We are all familiar with the physical infrastructure comprising such important facilities as airports, railways, roads and bridges that allow people and goods to be moved from one location to another ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-10
Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department seized about 7,200 kilograms of ivory tusks in a shipping container from Malaysia, the largest seizure of its kind since the international commercial ivory trad ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-07
Alibaba’s Yuebao is now the nation’s largest money market fund with assets hitting 1.43 trillion yuan (US$210.18 billion) as of the end of June, up sharply from the end of last year. Launched in June ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-07
Four days into the job as Hong Kong chief executive, Carrie Lam is trying to differentiate herself from her predecessor, Leung Chun-ying, by taking a completely different stance on issues ranging from ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-05
The stock market is becoming increasingly divergent, and investors are constantly switching from one sector to another. The end of the quarter is in fact a period when fund managers are active in swit ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
Airbus SE’s A380 superjumbo faces the ignominy of being broken up for spare parts if second-hand operators for the oldest jets can’t be found in coming months, Bloomberg reports. The double-deckers co ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
A couple of years ago, the eurozone – about one-sixth of the world economy – appeared to be in serious trouble. Beginning in 2010, an unexpected sovereign debt crisis contributed to and was compounded ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
Top soccer stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have both been dealt a heavy blow by Spain’s tax system. Messi was sentenced to 21 months in prison last month, and Ronaldo is being chased for 14.7 ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
Last week (June 25-26), Hong Kong hosted the Third China-Israel Investment Summit, attracting more than 120 Israeli innovation start-ups and 300 investors from Hong Kong and the mainland. “China and I ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
提到超級跑車，相信不少車迷都喜歡像F或L字頭的品牌，因為這些品牌特色就是一個「辣」字。有人嗜大辣，也有愛小辣， ...全文
The Centa-City Leading Index, a gauge of secondary housing prices in Hong Kong, eased last week. That marked the first decline after a 19-week rally but does that mean a meaningful correction is aroun ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-29
A number of small-cap stocks in Hong Kong suffered a price crash Tuesday. Thirteen stocks plunged more than 50 percent and five of them even tumbled more than 80 percent. There are numerous speculatio ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-29
The 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong is a time for the media to look back – and especially to make comparisons between life in 1997 and 2017. There is a pattern to much of the commentary. ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-29
Time flies when you’re having a full plate, and in the blink of an eye, our group Economics 3.0 has been churning out articles in Hong Kong print media for five years now. On the eve of the 20th anniv ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-28
Hong Kong's outgoing leader, Leung Chun-ying, patted himself on the back over his record in office, proclaiming that he and his team achieved several things in the past five years despite a heavy work ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-28
The International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecasts for the US economy to 2.1 percent for both 2017 and 2018, dropping its assumption that President Donald Trump's tax cut and fiscal spending pla ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-28
Apple Daily newspaper, which has been a vocal supporter of the democracy movement in Hong Kong, is facing a tough time in its key market. The outspoken daily, launched in 1995 by maverick tycoon Jimmy ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
The number of Chinese white dolphins in Hong Kong waters has been decreasing, according to the latest official statistics, suggesting that government efforts to preserve the endangered species appear ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
Scrapping the so-called offsetting mechanism of the Mandatory Provident Fund Scheme (MPF), under which employers are allowed to settle severance and long-service payments to their laid-off staff using ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
