... d staunch pro-EU factions, and various shades of gray in-between. EU officials said there was a solid consensus that remaining niggles should not hold up a final deal for Sunday, as the other 27 gover ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-23
... outspoken pro-establishment figure was diagnosed with cancer more than a decade ago and had since been undergoing chemotherapy and had surgery several times, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Pr ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-22
With the much-anticipated Legislative Council Kowloon West by-election just days away, the pro-democracy and the pro-establishment camps are firing on all cylinders to garner support for their candida ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
The government has proposed three measures to combat ticket scalping, which has been on the rise in recent years, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The proposals against ticket scalpers, who res ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
... also not pro-EU, let’s be clear – nor the liberal-democrats. That is the great problem facing the government of Theresa May. That not even the government as a whole supports this agreement. The resig ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
Nine democracy activists who went on trial on Monday for their perceived role in the 2014 Occupy street protests pleaded not guilty to all the charges laid out against them, while stressing that they ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
... hington’s protectionist and unilateral approach to global trade as being "short-sighted" and "doomed to failure". Pence, meanwhile, hit back by telling his foreign counterparts that the United States ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. swung to a net profit in the third quarter, beating analyst estimates, amid robust sales in India and Europe, Reuters reports. Profit for the three months through ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
As a courtroom trial begins of key leaders of the 2014 Occupy Central protests, a main figure behind the civil disobedience campaign has said he is preparing himself for a potential jail sentence. B ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-19
... West and promise not to ever again damage the “one country, two systems” principle. Democratic Party lawmaker James To Kun-sun and Charles Mok Nai-kwong of the Professional Commons also expressed con ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-16
... pects and protects such a right must be a proportionate response with the aim of upholding a legitimate societal interest and backed by cogent and persuasive evidence,” the HKBA said in a statement on ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-16
... cation of pro-democracy election candidates, the saga over the missing booksellers of Causeway Bay Bookshop, and the denial of work visa for Financial Times journalist Victor Mallet as examples indica ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-15
... he deal approved by her cabinet and, in the toughest test of all, by parliament. Brexiteers in May’s party accused her of surrendering to the EU and said they would vote the deal down while the Northe ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-14
In the face of a big influx of mainland visitors into Tung Chung via the newly-opened cross-border sea bridge, three bureau chiefs of the Hong Kong government met the media last Friday in a high-profi ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-13
... sell the property in 2016. After that, the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Shek Kip Mei had been a temporary home to the museum for a short period of time last year and this year. Tsoi says it ha ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-13
... lawyer by profession, said it was uncommon to see police officers being dispatched to have an operation targeting mainland tourist groups. He noted that such cases, where mainland tourist groups are s ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-12
