Billionaire investor Warren Buffett once described the supermarket business as a non-starter. The logic is that even if a supermarket gains lots of customers, a rival can always appear out of nowhere ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-11
(Editor's note: The following was originally written for and read by the author in RTHK's Letter to Hong Kong program on July 31) Dear Rebecca, How’s your summer? I hope you're enjoying your internshi ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-01
Is it possible to earn over HK$5 billion in three months by investing HK$1 million in stock futures? No way, you would say, as such fabulous return appears beyond the realm even for legendary punters ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-25
Chinese appliance maker Gree had earlier launched a top-end rice cooker in a bid to challenge high-priced Japanese imports. The company wanted to show mainland customers, who have been flocking to Jap ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-25
After a relatively quiet year, smartphones are back with a bang. Apple Pay debuted its Pokémon GO campaign in Hong Kong and Facebook launched its Mentions app that enables public figures to post updat ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
早前久違地打開電視機，看到新開的電視台在新聞中介紹內地「智慧城市」發展，筆者才頓覺這個概念最近開始在香港「落地 ...全文
Hong Kong's No. 2 finance official bought two properties at the maximum mortgage ceiling in 2010, less than a month before the government announced tighter lending rules. Undersecretary for Financial ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
It is a story Hong Kong people know only too well -- in the face of political and social danger, they move to acquire foreign passports to protect them in case everything goes under. For the first tim ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
