President Xi Jinping’s impending state visit to the United States will focus attention on the widening differences between the two countries rather than their common interests, despite slowing economi ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-01
Teach English, pay off a student loan and leave. The plan was as straightforward as it gets but Tom Grundy somehow got sidetracked which is why he is still in Hong Kong years later. It didn't occur ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
Former trader Tom Hayes has been sentenced by a London court to 14 years in jail after he was found guilty of conspiring to rig Libor benchmark interest rates. The jury of five women and seven men on ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-04
The global bond market has stepped into the bear territory, except for a handful of markets like India and China. That's why many foreign investors are keen to jump into China’s bond market. Its bond ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
Honeywell International Inc. has agreed to buy the utility consumption metering business of Britain's Melrose Industries Plc. for about US$5.1 billion. It's the largest acquisition by Honeywell in mor ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-29
President Barack Obama pledged to increase US support for the moderate opposition in Syria's civil war on Monday, Reuters reported. Speaking during a visit to the Pentagon, Obama also said the United ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
The stockbroker is beating the car salesman in the battle for Chinese wallets, Bloomberg reported. With China’s benchmark stock index more than doubling in the past year, consumers like Tom Zhang are ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
Walt Disney Co. may take its MyMagic+ program to the company's other theme parks after a positive experience with the mobile technology at the firm's flagship resort in Florida. "The folks who are say ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
He's outta here. After more than 6,000 broadcasts and 33 years in late-night television, David Letterman took the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater for the final time on Wednesday. It was a mix of irre ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
A gangster turned international model who went on the run in Australia was arrested in a swimwear shoot sting. Ben Fiberesima featured in campaigns for some of the world's top fashion houses while wan ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
Three prominent British journalists who have written for the South China Morning Post for nearly 40 years combined will be deprived of their regular op-ed columns starting next month. Philip Bowring, ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP), a non-profit organization, is launching a free English-language news website next month after recently completing the first round of an online crowd-funding campaign. “We ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
China's smartphone market, already the largest in the world, is so saturated it does not have much room to grow. Smartphone shipments in China fell 4.3 percent in the first quarter compared with a yea ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
Major foreign companies and several Chinese internet firms listed in the United States could be forced to sell controlling stakes to Chinese nationals under a proposed law. The law prohibits companies ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
Apple Inc. has asked more than a dozen artists, including Taylor Swift and British band Florence and the Machine, to sign exclusive deals for some of their music to be streamed on Beats, Bloomberg New ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
The United States is launching a nationwide effort to dramatically slash infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria by 2020 to prevent deaths and curb overuse of antibiotics. Officials in the US Ce ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
Lai See, the longest-running column of Hong Kong’s largest English newspaper, may soon have its last run. South China Morning Post's highly popular business gossip column will end when Howard Winn, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
Hui Xian Real Estate Investment Trust (87001.HK) is eyeing opportunities to acquire commercial properties in China's first- and second-tier cities, a strategy which the company feels will help drive i ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
Internet providers are vowing a vigorous fight after United States regulators announced the toughest restrictions ever on the industry. The companies plan to take the battle to the US congress and the ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
Sony Pictures Entertainment has named veteran film executive Tom Rothman, a force behind the blockbusters Titanic and Avatar, to head its movie studio in a revamp prompted by the fallout from a cybera ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
