Like many of us in Hong Kong, I enjoy an occasional bowl of borscht. It is a soup that brings back memories. As a fan of Thai cuisine, I also like tom yum kung. Not only do these and other soups taste ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-20
A Peeping Tom has been ogling unsuspecting users of a Mong Kok cinema washroom via a remote-control camera attached to an exhaust fan. The makeshift contraption was discovered by a woman who noticed i ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-16
Hong Kong must focus more on boosting the consumption of locals to help the retail and tourism-related businesses amid a decline in mainland visitors to the city, says a prominent corporate executive. ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-02
China’s leading Communist Party mouthpiece says the nation has to face up to its non-performing loans and tackle a build-up of debt that is weighing on the global economy. People’s Daily called the co ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-09
Economists hoping to dress up their analysis of April data have two choices. Fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer’s “April with its showers sweet” is the go-to choice for any green shoots. ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
The Chinese Communist Party’s first ever National Security Education Day has come and gone. Like most of the party's awareness campaigns, it was largely ignored, and left behind is a collection of puz ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
US health officials have concluded that infection with the Zika virus during pregnancy causes the birth defect microcephaly, a finding that experts hope will refocus attention on efforts to stop infec ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-14
Capital outflows, surging credit expansion and slowing growth mean a torrent of headlines on China's financial risks. Despite those concerns, Bloomberg Intelligence Economics’ Financial Stability Inde ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
GF International Investment Management Ltd. is setting its sights on the absolute-return segment to compete with its rivals in Hong Kong. The firm is considering launching more private equity funds in ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
Defaults, frauds and dodgy deals in China’s financial sector are piling up at a rapid rate. That’s an index of increasing stress, as growth slows and debt-servicing costs rise. Multiple interest-rat ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
China resumed ties with former Taiwan ally Gambia on Thursday, ending an unofficial diplomatic truce between China and Taiwan, Reuters reports. The small West African state was one of a few African co ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
A major factor driving the fall in China’s foreign exchange reserves is the unwinding of the carry trade. With foreign debt levels manageable and incentives shifting away from rapid outflows, that is ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
China’s foreign exchange reserves registered another significant drop last month. So far, though, there’s little sign of the cascading capital flight that would call the sustainability of the country ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
Does China have enough foreign exchange reserves to defend the yuan? In principle, yes. In practice, maybe not. According to a methodology developed by the International Monetary Fund, reserve adequa ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-29
Airbus Group will provide helicopters to Uber Technologies for the latter's on-demand services, the European plane maker’s chief executive said on Sunday. "It's a pilot project, we’ll see where it goe ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
A weakening of the renminbi to 7.70 to the US dollar could return China's export growth to 10 percent year on year by end-2016 and add 0.7 percentage point to GDP growth, analysis by Bloomberg Intelli ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
Faced with sluggish economic growth, Indonesia is working on a major revamp of its rules on foreign investment. The changes could open the door for overseas companies to take bigger stakes in domestic ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan recently announced their plan to devote some US$45 billion in Facebook shares toward making the world a better place, some critics wro ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-30
This year has been a period of stimulus for China's economy. 2016 will be the same as well. The central bank has cut interest rates multiple times. It has injected liquidity to offset capital outflows ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
