An exhibition of wax figures of world leaders at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeastern China's Liaoning province, is stirring up much controversy and online discussion. The show, which ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
It's not the likeliest venue for it, but Pacific Place was engaged in a cat-and-mouse game against a rodent. The luxury mall in Admiralty was thrown into chaos when the foot-long mouse ran out of a re ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
The operator of a controversial arctic exhibit at a Guangzhou mall has released a video in an attempt to assure critics that a polar bear being housed at the facility is leading a comfortable and happ ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-07
Ngau Tau Kok? The name doesn’t easily trip off the English-speaking tongue. It has neither the quick understanding of Kowloon Bay – which everyone knows how to pronounce – nor the rising recognition o ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-24
Residents of Fairview Park in Yuen Long, considered the largest low-rise private residential estate in Hong Kong, have expressed alarm over the rising incidence of burglaries in the neighborhood and d ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-11
Police have arrested a 20-year-old suspect in a shooting inside a shopping mall in Washington state that left five people dead. Turkish-born Arcan Cetin was taken into custody on Saturday evening in O ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
A shopping mall in Guangdong province, which raised an international outcry for keeping a polar bear in its facility allegedly in miserable conditions, has turned down an offer by a British zoo to giv ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-21
Investigators on Sunday sifted through blast remnants, examined video and scoured the scene of an explosion that wounded 29 people in Manhattan, attempting to establish if there were any links to inte ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-19
Expect a lot of interesting battles and plenty of drama in the Legislative Council after October 1, when a new crop of lawmakers will make their way into the house. The victory of a new generation of ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-06
Recently my friend and I tried to come up with some explanation as to why those living on Hong Kong Island seem reluctant to travel to Kowloon peninsula for shopping or dining, while Kowloon dwellers ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-26
Lorraine Lam waits in line for two hours at a luxury Hong Kong mall to buy the same Nutella spread that grocery stores sell for much less. She does it for a friend, so she can get her name on the labe ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-24
The Olympic Games remind us that sports is an integral part of a modern lifestyle. Over the last two decades, Hong Kong has increasingly established itself as a sporting city. According to a recent J ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-16
Swimmer Fu Yuanhui (傅園慧) has become the latest internet sensation in China. And it's not just because the 20-year-old finished among the top three in a key event at the Rio Olympics. Netizens, for sur ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-12
Visitors willing to go beyond Hong Kong’s shopping precincts to delve deeper into the local community may agree that the city is like a sophisticated, well-constructed, well-oiled instrument that oper ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-11
China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, keep saying that it is necessary to take risks in the business world. But being gutsy is not enough, it is the right kind of risk-taking attitude that matters, the ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-04
Baidu Inc. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. have withdrawn from a US$3 billion venture with Dalian Wanda Group, barely two years after it was launched with the aim to revolutionize mall shopping. China’s lar ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-04
Even though Lee Tung Street has got its name back, escaping an awful proposal to be named as "Avenue Walk” (囍歡里) -- whose Chinese name was a pun on the phrase "I Love You”, Wan Chai is never quite the ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
Six people were injured when a Mercedes Benz driven by a former star tutor apparently ran out of control as it was leaving Lok Fu Plaza on Thursday night. The car rammed the carpark gate of the mall a ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com Inc., has become the world's third-richest person for the first time, Forbes magazine said, passing Warren Buffett, the chairman and chief exe ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
“999-year lease.” Realty developer Emperor International Holdings, owned by entertainment mogul Albert Yeung Sau-shing, has been putting up ads like this one for Upton (維港峰), an upmarket waterfront re ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-28
