Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has come under fire from both the opposition and the pro-establishment camp for not declaring an extra day off for workers on Monday in the wake of the wides ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-18
A universal basic income (UBI) would be both regressive and prohibitively expensive. Yet the idea continues to attract a motley crew of tech and labor leaders, libertarians, and progressives, who fear ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-18
... n. He was promoted to the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner and appointed as Director of Operations in 2017. According to the sources, he is likely to take over from Lo, who joined the force in 19 ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-14
... ng better protect American intellectual property, cut its US trade surplus, allow US companies greater access to its markets and roll back its high-technology industrial subsidy programs. The business ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-12
... that her pro-Beijing background has “gone off” after joining a social enterprise. It is also said that amid such speculations about Chan's plans, the board of directors of Sounds Great decided that i ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-12
... ue of its pro-independence drive in the past. As one of the provinces and territories of Canada, Quebec had been a French colony known as the “New France” before it was eventually incorporated into Br ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-11
... p and the process has been smooth, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Lau, the founder of Democracy Groundwork, said Fung had supported her plan to run in the by-election, although he now appears ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-07
... an of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party took over as Taiwan's president in the year 2000, Chang Liang-jen was made to wait for months before he was granted a visa that would allow him ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-07
... aders for promoting independence at university inauguration ceremonies for incoming freshmen, saying this violates the Basic Law and the “one country, two systems” principle. Their messages about inde ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-05
... a tender process, and mainland entities in Hong Kong will be responsible for costs of the services once they accept and confirm the tender result and the price. It is believed that bidding has ended ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-04
... emlin has proved successful at compromising democratic processes and polluting public discourse. Making matters worse, the rise of far-right populists in key countries is undermining the security appa ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-04
The police have found new information that would further support the case for a ban on the pro-independence group Hong Kong National Party (HKNP), according to the Security Bureau. In a statement late ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-30
... ment's disproportionately high-profile crackdown on the HKNP, Chan has caught the attention of the Western media and became an "international figure" overnight. That is not to say that all foreign med ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
Although Serbia is now ruled by a pro-Western government, and is applying for European Union, or perhaps even NATO, membership, there is still a kind of centuries-old "persecution complex" prevailing ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
... s bailout program, with Italy, in particular, representing a major source of risk. Even China is vulnerable to slowing growth and high levels of debt. Whatever the immediate trigger, the consequences ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
