... 02 in New York trading, giving it a market value of US$710.7 billion, more than double that of Microsoft Corp. The iPhone maker had crossed the US$700 billion mark in intraday trading in November and ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
China's Sunshine Insurance Group Co. has agreed to buy the super-luxury Baccarat Hotel in New York for more than US$230 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. The price for the Midtown Manhattan p ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
... ouse at 6 York Road in Kowloon Tong, which it acquired in the mid-80s, for HK$238.4 million. The house was famously next to the two residences owned by former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen, whos ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
... n the New York Times on Jan. 30, Chris Buckley said Beijing is adding new targets to its anti-liberalization movement. Weeding out imported teaching materials that promote western values and purging p ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
New York's Columbia University has developed a smartphone attachment to test for diseases such as HIV and syphilis. It works almost just as well as expensive lab equipment, is a lot cheaper, and there ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
... udio, New York Times reported. Pascal will leave her current position in May. Sony is yet to name a successor. "I have spent almost my entire professional life at Sony Pictures, and I am energized to ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
... el in New York for US$1.95 billion and acquired two key Belgian assets. Wu said the hotel will be redeveloped into a luxury residential project. Translation by Vey Wong -- Contact us at english@hkej. ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
... o the New York Times. Ulbricht sold heroin, cocaine, LSD and other illegal drugs and goods in a hidden part of the internet, where deals are conducted anonymously and outside the scrutiny of law enfor ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
... o buy New York's Waldorf Astoria Towers last year in addition to its purchase of a Belgian bank and Belgian insurer FIDEA. Anbang has a complex ownership structure that has largely shielded it from pr ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-04
Alibaba's public squabble with Chinese regulators over fake goods being sold on its online platform has resulted in a dramatic change in the country's rich list. While shares of the New York-listed e- ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
... n the New York bourse plunged on the news about counterfeit goods being sold on his online shopping mall Taobao. Sure, no one will argue that Ma's desire to "let everyone start their own business" is ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
... ce in New York tumbled 4.5 percent during that day's trading and plummeted a further 9 percent the following day. The firm rules the roost in China’s online marketplace, commanding a market share of 8 ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
... ws, a New York-based portal which often carries gossipy items about the Chinese leadership. The reported move by the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Committee of the Communist Part ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
... n the New York Stock Exchange. On Wednesday and Thursday last week, Alibaba’s market value evaporated by US$33 billion. The decline in the stock price reduced the wealth of Jack Ma Yun, Ablibaba’s cha ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
Islamic State militants released a video showing the gruesome killing of Kenji Goto, a journalist who was the second of two hostages to be killed, prompting grief and outrage in Japan, The New York Ti ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
... o The New York Times. The budget also includes US$105 million for “trade adjustment assistance” to help workers who have been affected by free trade pacts, it said. Obama's latest tax proposals are pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
... nt in New York trading Wednesday. – Contact us at [email protected] FL/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-29
... t the New York-based bank to assess their position immediately and buy or sell the franc accordingly, the people said. JPMorgan, the world’s biggest investment bank, generated US$2.5 billion in fixed- ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
... y the New York Times in August that year, warned that power could escape the party's grip unless it eradicated subversive western currents coursing through Chinese society. “Western forces hostile to ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
Xyza Bacani is as handy with a digital camera as with a broom. The Filipino nanny has won a scholarship to study photography at New York University this summer, Ming Pao Daily reported Tuesday. Bacani ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
