... troyed it beyond redemption. But with unanticipated wisdom, Andrew Leung, the Legco President offered the errant young people the opportunity to retake the oath. The oath-taking ceremony is a procedur ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
... s to move beyond just improving access to financial services. Services fostering financial-inclusion must deliver a high volume of low-value output, which means they often have to rely on partnerships ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-14
... hters are beyond your command", was an anthem of the civil rights movement and Vietnam War protests. Awarding the 8 million Swedish crown (US$930,000) prize, the Swedish Academy said: "Dylan has the s ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-14
... or access beyond that device, subscriptions cost US$7.99 a month for members of Amazon's Prime shipping and video service and US$9.99 for non-members, the news agency said. Amazon will continue to off ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-13
... e changed beyond recognition or purpose but that the word "independence" might be inserted. The worst fear of this administration is the constant popping up of that word among localists and pro-indepe ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
... is simply beyond calculation. If that happens, perhaps Beijing will only have itself to blame. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Oct. 11. Translation by Alan Lee [Chinese vers ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
... e to move beyond the recent amendments with their focus on incremental change and revisit the elusive task of overhauling Hong Kong’s insolvency regime. Issues to be considered include whether Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
... certainly beyond doubt. However, he has one major weakness: he was first elected to Legco through the functional constituency representing the industrial sector in 2004, and then returned uncontested ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
... al future beyond 2047 needs to be settled in the next 15 to 20 years since “a 25-year mortgage taken out in 2022 will expire in 2047”. Among the city’s 10 largest private housing estates, more than ha ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
... me prices beyond the reach of Hongkongers. But this is precisely why Leung is seduced by the idea of doing everything in the book to make him look good -- if not inevitable -- to his bosses in Beijing ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
... . Looking beyond these near-term hurdles, the Hong Kong market will find support from several China-related factors. First of all, recent macro numbers point to a stabilizing mainland economy. And pol ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
... big thing beyond China's major cities. Other cities such as Tianjin, Hefei and Suzhou have also recently introduced measures to limit purchases as home prices jump. Home prices in at least one distric ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-03
Light is a kind of energy in the form of waves and its visible spectrum has a wavelength of about 400 to 700 nanometers. Beyond the visible spectrum between 10 nm and 400 nm is the ultraviolet (UV) b ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
... t patrols beyond the country's 12-nautical-mile territorial waters. US officials said this week that they had not seen formal requests from the Philippines to stop the joint patrols. -- Contact us at ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
... vity. So, beyond adjusting to the “new normal” in oil prices, Saudi Arabia must design a radically new economic model that addresses structural impediments to productivity and growth. It is a tall ord ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
... d to look beyond the fact that over US$11 trillion of investments are currently held in sovereign bonds with negative interest rates – the irrational behavior of paying to lend money – to realize that ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
The European Union's list of crises keeps growing. But, beyond the United Kingdom's "Brexit" vote to leave the bloc, Poland’s constitutional-court imbroglio, Russian expansionism, migrants and refugee ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
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