EJ Insight

BUSINESS

Startup tips: Know your staff and show them a career path

Aug 18, 2017 6:35pm

Talent recruitment is generally considered one of the biggest challenges confronting startups in Hong Kong. Peggy Choi, co-founder and chief executive of LYNK, which provides expert matching services, thinks otherwise, saying that staff management is a...
Is BAT dominance crowding out startups?

Jiang Han - Aug 18, 2017 5:29pm

China’s three internet giants – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, or collectively known as BAT – has continued to dominate sectors such as online search, e-shopping, gaming and instant messaging. Consistently high revenue and profit growth has enabled...
Infosys CEO quits, citing ‘drumbeat of distractions’

Aug 18, 2017 4:03pm

Vishal Sikka, the chief executive of Infosys Technologies, India’s second-largest software services firm, has resigned from his post, citing a stream of distractions and malicious personal attacks against him. “Over the last many months and quarters,...
China ruling on tea packaging row will worry foreign firms

Ko Tin-yau - Aug 18, 2017 11:53am

China’s top court ruled on Wednesday that JDB (China) Drink Company and Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Holdings (00874.HK) can continue to use similar packaging for their herbal tea beverage products. Both companies “had made contributions to promoting...
Is policy tightening bringing an end to China’s bull market?

Helen Zhu - Aug 18, 2017 10:16am

Both China’s nominal GDP and corporate earnings saw double-digit year-on-year growth in the first half of the year. China’s equity market, supported by these strong fundamentals, performed handsomely – MSCI China Index grew 33 percent in...
South Africa gets a vote of no confidence

Jorge O. Mariscal - Aug 18, 2017 9:53am

President Jacob Zuma survived a motion of no confidence this week, the latest of many attempts to unseat an administration besieged by allegations of corruption and economic mismanagement. The victory not only allows Zuma to remain...
Fire rocks PetroChina refinery in Dalian

Aug 18, 2017 8:57am

A fire broke out on Thursday at a major PetroChina refinery in Dalian, the latest industrial accident to rock the northeastern Chinese port city. The inferno in the plant’s 1.4 million-tons-per-year residue catalytic cracker started around...
China’s CEFC said to be in talks to buy stake in Rosneft

Aug 18, 2017 8:29am

CEFC China Energy, which has grown from a niche oil trader to a sprawling energy conglomerate, is in talks to acquire a stake in Russian state oil giant Rosneft, Reuters reports, citing three people with direct...
More upside seen for commodities amid global economic recovery

Eric Lui - Aug 17, 2017 4:15pm

I made a forecast at the end of last year that metals and raw materials prices would stage a comeback as global economic growth recovers. Commodity prices have indeed performed well in the past six months....
Acquiring Fiat Chrysler won’t be a cinch for Chinese carmakers

Ko Tin-yau - Aug 17, 2017 2:08pm

Several Chinese automakers are reportedly interested in acquiring Italian-American company Fiat Chrysler. Great Wall Motor (02333.HK), Guangzhou Automobile Group (02238.HK) and Dongfeng Motor Group (00489.HK) are said to be some of the potential bidders. They are...

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WORLD

Can western Ukraine re-establish an independent Galicia?

Simon Shen - Aug 18, 2017 9:45am

Yesterday I went into detail about the “founding father” of modern Ukraine, Stepan Bandera, who is seen as a hero in western Ukraine but deemed a Nazi collaborator in the eastern part of the country. For...
Chinese general criticizes ‘wrong’ US moves on Taiwan

Aug 18, 2017 8:40am

“Wrong” actions of the United States with regard to Taiwan, and the US military’s South China Sea patrols and deployment of an advanced anti-missile system in South Korea have had a large, negative influence on military...
At least 13 dead, over 100 injured in Barcelona terror attack

Aug 18, 2017 8:14am

At least 13 people were killed and more than a hundred injured as a van plowed through crowds of tourists in the heart of Barcelona on Thursday evening, a terror attack claimed by Islamic State. Police...
US, Japan step up defense cooperation to counter N Korea

Aug 18, 2017 8:09am

The United States and Japan will step up their defense cooperation to deal with the threat from nuclear-armed North Korea as tensions in East Asia remain high, officials from the two allies said on Thursday, Reuters...
Stepan Bandera: A true nationalist or Nazi collaborator?

Simon Shen - Aug 17, 2017 10:50am

The resurgence of ultra-right and Neo-Nazi groups in the US has given rise to historical revisionism in recent years, under which the mainstream and orthodox views held by academics about controversial historical figures are being challenged...

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Hong Kong

Nobel Peace Prize for jailed Occupy student leaders: NYT

A New York Times op-ed piece proposes that the three Hong Kong student leaders jailed on Thursday in connection with their fight for democracy be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In an article...
Worrying questions surround the Howard Lam saga

Democratic Party member Howard Lam’s claims of having been abducted and tortured by mainland officials appear shakier by the day but subsequent police action and his arrest for misleading the police also raise a...
Community support services for SEN students

Home and school are two pillars that support students with special educational needs (SEN). The third is community support services, which have become more readily available in recent years. If the community is providing children...
Use aromatherapy to enhance your mood

You may not be well acquainted with how scents affect your mood, but chances are your nose knows. That’s because the sense of smell is processed through olfactory receptors that are directly connected to...
Chinese junk food

I couldn’t help but shake my head in disapproval when I saw an uploaded picture of char siu, aka Cantonese barbecued pork, by my friend on social media. The meat slices had a 5...
Cell phones: Blessing or curse?

I hate cell phone addicts who hardly let go of their devices. Although I also handle work and many other tasks on my smartphone, I would not allow myself to be preoccupied with it...
Herbal tea in summer, anyone?

One profession I would never fancy taking up in my next life is this: Chinese medicine doctor. Well, the prescriptions they dole out can be quite perplexing for patients at times, while on some...
Driver arrested after hitting road maintenance workers

A young man has been arrested by the police after the car he was driving rammed into four road maintenance workers in Yuen long. The suspect, a 21-year-old surnamed Mok, was charged with drink...
Govt plans to turn spilled palm oil into biodiesel

Recognizing an economic opportunity from an environmental mishap, the government plans to have the palm oil collected from Hong Kong waters and beaches turned into car fuel, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The oil...
Street sleepers save suicidal woman in Kwun Tong pier

Street sleepers succeeded in saving a 65-year-old woman who jumped into the sea off Kwun Tong pier about 5 a.m. Friday. A street sleeper in his sixties, surnamed Ng, hauled the drowning woman with...