The surprise nomination of Christine Lagarde to serve as the next president of the European Central Bank has pleased many observers, including me, and disappointed others. Those who are pleased feel t ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
... he city’s central business district rapidly morphed into a march, as tens of thousands of black-clad protesters set off in several directions, clogging up major thoroughfares. Thousands of people head ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
... or of the Central Government Liaison’s local district office, made the appeal at a community banquet for hundreds of villagers in the New Territories. In a previously unreported recording from the Jul ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
... inking 44 central government agencies, 32 provincial systems, and private databases from 12 enterprises including Alibaba Group-affiliated Ant Financial's Sesame Credit and Tencent’s WeChat. More than ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
... ome other central banks had already done so. Japan followed suit a year later, shortly after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned to power on the promise that monetary policy would raise inflation (Japa ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
... European Central Bank. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel will be the next president of the European Council, and Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell is poised to become the EU’s new High Repre ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
... ck on the central government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong on Sunday. The actions of some radical protesters, such as vandalizing the Liaison Office, is challenging the “authority” of the central gove ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... ng at the Central Government Offices issued an open letter on the online forum LIHKG slamming Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor for her remarks during a media interaction on Monday. In their ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
Rents in Hong Kong are high by global standards. Grade-A office rents in Central, for example, are the highest in the world and, by some estimates, more than 50 percent higher than in New York Midtown ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
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
... g broken, central banks are already turning dovish again. This makes comparisons with Japan -- approaching its twenty-second year of policy loosening without convincing inflation -- more than a coinci ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
... esters in central Beijing. His declaration of martial law over parts of Beijing on national television in the weeks before tanks and troops swept the square of protesters made him one of the most prom ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
... land with central business districts. More cycling tracks are also planned in the urban area, including a 13-km track at the former site of Kai Tak airport. Cycling is both environmentally friendly an ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
... unded the Central Government Liaison Office in Sai Ying Pun, and defaced walls and signs and clashed with police. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor condemned the attack, calling it a “challen ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
... ations in Central and Shueng Wan, where they challenged the police by throwing objects such as bricks and glass bottles. The police responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the demonstrators ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
... ed toward Central and Admiralty, as well as Beijing’s Liaison Office in Sai Wan. Later, clashes broke out between demonstrators and police officers in the Sheung Wan area. Meanwhile, the government he ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
... ast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. It has attracted a flood of Chinese commercial ventures in Cambodia, including casinos and special economic zones. The US Defense Department ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
... Shatin to Central Link project, which is about 22 percent of the company’s full-year underlying profit in 2018. MTR was mired in a confidence crisis due to the problem-plagued Hung Hom MTR station on ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
