Like most locals, I never had any worries about personal safety nor hesitated to travel anywhere -- and at any time -- within Hong Kong as I firmly believed the city was one of the safest places in th ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
Rents in Hong Kong are high by global standards. Grade-A office rents in Central, for example, are the highest in the world and, by some estimates, more than 50 percent higher than in New York Midtown ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (00016.HK), owner of New Town Plaza in Sha Tin, insists that its staff did not call the police and ask them to disperse the anti-extradition bill protesters inside the sho ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-18
What's Beijing to do? Hong Kong people have found a way to slip through its tightening grip. They’re now doing it week after week with increasing defiance at a place and time of their choosing for the ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-18
What's Beijing to do? Hong Kong people have found a way ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2019年07月18日
A 22-year-old man who was arrested for attacking police officers during the clashes that took place at a shopping mall in Sha Tin over the weekend has been granted bail by a local court. To Kai-wa, wh ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-17
Residents voiced anger at management and staff of a shopping mall in Sha Tin, suspecting them of assisting police in conducting clearing operations against anti-extradition bill protesters on Sunday n ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-17
Pro-democracy lawmakers lashed out at the police over alleged tactics deployed by the law enforcement officials on extradition bill protesters during a clearing operation Sunday at a shopping mall in ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-16
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor condemned "rioters" who attacked police officers during a clearance operation inside a mall in Sha Tin on Sunday night. Ten police officers were injured in t ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-16
An anti-parallel trading march turned violent in Sheung Shui over the weekend after protesters clashed with police. Thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday afternoon asking the government ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
At least 40 people were arrested after a march against the extradition bill turned into clashes between police officers and protesters at a shopping mall in Sha Tin. They were arrested for unlawful as ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
Although I visit Causeway Bay at least three times a week, it's been a pretty long time since I went to the Times Square mall, not counting the occasional dining trip. But on Monday I had some free ti ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-02
Police arrested a renovation worker after the frame of a work platform he was using fell off and killed a 63-year-old woman in Tsing Yi. The incident took place outside the Mayfair shopping mall in Ma ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
Hundreds of people laid flowers on the ground outside the Pacific Place mall on Sunday to pay their respects to a man who died the previous evening during an anti-extradition bill demonstration. Calli ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-17
These days, the pretty ladies who shop or work at Taikoo Li Sanlitun – Swire Properties' fashionable shopping complex in the heart of Beijing's Chaoyang District – must be vicariously feeling like Hol ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
In Hong Kong, we hear a lot of stories about subdivided malls slowly dying. But T.mark in Tsuen Wan is an exception. It’s been reported that an 84 square foot shop in T.mark has recently changed hand ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
Thailand is set to see the most funds raised from initial public offerings in Southeast Asia this year, with more than US$5 billion expected to be garnered in the second half, Reuters reports. Southea ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-25
In the past few months, public discontent has boiled over at rent hikes and the displacement of small businesses in public housing shopping malls owned by Link REIT or successor owners. First, lawmake ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has earmarked HK$5.5 billion for the development of the fifth phase of Cyberport, a government-owned complex in Telegraph Bay with a cluster of technology and digit ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
