Police and the Marine Department are trying to determine what may have caused a ferry boat to go crashing into the outer parapet walls at the Ocean Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui on Monday. Operated by the ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-29
Russian military spending fell by a fifth last year, its first decline in nearly two decades, with tighter purse-strings likely to affect Moscow’s military activity ahead, a report by defense think-ta ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
China’s role in international affairs has changed massively in the last couple of decades. The country is likely to further expand its global engagement in the coming years, and its non-government org ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-29
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po expects the tight supply in the property market to ease but warns homebuyers of the risk posed by possible interest rate hikes this year. In his budget speech deliv ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-28
Maldives, the once tranquil island nation lying in the Indian Ocean and a popular destination for holidaymakers, has been threatened by rising sea levels in recent years as a result of global warming. ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-23
Hong Kong workers were eager to report for work after the holiday, and that's because they wanted to have a fresh start and greet the Lunar New Year with fervor and optimism. And also because they wer ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-21
The shortage of beds and congestion in the in-patient and accident and emergency departments (A&E) of public hospitals went from bad to worse during the Lunar New Year holiday amid the raging flu ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-21
Last Saturday heart-rending pictures dominated the pages of Taiwan newspapers. One of the images was of a Hong Kong couple, both 60, who were killed in the earthquake that devastated the eastern city ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-13
The Task Force on Land Supply met on Tuesday this week to discuss various government proposals on tapping into the land occupied by the Fanling Golf Course and putting it to use for housing projects o ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-08
In a previous life working in property management, I was part of a team responsible for moving corporate guys from their fixed desks into open-plan offices. The grief of learning that they would have ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-23
The world’s largest container shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk is teaming up with IBM to create an industry-wide trading platform it says can speed up trade and save billions of dollars. Success of th ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-17
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) is being considered a tourist draw by many mainland Chinese people, with boat tours to see the mega engineering marvel becoming popular there, but the response ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-11
The Legislative Council Bills Committee on the Protection of Endangered Species of Animals and Plants (Amendment) Bill 2017 finished its scrutiny last month, and is going to report to the Legco House ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-05
Earlier on, I discussed the interesting history of both the former British colony of Mauritius and the French overseas dominion of Reunion in the Indian Ocean and shed light on the cases of “high degr ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-04
In my previous article, I discussed the interesting history of former French and British colony Mauritius. In fact, equally interesting is Mauritius’s “sister island”, Réunion, which is about the same ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-27
Hong Kong chef Chan Kwanghi is on a mission – to revolutionise the Chinese food of Ireland, the country where he has lived for nearly 40 years, with more authentic flavors. One of the most famous chef ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-11
During his recent state visit to China, US President Donald Trump was accompanied by an “Alaska energy delegation”. That should not be a surprise. As the largest state in the United States, Alaska has ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
Hong Kong is one of the world’s most exciting shopping destinations as evidenced by its continued buoyancy despite flagging tourist numbers and retail rental woes. There has been no shortage of ink sp ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-30
US President Donald Trump blended tough talk with chumminess as he engaged with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a trip to Beijing, boasting about a "very good chemistry" between the two lead ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-10
TerraCycle finds value in the lowliest of trash, from cigarette butts to chewing gum. Humans produce a staggering amount of trash—in the US alone, 2 kilograms per person per day, according to the nati ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-27
