” was a tough act to follow, considering the Hong Kong pop diva charged ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-25
What would improve your life significantly? A university degree? A well-paid job? A comfortable home? Melinda, a young mother from Madagascar, would reply: A toilet. It is, in fact, the need of 526 mi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
Live in a shoebox. Work for long hours. Forget about job security. Toil for peanuts. That’s the Hong Kong lifestyle. We're not complaining. Or probably we are. But our city has much more to offer, and ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
Health Secretary Dr. Ko Wing-man says the government will try to introduce a voluntary health insurance scheme as early as possible through an agreement with the insurance industry before the required ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
The place: the Bank of East Asia boardroom. Huddled around chairman David Li Kwok-po -- whose family holds a controlling stake -- is a who’s who of powerful Hong Kong bankers, as well as a son of Li K ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
It's not very often we get inspired by a story about a prisoner. But here we are talking about Thomas Kwok, former co-chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, who seems to always have a positive message u ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
More than 10,000 people are expected to turn out for this year's Hong Kong Pride Parade, a march in support of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT). The parade will take place on Nov.7 fr ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
US authorities on Tuesday charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a Macau real-estate mogul and four others for an alleged bribery scheme. John Ashe, a former ambassador to ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-07
The government whines and whines about the falloff of tourists visiting Hong Kong, inevitably trying to blame protesters for the decline while its massive bureaucracy does its best to make this place ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-03
When exactly did a simple modern convenience – the escalator – become a deadly hazard? We seem to hear about escalator malfunctions all the time, the latest being an unsettling incident at the Panda ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
Fifty-two Hong Kong students grouped into 18 teams will leave for the US on Friday to participate in a one-week boot camp that aims to enhance the youngsters' ability in problem solving, product desig ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
China's largest ride-hailing company is joining forces with San Francisco-based counterpart Lyft in a deal that allows them to serve each other's passengers. Lyft users traveling in China will have ac ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-17
In times of turbulence, real estate is probably the most stable asset class. In turn, the most stable real estate market is London, which probably has the most international investors. That explains w ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
More than two weeks after explosions tore through a chemical warehouse complex in Tianjin, details about the company that owned it are coming to light. Within two years, Rui Hai International Logistic ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that killed seven New Yorkers has triggered an effort to mandate citywide inspections and cleaning of air conditioning cooling t ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
