Covert Chinese agents are in the US searching for the exiled brother of a disgraced top aide to former president Hu Jintao, and the US doesn’t like it. How many agents, their operational skill-sets an ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-18
Like apples in a basket, a cohort of scammers can have a few rotten, useless ones. They're not the sort of guys who thought up the courier con (you have an illegal substance in your parcel), the threa ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
After nearly a century of rumors and speculation, genetic testing has confirmed the 29th president of the United States had a child out of wedlock while in office, ABC News reported. President Warren ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
A US driver for the taxi-hailing service Uber faces sexual assault charges after a passenger accused him of attacking her instead of driving her home from a bar. Patrick Aiello, 39, a sixth-grade soci ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
An online video purportedly from Islamic State's Egypt affiliate showed a Croatian hostage working for a French company who said the group would kill him in 48 hours if Muslim women in Egyptian jails ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-06
Malaysia said airplane debris that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has been identified as being from a Boeing 777, the same model as a Malaysian Airlines plane that vanished last year, ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-03
Despite the smoke screens and the background noise, let’s be very clear about one thing: what’s happening at Hong Kong University is a frontal attack on an institution that in many ways embodies the f ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-01
A self-proclaimed qigong master who has hobnobbed with top politicians and celebrities was arrested on charges of kidnapping and murder, The Beijing News reported on Friday, citing police in his homet ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
The parents of a nine-month-old baby boy said an elderly woman tried to abduct their child while they were shopping in Sheung Shui earlier this week, Sing Tao Daily reported on Thursday. The father na ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
With Jurassic World hitting the screens and turning out to be a summer blockbuster, there is fresh interest and curiosity among the public about the long-extinct dinosaur species. Dr Michael Pittman, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
A mainland con artist picked the wrong target for his phone scam and is now paying dearly for it. Around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, according to an Apple Daily report, a police constable at the crime unit of ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
An Egyptian court sentenced deposed President Mohamed Morsi to death on Tuesday over a mass jail break during the country's 2011 uprising and issued sweeping punishments against the leadership of Egyp ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
Las Vegas tycoon Kirk Kerkorian, whose investments spanned casinos, hotels, movies, airlines and automobiles, has died after a brief illness in Los Angeles on Monday night. He was 98. The founder of M ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
Shenzhen police are continuing their search for HK$18 million believed stashed in a secret location by the ringleaders in the April kidnapping of a Hong Kong retail heiress. The money was hidden from ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-10
Swire Properties has just sold a super-deluxe duplex apartment at its Opus tower for nearly HK$500 million (US$80.5 million), setting a new record as Asia’s most expensive apartment in terms of price ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
Tensions are building between officials and the families of those lost aboard the Eastern Star, a cruise ship that capsized in the Yangtze River last Monday night amid stormy weather with 456 people o ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
Three Indian merchants were kidnapped in Hong Kong in 2013 by five Pakistanis, who threatened to behead them, a court heard Tuesday. Manmohan Singh, 57, Satwinder Singh, 37, and Gurinder Singh, 49, ar ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
Shenzhen police have recovered HK$3.65 million (US$459,568) from a suspect in the kidnapping of a Hong Kong fashion retail heiress. Xiong Denghui, 22, the latest suspect to be arrested, led police to ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-29
Recent breakthroughs in our understanding of molecular mechanisms have revolutionized many fields of biology, including cell biology and developmental biology. So it is no surprise that these advances ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
A 67-year-old woman has been released on bail after a young mainland boy was found living in Hong Kong for nine years without identity documents. The woman, surnamed Chow, has been charged with induci ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
