Chinese electric car maker BYD will invest 5 billion yuan (US$742.2 million) in China’s monorail market. The move has been applauded by a number of investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Credit Su ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
Perhaps it's the exuberance of youth, their spirit of rebelliousness. Or most probably they just want attention. But nonetheless the infantile behavior displayed by newly elected lawmakers Sixtus "Bag ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-18
Hong Kong has lagged far behind mainland China and the United States in the field of big data. The government has been reluctant to allow access to public data, and most corporates have no idea how to ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-14
Just when many thought Hillary Clinton had scored a KO (knockout) against Donald Trump in their second debate, some people said they were more like singing an OK (karaoke) duet. Some creative netizens ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-13
Amazon.com Inc. has launched a full-fledged music streaming service with subscriptions as low as US$3.99 per month for owners of its Amazon Echo speaker. The new streaming service, Amazon Music Unlimi ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-13
Andrew Leung will become the next president of the Legislative Council after Beijing's Liaison Office is believed to have secretly instructed the pro-government camp to 'elect' him. Leung is a polari ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-07
With solar energy accounting for a minuscule proportion of the electricity supply in Hong Kong, the government must focus on tapping the abundant sunshine in the city and new solar technologies. With ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-07
We are only now beginning to learn what happened when Joshua Wong was denied entry to Thailand on Wednesday and sent home. Reuters reported that Wong, who was due to address a student forum in Bangkok ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
The Brussels Conference on Afghanistan this week marks an important opportunity to create a roadmap for the country's future. While Afghanistan's current path has led to some progress, it is far from ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
It's fun to learn Cantonese slang, although it can be a bit complicated. By using this sort of quirky language, people would get the impression that you're smart and you know your way around -- so the ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
Billionaire Cheng Yu-tung, the founder of New World Development, passed away last week at the age of 91. Known as a shrewd and gutsy entrepreneur, Cheng's style seems to have rubbed off quite a bit on ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
Today, data is all around us and the term “big data” is equally ubiquitous. At its core, big data is about extracting intelligence from the vast amounts of data available to an organisation. Internall ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
The US presidential debates kicked off Monday night (Tuesday morning in Hong Kong), and it’s widely believed that Hillary Clinton won the first round. That reminds us of the situation before the Brexi ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
HSBC recently rented more than 300 desks in a co-working space in Causeway Bay for its digital and transformation team. The facility, which is located in Tower 535 in Jaffe Road, is operated by WeWork ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
Google's parent Alphabet Inc. has launched Allo, a messaging app that incorporates Google's search feature and a chatbot that uses machine learning to "improve" itself over time. The new messaging ser ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-22
About half of China's infrastructure projects do not have economic value as the costs have been larger than the benefits, according to an article published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-15
Beijing and the pro-establishment camp may disagree, but Sunday's election is a resounding victory for the opposition. Within the pro-democracy camp, however, the reaction was mixed. True, they shoul ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
Many pension funds and insurance companies as well as governments -- such as those in Europe and Japan -- have been focusing on long-maturity bonds. As a result, prices of those bonds have spiked, fa ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
The Hang Seng Index closed above 23,000 points for the first time in two weeks on Thursday, but the gas sector slumped nearly 10 percent. Beijing has issued a notice asking local governments to cut th ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
Several students, particularly those coming from the mainland by bus, couldn't make it to their classes in Hong Kong on time on Thursday, the first day of the new school year in the city. The reason: ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
