Riding a surge in her popularity ratings, Chief Executive Carrie Lam hopes to win the public opinion war over the co-location arrangement for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link. The SA ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-13
A joint venture set up last year by Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) and China Light & Power (CLP) is planning to install electric vehicle charging stations in car parks of private residential e ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-12
I've just returned from a cruise trip. During the voyage, I learnt that almost all the tour participants were retirees, and that most of them were financially secure. The senior citizens built up thei ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-12
As a corporate trainer and executive coach, I spend a large percentage of my working hours in conversation with business leaders and their employees, mostly in China. About 18 months ago, I began to n ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-11
Research firm Gartner estimated that climate change and sustainability would become key performance indicators for half of all the smart cities. Like other international cities, Hong Kong needs to red ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-10
Unlike many founders of internet companies who have strong personalities, Xiaomi's Lei Jun has been known for his mellow character. It is said that Lei has never yelled at his staff. When he encounter ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-10
PricewaterhouseCoopers has identified three areas – Tung Chung, Kwu Tung North and Yuen Long South – as ideal sites for implementing pilot projects to pursue a government plan to develop Hong Kong int ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-07
Qatar Airways has axed orders for four A350s because of delivery delays, handing the European planemaker a new headache over what to do with jets worth US$1.2 billion, Reuters reports. The cancellatio ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-07
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group launched on Wednesday a cut-price voice assistant speaker, marking its first foray into artificially intelligent home devices. The "Tmall Genie", named after the ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-06
Chinese internet giant Tencent announced earlier this week that it will limit the hours children can play one of its most popular games -- King of Glory. Players aged under 12 will be allowed to log i ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-05
Chinese tech group LeEco, which has interests ranging from smart cars to online content, is facing growing pressure from its creditors and business partners, with one bank wanting some of its assets f ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
It comes as no surprise to anyone that technology in the future will reshape and change the world in new and exciting ways. But taking a step back, let's look at how new technology may impact our most ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
When it comes to eating fish in season, there is a Cantonese proverb that says "spring for bream, autumn for carp, summer for shad". Now as it is already early summer, eating shad is a smart choice. S ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-23
Earlier this year, Smart City Consortium (SCC) organized an Internet Economy Summit where Lilian Coral, Chief Data Officer of Los Angeles GeoHub, spoke about gathering and utilizing open data, sharing ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-23
While stories like JD's record sales in its June 18 shopping festival always grab the headlines, apart from the online shopping boom, rosy prospects in hardware such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) an ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-21
When restaurants charge you more at dinner than at lunch, is that a form of "price discrimination"? Not necessarily. If the restaurant serves a full house every night, but sees only a few tables fille ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-21
In the run-up to the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty, several senior officials and prominent personalities from the mainland have spoken glowingly of Beijing's efforts to ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-20
Dramatic election upsets have been occurring all over the place, most recently in Britain where an overconfident prime minister called a snap election in the hope of humiliating the opposition but end ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-16
Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are powering a new wave of automation, with machines matching or outperforming humans in a fast-growing range of tasks, including some that require com ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-09
US President Donald Trump came under fire on Sunday for criticizing London's mayor in the aftermath of attacks in the city that killed seven people and injured at least 48 others. In a tweet, Trump se ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
