A day in jail or 100 hours of community service is appropriate for a group of students who stormed a meeting of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) council last week, according to a senior academic. Pro ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-03
... out in an op-ed article by former Ming Pao Daily editor and HKU alumnus Kevin Lau who accused him of soliciting council members during a private breakfast. Hours later, the council voted 12-6 not to f ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
... newspaper op-ed critical of the decision, laced with a good measure of disdain for Leung's "arrogant and imperious" leadership, a day after his younger brother's dismissal. "A person of high caliber i ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... r young people during last year’s Occupy Movement. It is a question that will define how their life will be. To much older people like us who are unlikely to be around or even live past 2047, it is a ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam is warning that defeat of the election reform bill will worsen social divisions and ultimately hurt Hong Kong. On Monday, Lam wrote an op-ed in major newspapers after appear ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-15
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Defacing the national flag and emblem is illegal in Hong Kong but not burning copies of the Basic Law. Yet, a group of students who staged a symbolic burning of the document as a show of protest durin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
Tsai Ing-wen, the presidential candidate for Taiwan's pro-independence opposition party, has called for a more sustainable and consistent relationship with mainland China, Reuters reported. The chairw ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
... Ming Pao op-ed on Monday, Lau warned Leong not to set a bad precedent by allowing personnel appointments to be dictated by politics. Lau said Leong persuaded Chan to apply for the job in 2013 and the ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-01
“Go less to movies and travel less to Japan.” This advice to young people from Lau Ming-wai, son of Joseph Lau Luen-hung and chief of Chinese Estates Group, has drawn some hefty backlash, although com ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
Three prominent British journalists who have written for the South China Morning Post for nearly 40 years combined will be deprived of their regular op-ed columns starting next month. Philip Bowring, ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
China this weekend overreacted and denounced a United States Department of Defense report on its military and security developments, urging the US to abandon its Cold War mentality. "China unswervingl ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... lectual property rights, currency manipulation, "unfair" trade practices, counterfeit products, corruption, hacking and China’s military expansion is so commonplace that it’s become clichéd. Take, for ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
... et for my op tomorrow, and so are my surgeon and medical team," Lee wrote on his Facebook page Sunday. The premier recovered from a previous cancer scare after being diagnosed with lymphoma in the 199 ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
... lished an op-ed under his byline, taking his remarks out of context, Hessler said. The editorial repeats Communist Party talking points, lauding China's stability and education system while counseling ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
The week-long Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing culminated in a heads-of-government meeting on Tuesday. Prior to the close, all the leaders lined up for a group photo Monday e ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
A bride in a wedding dress would be the last person you'd expect at the scene of a barricade-busting operation by the Hong Kong police. It's not romantic, for a start, unlike two weeks ago when a grou ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-15
... ork Times op-ed, Shiu Sin-por, head of the Central Policy Unit, said Beijing wants to have full confidence in the chief executive, “no matter who he or she is”. “From the very beginning, Beijing has h ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-15
Britain says it is important that Hong Kong people have a genuine choice and a real stake in the outcome of the chief executive election through universal suffrage. “We recognise that the detailed ter ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-05
