... he Occupy Central event in 2014, the Greater Bay Area initiative and the extradition bill saga. Fitch said it may need to review the city’s credit rating if that erosion continues. What would be the c ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-30
Hong Kong civil servants have joined the anti-extradition bill movement. Five representatives of personnel from several government departments went to the Central Police Station on Monday to apply for ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-30
... ed by the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for defense shall not interfere in the local affairs of the region”. As we can see right from the start, the anti-e ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-30
Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung and Home Affairs Secretary Lau Kong-wah, along with several other officials, met with the press at the Central Government Offices last Friday to discuss issues ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-30
The central government continues to “resolutely support” Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and “highly appreciates” the work of the police in maintaining law and order, the State Council offi ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
... that the central government feels it necessary to walk in and dispense with the "two systems"? When Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung said he was "absolutely willing to apologize for our handi ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
... the CBD [central business district]" clients. Meanwhile, about 50 percent of the city’s population has not tried food delivery service, and an estimated 80 percent of current food ordering transactio ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
... erate the central authorities’ support for the HKSAR government and the Hong Kong Police Force. The office may particularly acknowledge the force for its importance to Hong Kong as it has suffered fro ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
At least 49 people have been arrested after a pro-democracy rally led to violent clashes between demonstrators and the police in Central and Western District on Sunday, with the protesters facing char ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
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
