A 21-year-old Portuguese man was found dead after falling from the 30th floor balcony of a restaurant in iSQUARE, a shopping center in Tsim Sha Tsui. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-28
Shortly after the escalator accident at Langham Place in Mong Kok on Saturday, in which 18 people were injured, two more cases of malfunctioning escalators were reported on Monday, the Hong Kong Econo ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-28
Two technicians from Otis Elevator Co. (Hong Kong) were arrested on Sunday in connection with a shopping mall escalator accident in Mong Kok over the weekend that left 18 people injured. The technici ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-27
Two young children, a boy aged 5 and his three-year-old sister, died in a tragic accident inside a shopping mall in the Chinese city of Tianjin on Monday. According to mainland media, the kids fell fr ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-01
If Saint Valentine, the third-century Roman priest, were alive today, he would be surprised to find how popular the annual day of romance commemorated in his name is in this part of the world. This mo ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-15
The government is studying the feasibility of developing underground space at Kowloon Park in Tsim Sha Tsui, Victoria Park in Causeway Bay and Southorn Playground in Wan Chai. It says the aim is to co ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-08
After rallying by as much as 27 percent in 2016, Asia Pacific REITs had a correction in October and November and ended the year with a 10 percent total return. Since then, the performance has been sta ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-24
The White House has vowed to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what it sees as unfair attacks on Donald Trump, who was sworn in as US president last Friday. Trump said on Saturday that he ha ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-23
Leaders of an ad hoc group of protesters enraged by Republican Donald Trump's election as president of the United States are vowing to disrupt his inauguration by blocking public access to the event, ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-19
Born in Aichi prefecture, a renowned goldfish breeding ground, Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori thought his works were great until he saw the beauty of the fish. It was a turning point. “I brought it ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-13
Photos of a young boy defecating at the Peak Tram Station are riling up social media. The photos were posted by a certain Lucy Kong on Facebook where they have drawn more than 300 angry comments. The ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-13
Alibaba Group Holding and Shen Guojun, founder of Intime Retail (Group), offered HK$10 per share to take private the mainland shopping mall and department store chain operator in a cash transaction. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-11
Retail fraud is on the rise, with culprits pretending to pay in big denominations to distract shopkeepers before stealing from them. Three such cases were reported in the past two days alone in Kwun T ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-10
Hong Kong's police force is coming under fresh scrutiny following multiple cases of law enforcement officers breaking the law themselves. On Tuesday, a court sentenced a 22-year-old police officer to ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-05
A 64-year woman was robbed of HK$610,000 (US$78,660) by four men who followed her to a bank. About HK$540,000 was later recovered by the police when one of the suspects returned to the scene of the cr ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-05
Real estate is the vehicle that supports economic activities, and as such, it is only natural that commercial real estate evolves with time. Fifty years ago, when commercial real estate first consolid ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-30
Hong Kong's retail landscape is in the midst of considerable reinvention. As luxury brands rein in their expansion and sales of high-end goods slow, landlords and retailers have had to adapt — quickly ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-13
Each Hong Kong mall uses up to 15,000 pieces of paper towel a day, posing a threat to the environment. That works out to about 5.5 million pieces a year. World Green Organization has launched a campai ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
A huge modernistic sculpture depicting a black swan has been removed only hours after it was unveiled at a shopping mall in Beijing. The problem? Some superstitious but influential guys involved in se ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
Men's fashion house Ralph Lauren closed its flagship shop at the Lee Gardens Mall in Causeway early this month. “We are moving out of the Lee Gardens Mall,” wrote an unnamed customer assistant at Ral ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-02
