More than 70 passengers staged an 18-hour sit-in on a Hong Kong Airlines plane after their flight to Shanghai was delayed late on Friday, saying they had been left without food and drinks for 13 hours ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-23
Many retailers regard their online stores as just an additional channel to reach more shoppers. MUJI sees them in a different way. By collecting responses from customers through the internet, the Japa ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-19
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is on the frontier of creating space history. Not only is Cristoforetti to be the first Italian woman in space, she is tipped to be the first of any nationalit ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-17
Feeling helpless when your smartphone runs out of battery? No worries. Have a coffee. Starbucks has tied up with battery maker Duracell to provide wireless charging in Starbucks outlets across the Uni ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-16
CEC International Holdings Ltd. (0759.HK) surged 10 percent Tuesday on news it's preparing to open its first 759 wonton noodles restaurant in Hong Kong. It mattered little that founder Lam Wai-chung s ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-04
You know something has changed on the mainland when a developer cannot open a eight-story clubhouse in prime Shanghai real estate to give the city's elite the space to rub shoulders. Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
Three of 19 energy drinks tested by the Consumer Council contain more caffeine than a cup of coffee and are not suitable for children and pregnant women, Apple Daily reported Friday. The council said ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
BOC Credit Card (International) Ltd. is still hammering out security issues with mobile quick response (QR) code payments to safeguard customer details but QR code electronic coupons could be up ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-05
Investors with a taste for risk are betting on a new product – the cannabis plant grown in the southwest province of Yunnan. It can produce the marijuana drug or hemp which is refined into oil, seed f ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-23
Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) has watched its QQ instant messaging service take a back seat to its hugely popular younger sibling, WeChat. But the lopsided attention they have been getting from the mark ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-16
Beverage maker China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd (01886.HK) said in a regulatory filing Thursday it is acquiring the entire interest in Suntory (Shanghai) Foods Co. Ltd., a unit of Japanese beverage produ ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-21
Restaurant chain China Goubuli Group, famous for its steamed stuffed buns, is in talks to take a minority stake in Dunkin' Donuts, 21st Century Business Herald reported Wednesday, citing various unnam ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-22
Tianjin Goubuli Group Co. Ltd., a renowned Chinese food chain that was founded in 1858, said on Wednesday that it will acquire a well-known US-based coffee shop chain in the first half of this year, T ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-09
Dongfeng Motor Co. is negotiating the purchase of a stake in PSA/Peugeot-Citreon, Europe's second largest automaker, in what would be the most important foreign acquisition by a Chinese carmaker. In 2 ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-09
Mainland coffee bean prices are expected to fall to less than 15 yuan (US$2.45) per kilogram based on futures prices on the New York market, National Business Daily reported Monday, citing the Yunnan ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-28
Chinese media are finally discovering something that I've known all along, namely that Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) coffee here is ridiculously overpriced. Some might say a new investigative report from n ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-23
Henry Leung is 36, university-educated and lives alone in the 70-square-meter apartment in Tsimshatsui he inherited from his parents. Despite a fine education, he cannot find a good job; he earns a li ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-21
A cup of Starbucks latte costs US$3 in United States, but in Shanghai, you have to shell out 27 yuan (US$4.4), a 46 percent mark-up, for the same brew. Given the average discretionary income of an off ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-10
